The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-01
NEW DEAL OF The PRESS.
The Illinois Associated Shown Up in
lis True COlOIS.

Its Contract With the Southern Asso-
ciated Press shamelessly Violated.
! The Western Organization Also Played
False in It's Bargain With the United
Press-The Southern and the United
Press Now Out for the Scalp Of the
Western Organization.
Atlanta. Ca, Nov sO.-The Southern As
ISOLATED Press completed its alliance to-
/ day, offensive and defensive, with the
| United Press. It directed it's executive
committee to enter into close relations
with its clients during the next thirty days
and perfected arrangements for conduct
| ing an aggressive fight against the West
ern Associated Press throughout the
southern territory. The association ex-
poets to meet the western organization in
/ its territory and 1t has perfected its plans
! accordingly.
p. V. DeGraw was appointed assistant
general manager. with headquarters in
Washington.
In the following letter, the Southern
Associated Press defines its position dis
tinctly and tells why it severed its re-
lations with the Western Associated Press,
in language that is unmistakable and must
be convincing to very newspaper man
who reads il.
Atlanta, Ca, Nov. SO.-To Charles A.
| Dana, president Of the United Press, New
/ York. Dear Strive beg in behalf
of the Southern Associated Press
to acknowledge the receipt of your
very cordial telegram conveying assur-
ances Of the heartiest desire on the part
of the United Press to cooperate in every
! possible way with our association, and to
! thank you for same. We desire to express
our appreciation of your sentiments, and
to assure you that we have entire con-
| hdence in our ability to maintain the
| integrity of the Southern Associated Press,
and to carry out in spirit and letter, the
contract relations which we have es-
tablished with your association
In approving the contract entered into
/ between our executive committee and
your body, on Monday Nov. 26, it seems
necessary that a statement of our rea-
sons for taking this important step should
| be fully understood by your association.
| The Associated Press of Illinois. having
| made certain statements about the rela>
| tions between the Associated Press and
/ the Southern Associated Press, which are
full of Misrepresentation, we deem 1t
| our duty to make a presentation of the
| facts, that the truth may be known how
I
| tons were severed.
The statement that there was any real
| difference between the New Orleans pa
| pers and the Southern Associated Press,
| sufficient to justify an interference by ar
! bitration and that violation even of the
| supplemental contract by the Southern
Associated Press (Which we deny was
/ sufficient to authorize the conduct of the
| Associated Press of Illinois is the merest
subterfuge, and was made for the sole
purpose of deceiving the public.
| Tn Associated Press of Illinois had vio-
| lated their contract before the arbitration
occurred, and had taken the two New
! Orleans papers under their wing in plain
violation of their promise in writing, and
permitted these papers to follow their
| lead and by their acts, to repudiate their
| promises to our association. We charge
| that the arbitration proceedings were in
spired by the Associated Press OF Hi
nois for the purpose of muddying the
waters, and to create dissension.
We deny that the Southern Associated
Press ever agreed to the arbitration or
| ever consented to the decision of the arbi-
traitors, and we charge that the said ar
bitration proceedings were eX-parte, in
| tended to be so by both parties inter-
ested in them, and were devised for the
| purpose of giving an excuse to the Asso-
/ ciated Press of Illinois for conduct they
| well knew would have to be covered by
such a course of action.
At a meeting of the Southern Associated
Press in Atlanta on Nov. %, 1884, a special
committee was appointed to make a
statement of the facts in the case for
the information of the public, and this
committee have prepared the following
declaration:
On Oct "A, 1892 the Southern Associated
Press entered into an agreement with
the Associated Press of Illinois. which was
to continue until 1910. The United Press
was also a party to this contract, and it
has never faltered in carrying it out in
letter or in spirit.
On the contrary the Associated Press of
Illinois, because of its hostility to the
United Press, violated its agreement more
than yeare ago, surrepttiously admitted
to membership two New Orleans newspa-
pers and then sent its representative to
Augusta, where they attempted to STAN
pede and destroy the Southern AS
ISOLATED Press. This effort having failed,
other devices to disintegrate the organiza-
ton were resOrted to and nothing was left
undone to wreck the Southern Associated
Press and place its members at the mercy
of the Chicago organization.
A clause in the contract between the
p Southern Associated Press and the AS
ISOLATED Press of Illinois contemplated
the protection of the New Orleans papers
in respect of their assessments being I'M
duly increased by appointing a committee
. W. Knapp and Frederick Driscoll, to ar
bitrate on the matter in the event of a
. disagreement between the Southern AS
ISOLATED Press and their New Orleans
members growing out of any intended in
crease in the rates fixed for that city
But no change in the assessments upon the
I New Orleans papers was ever made or or.
. dered or contemplated. Notwithstanding
the consequent absence of any excuse fol
arbitration, the committee named above
l met and lowered the rates at New Orleans
and they did this for the purpose of Great
4 ing dissension. No one who is at all ia
= miliar with the circumstances doubts tina
having made a solemn agreement with tht
y Southern Associated Press-an agreement
q carried out in good faith by the latter-th'
[ Chicago organization entered upon a de
= liberate and persistent course which
= would so affront the members of -,
j Southern Associated Press that the,
5 would abandon the whole ARRANGEMENT
e They reasoned that they could then rusl
$ in and stampede and capture the entir
g southern territory. This plan had beel
d adopted and had succeeded in other part