The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-10-05


CHICAGO, Oct. 4.-The members OF the
Associated Press held special meeting
at the Grand Pacific hotel in in this city
to-day. 1t is the first time in tho his
tory OF the organization that the news
papers embraced in the Associated
Press membership were ever called to-
gether in extraordinary session, as it
has never before been deemed necessary
to call the owners Of the great newspa-
pers OF the country together, outside OF
tho regular annual session. The special
purpose Of the meeting was to provide
for an increase in the capital stock of
the organization to enable the manage
ment to widen the field OF its operations,
so as to include the entire country.
Hitherto this association has confined
its membership to the territory west Of
the Allegheny mountains, although its
news has embraced the information OF
the entire globe, and it has had work
ing alliances with all OF the leading
news gathering organizations OF the
world.
The attendance was larger than at
any previous meeting OF press associ-
alton 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 oil Chicago banker, looking
to the seizure Of the business OF the
gathering and distribution OF the news,
and the conversion OF it into private
trust. The menance, alike to the news
paper profession and the general public,
involved in this attempt, was so great
as to create general alarm, and call for
prompt and heroic measures.
MEMBERS PRESENT.
The following members were in at
tendance:
General Horace Ruhlee, Sentinel, Mil
waukoe; P. G. Boyle, Derrick, Oil City;
II. II. Coleman, Edgar ". Coleman and
". ]. Fohl, Herald, Milwaukee; Albert
]. Barr, Pittsburgh Post; W. D. Brickell,
Columbus Dispatch; Fred J. Grant,
Pittsburgh DisPatch; A. ]. Aiken, Even-
ing Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Z. A. Eaton,
Sentinel, Indianapolis; F. Driscoll., St.
Paul Pioneer Press; W. ]. Richards, In
dianapolis Netrs; s. F. Farrar, Chicago
Evening Journal; Robert Simpson, Com
merciat Gazette, Pittsburgh; Victor +.
Lawson, Chicago Daily NewS and Chicago
Record; Charles W. Knapp, St. Louis
Republic; II. H. Kohlsaat, Chicago
Inier- OCEAN; Carter II. Harrison, jr.,
Chicago Times; II. G. Vortriede, presi-
dent Toledo Commercial; o. $. Hersh-
man, manager and treasurer Pittsburgh
Chronicle Telegraph; L. Swift, manager
Minneapolis Journal; II. W. Haley,
manager Denver Times; W. j. Murphy,
Minneapolis Tribune; II. II. Hall, st.
Paul Globe; W. @. Ball. Terre Haute
Gazette; i. T. McNeely, Evansville Jour
nal; W. W. Ross, Evansville Journal; ]. II.
Wood, ir., Milwaukee Sentinel; D. r,
Cooper, Nashville american; Charles
Ray Milwaukee, Sentinel; Charles II.
Taney, Wheeling Register; L. 9. Dem
ing, Columbus Dispatch; X. @. Cooper,
Denver Republican; John Atkins, Rocky
Mountain NelUs; George Thompson, st.
Paul Dispatch; A. L. AIarkbreit,
Cincinnati NoGsblaA; J. D. FL.
lison and D. L. Bowersmith,
Ohio State Journal, Columbus;
Robinson Locke, Toledo Blade; L. NJ.
Markbreit, proxy for Cincinnati Volks-
treuad; A. W. Campbell. Wheeling IN.
TELLIGENcER; James L. Scrirps, Detroit
Tribune; Marshal Halstead. Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette; /. A. Mack, San.
dusky Register; W. Mcdonald, Kansas
City Times; W. A. Bunker, Kansas City
Journal; Eugene U. Perdue, Cleveland
Leader; Charles p. TAFT, Cincinnati
Times.Stdr; A. G. Boynton, De.
trolt Fne Press; W. D. Bickham,
DAYTON Journal; George NJ. Allen, Terre
Haute Erprcss; T. y. Lane, Toledo
Blade; Victor Rosewater, Omaha Bee;
L. T. Holden, Cleveland Plain Dealer;
A. II. Bolo and Il, Q. Lowe, Galveston
NCws; William Drupe, St. Louis Anlericd;
D. Nj. Houser, st. Louis Giobs-DemOcrGt;
John Schroers, st. Louis An.sicer; Flor
ence D. White, st. Louis Post. Dispatch;
William A. Collier, Memphis appeal and
Avalanche; Harry S. New, Indianapolis
Journal,
IiiE bhsNNEuko vi NANtNSA Sha'
Four papers only, members Of the AS
sociation, were reported as having no
representative present, and three OF
these, who were unable to reach here
from the Pacific coast, telegraphed their
loyal adhesion to the Association, and
their ac9uiescenco in and approval OF
the most vigorous measures to insure
tho purity and integrity OF the news
service. They gave positive expression
in favor OF the cooperative plan OF news
gathering, which has been the policy
OF the Associated Press for more
than thirty years, and were equally
strong IN their condemnation OF all
schemes for making the collection aud
distribution OF news enterprise subject
| to the irresponsible control OF design
ing men. The dangers OF such sys.
tenn were made manifest, involving, as
thev do, the possibility OF tampering
with market reports, the coloring OF
political or other important iniorma-
tion, and all absence of restraint or CEN
sureship on the part oil the papers them
selves. SO alarming was the threat that
it was felt by every one 10 reach Ell.
tisely beyond the lipes ot the news
papers and touch in vital way the in
leresls OF every citizen.
Two FoRMgE ATTEMPTS.
Two or three attempts o: such a char
ac,cr had boeu made in the past, one
/ OF them notably by Jay Gould, but nil
came TO grief, because oil the natural
! refusal Of any OF the newspapers Of the