The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-11-28
VOL. S-NEN SERIES No 22I

meeting In Norfolk, Va, last week, and
Immediately thereafter It's executive com
mittee came 10 THIS city 10 ascertain from
President Lawson, who Is at the W mdsor
Hotel. the exact attitude OF the Western
Association upon the New Orleans ques-
ton There were present at the inter-
view United States Senator Patrick
Walsh. of the Augusta ga Chronicle;
Stockton, Of the Jacksonville Times
Union; j. G. Hemphill Of the Charleston
News and Courier; Adolph ). Ochs, OF
the Chattanooga Times, President Law
son, and his assistant general manager.
Charles S. Dehl. rhe evasive answers
ana the shifty ground oil the Western
representatives confirmed the suspicious
OF the Southerners thdt double-dealins
was going on.
Their indignation was intensified yes
teTday when they saw a circular Whlch
had lust been sent out by the Western
Association stating that members oush'
10 be informed that the Southern AssO-
cldted Press had been guilty OF VIVA
ton Of its contract with the West rms
was adding insult TO injury, ana tue
southerners determined to cut loose rom rom
the Western Association. Ibey ~eIC loi
tined in their determination ny the loiI
bic telegFams received from ther sOulh-
cTn associates, 10 whom they hdd cohiihu-
niCdtcd the condition Of aHalrS. By tue.n
they we're assured that their action WOuld
be heartily approved by the ASSOCIATION
as "a whole and that an equal dppfoVai
would be given any alliance Whlch lheg
might make with the United Press. Cap
tam Evan u. Howell, Of tie Atlanta Con
stitution, was especially emphatic IN MS
view that a dscOntlnuance OF all 1urtntr
relations with the West and the beginning
of a fight for the integrity OF the South-
ern Associated Press were demanded.
General Manager Walter +. Philips, OF
the United Press, had been keenly alive
90 the condition Of AFFAIRS, and thIoush
him uegCtiatiODs were opened with the
INIT Oh ~
day afternoon at meeting held In the
Office Of the New York sun, where an
alliance offensive and defensive between
the two news associations was formed
The New York Herald, the Tribune, the
Sun. and the New York Times were each
represented at this meeting. and unanl-
mousiy approved the negotiations OF Gen
erdl Manager Philips, The four members
Of the Southern Executive Committee al
ready mentioned and Daniel 4. TompkinS.
OF the Charlotte On. CO Observer attend
ed the meeting. An agreement Which
gives the Southern Associated Press addi-
tional privileges as news gatherer' ana
v ch Will enable IL 10 broaden its held
OF operations was signed ana sealed GS
upon the spot. Then the Executive Com
mittee prepared the letter TO President
Lawson and gave the instructions neces-
sary TO q prompt severance OF all rela-
tiOus with the West at midnight.
There are upward Of forty southern
newspapers that will thus be brought into
exclusive relationship with the United
Press. Associated already with the United
Press Ia its fight with the Western Asso-
ciated Press are the New England Asso-
ciated Press. including the strongest ana
best newspapers OF New En- land. such as
the Boston Herald. Globe. Journal. Ad-
vertiser Post and Transcript; the Spring
field Republican, the Providence Journal
ana the Hartford Courant, the Associated
Press of the state of New York, which
comprises every leading newspaper I'm
every city of this State, upward of thirty
I'm number, the Philadelphia Record,
Ledger, and Telegraph; the Washington
POST the Piusburg Times, Pittsburg
Leader, and Pittsburg Press. and ia ad-
diton 10 The foregoing array upward Of
$50 newspapers in the West. Add 20 these
newspapers the newspapers of the South,
and the combination of newspapers with
which the floor is TO be "mOpped up
represents an aggregation which will re-
quire the combined activities, intelleC-
tualty and financial resources of the
Western Association to overcome IL pre-
scnts to/their earnest consideration
problem as serious as the one afforded
the gentleman who undertook TO lift him
self over the fence by pulling on his boot
straps.
The loss OF the Southern Associated
Press by the West is irreparable. The
latter VIII undoubtedly invade the South
eVn territory just as II invaded New Eng
land and New York State last spring.
newspaper may be picked off here and
there. and there effort will be made To
galvanize into life with a western news
SUI VIC. tilt lew newspapers scattered
throughout the South that have been un-
able 10 obtain recognition from their more
prosperous neighbOrs. But the circuits
are long I'm that section, and the cost OF
hauling western news down into that
territory and of collecting and hauling
southern news back again to western
connections must prove enormous The
service Will under these conditions. be
rendered by the Western Associated Press
at a heavy loss, Just as its service Is being
rendered al loss 10 its limited number
Of members i'm New England and in the
interior Of this state
This condition of affairs will continue
SO long as the msmbers of the Western
Association permit their affairs 10 be
managed from Chicago Many Of them
are dissatisfied now. and their dissatisfac-
tion Will not be materially lessened by the
loss of their southern allies.