Las Vegas daily gazette., 1884-11-26
Western Union Advertisement
EXECUTIVE OEFICE OF THE
w. u. TELEGRAPH COMPANY,
NEW YORK. Nov. 2h. 1881 !

NEW 1ORK, NOV. 20, 1854. J
To the Public.
Now, since the presidential election Is
settled aud the excitement incident to
the close political contest has abateG, 1t
is proper TO say that we are prepared to
show most conclusively the utter
groundlessness of all charges against
the Western Union telegraph company
Of partialitv in reporting or withhold
ing the election returns of the state of
New York. | deny in the most emphat>
ic manner that the Western Union tele>
graph company delayed, altered or
withheld the election returns of that
state or any other state or tampered
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 wires as prepared bv the
agents of the Associated Press. All the
returns of the state were collected by
the Associated Press; all the compiling
was done In its office by its own agents
and oil bulletins were prepared by it
and copies were simply delivered to
Mr.. Somervlle, superintendent of the
newspaper service, for general distrl-
nothing to do with making
agent or other person connected with,
or Interested in this company, except
the operators who transmitted the re-
turns, have access to or see any of them
till bulletins had been made up there
from IN the associated press office, and
handed to us for pnbhc distribution,
ana nave no reason to believe that
the agents of the associated press acted
at hAF in,
ter. Ordinarily many of our Offices are
not kept open tor business after eight
O'Clock ,. N, To assist in meeting the
extraordinary expenses of the extra
employment of several thousand ope
rators, we have had for many wears ar
rangementS with the press association.
giving us the privilege of selling bulle>
tins To the political and several clubs.
and others. We simply took the
associated press bulletins as that asses
clatIoh had made them up and delivered
them AS heretofore to customers who
had subSerbeu tor them and nothing
more, The charge that returns were
purposelv withheld or that there was
unusual delay in reporting them, ls en-
tirely false-instead of such delay there
was extraordinary promptness never
before have reports from so many elecs
ton districts been received within so
short a time. Within forty >eight hours
after the count OF the ballots Eegan re-
turns were received from ninety-eight
precincts of the three thousand election
districts III the state. Although the
night OF tho election was stormy and
ther3 was some trouble in working the
wires no DELAY occurred in any reports
handed TO our offices outside the city of
New York. Within the city the tele-
graph service was as nearly perfect as
it was possible TO make 1t, the only
trouble was with some of the short
wires hastely erected for temporary use.
IL is here 10 be noted that heretofore
the majoritles reported from the most
populons and therefore the most acces-
sible counties have been so decisive that
the popular mind has been set at rest
respecting the 10 ult OF elections in the
first night and there being no hope or
fear OF Il change IN the general results;
subsequent returns more or less tardy
have struggled in unheeded in two
instances IN this state. have boen in,
formed that the county canvassers who
met oEe week after election this year
had to adjourn because the clerks had
up TO that time been unable to get IN
the vote of their counties.
The only other returns complained
of were those of Indiana, where at the
request of the political committees and
the press IN the absence of any agent of
the Associated Press the reports come
there and were sent out bv our su.
perintendeni, j +. Wailick, who made
every effort to obtain all the returns as
speedily as possible. | consider the
demand for any investigation of that
service made by the Indianapolis SEN
tinel and also by Mr.. Wallick himself
reasonable and proper, and | have
asked the chairman oftho Indiana DEM
ocratic state committee 10 take part in
the investigation or TO have party 10
do so. The management of this com,