Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-23
A HARMLESS ATTACK
What Newspapers Say Of the New York
Suns Libel
The Venom of DisappOintment-Ri
Press Agencies-Mr. F. ID. NOyes
and the Associated Press.
The Rival Press Agencies.

The Rival Press Agencies.
From the Washington Post.
The New York Sun is giving an unfortu-
nate tone and temper to the rivalry be-
tween the two leading news agencies of the
Countrywide United Press and the Asso-
ciated Press. It is a turn which does not
commend itself to our judgment or crafty
our taste. The Post is a subscriber to the
United Press needless to say because, in
our opinion, that is the service best adapted
to our wants; but the Post takes no inter
est or pleasure in acrimonious abuse OF the
rival organization, nor, indeed, do we see
any serious ground for such abuse. More
over it is clear to us that controversy
conducted on such lines must inevitably be
harmful to all the parties involved. The
reading public are not concerned in these
jealousies and quarrels. Men who take
newspapers want the news, and the BUSH
ness of the agencies in question is to fur
nish it. That Is the only question of i'm
portance to the community. We wish to
add. further, that in its edition of Friday
the Sun took occasion to refer in most IN
furious terms to- Mr.. F. B. Noyes of the
Evening Star of this city. Mr.. Noyes is
one of the directors of the Associated
Press, and in that capacity has incurred
the luminosity of our esteemed contempor-
airy. We are very sure, however, that the
Suns accusation against him Will not bear
inquiry, and, for our part, we take pleasure
in saying of a fellow-townsman, albeit
competitor In business, that no one who
knows him well as we do will be in the
very least disturbed by the Suns extra
ordinary attack. Mr.. Noyes can well afford
to let 1t pass without notice of any kind
1t is deplorable, indeed, that so rancorous
and violent controversy should have been
engendered out Of such simple, commercial
conditions There is no reason why the
two agencies should not inhabit the same
continent in peace. Both are Industrious,
painstaking. and. in the main, reliable.
There Is room for both, and, we may add,
work In abundance far more useful to the
people than this very unnecessary and un-
wholesome pickering 1t were well for the
United, as well as for the Associated Press
to say nothing of the reading public who
are being shocked, and to some extent sac
rif1ced, In the process-if we could have
done with it once for all.
1t Should Never Have Been Published
From the Washington Times.
In a characteristic editorial, yesterdays
New York Sun opens its Walls of billingsgate
on the Associated Press and incidentally
drops little of 1t en- our esteemed citizen,
Mr.. Frank B. Noyes, who is director in
that organization. For some time past
the United Press, of which the Sun is prin-
cipal stockholder, and the Associated Press
have been waging bitter warfare. Their
frequent attacks on each other have been
| anything but praiseworthy, and their at
expensive and unbusiness like. Both these
organizations are great news gatherers.
both are necessary to good Geographic
news service. and both are in demand in
the newspaper world But both are strug-
Cling to overthrow competition, and since
the Sun libel of yesterday will probably end
their fight in a law court. In Washington
| or wherever he IS known Mr.. Noyes needs
no defense from the Times. HIS long and
honorable business career with The Star
and other reputable enterprises, his high
| moral and social standing as citizen,
and his upright record in all positions
where his Services have been in demand by
this community have placed him above and
beyond the reach of slanderers. 1t Is
| enough to say that no other citizen enjoys
a greater degree of confidence and esteem.
And if the outra geous attack Of the Sun
on the Associated Press has no better
foundation than its shameful libel Of Mr..
Moves, it had best been left unpublished.
Tine work of Rascals" looks very much
like the venom of disappointed rival
To Prosecute Dana.
From the New York World.
WASHINGTON, February 22-Frank B.
Noyes, business manager of the Evening
Star of this city. and one of the most
prominent, popular and reputable young
men in Washington, announced this even
, ing that he had telegraphed to his lawyers
in New York to have Charles A. Dana,
editor of the New York Sun, arrested for
criminal libel.
The Sun this morning printed a long
editorial article attacking the manage
ment of the Associated Press in the course
of which was this sentence:
"They Ohe subscribers to the Associ-
ated Press may see their way to max
as F. B. Noyes of Washington, for in
stance, refund to them the amount Of the
extra assessments out of which they have
been buncoed."
This attack on Mr.. Noyes created SEN
sation here. No one stands higher in the
capital than he either in business or So
ciety All during the day Mr.. Noyes re-
ceived assurances that his acquaintance
thoroughly believed in him.
The Attack on Mr.. Noyes.
From the Baltimore American.
While protesting to advocate the claims
of the United Press, 10 which it belongs,
the New York Sun yesterday morning went
out of it's way to make a most undignified
and wicked assault upon the personal char
acter of Mr.. F. B. Moves, the energetic,
capable and popular manager of the Wash
ington Evening Star. The Associated Press,
of which Mr.. Noyes is one of the directors,
and which also furnishes the telegraphic
news for the readers of The American, has
so completely distanced it's opposition that
the Sum- which is the most prominent men,
Der of that opposition, has grown frantic,
and it's editor has forgotten his dignity. He
is beating against the air, however, in his
rage and made colossal mistake in choos-
ing for his target man who stands so high
in the newspaper fraternity and in the es-
TEEN of the community in which he lives.
A man CT sterling integrity as we'll as of
unusual ability, Mr.. Noyes has no occasion
to institute proceedings against the Sun to
yindicate his character. The suit which he
declares it is his purpose to bring, however,
may have the effect Of lettering the Sun
from repetition Of its reckless utterances.
ANOTHER TRAIN HELD Up.
The Crew Had Previously Had the
Same Experience.