Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-12-25
rrsn PARTY PRESS.

be desirable In the publlcatlon OF news
papers, that of issuing prospectus Just
before the first of January in each year,
is perhaps that which can berelied upon
with most certainty. 1t is in this pro
spectus that the publishers call attention
to their papers, brag upon their achieve
lnents in the past, and hold out promises
for the future, that they hope will bring
long additions to their subscription list,
aud make people believe that that par
ticular newspaper & is the largest, best
and most newsy newspaper in Vermont,
and that it has few equals in Vermont"
We always read these egotisticai
articles with pleasure, and when par
iicularly happy hit is made ia one of
them, It comes over us like refreshing
shower from out clear sky, joyous and
exEilerating, but wholly unexpected.
We have been much pleased with the
prospectus of our contemporary, the
Rutland Daily and Weekly Globe, pub
lished on Saturday last, and have read
1t through several times, in order to see
that we make no mistake in its meaning,
and fully understand the idea that the
author means to convey in his promises
for the future conduct of that journal.
The boasts of past excellence we have
nothing to say about, and shall confne
our comments to a single paragraph, in
which the political standing of the paper
"a announced.
The readers of the Liberal Republican
INDEPENDENT and the Democratic Courier,
to whom this new journal has been sup
piled during the eight months of its ex-
istence, have heretofore been in consid-
cradle doubt as to the politics of their
regular weekly visitor that was forced
on to them in place of the paper they
subscribed and paid for. They will
probably accept this prospectus as a
guarantee that, politically at least, they
have got just what they bought. 1t
says:
The Globe is a Republican newspaper,
but is no blind devotce of party, We
believe the day for old-fashioned party
newspapers to be past. We do not be-
lieve the right or wrong of measure is
to be determined by the particular party
that proposes or advocates it. We in
tend to be impartial in criticism and
comment; Condemning that which we
think TO be wrong and approving that
we believe TO be right AS in politics, 50
we propose to do in reference to other
matters.
ARENAS Ward used TO say that g Old
George Washington's fort was to not
hey eny public man of the present day
resemble him to eny alarmin' extent,
and it would seem that this newspaper
was improving on that, and was not GO
ing to resemble any of those old fash
Toned political newspapers to any alarm
ing extent Honesty and purity of pol
itics and fidelity to political principles
have been sneered at as old-fashioned
before this day but we believe that
even in this age of the world some of
the old-fashioned virtues of ont fathers
are cherished as entitled to our consider
alton and worthy of imitation. The pO-
litical parties of the present and the flu
ture, as well as those of the past, are
and will be founded on important and
vital differences, honest differences,
among the people, as to what policy of
government will be most for the public
good. The purpose and scope of the
party press upon both sides in the past,
has been to candidly and earnestly adj
yocate the side of these differences that
they believed to be right, and is the only
way in which a consistent and honest
party journal can be conducted, and we
do not believe that the days Of this old
fashioned honesty in politics has passed
forever. -.
All party issues viii have a right side
and a wrong side to every member of Ell
Their party. Every honest member of
party will believe that the measures his
party supports are right, or he will at
ence withdraw from it. We take no
exception to Democrat being earnest
in the expression of his criticism of his
opponents, but we lose faith at once in
man claiming to be a Democrat and
condemning as wrong the party princi-
pies of democracy and approving the
party doctrines of the other side not
but what it is his right and duty to con-
denim that which he thinks to be wrong
and approve what he believes to be
right; but it is not becoming in him I'M
der those circumstances to claim TO be a
Democrat when he is not. So with the
Globe, if they claim to be political
freebooters, belonging to no party, but
advocating what they believe to be the
proper side of every political question,
whether it be Republican or Democratic,
it is their right to do so, and every one
would approve; but we do see something
little out of joint, while they occupy
that ground, to try to deceive people in 4
to believing that they are Republican.
In journal that proclaims that kind of
dishonesty we might expect to see all
the virtues sneered at as old-fashioned, !
especially when they say they propose
to take the same dishonest course of
pretending to be one thing when they
are really something else, in other mat
tiers as we'll as politics, We trust that
this kind of journalism will soon become
old-fashioned and pass away.
An OId-FashiOned Tea Party Re-.
produced. ....'l..' ]
a Rutland county girl at school Hear
Boston sends us the following account
of one Of the many tea parties held last
week in commemoration of the little I'M
pleasantness q century ago which re-
sulted 10 msking tea pot of Boston |