New-York tribune., 1895-08-22

SPECIOUS PROMISES OF THE ASSOCI-
ATED PRESS NOT FULFILLED.

WALTER +. PHILLIPS GENERAL MANAGER OF
THE L. P. SHOWS THE UTTER rNTRusT-
WoRTHINEss OF THE CHICAGO CONCERN
IN DEALING WITH IT'S CLIENTS.
Denver, Colo. Aug N.-"The Evening Post" prints
the following in this evenings edition:
Walter p. Phillips general manager Of the United
Press. who is in for few days. talked freely
with the Editor of The Evening POST yesterday
cago Associated Press. which at war with each
Everything looks well for the future Of the United
Press. Newspaper proprietors are beginning 10 see
that they have been deceived by the msrepresenta-
tons of the Chicago Associated Press managers
their wisest members. What they started out 10 do
p All of their plans % through
combination with the United Press q union of the
other Western cities having a population. say. of
10000 people with the newspapers OF New York
idence and corresponding cities In the East whose
population reached or closely approximaed 10000.
We unable to bring about the ideal arrange
we had in mind Within a day the Chicago
Associated Press changed its ground and came out
& ST % pa Gf a9e e 'nes % II naa
town-meeting plan OF press organization govern
dangers, involving expenditures that have already
twice placed the organization in the position of a
mendcan toward its members and clients-that
their courage tends downward, while the United
Press IS on the up erade-ali this Is obvious. There
Is no cooperation about the Chicago Associated
Press. Thc whole thing reminds me Of what the
late Richard NJ. Hunt once said Of certain much
lauded and temporarily fashionable style Of archi-
ceetingly undesirable in the original.
The specious argument upon which Messrs. Law
Soon as they had Changed their efound was tha
they were seeking to establish mutual benefit as
sccaton. a cooperative organization In which al
, ste papers IN ,ne country were TO be united In a
sort OF brotherhood. and In which all should be on
agement and gain equal advanages from m f the r
oet ~, ana from the spoils Of their intended
the Chicago Associated Press the footing
IN every respect? Are they on the same footing in
these questions one need Seek no further than tbe
annual reports Of the Chicago managers themselves.
an analysis OF the complicated data therein con-
ton
woe that the directors OF the association whom
me entire charge OF its business is committed must
De CHOSEN from among the stockholders. Ii is plain
rna, the division Of stock is made with view
ent dominating element, to be turned over by Them
10 iMessrs Lawson and Stone
Is cardinal principle of the Chicago manage
,neht uat all news contracts shall be made for
haan terms OF ninety years The new members have
this respect How has this been carried out? In
SaSea where newspaper propretors have been suf-
their own terms, II has been carried out Al ali
me Lawson and Stone have been driving the ma
tracts on the ground that every else was called
upon 10 DO the same. contracts were made with
4 contract was made with The World Of New
YORK Tor one year with the privilege OF renewing
i0r three years moro. contract was made with
The Cncinnnu Enquirer for la. cen years and The
Iimes. OF washington mad one for two years.
You Will find Determinations In regard TO increas-
ing the price for service The ordinary form of
contract provides that the Chicago manager may
arbitrarily increase the assessments by 30 Der cent
Papers which were disposed to murmur al this con-
diton mad TO be content with the assurance that II
WAS universal one Yet many OF the contracts
with Fastern DaDers contain no such clause
I'm snort In this new paper bro,herroOn. has pom
exact equality, twO-thrds OF the sO-called members
have voice or Interest IN its affairs of the actual
stockholders, number Of Eastern pa pers have been
restricted in their holdings to haf or one-elghth
of the full quota Of stock still smaller minority
have been called upon to relieve Lawson and Stone
OF financial obligations amounting 10 10000 a Sc
lect few have not been held 10 the niney-year con
tract; extensive veto power has been given some
members and none at all to others: certain papers
have been exempted from the obligation 10 meet a
- per cent increase In their assessment and vet
Lawson and Stone have the efrOntery to maintain
in all soiemnity that in their association every
is a brother and has the same rights and the same
privileges any other.
Such showing this cannot fail 10 convince
the casual observer Of the hollow irony Of The
claim with which Lawson and Stone have prevailed
upon number OF newspaper publishers to ntrust
their interests to their care"