Complex sentence: Publisher Charles N. Davenport, a prominent lawyer and supporter of the Democratic Party, founded the paper in part due to dissatisfaction with what he saw as a Republican bias in the coverage by the "Vermont Phoenix", the main political paper in the state.
Split into simpler sentences: Publisher Charles N. Davenport, a prominent lawyer and supporter of the Democratic Party. Davenport founded the paper in part due to dissatisfaction with what he saw as a Republican bias in the coverage by the "Vermont Phoenix", the main political paper in the state.