The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-09-19

hardly II day passes that some editor IL not
approached by some person, who has been
guilty of some crime, or some dirty trans.
action, with request that report of the
facts, or any allusion thereto, should be
suppressed. The request is generally ac-
companied by the reasons that he would
dislike TO sec his name published in such a
connection, that his family or relatives
are respectable, that their feelings would
be injured by publication of the facts,
that-but we might continue the list of
similar reasons which would be adduced
al infnitun. They never stop to think
that the shame. disgrace and injury to feel
ings consists not in the exposure and publ
cation, but in the actual guilt. If there is
no guilt, there would be no exposure or
publication, neither would any request be
made to have the facts suppressed
These same persons would think
1t very strange If, on taking up
their morning newspaper, they should find
that 1t was eonductedo on the policy indicated
by their requests. They would quickly
order their newspaper stopped, because it
would cease to be q nepspaper Then the
paper itself would be compelled to suspend
publication for want of support No one
made a request to suppress the details of
the murder alleged to have been committed
by John p. Phair, and if they had no at
tention would have been paid thereto Yet
we know that the immediate relatives of
the victims were as respectable as any citi-
zens of Rutland; and, moreover, we are
Informed that Phairs relatives, both i'm
mediate and remote, are regarded with the
highest consideration by the citizens of the
places of their respective residence. Why
then, if any case. should we have not SUD-
pressed the details of this case on account
of the feelings of his relatives ? Does
anyone think that the details of the Tilton-
Beecher scandal afford very pleasant read
ing for Mrs. Tilton and her family or for
Henry Ward Beccher, his family and his
brolhcis and sisters and their families
Are they not, too, respectable ? Yet what
would be thought of the newspaper that
suppressed all reports of the same and re-
Trained from any allusion thereto in its
columns The day has passed by
for squeamishness in publishing news
The world may be better or worse for
the change, but the change has taken
place and newspapers must con-
form thereto or Ego under We have
been led to this line of remark, because of
the arrest of man for alleged Grim. can.
in this place during the present week, and
because report thereof did not appear in
tue newspapers of Rutland. In our alb
sence from the office, the alleged guilty
party came in and stated that our cotem-
porary had agreed to make no mention of
the facts if we would not. Upon that
statement, one of our associates promised
that report thereof should not appear in
IHE GLOBE and we, of course, sustained
his pledged word. We refer to il now only
Tor the purpose of saying that we do not
believe in that kind of journalism that,
hereafter, we shall publish the news at home
and from abroad and that this is tie last
time any facts or reports of criminal pro.
ceedings, lin which the public are int. ested,
will be suppressed at the request of the al
legged guilty party his or her friends.