The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-09-02
STALE TELEGRAMs.

The only evening dAilIes In the state Of
Kansas that take the Associated Press
dispatches are: The EMPORIA NEWS.
Topeka Journal and Wichita Beacon. All
others publish stale islegrsms from plates
furnished at Kansas City which are sent
70 them by railroad. These plates are Of
necessity made up of old news, dated
ahead in order TO deceive the readers. A
comparison of the alleged telegraph news
published IN Saturdays issue of the Globe
with back numbers of the NEWS will con-
vince our readers of this fact. Not only
do these plates mislead, but they actual y
lie. Take for instance, the base pail re-
ports dated the 26th inst. which appeared
In the hrst issue of the Globe, which re-
port game as having been played in St.
Louis between the New YORK and st.
Louis National league clubs, with a score
of - 10 in favor of St. Louis, when, in
fact, there was no game on that day on sc-
count Of rain-the score they Published
being that OF the previous day. This de-
ception by q change OF date is carried ont
In every other item IA their alleged tele-
graph columns, but In some instances ls
attempted TO be covered up by inserting
the word yesterday" somewhere in the
first few lines of the articles called tele-
grams.
This kind of q Newspaper might have
been acceptable years ago when the coun-
try was new and our citizens had only
such news as was copied from other
papers. To-day. however, We receive at
Emporia our news from all quarters of the
earth, up 10 the hour of going 70 press,
simultaneously with all the largest cities
of the United States, and we doubt much
whether our citizens will be satisfied TO
take an alleged Newspaper which fur
nishes them with the current news of the
day some twentY-four or more hours after
It has been published and distributed In
our city by other papers and has thereby
become stale and no longer news.
In connection with this subject, we copy
the following from the Lawrence journal {:
1t is admitted that in this age of the
world papers cannot be run as newspapers
without dispatches. The associated have
q complex, expensive, but very complete
system OF cOllectlng news that render It's
services indispensable and invaluable.
Hence, q daily paper when started that ex-
poets to amount TO anything as distribu-
tor of news applies at once for member
chip in the association, to the morning
press association II q morning paper and
TO the evening press association If an
/ evening paper. There are in Kansas the
following papers that belong to
the morning associated press (:
l.
Times, Atchison Champion, Topeka
| Commonwealth and Capital, Emporia Re-
publican, Fort Scott Monitor, Abilene Ga
zette. The following evening papers take
the dispatches: LeAvenworth Standard,
Atchison Patriot, Topeka Journal, Empo-
ria News, Wichita Beacon. The Journal
Is the only paper at Lawrence that has the
dispatches. Other alleged newspapers
than the ones named above simply pub
lIsh plate telegraph, so-called, dated for
ward and that Is, of necessity stale matter
having been already published in the pa
pe.s that take the dispatches. The larg-
est expense tor news is In the telegraphic
reports. They add very considerably to
the expense Of publishing daily paper