The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-11-26
EFFORT EXlI0NERATION
Blythe WESTERN UNION PEOPLE.
Denial Of Any Partisan Practices by tho
Company in Collecting election
Beturns-A Tady Defense,
But II is BusmessIilSc.

Denial Of Any Partisan Practices by the
Company in Collecting Election
Beturns-A Tardy Defense,
But 1t is Busmesslil,u.
Executive omcc, Western Union Telegraph
| Company, New York, Nov o. 1881.
To riH PUnIC:-Now since tho prosi-
dental election is settled, and tho ey.
cilemcnt incident to close political con-
test has abated, is it proper to say that
we are prepared to show most conclu-
sively the utter groundlessness of all
charges against tho Western Union
Telegraph Company Of par,iality i'm re-
porting or Withholding the election re-
turns oi the state OF New York. [ deny
IN tho most emphatic manner
that the Western Union telegraph
company delayed, altered or
withheld the election returns of this
state, or any other state, or tempered
| with them in any way. II had nothing
whatever to do with the returns of the
state OF New YORK, except TO transmit
them over its lines "a prepared bv the
agents Of the Associated Press. All the
returns of tho state were collected Inv
the Associated Press, all the cOupiIinp
was done in its Offices by its own agents:
All bulletins were prepared hv
IL ana copies were simDlV do
liyor9d TO Mr.. Somerville' super-
intendent of our newspaper service.
Tor. general distribution TO the public.
This company had nothing to do with
making up the bulletins, nor did auv
officer or agent or other person con
uecled with or interested IN this com
IN
United the returns, have access To or see
any OF them until the bulletins had been
mado up thorefrom I'm tho associated
press Office and handed TO us Tor public
ulsiloullou; and have no reason to be-
| llevG that the aVeut4 nr
the associated press acted otherwise
Than i'm an impartial manner.
ordinarily many Of our offices are moi
Kept open for business after q o'clock n.
~ % NsslNt us nm meeting the eNtruor-
binary expense Of the extra employment
% several thousand night operators we
nave for many years mad arrangements
win the press associations, giving us
The privilege OF selling bulletins To- nn-
hucdl and social clubs, and other sinh
scrlhlng customers. We simply took
tho Assocl ted Press bulletins. that as,o.
citation had made Them up and Delivered
I lneW as heretofore. tu customers WIN
had subscribed for them; notbip por,
rho charge that returns were purp0splv
Wiihhtld on shat there was unusual do
| lay IN reporting them is entirely false.
| Instead of such delay there was extraor-
unary prOWptness. Never before have
| reports from so many election districts
| been received within 40 short a tim.
/ Within iorty-elght hours after the count
| OF ballots began returns were rereiy. Il
! IRON, ~ per cent. of the 5000 election
! uisJricts IN the state. Although me
/ night of the election v,r.
| stormy aud there was some
trouble In working the wires.
/ no delay occurred in any report handed
/ to our offices Ioutsiie tho CITY of New
! York. Within the city tho t,lerrapb
service was ~ nearly perfect rs IL was
! possible To make it,and the only trouble
was with somo OF the short wires bnst Ia,
erected for tho temporary use. n is b,rSS
TO he noted that heretofore tho mei.ri.
tics reported from the most poplI}oi,s
| Nhu therefore the most acces-ible CONN
| ties hAyo been 40 decisive that tho ponu-
| TAR mind has been got at rost regpecti M,
tue result OF the elections ON mo tirSf
night, aud there bpiug ohopo or FAM of
% cn1hgo in the general result. slhs--
uhNul iethrnS, moro or loss tprdv, have
suASSled IN unexpectedly. Ina Two in
stances IN this state havo been int1rr,-
eu 'uAt (nc county cany1escrs, who met
Hug M'yN Hittt tho election, this wear.
hAu 10 adjourn oyor because tho cou,,t,,
i clerks had, up 10 thut time. bc.u nu,i, 4,
To E,t ia tho vote ortheir counties. 'rne
ohlS other returns complained of vera
tNnS' 81 inutduO, whore, az thn M.
| quest ol The political committee and tho
press, IN the absence of nnv n,,a,,t
OF inc Associated Press the rennrts c,n,c
through and We're sent out nv our su-
peIlhtvndent Mr. j. +. Wallick. who
insists mat he used every effort to OH
nv "i 'ue returns az speedily as pns-
sluie' l oohsider tho deuiaud for an in
H"S.'suuou ol the service made hv the
! indianapolis Sentinel, and also l,y H..
! Nnlhrk himself, as reasonnIlo' o,,i
! proper ana ! have asked the cbair,nor
oi the INDIANA Democratic committee I'm
take part In the Investigation. nv 10
name representative to Ia so
| the management OF this con,n.nv
! ln its business relations tn the pubBn ~
| aatrl'llN non-political aud non.p,rtis,n
tne employees represent every shade of
pouural opinion, aud are In tho COM
pNnN sorVlco solely by virtue OF chair
| pHneleucy as telegraphers. What thrir
! ,,. polltieSl opinions arc has
| uVNor beou IN any ease called into oues-
tlon, nor have their votes over been c.,,,-
vSsscd or ascertained; but of those with
Whom personally come I'm coninct
Enow that thoro arc quite M many
democrats ~ Republicans. It's tbert.
lero mnnifestly absurd TO chnrro
.hat me service Of tho company conid
nec'hNerted into n party machno ar
could IN any way distort or stine ina
lActs, when such an attempted conspiro
acy onu,d ouly nave been made bv tho
aiI OF large number OF members of tho
poiil,lcal party which 1t was designod TO
l''sueui NoRvIN GRERN,