Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-10-05

CHICAGO, OCTOBER 4.-1uo monOOi'
of the Associated Press hsld q special
meeting at the Grand Pacific Hotel, IL
this city to-day.
1t is the first time In tie 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
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 en-
able the management to widen the
field OF its operations, so as to include
the entire country.
Hitherto, this association has con-
fined It's mem bership to the territory
west OF the Allegheny mountains, al
though its news has embraced the In
formation OF the entire globe, and 1t
has had working alliances with all Of
the Leading news gathering organiza-
tions Of the world.
The attendance was larger than at
any previous meeting OF press associa-
tion ever held in this country.
This was largely due to the fact that
a deep interest had been aroused by the
Vaccinations Of three men, under the
leadership of Chicago banker, looking
to the seizure of the business of gather
ing and distribution Of news, and the
conversion Of it into private trust.
The menace, alike TO the newspaper
profession and the general public, In
volved In this attempt, was so great as
to cause general alarm, and call for
prom pt and heroic measures.
The following members were in at
tendance: General Horace Ruhlee, Sen
rineI, Milwaukee; P. c. Boyle, Derrick.
Oil City; Edgar W. Coleman and w. J.
Fohl, Herald, Milwaukee; Albert G..
Barr, Plttsburg Post; w. d. Brickell,
Columbus Dispatch; Fred j. Grant,
Pi,tsburg Dispatch; A. j. Aiken,
Euenbtq Wisconsin, Milwaukee; h. A.
Eaton, Sentinel, indianapolis; E. Dris-
coil, ST. PAUL Pioneer Press; w. j.
Richards, indianapolis NetcS; 5. f. Far
rar, Chicago EUeIling Journal; Robert
! Simpson, Commercial Gazette, Pitts
burg; Victor E. Lawson, Chicago Daily
NelCs and Chicago Record; Charles W..
Knapp, st. Louis Republic; II. H. Kohl
satt, Inter ocean, Chicago; Carter IL.
| Harrison, Jr., Chicago Times; ii.
| G.. Vortriede, President; Toledo
Commercial; o. S. Hershman, manager
and treasurer Pittsburg Chronicle Teie-
graph: l.. Swift. manager Minneapolis
Journal; II. w. Haley, manager Denver
Times; w. j. Murphy, Minneapolis
Tribune; H. II, Hall, ST. Paul Globe; w.
| c. Ball, Terre Haute Gazette; +. II.
| McNeely, Evansville Journal; w. w.
Ross, Evansville Journal; j. II.
| Wood, Jr., Milwaukee Sentinel; ID.
R. Cooper, Nashville american; Charles
| Ray. Milwaukee Sentinel; Charles II.
Taney, Wheeling REGISTER; E. c. Dem
ing, Columbus Dispatch; K. c. Cooper,
| Denver Republican; John Atkins,
! ROcku Mountain NGlUS; George Thomp-
son, ST. Paul Dispatch; A. Il. Mark
brett, Cincinnati VoIksblatt; j. d. Eli,
son and D. L. Bowersmith, Ohio STATE
Journal, Columbus; Bobinson Locke,
Toledo Blade: L. NJ. MarkbreIt, proxy
for Cincinnati VOIkSfrel1ld; A.
| w. Campbell, Wheeling lltelttgen-
Ger; James L. Scripps, Detroit Tribu1Ie;
| Marshall Halstead, Cincinnati CONNER
cidI Gaztte; l. V. Mack, Sandusky Reg
ister; w. Mcdonald, Kansas City Times:
w. A. Bunker, Kansas City Journal;
Eugene u. Perdue, Cleveland Leader;
| Charles 2. Taft, Cincinnati Times Star;
A. C. Boynton, Detroit Free Press; w.
D. Bickham, Dayton Journal; George
NJ. Allen, Terre Haute Express;
/ +. #. Lane, Toledo Blade; Victor Rose
water, Omaha Bee; L. +. Holden, Cleve-
land Plain Dealer; A. II. Belo and z.
| c. Lowe, Galveston NelDs; Wm. Ora pc,
/ St. Louis America; d. NJ. Houser, St.
| Louis Globe Democrat: John Schroers,
/ ST. Louis Anzetcer; Florence ID. White.
81. Louis Post Dispatch; VIM: A. Col
lier, Memphis appeal and Memphis
AUdIdache; Harry ). New, Indianapolis
Journal.
Four papers only, members OF the
/ Association, were reported as having
( no representative present, and three OF
these who were unable 10 reach here
from the Pacific coast telegraphed their
| loyal adhesion to the Association and
! their acquiescence in the approval OF
the most vigorous measures TO insure
the purity and integrity OF the news
| service.
They gave positive expression IN IA
| Vor Of tho cooperative plan OF news
| gathering, which has been the policy OF
| the Associated Press for more than
thirty years, and were equally strong 10
their condemnation OF all schemes fol
making the collection and distribution
Of news subject TO the irresponsible con.
troll OF designing meE.
TIE dangers OF such system were
made manifest. involving as they do,
| the possibility Of tampering with mar
ket reports, the coloring OF political OF
other important inform. tion, and all ao
sence OF restraint or censorship on the
part Of the papers themselves.
So alarming was the threat that II
was felt By every one 70 reach entirely
beyond the lines Of the newspapers, and