The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-11-27
APoLoG1sr FOR DISHONESTY.


Editor Stone, of the New York Jour
nal of Commerce, who was earnest in his
denunciations of the Associated Press
for its rank partisanship during the
campaign, and especially during the
dark days succeeding the election, has
been induced to publish a retraction
and apology, in which he cringes before
Whitelaw Reid, of the New York Trib-
une, and VIM. Henry Smith, general
manager of the association, like a
whipped onr This spectacle is to be re-
GREETED, for Mr.. Stone has been credited
with the courage of standing by his con-
victions, but he has certainly not main
tanned his reputation in this instance
He has simply done something that will
induce people to inquire his motive in
seeking to lift censure from persons who
merit it. There is not an intelligent
newspaper reader in the country who
does not know that the Associated Press
is bitterly partisan and that partisan
coloring is given to all its political news
The disreputable work is so clun.silY
done as to excite contempt and scorn.
All through the late campaign the
country was kept well informed of the
operations of the Republicans whose
long speeches were reported, their
points duly scored, and great amount
of gush and enthusiasm injected. In
the case of Blaine on his travels through
Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana, Mich
as the agent of the Associated Press, and
most of the dispatches sent out by him
cor AIMED his fathers speeches in full,
as well as glorying accounts of his re-
ception and ovation along the route of
the circus. For days large portion Of
the Associated Press reports was made
up of Blaine's doings written by the
son to whom the great newsgathering
concern had been turned over. If our
memory serves as rightly, the Associ-
ated Press sent synopses of two or
three addresses by Governor Hendricks,
and devoted some attention to Cover
nor Cleveland's receptions in New York
and Brooklyn, two of the grandest oc-
currenees of the campaign. 1t failed to
send west an account of the Cleveland
and Hendricks business mems clubs
procession in New York, to which the
newspapers there devoted columns, all
uniting in declaring it the most impos-
ing political demonstration ever wit
messed in the metropolis. Taking the
campaign from the conventions to the
election, and there were twenty words
for the Republicans to one for the Dem
ocrats, sent over the wires by the Asso-
ciated Press. 1t is still fresh in the
minds of everybody how the Associated
Press held back and mutilated the re-
turns in the interest of Blaine, almost
driving the people wild, until the New
York papers came along with their
special and correct reports. Days after
the chairman of the Indiana Republican
State Committee had conceded the
State to the Democrats, the As
ISOLATED Press was still claiming
it for the Republicans, and making
comparisons with figures gathered from
some mysterious source to help estab-
fish Its fraudulent claim. The morning
after the election the New York papers
Of influence, with the exception of the
Tribune, whose editor has acontrolling
influence over the manager of the Asso-
ciated Press, gave the election to Cleve-
and. and the official count did not
materially change their figures; the
Associated Press bad the same returns