Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-12-07

tanned in that publication were repeatedly
branded boy Republican speakers on the
stump as wilfully false and got up with de
liberatc intent TO deceive, and no denial Of
the charge was ever made. In The Phoenix
Of Sept 81 we printed figures giving a cor
rect statement and comparison Of the prices
Of wool from 1925 TO 1886, and showed that
the "grindstone' figures were not only false
in every respect, but that they must have
been made up out Of whole cloth to try
10 make the farmers believe that the tariff
is killing the wool industry. No answer
was ever made TO this, but just the same
the printing Of the circulars by the ten
thousand, and their distribution broadcast
east and west. went steadily on. Is this
what the Reformer calls clean, above
board work
Take for another illustration the red
slips headed with garbled quotation from
the Republican platform, and claiming that
/ the garbed plank meant Free Whiskey,'
Free Tobacco, and Free Beer" lin large
typeJ This town and the surrounding
country were not only showered with these
slips but Republican professions we're pur-
sued with them, and, as a browning piece
of this sort Of business two young men
we're sent with an invoice Of them in the
large company of Republicans who went TO
the demonstration in Keene, and they were
impudently thrust upon the thousands OF
Republicans who visited our neighboring
New Hampshire town on that occasion.
Whether it added to the grossness Of the
offence that one at least, of the distribu-
tors Of these slips became so drunk early
in the evening that he could not stand up
right TO hand them out, we shall not at
tempt to say If this was an example OF
what the Reformer calls clean, manly and
courteous Democratic methods, Republi
cans pray, for the good name of the town,
to be delivered from them in the future
There is no need to add to the list the Re
formers living article about the marble tar
iff-"fxed in accordance with the petition
Of Is Vermont frms"-which ex-Gov
Proctor so ruthlessly let daylight into, OIL
to pursue the subject beyond this point.
If the Democrats whom the Reformei
names are responsible for this kind o.
work. they will have to endure the odiun
Of it, but there are several of them tina
we do not believe are so responsible.
That any reputable Republican has OBJ
iected to our statement about this 'unscrup
ulons' work, as made in the article t,
which we have alluded, we do not believe
On the contrary the Reformer's declara
ton on this point is commonly regarded b!
the Republicans Of Brattleboro as a charac
teristic attempt to break the force Of GU
charge and Of the truth as stated by us.
In the present state of its business an,
circulation The Phoenix can well afford :
let the Reformers allusion to the numbe
of its readers stand for exactly what it
worth. In a newspaper experience of NOR
than twenty five years we have never at
tempted TO gain subscribers, influence o
reputation 10y belittling or pulling down
neighbor and when the editor of the Re
former every now and again returns in hi
, desperation to this method, it simply fills u
with surprise and regret that so diminutiv
a soul can dwell in such a numbering mas
of flesh