sentences:  He edited the newspaper only for a couple of months but remained in Vilnius as editor of "Viltis", co-founded with Antanas Smetona.This new cultural newspaper hoped to unite conservative Catholic clergy and more liberal intelligentsia for the common good of the Lithuanian nation.After publishing an article critical of the Diocese of Vilnius for suppressing the Lithuanian language in favor of the Polish language, Tumas was exiled to Laižuva in 1911.