St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-05
SOLID AS The HILLS.
Rousing Meeting Of the Asso-
ciated Press at Chicago.
LOYALTY AID ENTHUSIASM
Shown by All Members Of the
Organization.
A SURPLUS OF OVER $500
Guaranty Fund OF $4,000 Is
Readily Pledged.
A SURPLUS OF OYER $4,000.

Readily Pledged.
LIST OF MEMBERS PRESENT.
CHICAGO, Oct. 4.-Members of the
Associated Press held special meeting
at the Grand Pacific hotel in this city
Today. 1t is the first time in the history
of the organization that the newspapers
embraced in the Associated Press mem
bership were ever called together in
extraordinary session, as it has never
the owners of the great newspapers of
the country together, outside OF the
annual session. The special purpose of
the meeting was to provide for an in
crease in the capital stock of the organ
iZation to enable the management to
widen the field of its operations so as to
include the entire country. Hitherto
this association has confined its men,
bcrShip to the territory west of the Al
legheny mountains, although its news
has embraced the information of the
alliances with all the leading news
gathering organizations of the world.
The attendance was larger than at any
previous meeting of a press asso-
citation ever held in this country.
This was largely due TO the fact that
deep interest had been aroused by the
Vaccinations of three men, under the
leadership of a Chicago banker. looking
to the seizure of the business of gather
ing and distribution of the news, and
the conversion of it into a private trust.
The menace, alike to the newspaper
profession and the general public. in
yolved in this attempt was SO great as to
create general alarm, and call for
prompt and heroic measures. The fol-
lowing members were in attendance.
FORMIDABLE LIST.
H. II. Kohlsaat. Chicago Inter Ocean.
V. F. Lawson, Chicago News and Record.
S. f. Farrar. Chicago Journal
c. II. Harrison DR., Chicago Times.
NJ. Halstead, Cincinnati Commercial Ca
Eette.
A. L. Markhreit, Cincinnati volksblattt
and Volksfreund.
C. P. Taft, Cincinnati Times-Star.
VI. D. Bricknell. E. G. Deming, Columbus
Dispatch.
j. D. Ellison, D. L. Bonersmith Columbus
Journal
E. H. Perdue, Cleveland Leader.
L. E. Holden, Cleveland Plain Dealer.
N. D. Bickham, Dayton Journal.
John Arkins, Denver News.
j. 6. Cooper, Denver Republican.
Il. II. Hawey, Denver Times.
A. G. Boy nton, Detroit Free Press.
j. E. Scripps, Detroit Tribune.
E. T. McNeeley, Evansville journal.
A. II. Belo, r. G. Lowe. Galveston News.
W. A. Bunker Kansas City journal.
W. Mcdonald, Kansas City Times.
II. S. New, indianapolis journal.
w. j. Richards, indianapolis News.
B. A. Eaton, Indianapolis Sentinel.
W. A. Collier Memphis Appeal-Ayalanche.
Horace Rublee. W. W. Ross. j. NJ. Tweedy
Tr., Charles Ray, Milwaukee Sentinel
". W. and E. ". Coleman and W. j. Fohl,
Milwaukee Herold.
A. j. Aiken. Milwaukee Wisconsin.
L. Swift, Minneapolis journal.
W. j. Murphy. Minneapolis Tribune.
D. B. Cooper. Nashville American.
P. C. Boyle, Oil City Derrick.
Victor Rosewater, Omaha Bee.
o. s. Hershman. Pittsburg Chronicle-Tele
graph.
R.Simpson, Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette
F. j. Grant. Pttsburg Dispatch.
A. j. Barr, Pittsburg Post
j. F. Mack, Sandusky Register.
John Schroehrs, St. Louis Anzeiger.
W. Drune 81. Louis Amerika.
D. NJ. Houser, St. Louis Globe Democrat.
c. W. Knapp, st. Louis Republic
F. D. White. St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
George Thompson, st. Paul Dispatch,
II. P. Hail. st. Paul GLOBE.
F. Driscoll, St Paul Pioneer Press
G. NJ. Allen, Terre Haute Express.
w. c. Ball, Terre Haute Gazette
Robinson Locke, f. IT. Lane, Toledo Blade
a. W Campbell, Wheeling Intelligencer.
Charles ii. Teney, Wheeling Register.
ONLY FOUR ABSENT.
-Four papers Onlyy members of the as
sociatiOn, were reported as having no
representative present, and three of
these, which were unable to reach here
from the Pacific coast. telegraphed
their loyal adhesion to the association
and their adquiescence in and approval
of the most vigorous measures to insure
the purity aud integrity of the news
service. They gave positive expression
in favor of the cooperative plan of
news gsthering, which has been the
policy of the Associated Press for more
than thirty years, and we're equally
strong in their condemnation of all
schemes for making the collection and
distribution OF news private enter
prise and subject 10 the irresponsible
control of designing men. The dan
gers of such system were made mani
fest, involving, as they do, the possibil-
tty of tampering with market reports.
the coloring of political or other i'm
portant information, and all absence
of restraint or censorship on the
part of the papers themselves.
so alarming was the threat that it
was felt by every one to reach entirely
beyond the lines of the newspapers, and
touch, in vital way, the interests of
every citizen. Two or three attempts
of such character had been made in the
past,one of them notably by Jay Gould,
but all came TO grief. because Of the
natural refusal of any of the newspapers
o. the country to prins their news. The