The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-07-08
A word with the RefOrmer.

guerrilla sheet printed at Brattleboro
by one Charles IL, Davenport, has been
shifting and snarlng at the SITTER in
all possible ways and all possible occa-
sions, for which we have cared about
as much as we do for the impcrtinent
buzzing of ny that we brush away
once in while when il gets too famil-
ar, with ''shoo fly don't bodder me-"
But lately this pcstilent humbuS, in
connection with his harmless filings at
the SITTER, has taken occasion to vent
his personal malice, envy and spite a.
gainst number of highly respectable
gentlemen, the ''latches of whose shoes
he is not worthy to unloose," by insin-
uating in mean sneaking way rather
than openly asserting, their responsible
ty for the utterances of the SITTER.
Now we have not the vanity to claim
that any member of the ''IIarris-Tyler-
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. combina-
ton" as it is styled, and very re-
spectacle combination it is, too, most
people will think-could not edit the
SITTER better than we do, for they are
all men of character, education and a.
bility; bit they don't dot. They don't
hVt0 do II. The only man who ever
tried to dictate the course of this paper
was the Reformer editors other self
and fit chum, Low Martin-we spell it
right, Low. Any man who associates
with that charnel house of moral lepro-
sy, c. II. Davenport, and accepts his
loathsome sheet as his personal organ is
so low down in filth and mirc that
nothing but the grace of the devil can
ever reach him-and he tried to do it in
his usual sneaking way, coming to us
with lie in his mouth. Strange as it
may seem to the Reformcr, we edit and
run our own paper in our own way,
without dictation from any quarter,
and without aid from anybody, except
our own family, even in type setting
and press work, as we will show the
Reformer man if he will, after taking
a bath, come up here and stay week.
He might also learn something else that
would do him good. And we don't run
the SITTER, as he does the Reformer,
in the interest of Martin & Eddy or
any other firm of intriguing lawyers,
nor for the benefit of any sclf-seeking,
caucus-packing politician, like Levi
Fuller, Lo Martin and Jock Eddy;
but for the good of the people and a.
gainst all forms of clap-trap humbug-
gerry and rascality. We work from
twelve to fifteen hours day with our
head and hands for an honest living,
and at the same time try to do little
good to working men and women who
earn their bread, as we do, ''by the
sweat of the BROW and whose fathers
left them no big fortunes to squander
in idleness, riotous living and debauch-
cry. Ordinarily we claim to be rather
good natured, slow to wrath andinclin-
ed to give and take the rough and tum-
bic encounters Of life and of the pro-
fession in good humor. But their is a
limit to all things, except the meanness
of some animals said to be made in the
image of the Great Creator, and our
M ;oo,o with tho PoforD, or n ,,;,,o1 bac
reached this point; so we propose right
here and now to say a few rather plain
words to him, and he will be wise if he
needs them. If he won't be decent in
any other way we intend to compel him
to be decent, SO far as we are concern
ed, with Cuba kind of knock down
argument, as it were-but the only an
gument he can be made thoroughly to
understand.
Listen then, Mr.. Reformer, and
don't forget what we say, for it will
not be repeated. Hiram Atkins is not
the only man whose pigeon-holes are
filled with facts and evidence of the no.
torious moral leprosy that marked your
early youth and has tainted your foot
steps thus far in life. This evidence
has been allowed to remain pigeon
holed through no regard or tenderness
for you, for you deserve no considera-
ton at the hands of any decent man or
woman, but has been kept hid away in
a kind of moral pest house for the pro-
lection of the community, as small poX
and other contagious and loathsome
diseases are isolated. You are the last
man in Windham county who should
thrust, or provoke others to thrust, your
disreputable career before the public.
You certainly have no call to throw
moral stones at your neighbors. In
deed, it is a very unsafe amusement
for you, as you will speedily find out
if you don't stop it. Malice and spite
fulness are dangerous weapons in your
hands and you had better drop them.
For one, we have had quite enough of
them, and don't propose to have any
more without striking back from the
shoulder. Do you twig, Charles?
Then dry up, or take the consequences.
Can ANYBODY give any good reason