The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-11-26
NIGHT DISPATCHES.
Report Of Attorney-fisneral
Brewster.
The System Of Jury Fixing
Now P~racticed.
Ravages Of the Epidemic in
Virginia.
A Terrible Tale Of Suffering
and Distress.
A Card From the Western
Union Company.

It Denies Doctoring or Hold
ing Back Returns.
4 Card From the WESTERN Union Tsle.
graph Company.
New York, Nov. &.-The follow
Ing card is issued by President Green,
of the Western Union Telegraph
Company:
New YORK, Nov. Is.
To the Public: Now, since the
Presidential election is settled, and
the excitement incident to q close
political contest has abated. 1t Is
| proper to say that we are prepared to
show most conclusively the utter
| 2rOundlessness of all charges
against the Western Union Tele-
graph Company of Partially In re-
porting or Withholding the election
returns of the state of New York. l
| deny in the most emphatic manner
that the Western Union Company
delayed, altered or withheld the cleo
| ton eturns Of this State, or any
| other State, or tempered with them
in any way. 1t had nothing whatever
to do with the returns of the State of
New York, except to transmit them
over its lines as prepared by the
| agents of the Associated Press. All
the returns OF the State were col
,ected by the Associated Press; all
the compiling was done in its office
I hu tic nVlvn-Ononf onH oil hn1Inftnn
were prepared by it and copies were
simply delivered to Mr.. Somerville,
superintendent of the newspaper
service, for general distribution to the
public. This company had nothing
to do with making up the bulletins,
nor did any officer or agent or other
person connected with, or interested
in this company, except the operators
who transmitted the returns have
access to, or see any of them
till the bulletins had been
made up therefrom In the Asso-
Glazed Press Office and handed
to us for public distribution, and /
have no eason to believe that the
agents Of the Associated Press acted
otherwise than in an impartial man
mel. Ordinarily many of our offices
are not kept open for business after
s O'Clock p. m. To assist in meeting
the extraordinary expense of the ex-
ira employment of several thousand
night operatives we have had for
many years arrangements with the
Press Associations giving Us the
privilege of selling bulletins to polit-
ical and social clubs and other sub
scribing customers. We simply took
the Associated Press bulletins, as the
association had made them up and
delivered them III heretofore to GUS
toners who had subscribed for them,
and nothing more. The charge that
returns were purposely withheld or
that there was unusual delay in
reporting them is entirely false.
Instead Of such delay there was ex-
traOrdinary prOmptness. Never
before have reports from so many
election districts been received with
in so short q time Within forty
eight hours after the count of the
ballot begun, returns were received 1
from ninety-eight per cent. of the
5000 election districts in the State. |
Although the night of the election
was stormy and there was some
trouble working the wires no delay !
occurred in any reports handled by |
offices outside Of the city of New
York. Within the city the telegraph
service was as nearly perfect as it
was possible to make it, and the only
trouble was with some of the short
wires hastily erected for t. mporary
use. It is here to be noted
that heretofore the majorities re
ported from the most populous, and
the most accessible ooun-
ties, have been SO decisive that the
popular mind has been set ut rest re-
speeding the result of the election on
the first night and there being no
hope or fear of a change in the gen.
result subsequent returns more
or less tardy have struggled In I'M
needed. In two instances in this
State l have been informed that the
county c~anvassers, who met one
week after the eli ction this year, had
adjourn over because the county
clerks had up to that time been un-
aole to get in the vote of their coun-
ties. The only other returns COM
planned of were those of Indiana
where, at the request of the political
and the press in tho
absence of any agent of
Associated Press, the reports
came through were sent out by
our superintendent, Mr.. J. F. Wal
lack, who used every effort to obtain
Ill the returns as speedily as possible.
I consider the demand for any inves-
,1QatiOn of that service modo hv ~ :
Indianapolis Sentinel and also bv
Mr.. Waiack himself, reasonable and
proper, and l have asked the chair
nan of the Indiana Democratic
State Committee to take part in the
Investigation or to name q represen-
alive to do SO. The management of ;
his company in Its business relations ,
o The public is strictly non-politicsl 1
md non-partlsan. The emploves ,
epresent every shade of political !
and are in the ,
service solely hv !
of their proficiency !
9 t~elegraphers. What their indi. :
'idnal political opinions are has !,
lever been. in any case, called into :
luestlon, nor have their votes ever
zen canvassed or ascertained. hut of
hose with whom I personally Gonna
. contact I know that there are
ute as many Democrats "a Rennhji' {
It is therefore manifestlv o. q
urd to charge that the service ~ ~ G
onPanv could be converted into a T
10y lncn!ne, or could In any wav 1
lstoIt or stitle tho facts, when sncR q
= av" haap conspiracy could only b