The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-12-24
s'THE sun" IN ECLIPSE.

There is a paper published in Frank
lin parish for what earthly reason we
ncvcrcould see, since it Is in no sense Il
news-paper-calleu the Franklin Sun,
whereof Col. Lewis Zim is ostensibiy
editor and some supple-jack of II COM
position is publisher. The Sun, upon
two or three occasions of late, has felt
sufficiently red-hot and cnvious to as
sail, without provocation, the TELE-
GRAPH and its editor. The last evil
dence of the SUMS scnile spleen calls
for some reply.
| 1t appears from our cOtcmpOrary'
pied columns of the Goth ult., that
something said in the TELEGRAPH of
Il few weeks previous, touching the
causes Of the Democratic defeat in No
vembcr, lOosened our cOtemporary's
bile, and regardless of the truth of his
tory and his own amenibility to the
courtesies ofthe profession, he charges
us with possessing Il disorganizing
spirit, with pursuing Il selfish course
and with being in part responsible for
Radical success. We repel these accu-
sations with scorn and denounce them
as false. The editor of the Sun is pre-
| sumptuous and impairment.
He points us-instituting IL COMPARE
son between the wisdom of the policy
comparison of results in Franklin and
in Ouachita parishes ; one Democratic
and the other Radical. IfCol. Tim had
read our columns half as attcntiVely as
he pretends, he knows we were not re-
sponsiblc for the Democratic defeat in
Ouachita, and we know cquallyas well,
repudated for an Office by his party as
he was, he can lay no claim to a Demo-
cratic victory in Franklin. Every hon
Orablc means in our power was used to
carry to victory in this parish Il pro-
gramme and Il ticket we did not fully
approve; let the people of Franklin
decide what was the course of the Sun in
the canvass in that parish.
But the Sun works back to the dis
cussion upon the congressional race, land
charges that our "wrangling" to keep
up the Democratic organization and
to the injury of the party and for the
promotion of our individual ends. II
is Il pity there had not been more such
"wrangIing;' we would not have wit
messed the spectacle of parishes unani-
mously Democratic, two years ago
going Radical in November.
And it is intimated in the Sun that
we were willing for defeat to ensue in
the State, if only we could be successful
in being returned to Congress. Some
editors are prone to ascribe to others, in
given cases, only such motives as would
control them. How long since, has ii
been, that the editor of the Sun discov-
cred us to be deserving of his criticism
and ccnSurc: We can remember the
| time when he seemed to think we were
quite worthy. Was ii our inability tC
enter Congress and grant him Il favor
sought, that has changed him so great
ly? Or does he say that because as a
representative" Of tho people, believing
the peoples interest lay i'll IL certain
direction, we urged them to pursue it,
regardless of committee circulars, that
we were insinccrc, selfish and disatfcct-
cd in so doing: Has the Sun no con-
ccption of q division which can some
times exist between ones interests and
his duty wherein the latter is preferred L:
But we give the Sun too much atten-
ton. Its blurred disc and sickly glamor
are rarely ever seen beyond the brakes
and boys of Big Creek. The lens OF
Archimedes could not concentrate this
luminary's rays with sufficient intcnsi-
ty to ignite Il fibre of gun-cotton. 1t
had to have, however, its feeble ssshinc''
at us, us it swung Sway-bacl> in its
crazy orbit, only, however, to have an
effulgcnt reflector turned full in its face
wherein it can see itself us ..ithers see
| it,"
| lIurrah for Cooley!
One of the District Judges i'm New