The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-02-14
THE BANQUET BOARDS
The Editors Partake of Good Things and
Take Speeches.


tonight at the Grand Pacific Hotel. The
entertainment was rendered to the mem
bers by the Eastern contingent, for whom
Colonel Clayton McMichael of Philadel-
phia, acted as spokesman. Colonel Nc
Michael presided at the banquet. The
list of guests included substantially all the
members who were present at the annual
meeting.
A time arrived between ten and eleven
o clock when, the physical wants OF the
company having been attended To,
Colonel McMichael announced that the
entertainment would shed its physical
character and take on its intellectual gar
ments.
The addresses were inaugurated by the
Colonel as follows: Gentlemen, | am eX-
ceedingly sorry for you-that is the only
apology | should make-but through cir
circums stances not entirely beyond my
control, the privilege is mine tonight to
express on behalf of the Eastern members
of the Associated Press the great satisiac-
ton, it has given us singly and together,
to be permitted to offer our colleagues
this pleasant testimony OF fellowship.
I'VE have had one and only one embar
rassment. In the management of the
affairs of the Associated Press in the
watchful protection of the interest of each
newspaper receiving its day or night re-
port, in the energetic collection of news
and the impartial distribution of news,
W. nav "'''o' eieu iio e'iuen0e Vi pieu i
le0'iVii' no sisn VI uiiuue leah,ms " ''ie
Sou'I Vi " tne North' 10 Vne "est VI u
VIZ, LAST we navy nesi'a'eu' 'ieieio
AOi 'iio P'u po'e VI iio't i'"ii'9
,'iiu 'i'is mas oeel our SNisie en-
s9ii'eii' III using 'ie ulS''i'o'iVe 'i'e
WHICH il'sl' NC ass ui'ieu 10 iluica'e
seP"ralioh from our lueheity from you III
our common OBJECT ana IN our common
"oN,oiIs' We uesile 10 EN- phaSi~e Vohlen'
anu always tnaV our Ialth ana our al
legiance mas never lailereu; that our pc
liel III the primer PIES when nave peeh lhe
lounuatioh stohe Oh winch tue greatness
OF inns ASSOCIATION mas been building are
as earnest touay as they were Wheh we
llrsV Welcohheu ana subscribed 10 them
.l"t our confluence III Vhe hdeHty ana the
lhteillgehce Oh the administration OF our
prlhclples Is growing more sincere, and
by methods they are becoming more Ia
mlllar 10 US Applause.
There is none OF us who is not ready
ana VIKING to Dear testimony mat the
news service OF the Associated fress is a
better news service than was ever Turn
ished by any other news ASSOCIATION IN
the nlted states. There Is not one who
IS not glad 10 be IN alllance with the dls-
tnguished journalists who are
seated about the tables tonight. There
is not one who does not rejoice
that he helps us send over the wires OF the
Associated Press everywhere to tens OF
thousands OF working, OF eager, OF trustful
and believing people the history OF the
world, each day as 1t transpires, told with
out prejudice and without passion, and
told without the lmpregnatlon OF either
personal, political or mercantile bias.
Continued applause.
There remains Tor me to say but one
word more, and that is on behalf OF the
Eastern members, TO repeat to you that
from the beginning OF this contest until
today Whenever any question has arisen
where we as members, individually or
N'ii~A "'"oi "N' "Nii DAN"Sii' itioO NSAi
tact, officially or personally, with the gen
tleman L am about to name, we
found him broad, liberal and true,
and true to us all, and l say this with an
absolute rnestness-with a feeling of
conscious conviction that [ believe no
man has done more in the history of
journalism to lift journalism into free
dom from thrall which was calling,
than has Mr.. Victor F. Lawson of Chi
cago." Great and prolonged applause.
Mr.. Lawson made his acknowledgements
in a short and happy speech.
Colonel McMichael introduced General
Manager M. E. Stone, who was received
with cheers and who said in part;
Two years ago when took up so much
of this work as was commissioned to me
l felt that the logic Of the situation com
PEELED the success of the Associated Press
and that logic has been carried into bat
tie. All it required was the presen-
tation to New York, Philadelphia,
Baltimore and Worcester of the cold ab-
sol,,+o truth and the Iog;c of tho s;t,,a.;a,,
~. Ill, go, WY % wa !,
was the banner WHICH carried US forward
and compelled success. And it is not con-
fined to members who are present but
DO o'e 0io Ne" .helahu AS
ISOLATION saldi My interests, the interests
of orr neople are with the Associated
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VIC cannot overlook.