Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-04-29
EXCITING TIME FOLLOWS AN Ar.
TEMPT OF WILLIAMS TO
MAKE ~PEECH
700 At The Big Dinner
SPEAKERS VIE WITH ONE An
OTHER IN PRAiSING WORK
OF A. p.
Takes All at the Blame and Gets Lit
tie of the Glory In the Newspaper
Game Pa pers Depend on the
Associated Press to Get the Facts
and Nothing But Facts.

and Nothing But Facts.
New York, April 28.-The regular
joint dinner of the Associated Press
and the American Newspaper Publish
ers association was thrown into riot
GUS and prolonged disorder tonight
when Thomas T. Williams, business
manager Of VIM. r. Hearst was re
fused permission to speak as he arose
to reply to biting criticism Mayor
Gaynor had just made OF Hearst's
part in journalism.
For twenty-five minutes the uproal
continued while men stood on NGeil
chairs and women craned their necks
from the balconies of the banquet
hall.
Hearst is not here. am his
friend and have right to be heard,
shouted Williams, climbing onto the
speakers table and shaking his fist
IN the face of the mayor.
Put him out" "Shut up Free
speech" came from all parts of the
hall.
POSTMASTER N. F. Wright OF
The Cleveland Leader hammered il
vain for order, while Williams stood
impassive but obstinate and waited
with folded arms to be heard.
'This is a disgrace to the press OF
the United States. 1t must end,
shouted Adolph S. Ochs, proprietor OF
the New York Times, as he stood on
his chair behind the toastmaster and
begged for a word.
Williams, promise you. has less
than forty words to speak, let me
say them for him.
mo, no, no." yelled the diners
Williams says" began Ochs.
mo, no." broke in the thoroughly
angered diners, with added insis.
tence.
Ochs sat down, while the orchestra
thundered Dixie"
But Williams still kept his feet and
a semblance of calm was not restor
ed until Dwight Hills of Brooklyn
with witty and felicitous speech
brought laughter that drove out the
anger.
Directors, executives, members o1
the Associated Press and the Ameri
can Newspaper Publishers association
had met at their annual joint ban
quet at the Waldorf-Astoria to for
get for awhile that there are aero
plane flights to follow, mine disasters
to cover, murder and divorce trials
legislative inquiries, tariff discussio ions
and race suicide; and to sink for the
moment their wholesome rivalries as
competitors in the sense of their fel
lowship in one professioin, the fourth
estate.
Seven hundred sat down to tables,
and after coffee had been brought in
the hosts began to hear things about
themselves from the guests.
Mayor Gaynor, the guest of honor,
the first speaker, took for his sub
ject, "The Press in its Relations to
Public Officials"
He spoke as is his wont, and as
he had been invited to do, without
words.
Those having power he said.
should use it justly, kindly and
That makes their acts
all the more effective. ! measure
my words in saying your power for
good is immense. Your power for
evil is not so great as some may
think.
to do right and who knows how to
do right, cannot be hurt by you.
Some may abuse him, even lie and
forge about him, but they are power
ess to hurt him. You can neither
make nor unmake an honest and
official
"If a publisher or editor be him
self perennial office seeker, he may
1esire to assassiniate every one in
lis way, and then. alas, what dis.
grace he brings to journalism"
George Ade, himself practical
newspaper man, spoke in a lighter
'ein and won the laughter of his
audience by his deft touches on the
rials andd enjoyments they had all
like experienced.
"The Associated Press" he said, |!
is a great institution. Around a !
Office we always felt easy !
n our minds if we knew the A. p. !
vas on the job. My out of town as !
ignments were usually given to me
n the following words: Send in a !
ood story-the A. P. will cover the !
acts
"The A. P. bears the same relations
o the modern newspaper that the
old businessman does to the Ameri-
an family. 1t stands in the back
round, keeps out of the supotlight,
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