Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-04-22

ness of the correction was due not less to
Mr.. Noyes' high character than it was cred
to Its own reputation for fairness and
truth.
The Sun Makes Amends.
FIR, m the Buffalo News
An epilogue to the tragedy of the United
Press was printed in the New York Sun
yesterday. 1t was a complete withdrawal
OF charges against Mr.. Frank B. Moves of
The Washington Star and an apology
therefor. The charges were made when
the fight was on between the two associa-
tons and was one of the most savage at
tacks ever made by a newspaper on
newspaper man. Its withdrawal and ex-
plicit denial must be very gratifying to
Mr. Noyes, as we'll as to the Associated
Press, whose ruin was predicted by the
Sun in the article referred to- charging MIR.
Moves. trusted official of that association,
with conspiring to betray it's financial in
terests.
On February y. 1895, the article ap-
peared. and legal proceedings for vindica-
ton of Mr.. Noyes followed.
These have now been withdrawn in con.
sequence CT the amends made by the Sun.
In undoing as far possible the injury in
hicted, the Sun has followed the only
misled into injustice. The United Press
fight has been a pretty severe trial to MIR.
Charles A. Dana, It's president and editor
of the Sun. NOT only in the difficulties which
ended the life OF the association. but in the
controversies 1t led him into. Mr.. Dana is
big enough man to take the back track
In matter of this kind without humil-
fation. 1t is the petty snarlers of the pro-
fesSfon of which he has long been the dean
that are bound by fatal consistency to
stick to false attitude and to continue at
tacks that have no foundation in justice
or truth. Mr.. Dana can well afford to do
justice. He Is a hard fighter, but an open
one. The Sun will lose none of it's prestige
by it's vindication of Mr. Noyes. The News
desires to say this with the more en-
phasis because in the haste of editing tele-
graph news yesterday the true significance
of Mr.. Dana's action was overlooked. The
Suns frank avowal Of its mistake should
not be construed in any vindictive spirit
and the captious treatment of the matter
in the headlines referred to is regretted.
the friends of Mr.. Noyes. and the list
includes the publishers Of all the big papers
of the United States, will be glad to see the
SUMS retraction. Mr.. Noyes has enjoyed
the confidence of his associates throughout
the history of the recognized and now
unrivaled Associated Press He is a young
man of remarkable business capacity. and
his integrity has never been questioned ex-
cept by the Sun. which paper now frankly
proclaims its suspicious to be utterly TN
founded.
From the Syracuse Herald. - 81 - err
The Ietraction Of the New York Sun OF
its article defaming the management OF
the Associated Press and particularly Mr..
Frank B. Noyes does tardy Justice to Mr..
Noyes and the other gentlemen attacked.
AS told briefly in our news columns Oil
Saturday Mr.. Noyes instituted legal pro-
ceedings charging criminal libel against
Messrs. Dana and Laffan, the latter the
publisher Of the Sum- This action was
brought in the courts of the District Of
Columbia on Indictment by the grand
jury of the District, and application was
made to the circuit court of the United
States in New York city for the extradi-
ton of Messrs. Dana and Laffan. 1t was
commended by the counsel for Mr.. Noyes
that the courts of the District of Columb ia
were national courts in the same sense
as the district and circuit courts of the
United States, and that extradition for
trial was. therefore, allowable under the
rule which prevails in the national system
last mentioned Counsel for Messrs. Dana
| and Laffan contended that the courts OF
the District of Columbia were special in
character, corresponding to the state courts
and were no part of the national system
compreheEding the United States district
and circuit courts and that defendant
in criminal libel could not be taken for
trial from any state court to the courts at
Washington 1t followed that the applica-
ton in this case should be refused. The
court so decided Thereupon Mr.. Noyes
brought suit for criminal libel in the United
States circuit court In New York city. The
case was to have been tried last week, but
Messrs. Dana and Laffan wisely decided to
eat humble pie, and published a COM
plete retraction of the charges against Mr..
Noyes. paying also the entire expense in
CURED by him in counsel and court fees.
At the time the Sun made its assault upon
Mr.. Noyes the Herald expressed its entire
confidence that there was no basis what
ever for 1t, Mr.. Noyes having enjoyed a
reputation for unimpeachable integrity as
business man, and 1t rejoices that
most reprefensble gratuitous and mali
cious libel of amiable and honorable
gentleman mas been shown up in its true
character.
From the Kansas City Star.
The man of true courage Is always ready
to acknowledge an error and make what
ever reparation Is possible for injuries in
cident to his fault 1t Is not surprising
therefore, that the New York Sun of Sat-
urday should have contained an apology
most ample and unequivocal for a grave
aspersion cast upon Mr.. Frank B. Noyes,
business manager Of The Washington Star.
a little more than two years ago. 1t will
occur to some people that the amende
honorable came bit late. and others may
think it curious that it follows on the heels
of the failure of the United Press Associa-
ton, of which Mr. Dana was president
Mr.. Noy es Is a director in the Associated
Press, and 1t was in connection with his
duties in that office that the severe stric-
lures we're made in the San newspaper
must have news service to keep up with
the procession, and Mr.. Noyes was in pD-