Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-02-24
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WITH SUGGESTION TO OrR BRETHREN OF
THE CRAFT ABOUT ThE CORRECT WAY TO
GET NEWS, RUN \ NEWSPAPER, AID SHOW
THE PUBLIC WHAT KIND OF MAN YOU
ARE
The Winiham County Rcfprin.r never did u
more characteristic thing than when 10 walked
last week, into the trap which we SIT Tor It the
week before, and convicted itself of Wilful lying
and uuprItrsIIull conduct In tine matter of the
West lirattrboru installation report three weeks
ago. Since the occasion calls FOR the facts. we
shall state them. although we reznr it mn entirely
unwarrautahr piece, OF husuc.. to luz tine Rev
Mr. Days name into the matter bncaus.. Of his
uniform courtesy. with that of nll the other Brat
tleburo ministers, ln furnishing the press with any
matter of public interest which comes within his
beat. The facts ARE, then, that on the day OF the
installation We took occasion tu ask Mr. Dav To-
come into uur Office uu Dis return from West Brat
tlcburo ami give us the tt"t- about the exercise
He came iu aud gtivr us by word of mouth brief
account uf what Was done We took down few
hasty notes. ntclgblr 10 no one but ourselves,
ngs Every word of II was uir own aud the. re-.
port was as much our own property ms if we had
gone tu West Brattlehuru TO get &C. The next
forenoon the Rrfprmcr, having taken no fore
Thought IN he matter, and. as usual going ON O.
dead run after local matter at the last moment
sent H. representative INTO our Office to ask for
''the report which Mr. Day gave us" Wrcunfcss
that under the circumstances we were somewhat
taken ahack by the request but found cpmuusurr
enough to Huswc' that Mr. bay did not furnish as
a report, but only the fact. from which We had
made our own report Observing the aupar.nt
discontinue caused by this announcement. We
added that so SION u~ the proof slip was ready ID
would be- loaned the Rrforuer 1t desired and
from 1t report could be- made An hour later
another representative If the only largest and
most eutrrprisng 90 newspaper in New England
came rushing IN, aud said iu q tone uf abrupt de-
mand, that Mr. Davenport wanted that proof
slp'' u VAS handed him without a word iu re-
ply and meantime every employee OF oar ullire
was filled with out spoken INDIGNATION at the bare.
faced impudcnce Of the pruc,y.liug aud tllr fight
Ing editor rose up and declared that 90 was the
worst case Of 'unntigated gall' that even h. had
NtsFa tt4p in lar a
our own part We said that We didn't propose 90 live
un such terms with a neighbor that We couldn't
do him n favor, NO matter II he did abusr his
privileges now aud then, but IN our tuu. nurlcs-
confidence in certain brand Of human NATURE,
we supposed that the only Use made at our report
would DE- 10 take Tie main Facts and u~' th"u iu
words Of the RrfurmDr's own What was our
surprise, then to find it reproduced word for
word even to orr little word of welcome, fn tb..
new minister and mot a word OF credit -i,pii
We fcll ON the fighting editors neck uul confessed
thnt IL was indeed "a 'dse pi ''uumitigatrd gall
The THEFT was just "a much theft. aud the con.
hI.i NHS JSt a. uhpi 'i'SSi'nal as If H." giiu,'
of the Refurmrr had become p,,-,. -s..,I of any
other matter from our proof slip and used it H.
ms own NAT makes the matter all the WORSE
for him is the fact, which has since come tu uur
knowl'ls". that Nr Day told the R.formcr rep
u,SentattNr explicitly that hr dit NOT give mi.
lhruiN report. but simply the ftrt. or ,yrrIaI
notes from which "a report could he. made. and
ii was th'.S.. facts simply which ha suggested
might b" obtained at Our Itiil. Ia other words
the E"lurmer 'dit,r knew perfectly AplIull tire
Nhil, that u" was using u- his own. matter pii-.
pared 10y us for our own pap .r, ouu never mt,ul.
rd Tor MN There was %" "'limluutiyr Wtnilt---
about this operation 1t uu. simply q Performance.
"t KIND which nothing lut The hug and ITS boa
man rpugencr ie ever guilty of With these. facts
100 tull view, how lrn-t~tlhly funny and .Nqu- t.lv
pointed is the Hfurm"r rHutrk that " tho pub
lu kuuN that 10 .lu. ruu.uiN i~ fh. last rIl.,. BOO
place but it certainly is tho, patc. tn which iI,.
k~tornrr comes tor new, with prli~- worthy reg
ulatitN. We may AID that since this uttl. lstcur
renee, We get only cold comfort from our FELLOW,
wnrk-rS DO th" "it''e. for we arr told that If Nc