The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-09

Flul WHICH Inc Sadr Lake Herald has
formed a permanent alliance, is the
most independent, comprehensive and
nicient news-gathering organization in
The world. For all the purposes OF
collecting and distributing reports OF
events that affect the affairs and inter
lst the masses Of the country, it's
Equipment and facilities are complete,
and co-extepsive with the intellectual,
Industrial and mechanical progress of
The age. The United Press is the legiti-
nsfe successor of the original associa-
ION that was organized more than
hxty years ago by the daily newspapers
n the city of New York under the name
IF The General News Association,
which aftaqward developed into what
has heen known as the Associated
Press. Alter its formation. other as
Eociakions We're organized in different
PORTIONS OF the country, all of which
illied themselves with the parent ins1ti-
hutton The news collected by these
local associations was concentrated in
HE main Office in New York, where
It was sent, together with all other tele-
graphic news, TO the city newspapers,
and TO the agents of those other orgnni-
Aations for transmission to their re-
fpective localities, north, south, east
and west
For ten years prior to December,
1892, The United Press was an indie
pendent institution created by the ne
eessiHies of the times. By its modern
Methods anil it's uniform policy of
study:ng the needs of newspapers and
adapting itself to their requirements,
It grew to be a powerful rival of the
original association, until at length The
New York Herald, Sun, Tribune, Times,
World, Journal of Commerce and Mail
and Express recognized the condition
that confronted them, and in obedience
10 the law of the survival of the fittest
lhe original Associated Press transferred
Rssassets, contracts, news arrangements
Ind good wifi TO its competitor. and
thereafter the combined facilities Of
both concerns were operated under the
name of The United Press.
Among the local organizations having
business relations first with the New
York Associated Press and then with
the combined concern was the Western
Associated Press, organized under the
laws Of Michigan, which operated solely
IN the western states Within the past
hree years this western organization
went practically out of business, and
certain of its members formed a new
association in Chicago and assumed the
name of the Associated Press. This
Chicago organization. therefore, has
no relation whatever to the one identi-
fed for more than half a century in
The public mind as The Associated
Press. Its Chicago managers opened
d office in New York and began
war upon the National association
The United Press and its allied asso-
riations-wit1a the purpose, at first con-
eealed and afterward avowed, of break
ing up the several subsidiary associa- /
hons that were working tremendously
among themselves, and OF attempting
Ea make all the daily newspapers OF
the country subservient and tributary
10 itself
The acknowledged leaders of journalism
In the United States determined, at
whatever cost. to protect themselves
and their clients against this bold at
tenpt of the Chicago Associated Press
people to demoraiize the integrity of .
The intelligence daily put before the
IsAopGe of the country; and now these
several associations ARE all working
together in harmony" as General Man
ager Waiter P. Phillips says. but each
as to the management of
Its Internal affairs, on the same theory
that the various states which form the
Union are left practically free in the
of all but interstate af-
fairs The dispatches sent out
by the Chicago Associated Press
have been unsatisfactory in many
particulars, and anything but
especially in political nat-
5ers. On the other hand, referring gen.
orally to this point, in a recent inter-
view, and more explicitly to the prest-
ientsal campaign, Mr.. Phillips, speak
ne of the United Associated Presses,
aid:
1--WE intend to do what is fair. We
ITe noe looking for cabinet positions
sS9 do our employees make pilgrimages
o Canton-in short, we are in the news
BUSINESS, and are content to let the
delegates choose their candidates and
o let the people select their electors
without any suggestions or assistance
rom us. 1t is our function simply to
urnish accurate, interesting and I'M ,
,iased reports of the procession of {
vents. We conceive this to be the
My proper Office of a press associa-
ion. and we contend that it has no
light to depart from this course by :