New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-06
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and mendacious attacks upon the fair
fame Of Governor Warmoth, and en-
deavors by insinuations and assertions Of
a general nature to establish against him
malfeasance and corruption, notwithstand-
ing the repeated demands for its proof
which have been passed by unheeded
Yesterday it leads an article with the
query, HAS there been no proof?" to
which we emphatically answer, No! We
take up the points it endeavors to make,
as follows:
Does he think that because he has been
| able TO some extent to conceal some of the
! methods by which he has become rich, and
| TO cover up his tracks that his m1sdeeds
can not be brought home to him, and his
| crimes against the State established Does
the Governor not know that it is a fraud
to conceal fraud
Then why not bring his misdeeds home
and establish his crimes? Reiteration of
just such language as the above has worn
out the public patience. No honest man
would be thus guilty, not having the
power to make good his charges; he would
know that to do SO would be both cow
ardly and dishonest Would the Picoyane
have Governor Warmoth confess to a
fraud which did not exist, in order to
justify its violent and prejudiced course?
Governor Warmoth admitted before the
congressional committee THAT he had real
lied profit of $4,000 By specializing in
bonds of fha Stain termed tlpvnn Eivnc -
Had not the Governor a perfect right to
show his faith in the financial solidity Of
the State by putting his capital into her
securities? This is certainly novel
criminality on the part of him or any other
citizen. Suppose the Governor had bought
stock ofthe Picayune Publishing Company,
and, unlike the levee skies, his shares had
deprecated and lost him his investment,
as. they most assuredly would have done,
would that have been an infamous specu-
lative scheme?" Had the 230 editors Of
tie Picdyl9le invested their money with
as much business acumen as did Cover
nor Warmoth, would they, while being
undoubtedly richer, have been also infa-
nous? As for the WORKOUT charge that |
we hold the position of official printer by
his favor, we again condescend to deny it. |
Our contract was the result Of a. public
want recognized by the Legislature, and it
was to us granted by that body, the execu-
tive not having the power to interfere with
the rights thus vested, if he were so in
clined. This has been judicially tested
and determined already:
Governor Warmoth's misdemeanors in
Office and other Offenses against the State
have been so often set forth in this and
other journals in the city that we consider
it waste of time and space TO recapitulate
them.
We again demand of the Picayune to
state specifically these misdemeanors, and
them. We dare it to the at
tempt!
What shall we say of this vile attack
upon a community on which the P;cayne
calls for material support Name those
g debauched;" state the ''largess, in kind
md quantity. This statement is simply
IN outrage on common decency, in view
If Governor Warmoth's rebuke to the bank
presidents, his vetoes, and the many other
schemes which have received
heir quietus from his vigorous blows:
The gravest crime of which he Las been
,uilty is this He has deliberately gone to
work to debauch our citizens by means of !
argess distributed among them, under va
'ious pretexts. He might have taken from
b e State millions of dollars without infict-
ng such an injury as this,
The Picaytrae's tame and impotent con- ;
fusion that the responsibility attaches to {
governor Warmoth because the Legisla- :
ure has committed infamous acts and the
1diciary rendered wrongful decisions 7
uring the period of his administration, +
worthy only Of an inscriptions partisan +
leet such as the Picayl.ne has Of late r
ecome. tits impossible to argue seriously
it'll such an opponent, and We suppose
le Governor must, therefore, patiently
ear whatever i'll its attacks may effect, t
rawing consolation from the assurance fl
at its venom is fast becoming innocuous G
all but itself v