The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-09-30
A WORD TO THE LEADER

A WORD TO THE LEADER"
The advent of the CHIEF to the
journalistic arena has brought forth an
article fron our contemporary of the
Leader which is about as complete a
conglomeration of erroneous state
ments-we believe not wilfully made
and inconsistencies as one could well
imagine.
The editor Of the Leader is particrl-
larly stirred up by the fact of our
charging his journal with being the
first to place a misconstruction upon
our motives for Withdrawing from the
support of the Custom-h house clique
while yet editor Of the st. james Sen
tinel. He begs to remind us that the
article referred to published in his
journal was written before our card Of
explanation appeared in the Sentinel,
| which card, he says, was indeed a
lame excuse, but still better than
nome" We should naturally take this
to be intended somewhat as an excuse
for the SANDER of the previous article,
but this idea is at once dispelled by
the charmingly inconsistent statement
which follows: What we then insin-
uated we can now state upon positive
and reliable information, That the
Governor did sign his printing bills,
and that other inducements were of
fered and received as the sequel clear
| ly shows We have never denied
that Governor Warmoth signed our
printing accounts, but that he signed
them i'll consideration of any promise
on our part to support him we do deny
most emphatieally. Mr.. Geo. E. Boz
wee, at that time our partner, was and
still is opposed to Governor Warmoth.
1t stands to reason that the Governor
would have required a pledge from
Mr.. Bovee as well as orlrself-if re-
curing any at all-before signing bills
in which we were mutually interested.
This is rendered more probable by the
fact that Mr.. Boyee's position as Sec
rotary of State gave him more i,npor-
lance in political circles than Ne could
claim to possess. Mr.. John E. Leet,
of the Abbeville Flag, obtained Gov
ernor Warmoth's approval TO his bills
for printing, yet he still halls denun-
citation upon the State Administration
and its Chief Executive with undimin-
ished violence. We believe Governor
Warmoth will approve any bills for
work properly done under printing
contract, and he requires no promises
from the holders, as we know both
from personal experience and the
statements of others
The Leader next insinuates that
even before the material for this jour-
nal was bought it received the print4
ing OF the town and the Police Jury
regulations Of st, james, these latter
from that notorious and liberal Os-
car F. Hunsaker, who it is ri,nored
has somewhat of a pecrniary interest
in the welfare and prosperity of The
new enterprise We simply state
that 1t was not until our order for the
printing material had been given that
we concluded to locate in Donaldson
vile instead of st. James, and that we
were not elected town printer until
the material aforesaid had all arrived
here and we were actively engaged in
preparing it for the issue of the paper
The regulations of the Police Jury Of
St. James we did not, have not, and
do not expect to receive. In regard to
the latter part of the sentence above
quoted orr name is placed at the
head of the CHIEF, as its editor and
proprietor, in good faith, and Dame
Rumor may lie about it as much as sht
pleases.
j And now the editor of the Leadel