The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-08-14
FACTS In THE CASE
United Press VS.. the Associated
Press Reports.

CHICAGO, Aug. 13.-The Evening
Journal prints this evening four
column analysis list of United Press
papers recently sent out to refute IAN
Alleged Falsehood," that it has no
members or clients outside of four
large newspapers in New York, a few
in Boston and a handful or so scat
tered here and there.
The United Press serves no papers
in Arizona, Arkansa, Idaho Kansas,
Kentucky, Montana, New Mexico,
North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota,
Utah and Wyoming-thirteen of the
forty-seven states and territories,
emitting Oklahoma and Indian terri
tory, or more than one-fourth of the
whole number
The list includes one dead paper,
one which does not take the United
Press report and twelve Associated
Press papers which do not use a line
of the United Press matter. The
analysis shows that 60 of the 137 morn
ing and III of the 221 afternoon papers
are published in Canada, New York,
Massachusetts and Pennsylvania; of
the 3S4 United Press papers, 1856, or
within of one-half of the whole num-
Der, are printed in adjacent states and
territories. If the Sunday papers are
included, II more than one-half are
published here.
The total number of Associated
Press papers is AIS, of which 1874 are
morning, 221 afternoon and Sunday.
The afternoon papers embrace all the
firSt-clasS ones in the United States,
outside of New York, four in Boston,
one in Philadelphia and one in Pitts
burg. AS to the morning papers, also,
there is no comparison between the
membership of the Associated Press
and the clientele of the United Press.
the report of the former being taken
by all the first-class morning papers,
except four in New York, four in Bos-
ton, two in Philadelphia and one in
Pittsburg.
The Associated Press has 121 morning
and afternoon papers, in four well
scattered states-Californfa, Illinois.
Ohio and New York, leaving 146 morn
ing and 14S afternoon papers in the
other states AMI territories-ten more
than double that of the former and Il
per cent more of the latter than the
United Press has, the Associated
Press sending its report to papers in
AZ other states and territories, while
the United Press sends news to pa
pers in only "a altogether. The Asso-
ciated Press has papers in every state
except New Jersey. The gain from the
United Press alone is 166 papers-S7
members of the Associated Press drop
ping the report of the United Press and
taking that of the Associated Press
exclusively, and 129 clients abandon
ing the United Press for the service
of the Associated Press. One of the
press associations also deserted the
United Press for the Associated Press,
making the total gain 167.
On the other hand the United Press
claims to have gotten only four pa
pers from the Associated Press.
When the war began the Associated
Press was sending its report in whole.
or in part, to 207 papers, and not one
of them was located east Of Pfttsburg
or in Canada. It is now serving there
100 papers. most of them having aban-
doned the United Press. On the other
hand. the United Press was sending its
report to over 100 of the larger papers
in the south and west, which have
since abandoned it. The Telegraph
Age, the Journal, also says, attacks
the general manager of the Associated
Press as inimical to telegraph oper-
ators, the apparent ground for the as
sault being circular recently sent
business methods of Walter Phillips
The general manager of the Associated
Press did not write the circular in
question and did not know of its ex-
istence until he received a copy
through the mail 1t is evident that
Phillips sent a copy of it to the Tele-
graph Age, with a prepared article, an
Interview with himself, for the purpose
of mailing to newspapers. The state
ments as to the authorship of the