The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-02-12
"a n. PRESTON.

IiendS here who feel Interested and
would like to know facts. Mr.. Preston
is nephew of Prof. G. w. Yates, late
Principal of Mount Anthony Seminary,
and graduated from that institution some
seventeen or eighteen years ago, a year
later he married Miss Mary Raymond of
Bennington Centre, and soon after ac-
copied a position as b00kkeeper for
Major A. b. Valentine. He afterwards
took similar position in charge of the
office of the Troy Press, where he re-
manned several years, from there he
moved to YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, where he
had the management of Sunday paper,
and afterwards t. Springfield, where lie
conducted a daily. Mr.. Preston, with
aspirations due to his success as editor
and manager for other papers, decided
to establish business for himself, and
for that purpose drifted into the South
west. bringing up at Kansas City, No.
His first paper (the Kansas City Su"),
came from tile press two years ago this
month, and within the first year it gained
a circulation of fOrty-seveu thousand
copies. With this encouragement press
was bought and placed in their new
office, the capacity being fifteen thousand
copies printed and folded each hour.
The great su cess of the enterprise
caused jealousy among his cOntem-
pOraries, and he has had to fight his way
in the management of his buiiness form
the first. While / do not approve the
conduct of this paper in many instances,
| am free to say it has done much good
in the interest of humanity in this
wicked city. On numerous occasions it
has borne down so hard upon dens of Ii
cintiOusuess aud prostitution, that had
been allO wed for years, tn Vt the officials
of the city were compelled to come for
ward and suppress them. His aim is to
strike wherever there is cause, sparng
neither high nor low. Reporters are con-
stantly ON the alert. So that criminality
in whichever form it may be, comes in for
a scOrching under the rays of the Sun.
He has devoted large space To cOrrup-
ton in the municipal affairs of the city,
showing up schemes whereby the people
are being swindled by INSCRIPTIONS and
dishonest officials, and through these
measures probably all the trouble has
come about. The paper had cOntem-
plated move to Chicago for some
months, and was perfecting arrange
ments to that end, when this affair came
about. Mr.. Preston is not, neither has
he been in durance vile, but is attending
to his business (as free born American
citizen should dO), in Chicago, the Queen
City of the West.
l enclose Editor Preston's manifesto,
clipped from the last issue of the Sun,
and ask in justice to him and his friends
that you print it in full so the people
may Judge between it and the article
taken from the Kansas City Star in your
last number. N. NJ. p.
THE REASONS FOR 1T.
BY the combination of unscruplOus
politicians, backed by the police force
aud the united efforts of the three Kan
sas City daily papers, the Sun was forced
to miss one issue of its paper. Probably
never before, in any civilized country,
was there such bold and mean usurpa-
ton of power as was exercised against
the San by the police commissioners and
papers of Kansas City Oh this occasion.
BY orders oi the police commissioners,
OF which the mayor is chairman, and the
h0wls of hypOcritical and dishonest
sheets, the Sun office was surrounded by
policemen with orders to suppress the
publicatiyn-5O let no papers Oe printed
and tO allow nothing to leave the office.
BY brute force these men practically car
ried out the orders Of the hypOcrites,
tyranls aud thugs. The officers invaded
and took possession OF the basement Of
tile Sun office and only locks and Ears
kept them out of the main building. As
the Sun had no standing army tn fight
for its rights and as Judge Field, Que of
theJdckson count symUst eminent circuit
judges, said he could not interfere with
state officers who were guilty of such
high handed Outrages, the SUI WAS
forced to leave its Office and disappOint
its 100, 900 readers.
The missing of an issue of the Sun is
not only annoying to patrons, but very
expensive to the owners. The minions
of tile law boldly set out to destroy the
property of individuals by stopping the
circulation of the paper Judge Field
said in his opinion that there was civil
and criminal redress Tor wrongs done
and this being 80, there may yet beia day
Of reckoning.
1t is useless to waste words over the
past. The combination against the Sun
WAS too strong to be resisted in Kansas
City, now in the hands Of combines and
corrupt politicians whose implac Ible
hostility the Sun by its opposition to
them earned
That the SUMS unconstitutional and
desp1tic suppression in Kansas City was
not due u It's sO-called immortality is
demonstrated by the fact that tile paper
is almost two years old and was never so
free from sensatiOnalism as during the
last few months, when the paper, eS-
pecially the one complained against, was
very largely devoted to a castigatiOn OF
unscrupulOus corporations aud dishon-
est pOt-hOuse politicians. The war
against the SLn WIS actu tied by MT
liciUus hate, craven fear and cOntempti-
Die selfiShness, the Journal and Times
being small enough to view with appre
tension aid look upon GENEROUSLY the
Sap's weekly Kansas City circulation Of
nearly $1,000.
For months it had been the intention
of the Suns proprietOrs to move its
plant TO Chicago, knowing 1t to be u
wider and better field for journalistic Ia
Dor. The action of the police precip-
itated this movement In future Chicago
will DO the home of the Sun, in which
hume it hopes by fraternal courtesy, fair
treatment and just methods TO secure
that valuable and pleasing honor, the
good will aud friendship of the newspa-
per men Df Chicago.
The extensive circulation of the Sun
plainly shows that its manner of telling
the truth is appreciated Its admirers
shall have no reason to blush for 1t in