St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-17
Morning Session.

President Stephens carried out his
promise of the night before and the
clock was tolling when shis gavel fell.
The hall was nearly deserted, only
eleven members were in their seats, but
with the beginning of the session they
trooped in and an hour later the hall
was tolerably we'll filled. Mr.. Woods,
of Illinois, opened the ball with notice
of a resolution that hereafter no person
shall be elected, appointed or chosen to
any office, committee or delegateShip
unless he is personally engaged in edit
ing and publishing newspaper. The
idea is to reduce the number of eXcur-
siOnists and cut off the many outsiders
who annually attach themselves to these
pleasure parties.
Vice President Pabor, of Denver, read
a communication from the yearly meet
ing of Women Friends of Baltimore, ask
ing for purity in newspaper matter.
The Friends wanted to see action in
the omission of details of crime, scan
dals and the like. Mr.. Pabor offered a
resolution of sympathy with the objects
of the Friends, urging a acOmpliance with
their request. The resolution went to
the committee on resolutions.
The subject under discussion the
night before-"The Country Weekly
was then resumed, and +. l.. Martin. of
jackson, Miss, took the floor. Mr..
Martin gave a typically humorous talk
of how a weekly is run in the South,
and was loudly applauded. j. w.
Shannon, of the Huron, S. D., Huronite,
followed, but had hardly got under way
when the question cyclone got under
way and Mr.. Shannon was sidetracked.
The question of composition came up,
and some one wanted to know how
many of the papers represented printed
ouartos. A show of hands revealed 80
quartos and 69 fOlios present.
''How many used patent in or out
sides?" shrieked delegate from Ohio.
The count revealed that fOrty-eight
used patent insides, thirty-five used
| plates, and forty-lve did all their COM
position at home This brought up the
question of advertising. and it was de-
velOped that of the fOrty-eIght using
patents only five had complete control
of their advertising. Quite an indigna-
tion meeting resulted, and dozen men,
! bers fercely proclaimed their belief
| that it was an outrage to allow the con-
troll of advertising to pass from a pub
| lisher's hands. Col. Brush, of Ohio,
made a rampant speech on this subject,
| and then tall man arose in the rear of
the hall.
"The gentleman will give his name,"
said the chair.
"Hoard. of Wisconsin," was the re-
| ply, and salyo of applause went around
! the hall. Gov. Hoard said he would
spurn the editor who was any mans
man in his advertising or in his editorial
department. This discussion ran along
! for a time, and it was the general senti-
ment that the publisher was badly
Worsted in the advertisements in pat
ent insides. Some one wanted to know
about the semi-weekly paper, and, with
| two exceptions, it was found that all
| publishers who had tried the semi
| weekly had abandoned it. E. Y. Small
lev wanted Mr.. Shannon to say how
many Northwestern newspapers could
exist without the aid of patent insides
or plates. Mr.. Shannon replied that he
believed a third of them could not live,
but science was progressive in news
paper work and there was no figuring
on what the future might bring to the
relief of the smaller papers.
Mr.. Camp, Of Illinois. said he could
not get as much for foreign as for home
advertising and he wanted to know how
it could be done. Mr.. Shannon said il
could be done only by insisting upon it
No principle could be carried through
to its complete conclusion, but an effort
should be made in that direction. Mr.
Williams, of Alabama. said he accom-
plished this by returning checks and
propositions again and again until they
reached the required figure. Mr.. Peter
| son, Of Washington, wandered from IhS