The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-18
BUSY DAY FOR THE IVES
STATE EDITORS MEET IN THIRTY
SECOND ANNUAL CONVENTION

Business Sessions of the Day Well
Acknowledgement and Smoke
Social in the Evening the Most
Enjoyable Ever rendered the
Scribes I'm the Mill City.
No meeting in the history of the
State Editorial association has been
more successful than the one now in
progress in Minneapolis promises to be.
1t was 11:30 o'clock when the open
ing session was called to order by
iliary at the West hotel. Fully 200
scribes and their wives and sweet
hearts were present when the gavel
fell. and Mayor Pratt was introduced.
The mayor said he felt that there
was no need to extend to the visitors
the freedom of the city, because the
editors were in the habit of taking
what they wanted, and would undoubt-
eddy have helped themselves. He eX-
pressed the hope that the fraternity
would, in the future, visit the city more
frequently than they have done in the
past.
President Stanton assured the mayor
that his cordial words Of welcome were
altogether unnecessary; that the visit
thing possible would be done to insure
the comfort and pleasure of the asso
citation members. The large attend
ance guaranteed the truth of what he
had said On the part of the visitors
he assured the mayor that the editors
had helped build up Minneapolis and
they felt as proud of the city as any
one.
Before proceeding to business several
communications were read. tele-
gram from II. P. Hall extended greet
ing to the association. The telegram
closed with !'Ho, every one that thirst
eth" and cries of "HalP' arose from
a hundred threats. although Mr..
Stanton had paused before reading the
signature.
A number of letters of regret were
read from invited guests, then recess
was taken until p. m.
1t vas after o'clock when the after
noon session was called to order, and
during the noon adjournment quite
number Of additional members put in
an appearance.
President Stanton delivered his an
nual address, and the reports of officers
and committees were read.
On motion Of George n. Lamphere,
the chair appointed the following COM
mttee to formulate action recommend
ed by the president in his annual ad-
dreSS George n. I-dIhPnele, H1CoI ~ a.
G. L. Mcdonald, St. Cloud; G. S. Mitch
ell, Alexandria; Leslie Matthews,
I.itchfield II. C. Hays, Sleepy Eye
1.-The Duties of Publishers to Each
Other Concerning Legal Rates was
read by w. A. Poland. of the Benson
Times.
George ~ Lamphere, of the Moorhea1
News. offered a few remarks supple
menting the paper read By Mr.. Roland
W. w. Jermane read a paper entitled
North Star Politics." His opening re-
marks were somewhat humorous. and
his address, was full of sensible political
advice for his newspaper constituents.
'The country editor is a politician al
most by intuition. He sits in his sane
tum ard tells months in advance what
is going to happen" He had, to his
own sorrow followed that theory him
SELF but did not come out of the
scrap" as we'll as his country con-
temporary.
At the conclusion of the address Of
Mr.. Jermane. Frank Day arose and
asked Mr.. Jermane if he would hold up
as models the great editors of today.
TO this Mr.. Jermane returned the
quick reply:
81 would cheerfulIy answer yes were
they all like my friend from Fair
mount"
The applause which greeted this re-
remained unanswered.
Voice From 81. Paul.
Harry T. Black, of the ST. Paul Dis
patch, elaborated a few thoughts on
how to secure news service for coun-
t~y papers. He suggested that a plan
OF cooperation might be presented by
which the entire press of the state
would be benefited. The basic idea Of
such a plan would be very simple,
-
in different sections Of the state. 1t
might be objected that such scheme
was not feasible, but 1t could in his
opinion be made effective by a few
changes from customs now prevalent.
1t would be necessary as the first step,
to agree upon day Of uniform publ
cation, say Thursday, OF each week;
or there migIt be two classes, to suit
different localitieA and meet different
competition, one publishing on Tuesday
and the other on Thursday. Next
would come to the establishment at
some central point, presumably st.
Paul, possibly Minneapolis, Of the news
agency, where would be received, hand
led, edited and sent out in manifold
the news received from every point in
Minnesota. Every member Of the as
ISOLATION would be instructed as to
what mail he must use in sending in
his last quota Of news to the central
agency and would give instructions to
the agency covering the exact hour Of
mailing back the complete service A
competent editor and expert typewriter
would constitute the entire complement
of the central office until the time ar
rived when the state dailies would care
to participate or when some of the
weeklies might desire to Geographic
service.
The cost when apportioned among
the subscribers, would be slight, and
the possibilities illimitable.
Gen. c. c. Andrews, the state fire
warden, by invitation, then addressed
the editors regarding the law passed
by the last legislature, providing for
holding the wisdom Of the act.
H. M. Wheelock, Of Wheelock's
Weekly, Fergus Falls. told how easy
it was to start country newspaper,
and how hard 1t was to stop it when
it was overstarted. He had commenced
IN a joyful manner, and at first every
thing seemed lovely. Time passed and
it soon become evident that something
must be done and accordingly he re-
sorted to various schemes to further
the extension of his subscription list,
but he had discovered that personal
solicitation was more effective than
all the schemes ever invented. He had
come to the conclusion that a good
business man was more successful in
building up a country paper than a
literary man.
President Stanton next introduced w.