The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-05-11

III rcleTrlnB 10 CERTAIN uOCuiutnts, rIluuf,
we said " There has been no riot in Rut-
land.' For so saying, an attempt has been
made to convict us and The GLOBE of IN
consistency. OF one branch of the matter
we have spoken elsewhere, but we do not |
propose to leave the other branch unan-
swered. We care not for and shall hav.
no continued discussion upon the subject.
We care now only for the good name and
fame of Rutland, and when truth is on our
side, we trust that we shall always be ready
to defend it. SO far as ii may he necessary
TO give news we shall give it, even If it
tends to blacken our reputation as village.
There is enough of evil in any community,
without having TO 90 out of our way to
pick up imaginary occurrences to add to, or
make bad name. We question no mans
motives, but we know, every one knows,
that there has been persistent effort in
certain quarters to create the impression
that Rutland was filled with a law-defying
population, that officers were resisted in
the proper discharge of their duties, and
that our village WIS disgraced with riot.
| We hesitate not to say that the whole charge
is false from its alpha to its omega. There
| has been, ace repent, no riot IN Rutldnd.
There has been no well-dcfncd case of re-
sstancc to AZ officer during these so-called
" crusadcs.' A word of explanation here
in order TO prevent misrepresentation We
| hat arl, Il plya,,
who has been arrested, has resisted in a
certain sense. more or less the efforts of
the officer 10 take them to jail, but
this they expect and We presume
popularity or technically known as resisting
an officer, Another thing. In the haste
of writing for daily newspaper a report
er-as is, also, the case with the editor who
a single word TO express an idea, in order
to prevent circumlocution. without the
thought that some wise, astute student of
the English language will take down all
each definition to that particular word as
expressing the idea that was intended to be
conveyed. But we will not leave the mat
ter here, and we hopc-unless we shall be
compelled by self defense-to say now al
that we intend to say upon this subject
We propose TO show from our own editor
als, from our local columns. and from thu
editorials and local columns of the HerdH
hot NO.
gathering a riot and that the idea of dig
nifying- although there was not much dig
, nifty about it-or magnifying it into
"riot' was an after thought-and on
which would never have been thought o
, except to be used for the purpose that
seems so well to have served.
We propose first to quote from on
editorial in which we referred to the trans
action, ms giving the only authority
opinion of THE GLOBE. We there state
dstinctly-and it was our first editorial i
reference thereto, written the very week o
=, the occurrence" That there has been, o
V would be, any resistance to the enforce
;, ment of a statute law of this state we d
not and cannot believe. What has bee
- the cause ottnis ercttenent and ternent?
). In answering this question, we say: "Upo
" this day"-that is Monday b" there was
large crowd gathered, composed of boys
"who wanted to ''see the fun and abou
as many more men, part OF whom wei
y mere idle spectators, and Others hardl
knew what they did want. Aside froi
- q" the throwing of a few missiles, no rio
" Gus demonstrations were made, and I'll
whole crowd could have been disperseC
. 90 at any time by one-half of the regult
: police force of the village In proc
y of this, we referred to the fact that the
u worn GO d'qNo~~~' = -~-'' Deput
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