Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-13
Editors Letter Box
C, w. Barron's Relation to New Haven
Advertising.

Boston, November S. 1916
To the Editor:
The last campaign SANDER put forth
Just before the election was three col
umn advertisement offered to newspapers
over the country by the National Demo-
cratic Committee.
1t attacked John Wanamaker and Z. w.
Barron, because these two individuals had
stepped to the defence of their country
and devoted their advertising talent to
talking straight goods" to the voter.
They not only gave their time and tai
ents but they paid the bills without as
sistance from the Republican organiza-
ton.
That these advertisements should have
drawn the fire of the Wilson-Brandeis
party was n very great compliment. But
every paper in New York and Boston re-
fused to circulate the SANDER even as
paid advertising matter Some other
papers accepted the money-perhaps
| owing to the high price of paper.
| Mr.. Wanamaker answered with a page
advertisement. exposing the trickery of
the National Democratic Committee and
the abuse of government-power.
AS these ISLANDERS were repeated in the
columns of the New York World, I re-
sponded thereto with a letter which was
published on the editorial page of the
New York World on Nov. :, or the mo-
ment it fell into the editors hands
Will you be good enough to repeat that
communication as it appeared in the
World, and also this letter. Every state
ment of the National Democratic Com
mittee in it's paid advertisement concern
ing me was an absolute fabrication,
sprung at the last moment to stem the
sentiment for national defence created
by my full-page advertisements in New
New York.
c. w. BARRON.
To the Editor of the World:
The New York World evidently believes
in grabbing the advertising agents legiti-
mate commission on properly signed and
displayed railroad advertising and then
later denouncing the agent as a 'slush
funder"
If legitimate New Haven advertising,
which after full investigation was APP
proved by the Massachusetts Public Ser
vice Commission, was part Of "slush
fund.-" the New York World was the real
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robbing the agent that created and
brought it the business.
Any declaration that ] have received
money for advice is false. Nor has any
news or advertising agency with which
l am connected received any compensation
in connection with advertising except as
legitimate commission from newspapers
commission reduced, of course. by the
legitimate expenses of the business.
May be permitted also to add for who
ever may be interested that in more than
40 years of newspaper experience I have
never received any compensation except
upon exactly the basis upon which the
New York World and every properly con-
Quoted newspaper receives it's compensa-
ton. In the case of the New York. New
Haven & Hartford Railroad Co. this was
absolutely proven before the Public Ser
vice Commission when it Investigated
miscellaneous expenditures of the New
Haven Road down to the advertising ac-
counts.
The testimony was unanimous that all
expenditures through all my agencies
were on the strictest principles of indie
pendent journalism.
c. W. BARRON.
New York, Nov. S. 1916.