Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-09-18


say there is not sufficient public senti-
ment in favor of prohibition in Rutland
to enforce it,
Courteous and Convincing Coneid-
erations Concerning Copying.
1t is pleasant and graceful act to
look at matters and things in the inter-
est of exact truth, and we claim a mo-
ment's deliberate consideration for a few
claims made by the Globe in its issues of
Thursday, Friday and Saturday. These
were
1. That there was special journalistic
merit in printing Mr.. Murray's address
before it was delivered and
2. That THE HERALD was in error in
saying that the Boston Journals short
hand report was used by the Globe.
These are the main claims upon which
we disagree with Messrs. Burt, Carpen-
ter, Clark and Williams and we should
like to say a few words without in
fringement upon courtesy, and with res
pect for our readers. First, then, it
was physically impossible for the Globe
to have reported Mr.. Murray's address
during its delivery; to have written out
its report; to have put it in type; and to
have printed it, all within ten minutes af-
ter that gentleman sat down. This needs
no discussion. 1t is clear, then, that the
report was had before the address and,
inasmuch as the Boston papers had
printed shorthand reports of Mr.. Muir
rays talk at the New England Fair it is
clear to anyone that, if he was to repeat
that discourse, nothing would have been
easier than to have procured the copy
three days before the day of its delivery.
One of the editors of the Globe is alleged
to have asserted that his paper had tele-
graphic permission to use one of these
Boston reports. What then becomes of
the claim of enterprise which can only
show that it put in type an address of
which it had Cor might have haO the
copy three days before its publication?
We do not enlarge, but trust the reader
will appreciate the stirring work the
enthusiastic haste; the absorbing energy
andthe concentrated vim which enabled
the Globe to get up less than FIVE columns
Of type between Tuesday and Thursday
afternoon.
In the second place it is claimed that
the address was not taken from the
Boston Journal. We think we have
made it clear that it was not reported in
Rutland. 10 inform ourselves Of an
other fact in that connection, gentle
man called on Mr.. Murray, and was
| assured that he had not lent his copy,
/ nor had it been out of his possession.
/ 1t seems clear then that the report was
! made outside this town, The address
had been spoken in full, only once be-
fore, and that was at the New England
| Fair At that time two reports were
made, one by Boston Jo'lrmaL and an
other by an evening contemporary.
Both lie before rs. and we call attention
| to the similarity between the Journals
and Globes publication. SO far as bu-
man intelligence can discern, they are
precisely alike, including all the errors,
except the change in the address. OF
! these there are abont a dozen, each so
| peculiar that Il practical printer would
I pronounce it absolutely impossible for
/ two sets of printers to have made them,
| unless one followed the other.
| Whether the average reader will con-
c1ude that the Globe people found them
t selves pushed to the wall and now at
! tempt to escape by direct lie, we can
no. say, nor do we much care. Our
onini, IN is made up and we have
given tn q grounds of it without calling
ANYBODY a horse-thief. Concerning the
enitbets thro vn at us we prefer to say
nothing, The cuttle-fish seeks to hide
the main issue by casting out clouds OF
inky dirt,-but we do not assert thai
the editorial quartet are cuttle-tish.
There seems to be slight discrep-
ancy in two Globe claims, which We
mention that the managers may have
an opportunity of reconcifing it. 1t wa;
| claimed in Fridays Globe that the ad
dress was not obtained from any adj
vance copy, and if the writer will now
saw that the Globe did or did not prin
the address by Geographic permission o
! Mr., Murray, he: will apparently fin'
himself in dilemma. Ii they did, they
had an advance copy; If they did not
they are liable to the accusation OF hay
ing stolen ito say nothing OF the i'm
possibility of which we have spoken.
A min consideration of enterprise i
involved in the correctness of the re
port. Good journalism always main
tains character for reliability as wei
as promptness in news, and the tw'
seem coordinate, yet the Globe clam
credit for having printed nearly one
third more than the speaker in this cas-
uttered. Il did print what he said a
Mystic Park, but that seems no groun
for a claim at the Vermont State FAN
It is liable to claim of fraud in palmin
off a spurious article under an inCorrec
announcement.
We have no desire to claim any cred
for ourselves, not supported by facts
and we simply say that with Mr.. Mul
ray's permission and appreciation "
stationed competent man to follow n
: delivery and check off the errors an
"A differences from the Journal repor
E The result was printed and we think
an absolutely perfect report. Our pa
:. ronage and circulation seem to lndica'
? that the general public concur with
The Last Initiation.