New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-16
PROSPERITY OF THE REPUBLICAN,.

| fkUHk6klI1 VI LID DIX OoAAVAN' RI
The prosperity of the REPUBLICAN il
evidently a source of annoyance to the
Times. Our success, POLITICALLY and finan
cially, is a thorn in it's side. Sc
thoroughly displeased is our big neighbol
that he refuses to tell the people how al
our good fortune came about but at the
same time intimates that he knows thing
or two on the subject.
When the publication of the REpUB
LrcAN was begun, in 1867, the proprietors
encountered many grave difficulties
Some of our best friends feared that the
result would not be satisfactory. Oul
neighbor, the Times, did US the
honor to predict that very few
months would see the last @,
the Nendican Loyolist as it playfully
termed our journal But the Mendican'
Loyalist refused to verify the prediction,
and the witty man of the Times thought to
close out our concern summarily by call
ing the REPUBLICAN the Cormorant. But
the only appreciate success was in favor
of our great enterprise. We began with
four-page paper, when the Times pub
ished every day from ten to twelve, and
on Sundays sixteen, without, however,
furnishing anything very readable, or OF
sufficient importance to justify such a
reckless waste of white paper. We are
now able to give our readers an eight
page paper. We have apparently estab-
lished the custom of publishing only
eight pages, for we see the Times contains
no more, except on Sundays
The means by which We have accom-
plished the success of the REPUBLICAN,
and given it very wide circulation and
an influence greater than that of the COM
bined Democratic press of the State, are
very simple. We have dealt honestly by
all people we have advocated the equal
rights of all men-the rich and the poor,
the educated and the illiterate, the black
and the white, have always been able to
find defender in the REPUBLICAN from
all manner of wrong committed against
them. It is very easy to be just and
honest 1t is to us gift Of nature to be
SO, and it pays a rich reward to those who
try it for any length of time. We recon-
mend our neighbor to try it.
We beg to differ with the Times when
it accuses us of insolence. We submit
that the term does not apply to anything
the REPUBLICAN has ever said of any
body. The charge of insolence would
imply that we had been disrespectful to
our superiors. We have no superiors,
morally, socially or politically in this
State. We stand on our rights and priv
leges as American citizens, and claim for
that title all the rrerogatives of royalty.
We have ever taught the doctrine of
American unity and strength as nation,
as opposed to sectional disintegration.
The mass Of the people are loyal
to the old flag in their inmost
hearts They have approved our course,
and have sustained our enterprise with
liberal hands. From the Nendicant loyal
ist we have become "a prosperous paper"
During our short career we have seen
journals of more pretentions than ours
once had, topple and fall. We have also
been grieved to observe that others, whose
editors failed to comprehend the progress
the age is making, become embarrassed,
AID lose q large share of the patronage
that was once lavished upon them. But
we have kept steadily on in what we
deemed the path of duty, and have never
had reason to regret our course. We
enjoy the confidence of the Republican
party to the extent that We can
confidently "speak for" that great organi-
cation. We observe that the Times adj
mits that it is not authorized to speak for
the Democracy. We are sure it can not
speak for the Republicans; and as the
men Of the State are pretty well
absorbed in one or the other of these two
parties, neither of which the Times can
speak for, it would appear that our neigh
Dor has no constituency. We are sorry to
hear this. We supposed it had some in
auence, and could speak er cathedra to a
certain extent. We have long been aware
that we have outstripped our neighbor in
al those objects of emulation, the achieve
nent of which is so gratifying to our am
oition, but we never supposed that we
lad left it without a party to speak for.
\ political journal should have a
,arty, without this, it is a failure
or to be a political paper implies pol
cy of government and certain we'll de-
ined ideas of political economy. If the
principles it advocates are correct and
ounded ON right and justice, the paper
viii have numerous followers or adher-
nts, and these make up party. To
onfess that the paper has no party is an
omission that no considerable number
# people believe in the judgment of the
ditor or the character of his paper.
Such is not the case with the REpUBLI-
AN. We have party. We endeavor by
very means in our power to promote its
interests and insure its success. The
good of mankind is our leading
'rinciple, and the people are our adhe-
ents. That is how the REPUBLICAN be-
anne prosperous. How the Times came
o lose the right to speak for the Democ-