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Show I WHY SUPPRESS NEWS? worv time any court proceeding is Md In which the ticket brokers got he worst of It, the dally press of this Iiu- is handy with headlines announc-tne announc-tne fact But when the broker gets he best of It, silence reigns and the ' i iillcd with miscellaneous mat-fir mat-fir clipped from the Saturday Even-nc Even-nc Post. Why this is so Is a mar-nf mar-nf iit it is. Recently Oscar Groshell look a c il-plng from the Railway Age, ho rmUcal organ of tho railroads, to p Herald and requested It be printed, iipcause it was a matter of news. Did tho Herald print It? Nit. Manager Tclchcart decided that as tho Herald vas owned by Senator Clark, and Sen-,tor Sen-,tor ciark owned a railroad, or thinks ho does It would -not bo a proper bit f news' Tho Tribune was offered tho same story, but declined it because tho Herald had. Now hero Is the yarn, clipped and reprinted verbatim by a railroad journal that has no more uso for a ticket broker than his Satanic majesty has for aqua pura that ha3 boon blessed: . ... w WU -Encouraged by tho defeat of tho Ai intiscalping ordinance tho ticket ere' If -calpors of Texas, backed by their a"r' If national association, aro preparing to "J01 II prosecuto tho railways, under tho If charge of violating tho anti-trust law K of the state. It Is statod that several orl1 H former employes of tho roads have en- Hi tered tho servlco of tho scalpers and ' mm that evidenco has been secured against j Hi the Southern Pacific, Santa Fe, Rock 1, HI Island and Missouri, Kansas & Texas, HE to prove that they have violated every W Hi section but two of tho state law. Tho T'- R Saint Louis court of appeals has de- i M! clarcd void tho city ordinance requlr- 7 HI hig ticket brokers in selling certain n H tickets to give tho purchasers a signed H statement showing tho name of the H company which Issued tho ticket and f B other facts tending to prevent fraudu- l mm Ient transfer. A broker named W. C. p H Cooper was convicted for violating tho ordinance and In default of payment ' IB of lino was sent to tho workhouse. Ho fm mm applied for roleaso under writ of liars lia-rs II bcas corpus, alleging that the ordl- n Mm nanco was mva,,(1 anu" tho court of II appeals has sutalned tho contention I and ordered Cooper's roleaso." irt II Tllls ,tom was not tllC 0nly 0n0, Re" J II contly J c stuubs' general trafflc dl- i II rector of tho Harriman lines, was in de If California. But hero is tho story, tak- Id HE cn from a an Franc,sco Paper. It lie UK was sent out y tuo Assoclate(1 Press, III hut. was tint recnrtled ns news hero: S IH "Trafflc Director J. C. Stubbs, of tho as Harriman roads was at tho St. Francis ic I yesterday; likewise P. C. Stohr of Chi-tJ' Chi-tJ' 9 cago, one of his assistants. Mr. Stohr M was formerly general traffic manager 1( m of the Chicago Great Western, and ro-,;s ro-,;s K cently resigned that place to go with 'j W Mr Sluuhs, after Ben Campbell let j. W tho latter to go with Hill's Groat a. m .Northern road. They have been male I m inu a trip over tho new Salt Lako and ,e Lcs Angeles road, which Is to bf il i S opened for business tho first of next month. 1 "Stubbs arrived from Los Angelos E yesterday morning and had to return y I there last night, much to his dislike y They caught him with a court sub ,. poena just as ho was departing for this I. city, and that is why ho had to go i d(wn there again. Ho has been sub poenaed as a witness In tho suit of the, Southern Paclllc railroad versus tho ticket brokers. "T1o hearing Is sot for this after-, after-, noon in tho United States court be fore Judge Wellborn. "The action of tho ticket brokers in having tho traffic manager of the I Harriman lines served with a notlco i to appear In court as a witness marks , the beginning of tho fight between tho railroad and tho ticket brokers of Cal- itornia for a linal settlement of the question as to whether tho latter have Ho right to sell certain forms of tickets. I "Tno American Ticket association is behind tho brokers, who say It will be a fight to a finish. They say that, If it Is possible, they will make Stubbs divulge di-vulge compacts and contracts which they allege aro now in forco between certain competing lines, which has stilled tho competition for passenger trafflc, and which is in violation of tho Interstate commerce law." Tho excuse given by ono daily was that there aro only four ticket brokers in this city and that tho Item wns of in terest to them alone. Now as n matter of fact tho several hundred people on-gaged on-gaged in railroad work aro jti3t as much interested in this subject as aro the Lookers and it Is unfair to them to doprivo them of tho news. Truth prints tho stories so that peoplo may know what's doing. Tho American Ticket Brokers' association is in this fight to determine tho question once and for all, If a railroad ticket is tho property or tho purchaser and if It wins Its members will keep right on, and If It loses In tho Federal courts, of course they will go out of business. Because if tho courts hold that a rail road has tho right to make a contract for tho carrying of a passenger other than simply taking him from ono point to another, that will scttlo it. |