Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-07-09
Communications.


Wn1rISaHAM, July ., 1880.
Editors PhGHir. am glad to see that you
are giving the Windham County Detdmef, as
it is aptly christcned, some good-sized raps
over the head for t8 brazen impotence and
falsehoods The idea Of either of the Daven-
ports, father or son, setting up rs ''reformers'
Is ridiculous stretch Of impotence, quite as
tonishing even TO those who know them
through and through as we do out here in
this part of the county, where they began
life Instead of "reformers' they are, be-
tween them, the very incarnation Of nearly
everything that needs reforming. Full of
canting nauseatng hypocrisy, they habitually
abuse everybody, right and left for the very
vices in which they themselves most indulge.
Pretty men, these, TO denounce rascalty, We
nality, grasping avarice, drunkenness and de-
bauchery Better clean their own skirts be-
fore setting up as cenBors of public morals
and deceucy.
But tho question started out to ask is this:
What possible excuse can Republicans have
for patronzing this pestiferous paper, whose
whole aim and influence, If it has any, is TO
pull down to its own dirty level everything
that is decent aud Of good repute While
hypocritically pretending to some degree of
"independence' - in this respecta ping, though
at an almost iniiuite distance, it's great proto-
type the Springfield Republican constant
aim and effort is, and always has been, to
break down the Republican party. That is
what it was started for as its slang whanging
abuse of every prominent Republican bears
witness Its desired reform is to pull
down the Republican and build up the Dem
ocratic party OF this county and State, with
Charles n Davenport, the copporhead de-
uouncer OF Lincoln and the war as its leader
and prophet To do this, and, ut the same
time be the instrument Of its real owners
personal malice aud revenges and TO stir up
strife, bitterness and warfare of every kind in
the community and so bring grist TO his mill,
is the mission TO which il was dedicated and
for which it constantly labors. Why, then,
should Republicans, who have the good Of the
party at heart, support such paper? Ex-
cept for the very filthy mud which it con
stanuy keeps flying in all directions, and its
transparent hypocrisy and mendacity, it has
no distinguishing features and these certain
ly ought not to commend it to decent men and
Republicans. The paper has large number
OF takers in this town, and among them, am
sorry to say, good many Republicans, who
are thus encouraging bitter enemy instead
Of giving support TO their own party papers,
where it properly belongs. A good many Of
it's subscribers here, however, only help TO
SVEN IN tliNhihNiuus NAAhbht PhAtiAk AiAlhb
into the pocket of its publisher. They are
takers" but not payers" The same pro-
portion of dead beats elsewhere would ac-
| count for a large part of the boosted "circu-
lation" of the DgdDier, Of which we hear so
much.
want, in conclusion, to ask my fellow Re-
publicans to give this matter little serious
thought. We all want good local Repubh-
can paper maintained, because we honestly
believe that the Republican party is right and
ought to succeed but how do we suppose
that such a paper is TO live and thrive unless
we, who profess 90 believe in the doctrines it
teaches, give it our hearty support Are We
doing our duty fairly as good Republicans,
when we not only neglect to sustain our own
| party paper but even give aid and comfort
| 10 a bitter aud INSCRIPTIONS opponent, that is
| doing its level best 20 break down and defeat
every political principle and object We believe
in Think of these things, and act accord
! ingly. As EARNEST REPUBLICAN.