Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-01-25
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article to which it refers, they are not
worthy a denial they are made solely
for the purpose of saving to the Re
publican its list of Essex County sub
scribers, which its managers well know
they cannot keep by any fair means,
and only by an appeal to the prejn-
dice or sympathy of the people. The
insinuation that the HERALD is an
auxiliary of the Gazette or any other
paper in Vermont or New Hampshire,
is utterly false and without any foull-
dation in fact. That it is not an in
dependent Journal, and one now and
hereafter to he conducted in the inter
ests of the Republican party, so long
as under its present management, is
equally false. That it is not specially
devoted to the interests of Essex
County, is also false; and we submit
the question whether or not the insin-
uations and falsehoeds of q sheet
owned and managed by q political
clique in the State of New Hump.
shire, for their own personal ends and
purposes, without reference to the
wishes and wants Of any people, SC
far us those wants may conflict with
purposes of all insignificant ring, in
q country village in our sister State
shall drown our enterprise and with.
draw thercfrom the sanction and en-
enlargement Of the citizens of this
County. 1t is no part of our duty to
takGup the quarrels of the Coos Re
publican with any citizen or citizens
Of Lunenburg or any other town, and
we decline so to do.
We do say to the people of Essex
that we shall do our best to supply
them with such paper as their wants
demand, and we ask that they sustain
us by their patronage so long as We
are found worthy. We do not base
our request for this support upon the
unworthincss of any other paper MS
docs our criticising neighbor. We
believe it for the interests of the
County to have newspaper Of its
own, and that any attempt which may
reasonably supply this want is par
ticularly entitled to the consideration
Of the people Of Essex.
1t is of no use for the Republican
to cavil about the manner in which
your paper is issued, nor does it make
II jot of difference to the County OF
Essex whether the Republican is a
money-making investment to its pro
prietors or not. 1t is separate and
distinct from any common interest
with them, and the spirit with which
it receives and comments upon the
HERALD shows the feeling towards
any enterprise, here or elsewhere
which might conflict with it in inter
est.
That the mechanical work on the
HERALD, for the present, is not exc
cuted here, renders it not one jot bet
ter or worse, nor does it make it less
an Essex County institution; but fol
the benefit of the feelings of the Re
publican, we will say that, at the ear
liest possible moment when it shall bt
practicable to do so, the whole of the
mechanical, as is now the mental, la
Dor necessary to carry on this work,
will be done in Essex County.
That the proprietor of this pape
is resident of Lunenhurg, OF o
Texas, if so it was, would make NJ
difference with its value and benefit
to the County; and we ask whethe
it is not full better for the people O
Essex to take and pay for q home pa
per, carried on by home brains and
money, than to'send their money, no
only out Of the County, but out o
: the State, to bolster up and perpetu
ate n ring of pot-house politicians
entirely selfish in all their aims, an,
without care as to the consequences
to the public, if their own crib i
: filled
We are not disposed to confess OF
) deny any statement made with re
gard to us in any capacity, but cor
daily invite the Republican, to give
its authority for the statements i
has made concerning the HERALD, it
proprietor, the object of its existence
and all it knows, Or pretends to know
of our motives and history, or con
fess That the statements so recklessl
| made, with the obvious purpose 0
injuring the reputation and success g
the HERALD, are the inventions @
some one or more, DESTROYS of bein