Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1872-03-16
Reform and Reformers.

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absolutely indispensable to save the
people Of the city and of the state at
large from impending certain ruin. In
a work of such magnitude and all i'm
portant character, it would seem nee.
essary, and certainly most desirable,
that the co-operators should be in the
most perfect unison as to action, and
should lose sight of, or at least careful
" conceal any private pique or IN
friendly feeling which one might have
for the other or rice versa. ~ sds
III the last numbers OF the papers
preferred to, which We have received at
the time of writing this article, we
find however evidences of a lar differ
ent state of feeling, than that which
as we have. said, ought to prevail
among allies fighting a common enc
my. This skirinishing has been going
OH fors time back, AMI as a speoi-
men we give the following extracts
commencing with shot from the
Picayune: >sJs.A tss ~ ft"'
We believe the sole proprietor OF
the Times is a Connecticut, Rerubli-
can, a bosom FREUD of Gov. Warmoth.
formerly a friend of Butler whep he
wasin this city, and a cooper by trade
before he purchased the Times. We
do not think it a disgrace, to hare
heen born and raised in Connecticut,
nor to have been a cooper; but we
ceft;fnly think the merchants ef New
Orleans as capable of employing a
corps of editors in this city, and Vt
running a newspaper in the interests
of the business men of this city. as a
Connecticut cooper and a confirmed
Republican would be. -, siaf
Does Mr. Weed deny that he con.
trolls the Times, and gives tone to its
character, as completely as the $50
merchants control the Picaynnef5
Does Dir. Weed, deny that he has
been a bosom friend of Coy. Warmoth
during the session of the Legislature
just past, while his paper, ON account
of the outside pressure, from the peo-
pie, was denonncing the State Govern
inent =. .,......5,. i.
Does the proprietor of the Times,
WHO sneers at respectable New Or
leans merchants WI o iaesume to pur-
chaseand run O. newspaper without
big consent, decay thai he, in private
and public, on the streets, at the no
tells, and in button-hole interviews
during the winter, has insisted that
Goy- Warln0th was anxious forrefoFln,
and that he wished to relieve the PEG
pie of the odiops laws which, were
grinding them to powder!
Ifthe Times desire to play the jour.
nalistic bully, aud work off its immense
surplus of conceit through its ample
columns if it is anxious that we re
move the mask which has hidden its
true features from a deceived and mis-
led public for years, itcan take this as
the FIRST eye opener in u series of arti
Giles dedicated to this work of journal
istic reform.
To this the Times responds as fol
lows, having as'we think all-togethel
the best Of the argument, though as re
CARDS the quarrel per sc, we are ex
actly in the position of the vile in the
bear-fght, being still OF the opinion
which we have entertained from the
first that the struggle in the city is one
one for power alone, and not for prin
ciples as is commended.
"THIs rs A H0RsE.o--Our readers
will all remember the story of the bo,
who, after drawing the figure of an an
imal on his slate, feared that his friends
might doubt its genus, and to avoit
such mistakes, wrote above it: /" Thi'
Is a horse.p The Picaysne occupies tb,
same position in journalism that thu
ambitious boy did in drawing. Nc
one could imagine it for moment
"The Peoples Paper,' if it did moi
say 40 every day. ~
The relations between the assertion
and the performances may notcommend
themselves to high esthetlc taste. any
more than they did in the case OF the
juvenile artist; but there they remain
in laid, discordant, self-assertion, and
the criticism of every sane observer
must be, that the horse is not much Of
a horse, nor the paper nuoh ola peo
pies paper after all True, two hun
dred and thirty people expected better
things, but rs has often before beer
the fate of the hopeful, they were
doomed to sdisappolntment.s AS sooi
as the mad bull banner of aAttakapa.
was planted above the eagle of tn.
Pic, and weak innuendos and gros,
personalities took the place of aTgu
tInent and Journalistic etiquette, chi
disappointed two hundred and thirty
or, at least, nine. out, of every, ten %
them, became Disguised with thei
bantiing, ahdin their anger exclaimed