The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-05
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
The Capital to be Increased and the Field
20 be Widened.

The Capital to be Increased and the Fielt
60 BE- Widened.
CHICAGO Oct. 4-The members Of the
Associated Press held a special meeting al
tie Grand Pacific hotel in this city today
1t WAS the first time in the history Of ths
organization that the newspapers EN-
Lraced in the Associated Press member
ship were ever called together in extrordi-
nary session, as il never before had beeI
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 It's
operations, SO as to include the entire
country. Hitherto this association has
confined its mem bership to the territory
vest of the Allegheny mountains, al
though its news has embraced informa'
iion of the entire globe and il has had
working alliances with all the ieadl ng
aews-gathering organizations of the world.
The attendance was larger than at any
previous meeting of press association
rver held in this country. This was large
ty due to the fact that deep interest has
been aroused by the Vaccinations of three
men, under the leadership OF Chicago
banker looking to the seizure of the busi-
ness of gathering aud distributing news.
and the conversion of it into private
-rust The menace, alike to the news
paper profession and the general public,
jnvolved in this attempt was so great as Ia
create general alarm, and called for
prompt and heroic action The following
mem bers were in attendance.
General Horace Rublee. Milwaukee
Sentinel.
P C. Boyle, Derrick. Oil City. Pa.
H. H. Coleman and Edgar w. Coleman,
Milwaukee Herald.
w. j. Tone and Albert j. Barr, Pittsburg
Post.
w. d. BrickelI, Dispatch, Columbus. O..
Fred j. Grant, Dispatch, PIttsburg. Pa.
A j. Aiken, Evening Wisconsin, Mil
waukee
g. A. Eaton, IndianaDolis Sentinel.
r. Driscoll, st. Paul Pioneer Press.
W. J. Richard. indianapolis News.
6. f. Farrar, Chicago Evening Journal.
Robert Simpson, Pittsburg Commercial
Gazette.
7 Victor F. Lawson, Chicago Daily News
and Chicago Record.
Charles w. Knapp, st. Louis Republic.
H. Ii. Kohlsoat, Chicago Inter Oceau.
Carter II. Harrison, Jg. Chicago Times.
II. c. Vortried, Toledo Commercial.
Q. S Hershman, Pitts burg Chronicle
Telegraph.
J.. Swift. Minneapolis Journal.
II. w. Hawley, Denver Times.
w J. Murphy, Minneapolis Tribune.
II. p Hall St. Paul Globe.
w c. Bail, Terre Haute Gazette.
T. r. McNeeley, Evansville JolrnaL.
w. w. Ross aud j. II. Weedy, Jr.. Nil
waukee Sentinel.
ID. B. Cooper, Nashville American.
Charles Rag. Milwaukee, Sentinel.
Charles Tanner Wheeling Register.
f. G. Denning Columbus Dispatch.
y. G. Cooper, Denver Republi
John Atkins Rocky Mountain News.
George Thompson, st. Paul Dispatch.
A. L. Markbreit, Cincinnati Volksblatt.
j. ID. Ellison and ID. l.. Bowersmith,
Ohio State Journal, Columbus
L. l.. Markbreit, proxy for Cincinnati
Eolksfreund.
Robinson Locke, Toledo Blade.
A. w. Campbell, Wheeling Intelli-
gencer.
James f. Scripps, Detroit Tribune.
Marshall Halstead, Cincinnati CONNER
cial-Gazette.
]. +. Mack, Sandusky Register
w. Mcdonald, Kansas City Times.
w. A. Bunker, Kansas City Journal.
Eugene III. Perdue, Cleveland Leader.
Charles p. Taft. Cincinnati Tlmes-Star
!. 6. Bovuhon, Dstroit Free Press.
W. ID. Bickaam, Dayton Journal.
George ". Miller, Terre Haute Express
r. II. Lane, Toledo Blade.
Victor Rosewater, Omaha Bee.
l.. L. Holden, Cleveland Plaindealer.
A. Ii. Belo and Il. q. Lowe, Galveston
News.
William Druhe. ST. Louis Amerika.
u. NJ. Houser, Globe-D Democrat.
John Sehroeres, St. Louis Anzeiger
Florence ID. White, st. Louis Post-Dis-
patch.
William A Collier, Memphis Appeal
md Memphis Avalanche.
Harry ;. New, Indianapolis Journal.
-Four papers only, mem bers of the assoc
iation, were represented as having no rep
iesentatives present, aud three of these,
who were unable to reach here from the
Pacific coast, telegraphed their loyal nd
heslon TO the association and their acqui-
.scence in and approval of the most vigor-
Gus measures to insure the purity and in
Iegrity of the news. Twice they gave a
positive expression in favor OF the CO.
operative plan Of news-gatheripg, which
has been followed by the Associated Press
for more than thirty years, and were
equally strong in their condemnation of
ali schemes for making the collection and
distribution of news private enterprise
and subject to the irresponsible control of
designing men. The dangers OF such a
system were made manifest, Involving as
they do the possibility OF tamperiug with
market reports, the codoring of political
or other important information, aud all
absence of restraint or censorship on the
part OF the papers themselves.
So alarming was the threat that 1t was
felt 10y every one 10 reach entirely beyond
the lines of the newspapers and to touch
in a vital way the interests of every citi-