The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1877-04-18

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rather than see our psper taken from
US. Mr.. Moves and Mr.. Brigham
thereupon had an interview with
the administrator, Carlos Noyes, and
expressed to him the opinion that if
the people of Hyde Park would pay
as much for it rs Mr.. Earle, it was
privilege that should be accorded
to them to buy it. They also eX-
pressed in strong terms their belief
that a new paper would be started
if this one was taken from them.
The administrator said that he had vir-
tually given Mr.. Earle the refusal
of the paper, and that he would 60
to him and express to him the sem
timents of the people of Hyde Park,
and endeavor to have him release
the paper that it might remain
here.
The administrator did as promised,
and Mr.. Earle was fully dpprised Of
the determination of our citizens, but
spuned the offer of the administrator
to release him, assuring him, as he
did some of our citizens, "that he did
not believe they could start another
paper
Now, citizens of Lamoillc county,
and Vermont newspapers generally,
Judge We whether Mr.. Earle's claim Of
a trick having been played upon him
is a square statement Of the case and
whether he has not forfeited all claim
for your sympathy, if not for your re-
spcct. We are young in newspaper
tactics, but We have always been i'm
pressed with the idea, that the
success of a newspaper depended
somewhat upon the goodwill Of the
community which was asked to sup
port it. Mr.. Earle has the undoubted
right, and you will observe in his ed
itorial that he speaks many times of
what he has the right to do, to buy up
at an eXorbitant price the paper which
had been the favorite of Lamoille coun-
ty for nearly score of years, and
squelch it. But it is indeed with very
poor grace, inasmuch as he was full
ly appraised of the sentiment Of the
people Of the county in relation to sus-
tanning it, now to turn around and en-
deayor to obtain, either through his
own paper or the press Of the state,
the sympathy he Graves. And the cry
of trick is 50 totally without founda-
ton, that we hardly see how he dares
to make use Of it.
The public sentiment said to him
Mr.. Earle, we desire to sustain this
! paper; we have offered for it,more than
it is worth, simply because you have
stepped in and forced us to do so by
making an offer for it which you know
is eXorbitant. We meet the terms
which you offer, however, although it
is hundreds Of dollars more than its
value, and say to you that if YOU in
sist upon destroying it we shall start
another.
Mr.. Earle replies, "Those Of you
who would start another paper, can
not; and those Of you who can, will
not. | shall take the Newsdealer and
discontinue it; | will not even com
bine it's name with the Citizen; nor
continue it unless you wish to give me
$500 and allow me identified and
bound up in the interest of the Citizen,
as am, to publish it for YOU" max
ing it of course as he would have
done, a sort of second fiddle to the
Citizen.
If this be a trick, for the people OF
Hyde Park and the other towns in the
county to have offered us such sup
port and encouragements, that we
have seen fit to undertake the pub
lication Of this paper, then truely we
must acknowledge that our judicial
insight is exceedingly dimmed, and
we submit that Mr.. Earle has SCARED
into those realms of high moral ideas
which are beyond our practical vision.
We think that the people of Lamoille
county have always found the citizens
Of Hyde Park as honorable and as
true to the interests of their county
as are the people of any town in this
or any other state. We expect you
will give them your hearty support
in this new enterprise and we will
give you a cheap, live, pure, newsy
county paper, worthy to follow il
the footsteps Of the Neacsdeaier anG
become the mouthpiece Of Spunky
Lamoille. Subscribe for the LAMoILLr
News.
JOHNSON, W., April IS, 1877.
To tie Editor Of the Neacs -
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