Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-07-09
A Plain Talk with Windham County
neDubIicans,

a Plain Talk with VVindhan County
Republicans.
A Nottingham correspondent, whose letter
we publish in another column, calls atten-
ton to a matter which, at this time, ought to
interest every true Republican in Windham
county-the duty of Republicans to patron
ize and support their local Republican paper.
1t is not our custom, as our readers well
know, to attempt to build ourselves up by
pulling our neighbors down. What our cor
respondent says in regard to our Democratic
contemporary, the Windham County Reform
err, and the support which it receives from
the Republican party, is, nevertheless, strict
ly true. The real object and animus of that
paper is, and from its start has been, to un-
dermine and break down the Republican par
ty. BY every specious device ii seeks to
lead away voters, especially the young, from
the Republican ranks, and under thin and
deceitful garb of sham independence, its con-
slant aim is to cast suspicion and reproach on
our local Republican leaders. That it is able
to do this work is only made possible through
the large support which the paper receives
from men protesting to be Republicans
The present is time when the Republi-
cans of Windham county should think seri-
ously on this subject And not alone be-
cause we are in the midst of an eventful
state and national campaign, but because the
Republican party in Windham county cannot
maintain its prestige, keep up its majority,
and retain its hold on the people, without the
services of strong, well managed and infu-
entail organ to aid in the work Such an or
gan-an organ in the true and best sense
The VERMONT PHOENIX aims to be. Its rec
ord in years past shows unwavering devotion
to Republican principles, and at the present
time when the need of the party was never
greater, it seeks more than ever before to do
efficient, incisive, unhinching work for the
Republican cause.
We do not complain that We are not receiv-
ing generous and paying support, for we
are receiving this and more. We simply
urge that it should be a matter of conscience
with every genuine Republican to give his
support to his party paper. In our recent
purchase of the Record and Farmer we were
actuated by no other motive than a purpose
to so strengthen our business and place it on
solid foundation as to enable us to give the
Republicans of Windham county a strong,
well-furnished and complete newspaper which
they might all have a just pride in support
ing. We were determined to make absolute
justice, impartiality, and independence with
in our party, our motto. Tho response to
our effort has been hearty and generous. We
have not only held the business of both pa
pers, but we have added largely to it, Not a
oxen subscribers to either paper in this
county have dropped of, since the combina-
tion. Expressions of approval of the ar
rangement have been universal, and our list
in Windham county is to-day larger by more
than one hundred names than it was on the
first day Of May when the combination took
place.
But we do not write for the purpose of self
glorification. We simply wish to urge upon
our Republican friends, first, q plain duty
and, second, that they can do themselves and
the Republican cause the most important ser
vice possible by making an effort to extend
the circulation Of their local representative
| paper. The terms which We offer are low
enough to meet the need of the leanest purse.
To all who are not subscribers, and who do
not wish to now send in years subscription,
/ our campaign offer of five months for so
I cents is open. There is no money for us in
the arrangement, but there is help and
sire myth in it for the Republican cause. If
the people themselves do not, as individuals,
take an interest in the matter he Repubh-
can leaders in the various towns owe it to
| themselves to take hold of the matter and see
to it that individuals do become interested.
Still further than this, we shall be glad to
furnish Republican clubs in any of the towns
with any number of papers for the campaign.
at cost price, for distribution to such persons
as will not, of themselves, take q Republican
paper. There are hundreds of young men,
of wavering Republicans and half-hedged
Democrats who can be reached in this way.
No other campaign document is half so effec.
tive as an out-spoken, local Republican pa
per- which deals, week by week, with live is
sues and current topics.
That this is precisely the sort of paper TIKI
PHOENIX is, our columns this week, and every
week, bear us witness. Fellow Republicans
in every town in Windham county, for the
good of our common cause will you not take
hold non and give US your hearty, united and
| individual support?