Las Vegas morning gazette., 1880-09-25
Las veoas Daily Gazette.
25, 1880
The Gazette and the New Town.

We HOtiCC III thC OPeic W i"S'
night an article which is both unfair |
and vituperative. 1t copies our para
graph on the subject of the queer ap-
pesrance which the new town has
since the fire and charges us, in very |
loud terms, of attempting to 'stab the
very vitals of a community whose in
tercsts are in common with the GA
zETTE.'
Now look here, Mister man and ad-
junct by proxy to the staff Of the
Optic, we advise you to 60 a little
slow before you begin to criticise
the policy of newspaper which you
have not known for any great length
of time, or else call at our office and
be favored with a file of the Daily
GAZETTE and see if you can get into
your head what every fair minded
citizen already has there,--viz, the
thorough understanding that the new
town of East Las Vegas has never had
a more ardent champion than our
paper. We have joined in her wonder
ful progress, with praise; we have
shared her sorrows. We have never
failed to chronicle all that we know
fintcrcst that has transpired within
her borders. Our reporters spend
portion Of their time i'll the new town
every day, and at least one half of our
local columns are devoted to new
town news.
We believe that Vegas is one com.
munity; not one word has ever ap-
peared in our columns which has fa-
vored any sectonalism, and we refer
the hot-headed writer Of the article
in the Optic to our articles of the past
few days strongly urging incorpora-
ton, we said:
"Union is strength, and never in the
history of the two towns were our
citizens so closely united, heart and
hand, in support of the common veal
as they are to-day. During the con-
fagration. west side men worked like
beavers to aid their cast side compct-
itors.
We verify believe that the rGvcrscs
which have ovcrtakcn us will be our
blessing. We haye something tC
work for with our united strength
and that is nothing more nor less thar
the protection of our property ant
the guaranty of security to individual
rights.
Thoro is willing mind to do somo
thing in this direction, to establish 1
municipal union as was evidenced b!
the meeting Of citizens on Sunday tt
establish fire department.
Now what can our hyper-critica
competitor find i'll any article in it
columns which favcrs as we do ant
have done, a community of though
and action. There is no one who will
deny, in his sober nj oments, that eacI
town is necessary to the others wei
fare. We have always claimed it, W
claim it now; but we challenge th
Optic to show us a line OF stron
sentiment where It admits that IT,
old town is necessary for anybody
welfare. They cannot show it; tn
Optic has selfishly pursued the plan c
furthering its own and the new town
interests, especially its own, and
it thinks best to pick up our para
graphs and misconstrue them for tn
purpose of making capital by the pre-
cedure, it will only find that il adve
tises us and shows to = fair minde
public that there Is only one paper
San Miguel county that takes upo
: itself the task, and performs it,
combining in its columns the new
and events of the two great commul
tiles which are really one.
The recent fire occurred in ne
town: our elaborate account
it was copied into all tn
territorial papers we hay
seen, except the Red Riv'
Chronicle. The Denver papers use
our account. Ono wonld natural
suppose that the East town pap
would be quoted; but no, imparti
Judges who were never in our mid
found in the Gazette's account mo
news and more of interest relative
the great event in the community
the vitals of which the Optic says v
are attempting to stab.
a. rs Our course has been conservati'
always as that of the Optic has be-
radical.
We said nothing Of the queer lot
of the burned district that we shou
not have said if the ashes were aroul
the plaza.