The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-10-05
MEETING OF THE
ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Great Gathering OF Newspaper
Men in Chicago.
STRONG ASSOCIATION.
Large Amount OF Stock Already Sub
scribed.
a Big Fight Being Made Against the
United Press, Which is Denounced
as irresponsible and Against
Public Interests.

CHICAGO, Oct. 4.-The members of the
Associated Press held a special meeting
at the Grand Pacific hotel in this city to-
day. II is 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 it has never before
been deemed necessary to call the owners
of the great newspapers of the country
together outside of the 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
management 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, al
though its news has embraced the In
formation OF the entire globe, audit has
had working alliances with all the lead
ing news gathering organizations of the
world. The attendance was larger
than at any previous meeting of
a press association ever held in
this country. This was largely due to
the fact that g 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 gathering and distribution of
the news, and the conversion OF it into q
private trust. The menace alike to the
newspaper profession and the general
public involved in this attempt was so
great as to create general alarm, and call
/, for prompt and heroic measures. The
following members were in attendance:
General Horace Rublee, Sentinel, Mil
waukee, Wis. P. G. Boyle, Derrick, Oil
City, Pa; II. II. Coleman, Edgar W.
Coleman and w. j. Foil, Herald, Mil
waukee, Wis; Albert j Barr, Pitts
burg Post; w. B. Brickell, Columbus
Des patch, Columbus, Ohio; Fred j.
Grant, PittsbuTg Despatch, Pittsburg,
Pa. AL Aiken, Evening Wisconsin, Mil
waukee, Wis. E. A. Eaton, The Sentinel,
Indianapolis, Ind; F. DriscoIl, st. Paul
Pioneer Press; W.. J. Richards, Indian
apolis News; s. F. Farrer, Chicago Even
ing Journal; Robert Simpson, PIttsburg
, Commercial Gazette; Victor +. Lawson,
Chicago Daily News and Chicago Herald;
: Charles w. Knapp, The ST. Louis Repub-
lic;. H H. Kohlsaat, the Inter Ocean;
Carter II. Harrison, Jr., Chicago Times;
= II. g. Vortriede, president Toledo Com
mercial; G. S. Hershmann, manager and
treasurer Pittsburg ChrOnicle-Telegrap
) L. Swift, manager Minneapolis journal;
, III. w. Hawley, manager Denver Times;
W. j. Murphy, Minneapolis Tribune; H.
P. Hall, st. Paul Globe; W. G.. Ball,
Terre Haute Gazette; E. I. Nc
Neeley, Evansville journal; W. w.
Ross, Evansville Journal. J. W.
Woodey, Jr., Milwaukee Sentinel;
D. B. Cooper, Nashville American;
Charles Ray. Milwaukee Sentinel;
Charles II. Tanney, Wheeling Register;
E. G.. Deming, Columbus Dispatch; K.
r G. Cooper. Denver Republican; John
Atkins, Rocky Mountain News; George
Thompson, st. Paul Dispatch; A. L.
Markbreit, Cincinnati Volksblatt; J. D.
Ellison and d. L. Bower-Smith, Ohio
Locke, Toledo Blade; l.. Markbreitt,
proxy for Cincinnati Volks Freund; A.
w. Campbell, Wheeling Intelligencer;
James e. Scripps, Detroit Tribune; Mar
shall Halstead, Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette; 1. F. Mack, Sandusky Register;
W. G. Mcdonald, Kansas City Times;
w. A. Bunker, Kansas City Journal;
Charles P. Taft, Cincinnati Times-Star;
A. G.. Boynton, Detroit Free Press; w.
D. Bickham, Dayton Journal; George
NJ. Allen, Terre Haute Express; F. T.
Lane, Toledo Blade; Victor Rosewater,
Omaha Bee; L. b. Holden, Cleveland
Plaindealer; A. II. BeIo and R. G..
Lowe, Galveston News; William D.
Ruhe, ST. Louis America; d. NJ. Houser,
Globe-Democrat; John Schroers, st.
Louis Anzeiger; Florence ID. White, st.
Louis Post Dispatch; William A. Collier,
Memphis Appeal and Memphis Ava
! lanche; Harry S. New, indianapolis
Journal.
Four papers only, members Of the asso-
citation, were reported as having no rep
resentatiVes present, and three of these
who were unable to reach here from the
Pacific coast teiegraphed their loyal adj
hesion to the association and their acqui-
escence in and approval of the most yigor-
Gus measures to insure the purity and
integrity of the news service.
They gave positive expression in favor
OF the cooperative plan of news gather
ing 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 and distribution of news g
: private enterprise and subject to the ir-
l responsible control OF designing men.
The dangers of such a system were
made manifest involving. as they do. the
possibility OF tampering with market re-
ports, the coloring of political or other
important information and all absence of
restraint or censorship on the part OF the
papers themselves.
So alarming was the threat, that 1t was
felt by every one to reach entirely beyond
the lines Of the newspapers and touch in
vital way the interests Of every citizen.
had been made in the past, one of them
notably by Jay Gould, but all came 20
grief because of the natural refusal OF any
of the newspapers of the country to print
their news. The present effort, cloaked
under the inviting name of the United
Press and posing as an association, has
succeeded in securing patronage from
number OF important journals, chiefly IN
the east and it was this fact that attracted
the attention and aroused the spirit OF the
) members of the Associated Press who as
sembled today.
Besides the members proper, enumer-
ated above, there were also present and
quite as deeply interested. the represent
tatives of the allied associations of the
Associated Press, all of which are upon
the same CO. operative plan and represent
an aggregate membership running into
the hundreds.
1t was the unanimous opinion OF those
assembled that the time was ripe for a
great national Associated Press organiza-
zion such as has never existed in
, this country and which should ex-
tend from the Atlantic to the Pa
/ cific, embracing in its membership
ali OF the Leading daily newspapers,
while preserving the autonomy of the
} various sectional associations for local
purposes. The plan of organization pro-
vides. for an absolutely equal stockhold-