The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-10-05


gathering Associates NJ Chicago.
CHICAGO. 0cf- x-0ne Of the rnost re-
narkable gatherings Of newspaper editors
and prcprietors. representing the Asso-
riased Press from ths Allegheny noun
tains 10 the Psrise coast. North and
South. that ever met in this country as
sernbIed AZ the Grand Pacific hotel today.
The object Of the meeting was TO decide
whether the great journals Of this country
would continue TO gather and interchange
unbiased news az cost and thus maintain
the high standard OF the Associated
Press dispatches which has existed for
nearly half = century or whether the stock.
iobbing corporation Of recent date, known
as the United Press. and controlled by two
men, namely. Charles A. Dana. of New
York. and John Il. Walsh, q banker in
Chicago, should dominate the press of
America. The result of this meeting was
substantially rs follows:
Every paper in the Western territory
which took the United Press and Associ-
ated Press dispatches has cut out the
United Press. with the exception Of two
in Cincinnati and one in Oregon. and they
will cut them ont The United
Press has lost 5000 per an
mum of revenue in the West
ern territory, and in addition to
tina. pledges have been made that not a
line Of news will be furnished to the pri-
vate corporation known as the United
Press. In addition. twenty-five of the
leading Eastern papers are negotiating for
admission TO the Associated Press and
will come in in block. The Associated
Press has won its fight, and the battle was
short and decisive
1t was the first time In the history Of the
organization that the newspapers en-
braced in the Associated Press member
ship were ever called together in extra
ordinary session, as 1t has never before
been deemed necessary to call the owners
of the great newspapers of the country
together outside of the regular annual ses-
sion The special purpose of the meeting
was to provide for an increase In the capi-
tai stock of the organization to enable the
management 70 widen the field of its
operations 50 as TO include the entire coun-
try. Hitherto this association has confined
its membership 10 the territory west of the
Allegheny mountains, although its news
has embraced the information of the en-
tire globe, and il has had working alli-
ances with all the leading news-gathering
organizations of the world. The attend
ance was larger than at any previous
meeting of the Associated Press 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 Chicago
banker. looking TO the seizure of the bust
ness of gathering and distribution of the
news and the conversion OF il INTO pri-
yate trust. The menace. alike TO the news
paper profession ana the general public,
Involved in this attempt was so great as 20
create general alarm and cau for prompt
and heroic measures. The following
members were in attendance:
Gen. Horace Rub.ee. Sentinel. Milwau-
kee; +. G. Boyle. Derrick, Oh City. Pa: 1T.
III. Coleman, Edgar w. Coleman and w. ].
Foil. Herald, Milwaukee; Albert J. Barr,
Pittsburg Post; w. ID. Brickeil, Columbus
Dispatch. Columbus, o: Fred j. Grant,
Pittsburg Dispatch; A. J. Aiken, EreEiag
Wisconsin,, Milwaukee; f. A. Eaton. the
Sentinel. indianapolis; f. Driscoil, st. Paul
Pioneer Press: w. ]. Richards. Indianapo-
ils Neses; s. 4. Arar, Chicago Erening Jour
nal; Robert simpson, Pittsburg Commercial
Gazette; Victor +. Lawson. Chicago Daily
News and Chicago Record: Charles w.
Knapp, ST. Louis Republic: III. III. Kohl
saat. Chicago Inter Ocean; Carter II. Har-
rison, jr.. Chicago Times; II. g. Vortriede,
president Toledo Commercial; C. s. Hersh-
mann. Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph; l..
Swift, Minneapolis Journal; III. W. Haw-
ley, Denver Times; W. j. Murphy, Mime
apolis Tribune; ii. L. Hall. ST. Paul Globe
w. 9. Bell, Ierre Haute Gcsette: Z. I. Me
Medley and w. W. Ross. Evansville .Tour-
nal; J: III. WOODY, jr., Milwaukee Ssnti-
mel; d.. b. Cooper. Nashville liner
ican; Charles Ray. Milwaukee Sentinel:
Charles ii. Tanney. Wheeling Register;
L. G.. Deming. Columbus Dispatch; X. G.
Cooper, Denver Republican: John Atkins,
Denver Neles; George Thompson. ST. Paul
Dispatch; A. L. Markbreii. Cincinnati
FotksblGt; j. ID. Ellison and ID. ]. Bower
Locks. Toledo Blade; T.. tIarkbrelt, proxy
for Cincinnati poiksfreund: A. w. Camp
bell. Wheeling Jafeitigeacer; James K.
| scripps. Detroit Tribune. Marshal Hal
stead. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette; I. r.
Mack. Sandusky Register; W. Mcdonald,
Kansas City Times: W. A. Bunker, Kansas
| City journal; Eugene III. Perdue, Cleve-
land Leader; Charles p. Taft, Cincinnati
| 1iRes-Star; A. G. Boynton. Detroit Free
| Press; w. ID. Bickham, Dayton Journal;
! George NJ. Allen. Terre Haute Erpress: 4.
! T. Lane. Toledo Blade; Victor Rosew alter,
Omaha Bee; l.. f. Holden. Cleveland Plata
dealer: A. II. Belo. aud r. @. Lowe, Cal
weston Netss; William ID. Ruhe. st. Louis
| Amertkd; u. Nj. Houser, St. Louis Globe
| Democrat; John Schroers. ST. Louis An
/ seigsr; Florence d. White, ST Louis Post
| Dispatch: William A. Collier. Memphis
| appeal and Memphis iralancAe; Harry s.
| New, indianapolis Journal
Four papers only members of the asso-
citation. were reported a having no repre-
sentatives present, and three of these,
! who were unable to reach here from the
Pacific coast. telegraphed their loyal adj
hesion to the association and their &C.
! qGiescence in and approval of the most
I vigorous measures to insure the purity
| and integrity of the news service. They
| gave positive expression in favor of the
cooperative plan OF news-gatherins,
| which has been the policy of the Asso-
eiaied Press for more than thirty years,
and were equally strong in their conden.
nation Of all schemes for making the ce.-
lection and distribution of news a private
enterprise and subject to the irresponsible
control OF designing men. The dangers OF
| such asystem were made manifest, invoiv-
ing as they do the possibility of tamper-
| ing with market reports; the color
ing OF political or other i'm.
portant information. and all absence OF re.
straint or censorship on the part of the
papers themselves. So alarming was the
threat that il was felt by every one Ia
reach entirely beyond the lines OF the
newspapers and touch in vital way the in
teFesgs OF every citizen. Two or three at
tempts OF such character had been made
| in the past, one of them notably by Jaw
Gould. but ali came to grief because of the