The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-09-20
|A. }. N CONFERENCE
Associated Press Holds Annual
Meeting in New York
OFFICERS ARE ELECTED
Adopts Resolutions DepIoring
Late Presidents Death.
OFFICERS ARE ELECTED

New York, Sept. 1s.-At the annual
meeting OF the members of the Associated
Press, which was convened In this city
under the bylaws. the following resolu-
tons were unanimously adopted by ris-
ing vote:
Whereas. The late president Of the
United States, William Mckinley, beloved
and honOred by the people Of the whole
country, has been murdered by the ruth
less hand OF an anarchist ASSASSIN, and
Whereas, His noble qualities and his
conspicuous example as brave, generous
sympathetic and lcvable man; his viz
tues as a citizen and officer Of the re-
public, his deeds as a patriot who in
spired love and sympathy between the
sections and the people of our common
country has endeared him to the whole
Union; therefore, be it
Resolved. By the Associated Press:
ID That in common with the whole
country. is deplores his tragic death as a
national calamity; % that the sympathy
OF this body be expressed to his bereaved
wife who, deprived of his loving care and
comfort and of his affectionate solicitude,
should become so long as she lives, the
ward of the nation in all that can be
properly done 10 give expression to the
country's appreciation of her lamented
husbands virtues and to the unspeakable
sorrow with which it views his martyr
dom; 60 that we call upon the states
and the nation to take prompt ana en-
phatic legislative stesp to deals adequate
~ 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 instruments of its operation. The
anarchist has no place In this country,
and he should be made 70 understand
that he will be dealt with IN the same
manner as any other plague or pestilence
which threatens the public security; "a
that we felicitate the county, in having
met so firmly the trying ordeal of the
past week in which the enduring strength
and security of its institutions have been
again so strongly manifested; that in this,
as in all other national adversely, the
patriotism, the loyalty and the fervor Of
its law-abiding citizens should hold in
such eve nbalance the vast commercial
and other interests which rests upon pop
ular confidence in safe and secure govern
ment, is tribute. well worthy of our
great people, to the government which
their devitlon has made the greatest of
the governments of the earth
The meeting subsequently elected the
following board of directors: Stephen
O'Meara, Boston Journal: Whitelaw Reid,
New York Tribune; w. L. Mclean, Phila-
delphia Bulletin; Albert ]. Barr, Pittsburg
Post; George Thompson, St Paul Dis
patch; Victor F. Lawson, Chicago Daily
News; Charles W. Knapp, st. Louis Re-
public. Charles p Taft, Cincinnati
Times-Star; Harvey W. Scott, Portland
Oregonian; Frank B. Noyes, washington
Star; Thomas C. Rapier, New Orleans
Picayune; Herman Ridder. New York
Stats Zeitungf1 NJ. De Young, San Fran
cisco Chronicle; Charles II. Grasty, Bal
tinore News; Clark Howell, Atlanta Cen
stitution.
The board Of directors met subsequently
and elected the following officers:
President-Frank r. Noyes.
First Vice President-Horac White of
the New York Evening Post.
Second Vice Decentralization R. Nell
son of the Kansas City Star.
ecreary-AIelville Z. Stone.
Assistant Secretary-Charles s. Diehl.
Treasurer-Valentine P. Snyder.
The following gentlemen were elected
as an executive committee: Stephen
O'Nfeara, Victor T. Lawson. Charles w.
Knapp, Whitelaw Reid and Frank B.
Moves.