Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-08-23
A BIT PERSONAL.

In the rather feroctous language of
rampant Bull Mooser, Col. E. w. Glib
son paid his respects to The Phoenix last
week, in a signed communication which
appeared in three papers published in
Windham county.
He has complaint because this paper
did not publish his letter of August y,
which was sent to this office the bust
est week of the entire summer season,
less than three hours before our sched-
uled hour for going to press, at time
when we were forced to throw aside
live advertising and large amount of
local news copy which had been pre-
pared by our regular employees. The
Phoenix welcomes an open discussion of
political or other matters of public in
terest, but communications sent in at an
unreasonably late hour will not be given
precedence over our own advertising and
reading copy.
Mr.. Gibson's charge that this paper
takes its 20 X" from bosses is with
out the slightest foundation in fact The
Phoenix is under the absolute control of
the man whose name appears at the
head of its editorial column, and he ac-
cepts full responsibility for whatever ap-
pears in it's columns. In the manage
ment of its editorial and business af-
fairs this paper has always stood for the
peoples rights as it saw them, luna red
by influence and unbribed by gain" and
trary. 1t is easy enough to make vague
,,.f., i.
political contest, but The Phoenix will
endeavor now, as in the past, to shape
its course along the lines of clean jour-
nalism and the best interests of the
constituency which it serves. 1t will
not charge any man with dishonesty OF
duplicity because it does not agree with
his opinions.
Not one editorial article in so which
appears in The Phoenix is ever seen by
persons outside the office until the paper
is published. If the editor of this paper
sees fit to consult, to ask the advice Of
or to receive the assistance of personal
friends in the preparation of any ar.
ticle, he will do so, but anything which
goes into the editorial column of thi:
paper will have the approval and en-.
dorsement of the editor of thfs paper
and of no one else If this be Treason
make the most of it.
We would like to wager a big red ap
pie, or any other delectable commodity
that Col. Gibson himself has writer
more editorials for one newspaper o
Windham county, than all the persons il
Windham county have written for TIL,
Phoenix, aside from the editor of thi
paper, under its present management
Col. Gibson says: THE tenor of TIL,
Phoenix article is that because man /.
poor he should have no voice in polit
ical affairs. This is, typical of the Re
| publican position today" This is cheal
political demagoguery. man who ha
worked hard and persistently more thar
a quarter of a century and whose sue
cess is measured by the ownership of ;
weekly country newspaper would b.
| pretty likely to take any such attitud
| as Col. Gibson charges! So far as gu
position toward our fellow men is con
cerned we are willing to subscribe un
reservedly to the sentiment of the wa
governor of Massachusetts when he said
Il know not what record of sin ma.
await me in another world but this
! know: l was never mean enough t
despise any man because he was igno
rant, nor because he was poor, nor be
cause he was black"
After gathering together the few scat
tering fragments that remain. we be
lieve The Phoenix will survive in spit
| of Col. Glbson's attack.