TLS, two pages, 8.5 x 11, March 8, 1928. Letter to journalist Melville Stone, the general manager of the Associated Press. In part: "I do not place too much importance on the attitude of any one newspaper in the country, more especially as the press is almost overwhelmingly friendly. The New York Sun, however, has taken on certain lines which are the most vicious type of journalism. Their correspondent here, Maurice Judd, had instructions to prepare a series of articles of as bitter an attack as he could devise. He apologizes to his friends and informs them that he has not been able to make the articles bitter enough to suit his paper…The first of the series relates to flood control matters in which he attempted to give the impression that I had forestalled the President in announcing the program of the Administration, when as a matter of fact, the President had announced the program in his own press conference a week previous to my statement before the Senate committee, and the President pointedly reaffirmed this at his next conference—but no correction was made in the Sun.
The second attack was directed to trying to demonstrate that I am surrounded by a rotten political gang, in which he placed John Adams…Will Hays…Claudius Hurston…and so on. As a matter of fact, there is no Hoover headquarters, there is no national manager, there is some 20 Senators and 100 Congressmen as a sort of national committee looking after the states in which they are interested.
Organization has grown up spontaneously in many of the states and they are under the leadership of important men, but very few of them have been identified with national politics as most of them are young men who have gotten some distance in state legislatures and state governments. So far as I know not more than one was ever identified with previous national campaigns and most of them are new to politics. I may add that they are doing a good job.
I do not know if there is anything we can do to make the New York Sun more fair in its opposition. I have no objection to any honest opponent, but I do think it is a disgrace to journalism to give orders to its subordinates to create malice whether they like it or not." In fine condition, with a rusty paperclip impression to the top of each page.
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