The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-09-20
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Resolutions Are Adopted by the
Associated Press.
ANARCHY is DENOUNCED
URGES LEGISLATIVE ACTION TO
SUPPRESS SUCH DOCTRINE.

New York. Sept. BAT the annual
nesting of the members of the Asso-
cialted Press, which was convened in
this city under the bylaws, the fol-
lowing resolutions were unanimously
adopted by a rising vote:
Whereas. The late president of the
United States. William Mckinley. be-
loved and honored by the people of the
whole country has been murdered by
the ruthless hand Of an anarchist as
sasstn. and
Whereas. His noble qualities and his
conspicuous example as a brave, gem
erous sympathetic and lovable man
MS virtues as a citizen and officer Of
the republic. his deeds as a patriot
who inspired love and sympathy be-
tween the sections and the people of
our common country, had endeared him
10 the whole union, therefore be it
Resolved, by the Associated Press:
First-That in common with the whole
country it deplores his tragic death as
national calamity.
SecOnd-That the syupathv of this
body be expressed to his bereaved wife
who. deprived of his loving care and
comfort and of his affectionate solicit
tude. should become so long as she
lives the ward of the nation in all that
can be properly done to give expression
10 Une counury'S appreciation of her Ia
mented husbands virtues. and to the
unSpeakable sorrow with which il views
his nrartyrcom
'rhird-That we call upon the states
and the nation 10 take prompt and
emphatic legislative steps to deal ade-
quately with the advocates of the
damnable doctrine, which teaches that
law and order must be oVerthrown
and which the world over, openly
adopts assassination as the instrument
of its operation. The anarchist has
NaI0
be made to understand that he Will be
dealt with in the same manner as any
other plague or pestilence which
threatens the public security.
Country is Felicitated.
''Fourth-That we felicitate the
country in having met so firmly the
trying ordeal of the past week, in
which the enduring strength and Sc
curlty OF its institutions have been
again so strongly manifested.
That in this, as in all other national
adyersity, the patriotism, the loyalty
and the fervor of its law-abiding citi-
zens should hold in such even balance,
the vast commercial and other inter-
ests which rest upon popular confidence
IN safe and secure government, is a
tribute, well worthy of our great peo-
pie, 10 the government which their de-
Votion has made the greatest of the
governments of the earth"
1tiS meeting subsequently, elected the
following board of directors. stephen
o Meara, Boston Journal WhiteIax
Reid, New York Tribune; w L. Nc
Lean, Philadelphia Bulletin; Albert J.
Barr, Pfttsburg Post; George Thomp-
son, St Paul Dispatch; Victor f. Law
son, Chicago Daily News; Charles w
Knapp, st. Louis Republic; Charles p.
Iaft, Cincinnati Times-Star- Harvey
w Scott, Portland Oregonian: Frank
b. Noyes. Washington Star; Thomas G.
Rapier, New Orleans Picayune; Her
man Rider, New York Stats Zeitung.
NJ. H De Young. San Francisco Chron-
icle; Charles H. Grasty, Baltimore
News; Clark Howell, Atlanta Constitu-
ton
The board of directors met subse-
quently and elected the following Off
GERS Frank B. Noyes, president; Hor-
ace B. White, New York Evening Post
flrSt vice president; William r. Nelson
of the Kansas City star, second vice
president; Melville Z. Stone, secretary:
Charles s. Diehl. assistant secretary:
Valentine P. Snyder. treasurer.
Inc following gentlemen were elected
as an executive committee: Stephen
| O'Meara, Victor F. Lawson, Charles W
Knapp, Whitelaw Reid and Frank B.
NoyeS.