The times., 1898-08-09
THE SUN AND THE SINNER.
Severe Comments on the Chicago
Pfeman's Press Associati0R. a.,

Severe Comments on the Chicago
Pieman's Press Associati0R. a.,
New York, Aug. S.-The Sun, under the
Commodore" will tomorrow print the fol-
lowing in Its editorial columns:
THE Associated Press is the agency
whereby practically all the newspapers
in the country gather their news :
For our part, we assert of our own knowl-
edge that the sole purpose of the Asso-
ciated Press, as organized, was the col
lection and distribution of the news Of
the world with absolute honesty and i'm
partially, and wholly free from faint or
improper influence. We have already had
frequent occasion to point out that the
Associated Press, having fallen into the
hands of bad characters, has been per-
sistently engaged in the PRONUNCIATION of
falsehood
$50 we'll is this known that we should
not deem it worthy of present reference
were 1t not for the fact that the Govern
ment at Washington has thought 1T nee
| essary to compel on the part of the AS
sociated Press formal retractdon of one
of it's fa,sehoods, whereof the purpose
was exceptionally vicious and misch1ev-
Gus. The effort of the Associated Press,
in concert with some of its conspicuous
! members. to foment the so-called Schley-
Sampson dispute, which dispute was of
its own invention and creation, has been
thoroughly understood. 1t received Its
authoritative quietus in the Sun on Sun
day at the hands of Capt. Mahan, but
there was added yesterday, at the hands
of the Navy Department, the painful and
humiiating correction, contained in the
confession and apology of the Washing
ton manager of the Associated Press.
at seems that under da:e of July IL the
Associated Press published a so-called ca
BILE dispatch from Santiago which set
forth that it was written in a boat under
the Morro Castle, and that in the boat at
the time, besides no less than three cor
respondents of the Associated Press, We're
Commodore schley and Capt. Cook, of the
BROOKLYN The account is made to in
clude this significant and interesting pass
age:
Commodore Schlev has over and over
again expressed the belief that our fleet
could probably have entered the harbor
without the loss of a single ship. the
mines might have stopped ingress by
sinking the leading ship, but this is a
chance of war, and not so grave as many
taken during the civil strife, nor as Sc
| rious as would have been the situation
| had there been good batteries, properly
| manned, In the harbor.'
"It is a badly written as well as stu
pid falsehood, and it had no relation 10
| the occasion ether than ii was possible
| by means of the context to send II out
and print It throughout the United States
as coming from Schley himself
.'It finally in the seclusion of his war
ship. reached Commodore Schley himself,
whereupon he promptly repaired on board
the flagship and denounced 1t TO Admiral
Sampson as a faisehood. The latter at
| once telegraphed TO the Secretary Of the
Navy and requested that the manager of
the Associated Press be called upon TO
name the source and authority for the
statement, which he promptly did. That
is. he said it was a pitiful and shameful
lie. and that that was all there was TO be
said about it.
There might be great deal more said
about il. II might be said of II that 1t
| was one of those characteristic acts of
| depravity and dishonesty which make the
| Associated Press under its present man
agement nuisance in time of peace and
| a public menace in time of war