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

subject to say that 1t was personal IN
tercourse with his patrons that built up
his subscription. President Stephens
hurried along the discussion, which
ended with few epigrammatic remarks
by Mr.. Shannon. DR.. Hunter then read
which brought the programme about up
to date.
The original programme included
a paper on the worlds fair, by
Maj. Moses P. Handy, superintendent
of the department of promotion and
publicity; but Maj. Handy has
sailed for Europe. :and his place
was filled by J. w. Scott, the chief
of the department. of printing. The
convention was about to break up
and go to dinner, when the chair an
nouuced Mr.. Scott had few words to
say. Every delegate resumed his seat,
and Mr.. Scott was greeted with lavish
applause as he appeared. He had no
paper and made no speech. but gave
one of his little talks. THE news
papers," he said, ''are all interested in
the great fair, and l want to see
every editor and publisher in the
country there. l can assre you,
the newspapers will be well taken
care of. There will be sufficient space
just what you want and what you want
it for. There is one thing you may de-
pend upon-there will be no advertising
schemes or dodgers about the fair to in
terfere with the legitimate advertising
in the newspapers. Applause. There
will be no advertising in the pro-
grammes and catalogues as there was at
Philadelphia, and the fences, instead OF
being leased for advertisements, will
all be whitewaShed. Applause. It's
desirable that you should appoint COM
mittee to representyou that may confer
with us and have perfect understand
ing from time to time as we go along.
And l would suggest that your conven-
ton of 1898 be held in Chicago. We
may not treat you as we'll as st. Paul,
and we couldn't treat you better. but
will do the best we can. Have your
meeting along in June. and make it
strong one"
Great cheering followed Mr.. Scott off
the platform. Maj. Bundy, of Chicago,
moved the appointment of committee
of three, to be known as the Worlds
Columbian exposition committee. Mr..
Partridge. of Washington, wanted seven,
and compromise on five was effected.
Richard Ennis, of st. Louis, repre-
senting the Acknowledgements of Amer
lea, was introduced and made neat
little speech, which closed the morning
session.
Afternoon Session.
The committee on constitution and
bylaws reported favoring the following
amendment:
Section 1, article 3 of the constitution be
amended to read as follows: The member
ship of this association shall consist of the
duly accredited delegates from the state or
territorial associations and the past presi-
dents of this association who have served for
one term.
Mr.. Simmonds, of Nebraska, said the
object of this amendment was for the
purpose of keeping out political organi
zation, local organizations and press
clubs from being represented.
1t was being found that the state and
territorial delegates were being crowded
out, and it was very desirable for the
success of the National association the
delegates should be limited. Such action
was necessary to preserve the life Of
the convention.
In the discussion which followed the
opinion was expressed that it was espe
cialIy desirable to eliminate so much
junketing from the meetings of the as
sOciatiOn.
Mrs. Stockholm, president of the Illi-
nois WOmen's Press association, pro-
tested against the amendment. 1t
would prevent women from being rep
resented, because they would be forced
to join the state associations, and that
meant they would merely have to take
up the crumbs left them.
a. II. Lowrie, of-Elgin. ILL.,, opposed
the amendment.
Secretary Page urged the recOmmittal
of the amendment to the committee,
with instructions to report next year.
This was the only year in which the
convention has been attended In such
numbers as they had reason to be proud.
This was the only time the Associated
Press had reported their meetings to
the country at large, and the association
had reason to thank the st. Paul papers
for the excellent reports furnished of
their meetings.
After further talk all amendments
were withdrawn, and a motion TO table
the whole matter was carried.
Theodore l.. De Vinne, of the Century
Magazine, was down for a paper on
"The Mechanical Department" In his
absence the paper was read by Z. B.
Fletcher, of Morris, LII. Too much
money was spent in type, and too much
time wasted over little matters. 1t was,
therefore, no wonder that job printing
did not pay. There was also an unwise
competition with the photographers.
For this reason alone job printing was
Improbable. 1t was not high wages or
expensive machines. He ridiculed the
tendency to use fantastic and fancy
types. These kinds of work are not
wanted for good printing. Job printers
should learn simplicity. Plainest type
was the most beautiful.
The paper by W. II. Hill on the ED
itorial Department" was next read, and
evoked an interesting discussion.