Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-12-03
The Defsmer Again Am.

The PH1SIx doesn't deny that s. NJ. waite used to
control 1t and do good part Of its editing; not be-
it isn't willing to lie about it, but because the
evidence is too conclusive. 1t contents itself merely
with whining that Waite should "te Of it, and says
II Is due to its fearless exposure Of his crimes"
Fearless exposure ia good-exceedngly good 1t
was just that kind Of "feAressness' that email boy
shows who pounds another while somebody holds him
down, or that campfoowers aud bushvhackers eH-
hibited during the war when they vAlantly came up
after battle and stuck their bayonets into all the dead
bodies and helpless wounded they could find Fear
less e1posurel" Yes, THE PHRNIX fearlessy exposed
Waite after he had run away and no more pap could
be got from him. It barked yociferously after the
hand 1t had been licking and sucking was gone. But
when s. NJ. Waite was in power here man ever had
a servile Rdulator, a more devoted turnkey than
1t was. Then whoever sought to EXPOSE" his crimes
was sure to be deluged with vitrioc abuse from his
organ. The Retormer, week after week and year af-
as the most ordinary business principles demanded
and THE PnGSIx, echoing the great thef's words
pronounced Il "scandalous attack on Brattleboros
"wad some Power the giftie gle us
To see ourBels az ithers see us"
What contemplate pictures they would Of them
selves over at The PHnSIx offce.-DefdiHer ~ last
ircek
We copy the above entire, because we wish
the public to know just what we are talking
about, and because we have no idea of allow
ing the Detjtmer to cover up the unsavory
spots in its record by such Safeguarding tao
tics. 1t has always been q sore remembrance
with that Independent" sheet that it took
Waite up and became his mouthpiecs and or
gan last spring, just before his final downfall
and after the entire respectable portion of the
community had refused to longer countenance
his lawless and arbitrary proceedings Up to
that time, to be sure, no paper or person had
ever taken so much pains, or gone SO far out
of its way, to glorify Waites brilliant abili-
ties or to push him into prominence, as had
the DefdBler. First and last it had urged his
fitness for nearly every responsible local Office,
laying especial stress on his fearlessness, JUS
tice and honesty. All this time, however,
through that sort of consistency which is
known only to an independent" organ, and
on account of the personal quarrel of its sen
Tor editor with Waite, the Dcfdmer was some
how understood to be at war with him. But
one day Waite found that all control of the
narrow-gauge railroad had slipped away from
him, and thereupon, in a sort of lawless des
peration, he set about trying to block and de
feat that enterprise and, as his only resource
| for doing this the respectable portion of the
community having deserted him, he doubled
on his course, retained the senior member Of
| thV gunner NOhStlL, hhh Itkulhl
habtuG of the Detamer office. Thereupor
the tactics of the DGfdmer changed in
twinkling. 1t Immediately began TO rehec
Waite's views print just what he told its edi
tor to, and openly predicted that the new roat
would never find a way out of its difficulties
Herein was an illustration of just what Tn
PHOENIX has always said that the Detdmer'
rule is to fatter and crawl after everybod,
who brings grist to the Davenport mill, ant
malign and abuse everybody who does not
The thing hurt, and the above is one of it
futile attempts to stave off the damaging Of
| fects.
The DetdmeT'S attempt, in the same para
graph, to claim for itself an effort to get uI
an investigation of Waite's bank is good
exceedingly good" The people of Windhau
county have not forgotten that only tire
years ago at this very time that sheet was en-
gagged, solely through motives of persona
spite, in the most dastardly and malicious al
tempt ever perpetrated in this community t
cast suspicion on every financial institution
of trust in Brattleboro. It's efforts were -es
pecially directed towards the old savings bank
and, had the source from which the attac
came been either responsible or respectable
disastrous run on that institution would hav
been inevitable. Here, again, is an illustrr
ton of the fact so often referred to by Tn
PHOENIX; that no local man or institution ca
como to grief without the Detdmer being abb
to boast, as now, of having visited on him, {
it, its Safeguarding and matchmaking tactic
Once more, then, We give the Detdmer BIO
our blessing, and bid him keep right on wit
his dirt-throwing for, slight as it is, it is h
only hold. For him and his it is impossib
to pray the prayer of Burns, because, the dn
of miracles being past, it is not within Il
range of the possibilities that they shoul
ever be able to look upon themselves or the
actions from decent or respectable stan,
| nOint