The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-11-27
OF COURSE NOT.
Further Efforts of the AssO-
ciated Press
TO COVER UP THEIR TRACKS.
Everything was Loveiy-If You VIII
Only Believe Their
Version.

dSO tAlS DVHfittt ~ SO"tHtC'tc COiiiiiiOi-
ted unfavorably on the Associated
Press in connection with the election
returns from New York, and expressed
the opinion that Whitelaw Reid of the
Tribune, had exercised an undue share |
of influence in the work. This morn |
ing the Journal contains an editorial on |
the subject, written after David NJ. |
Stone, the editor, had inquired into the |
facts. 1t is as follows 1.-The Joint exc
cutive committee of the Western and |
New York Associated Press met yester- !
day to investigate the complaints which |
have been made from both par
ties concerning the reports of the late
political campaign up to and including
the returns of the election. After care
full sitting of the evidence, several facts
of public interest were established
beyond controversy, and we refer TO
them briefly in justice to ourselves and
to others. The arrangements for re-
porting the proceedings of the conven-
tons, the acceptance of the nominations
and sayings and doingS of the several
candidates were shown to be as perfect
as could well be devised and wholly
without partisan bias. ANY seeming
partiality to one or the other side in the
dispatches received was corrected at
once by William Henry Smith, general
agent, and all that humanity could
devise was done to give reliable
intelligence uncolored by partisan
prejudice" The editorial comedies that
Mr. Reid had no personal connection
whatever relative to the gathering of the
returns. In regard to the collection of
New York State returns, the Journal
says that so far as the action of the
general manager of the Associated
| Press, or the control of the machinery
is concerned, there is no cause for COM
| plant and concludes as follows: LEX
actly hove the returns from this State
took on the partisan character they as
sumed, We need not say, but We are
satisfied that no orders Oh directions of
the managers of the Associated Press
had any share in contributing to that
result"
New YORK, November 26.-At meet
ing of the Joint executive committee of
the New York Associated Press and the
Western Associated Press, called in
New York, to investigate the published
charges of partisanship in their dis
patches during the campaign, and their
collection of election returns, was at
tended by the members as follows
Charles A. Dana, of the New York Sun,
chairman; Whitelaw Reid, of the
Tribune, secretary; James Gordon Ben
nett, of the Herald, represented by DR..
G.. w. Hamer; Richard Smith, of the
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette: w. n.
Haldermau, of the Louisville Courier
Journal. After thorough inves-
tigation of the work, includ-
ing the circulars of instruction,
correspondence with candidates, COM
plants from both Democratic and Re
publican sources, dispatches sent out
and the returns received by telegraph,
and the originals filed by the senders in
the several telegraph offices, Messrs. w.
n. Halderman, of the Louisville Courier
Journal, and Richard Smith. of the Gin
cinnati COMMERCIAL Gazette, were APP
the conclusions reached by the mem
bers. They presented the following
report, which was unanimously
. adopted, and the chairman and secre
tary of the joint executive committee
were instructed to sign the same anC
transmit it to the members and client:
of the two associations: Aa
To the Members and Clients of the AsSO
: ciGted PreSs.-The joint executive com
mittee did not deem it advisable. durin,
! a sharply contested campaign, to taxi
public notice of the Misrepresentation
and unwarranted criticisms published
against the Associated Press. ObserVa
ton shows that during such seasons o
excitement men are moved by passion
rather than by reason. Now that tn
party contest is closed, the COMMITTEE
deem it their duty to make public tn
following statement: A meeting of tn
committee was calledffor the 18th inst.
to which David w. Stone, Esq, pres
) ident of the New York Associated Press
and the Honorable Joseph Pulitzer, o
its executive committee, were invited
The latter was unfortunately out OF tn
the city, but Mr.. Stone ATTENDED
l and gave the committee the benefi
S of his counsel and experience. I
: careful review of the work done, and o
the official records, warrant the state
ment that the high character and non
partisan fairness that have given tn
r Associated Press its hold upon publ
confidence in the past have been firml
maintained, and that no improper in
fluences, political or otherwise have beel
permitted to enter into the manage
q ment. The work, strictly confine
o within the limits prescribed by the rule
!. | which experience has proved to be SAT
, and lust to all parties, has been large
. than in any previous campaign. Thi
was due to a greater number of part
divisions and to the demand OF tn
press for a fuller service The Stat
conventions, nearly hundred in nun
Der, and the National conventions of a
the political organizations. were II
ported with a thoroughness an
rapidity surprising anything eve
d before attempted. The subsequen
e official action of the party con
# mittees, the letters. addresses an
n movements of candidates, were car,
e fully provided for under instruction
5 similar in language and spirit. 1t ha
: never been considered as within tn
: legitimate functions of this on part
5 san association to report ordinary cam
d paign meetings or to transmit scandal
r that spring up during such heate
/ periods. All such have been rigorousI
e excluded from the Associated Press II
V ports. The charge that election r,
e turns in the State of New York WEI
withheld are disproved by the fact ths