The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-10-18
GENUINE AND BOGUS NEWS EN-.
TERPRISE


YESTERDAY afternoon we published in our
second edition an important and lengthy de-
spatoh from II ,vana which was furnished to
as by the Associated Press. AS our readers
are we'll aware, The EVENING TELEGRAPH is
the only afternoon paper published in this
city which receives the dispatches of the
Associated Press, and consequently the only
afternoon paper which was entitled to the
use of this Havana telegram. But in the
later editions of the afternoon papers which
receive their news from a bogus opposition
agency passing under the high-sounding title
of "The American Press Association, this
Havana telegram appeared, with not more
than a half dozen mere verbal changes, Gre
dited in the first place to ''the American Press
Association" and Immediately afterward en-
titled especial to New York Post. On ex-
amining the New York E0eniRg Post of yes
terday afternoon, we find in the edition issued
simultaneously with our second edition the
Havana telegram in question, and over it,
in plain black letters, the words "Despatch
to the Associated Press" If this were the
first instance in which this fraud had been
perpetrated, we should take no notice of it;
pean war, the bogus concern has day after day
indulged in the same reprehensible practice,
column after column of important kilograms
which have been furnished by the Associated
Press and appeared simultaneously in THE
EVENING TELEGRAPH and the leading after
noon papers of New York city, being served
mp in later editions in the papers in this city
supplied by the bogus concern, and invariably
credited by it to the New York EUentng Post
as specials while the morning journals
receiving their news from the same source
have followed the lead of their afternoon con-
temporaries by repeating the fraud.
From this simple statement of the facts in
the case, the reading public will see at one
glance the fraudulent and dishonest character
of the bogus concern which is yclept ''the
American Press Association" Its agent in
New York is not content with appropriating
we use milder term than the facts war
rant-the news of the only thoroughly Or
ganized news association in the country, but
endeavors to cover up his tracks by styling
special despatch to the New York E0ening
Post what that very paper distinctly an
nounces to the whole world to be a
ueSpHtCu W tuS aSSOCldtSu IItSo. lu6 ldCl
that the papers which receive their so-called
news from the bogus opposition concern ha-
bitually appropriate the dispatches of the
Associated Press, giving them to their readers
in later editions necessarily than those in
which they appear in The TELEGRAPH, is q
strong testimonial to the variety and relia
bility Of the Associated Press dispatches.
Since we have had the exclusive use in the
afternoon of the Associated Press
dispatches, the increase in oui
circulation has trebly realized oul
anticipations, and fully justified us in meet
ing the great increase in our expenses. The
reading public of Philadelphia fully appre
ciates the fact that the association which pro
vides all the leading papers of New York
Philadelphia, and the country with news en-
joys facilities for its collection, transmission
and distribution that are not and cannot be
enjoyed by the bogus concern which has at
tempted to rival it.