Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-09-02

The PHRHIx is ready to tell ever so TRANSPARENT a
falsehood about matter that is month old, re-
lying evidently the stupidity Of its readers not
know the difference. The fact is that Aug 20 80
the Reformer, in reply to Mr.. Martin and the PHG-
NIX, published an exact copy Of the State reasurers
report for 1867 This showed current expenditures
OF something S250,O0O Besides there were
some outstanding auditors orders issued for that
year, as the PHGNIx itself pointed out. These
raised the total Of expenditures to S29 Just what
the Reformer said they were. OF course the PHG-
NIX shouted that they were no such thing and that
there was no such treasurers account publish
edit was made mp out Of whole cloth. They knew
that not voter in 1000 had o copy of the State
auditors report and thought thus to get their utterly
INSCRIPTIONS falsehood down their readers throats
There are probably not ten other papers, even the
most partisan that would resort to such tactics.
The Detanaer finds itself in a bad fix, as it
always does when it undertakes to discuss the
subject of state expenses, and in reply to our
little paragraph of two weeks ago, when we
pinned its falsehoods and pricked its bonn
bast on this subject, it resorts to its old tao
tics of calling names and making faces In
order to enlighten our readers and show just
where the Defdmer stands in this business
let us recall few facts of year ago. Be-
fore Hon. j. L. Martin began speaking on the
subject of our state expenses in the cam
paign of 1880, he called on Mr.. Chas. N.
Davenport the senior editor of the DetameT
who presented the resolution in the Demo-
cratic state convention arraigning Republ-
can management of state affairs and alleging
that our state expenses had risen from
"S279,000 after the war to nearly or quite
100000 now" and asked that gentleman
where he got his sum of $279, 900, telling
him at the same time that he could make no
such figures out of his auditors reports. In
reply to this question Mr.. Davenport said
that he presented the resolution as given him
by his son, the junior editor of the Defdmer,
and he (Mr. MARTINI must look to him for in
formation. To the young man Mr.. Martin
went and to him he put the sumo interro-
cation. The boy, taken completely aback,
said he couldn't "justly remember" but
thought he could figure it out, and thereupon
he got down his state auditors reports and
in a state of evident mental torture fruitless-
ly writhed and sweat over them, and finally
asked for time. Later he called on Mr.. Mar.
tin at his hotel and confessed TO him that he
could not tell where his figures came from
The only possible inference was that this
round sum of $279, 600 had been deliberately
made up out of whole cloth by the Davenporti
as one that sounded well and had the appear
anoe of having been carefully figured out
while in reality il had no foundation in fact
In his speech in Brattleboro, which was thu
first one delivered by him in the campaign
Mr.. Martin did not state the facts here given
but later, in other towns in the county, wher,
the senior Davenport had also spoken, h,
made this exposure in reply to certain subse
quent charges of the Detamer, and the Dav
exports made no attempt at denial for tn
simple reason that they knew denial to b
useless. We now for the first time give on
readers the benefit of this statement in prin
that they may see how much reliance can b
placed on any of the Dsfdmsy'S pretended