Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1913-06-19
REET mem WISHED TO REPLY TO
ARBUGKLE'S STATEMENT FAVORING
Admission OF RAW SUGAR FREE

stand how you feel i'll regard to the
matter. 1t is certainly my desire that
the Associated Press shall be Just
and impartial in the treatment of
every matter reported by it.
The Arbuckle statement was car
ried, not because it was statement
IF a sugar refiner, but because of it's
bearing on the general cost of living,
which as you know, has been the
gubject of keen interest in the Unit
ed States. With the advance in the
price of sugar, coffee and other nee
essaries, there necessarily has been
much feeling on the general subject.
when your statement in answer
to Mr.. Arbuckle was presented it
happened to be a very Dusy day and
night. The president of the United
States was at San Francisco; the
plans for Justice Harlan's funeral
were on; the Mcnamara trial was be-
fore the court; the worlds series Of
baseball was in progress; a critical
situation in China existed and there
was an acute political situation in
Mexico.
eAll Of these things crowded our
one wire running from Kansas
City to San Francisco, and suppose
our Denver office was forced to an
breyiate your statement. am writ.
ing to the chief Of our office there
asking him for an explanation re-
ggarding the matter; but | can well
anticipate that this is what he would
say.
q fancy the matter will come up
before congress ana tnen | trust we
shall be able to give you as gooo a
hearing as those who are contending
on the other side.
Sincerely yours,
"MELVIl4Lh E. STONE
Il did not know Mr.. Hamlin," said
IsMr. Stone. eThe statement that ne
was member of the Associated
/ Press is true, but in meeting the 800
members OF the Associated Press, |
did not happen to remember, and !
have never met him but once in my
life. / would not know him If he
were in this room at this moment
THE statement in respect to the
local correspondent Of the Associated
Press at Colorado spprings having
agreed to handle for the Associated
Press 500 words, should explain in
this way. The local correspondent
has no power whatever to commit
the Associated Press to any policy
or to any agreement Of that sort.
His entire duty and his entire re-
spensibillty and ability in. respect
to the matter was to send any dis
patch he might have to our Denver
office, something like 40 or 50 miles
away, and there it would fall into
the hands Of salaried correspond
ent, and he would determine how
much should be used
'The local correspondent had no
authority to commit it, and indeed
though / don't know who he was, he
H may have been an employe Of MI.
Iamlin's own paper
Mr.. Stone gave the committee a
copy OF the letter he wrote to c. D..
Hagerty, in cnarge Of the Denver Of.
iffice Of the Associated fress, Octoper
%. It asked for information as to
the handling Of the Hamlin state
ment. and concludedf
Personally i an inclined to dis-
/ courage carrying long statements Oh
controversial nature, but inasmucn
as We carried Mr.. Arbuckle's state
;nent rather fully, my judgment IS
that we might have handled a little
more sof Mr. Hamlin's, provided It
was prepared as pTleIly a. oul s'oAy
here indicates.
a A reply from Mr. Hagerty stated
that 500 words Of the Hamlin state
ment had come into the Denver Of
flee over the wire from Colorado
Springs; but that owing to the
crowded condition Of the Associated
Press wires only 2OU naa been sen'
east and 81 words were cut out o.
the dispatch at relay points before
it reached New YORK.
Mr. Hamlin then wrote Stone oc
tober %, 1911:
Permit me to thank you for YOU
kind favor Of the 23rd inst, and t'
express my appreciation Of your 20
/ aition IN the matter ] can readily
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