New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-03
HEADS AND TAILS.

1t is very web known that E. H. Sum
mers is the controlling spirit of the Plea
y1ey1e, as well as of the Cotton Exchange.
How he became the one or the other is not
matter for US to settle just now, as we
have funnier fish to fry, which is, how
he managed to fall out with the tail of his
own concern, asking pardon of McCloskey
for this time only. Mr.. Booth is only a
weak member of the Summers family, and
when he grumbles out low and plaintive
wall of distress against the Radicals, it GER
tainly does not become his great teacher
in the art Of complaining to take him to
task for his utterances. And yet this
is just what Summers has done to
Booth. On Thursday night, while
the latter was delivering n flaming
speech before the Tenth Ward Club
against any increase of taxation, even
to help the Shreveport railroad, the former
was deliberately pouring a broadside into
him from the editorial tripod as a chronic
grumbler, an incapable complainant and
suspicious character generally. And what
is still funnier the very things that the
president Of the Pjcay1tne was saying ever
his own signature, those very things he
was quietly denying from behind the edito-
rial desk. This is carrying the Cotton
Exchange practice into the journalistic
field with vengeance, for Mr.. Summers
bulled Mr.. Booth in his editorial charac-
ter, and played the bear toward him in his
individual character. Just listen to the
talk of Cotton Broker Summers
Mr.. Booth means well, but if we had a
city made up of Just such merchants, we
might prepare at once to fence it in.
He is chronic grumbler. =
He is the last man to subscribe to liberal
enterprises. Mr.. Booth may be
political aspirant, but he is on the wrong
track. Mr. Booth should hide his
head with shame. [Why not tell him to.
put it in bag at once REP
Taxation is the only way to get at such
men as Mr.. Booth. = y Mr.. Booth ia
trying to forestall what fifty citizens have
recommended, The peODIe will
Mr.. Booth had better remain quiet in the
meantime.
The above is only part of what Broker
Summers says of Halter Booth, over his
own signature. Now, as Mr.. Summers is
the boss of the Picayune he must be held
responsible for the sentiments expressed
in that paper. Let us see what the editor
says of Mr.. Booth:
Mr.. Booth is not a politician in the Ordi-
nary sense of the word. He despises the
tricks d party politics. He takes a high
view of the duties of the citizen.
The people recognize that Mr.. Booth is in
earnest He is listened to with
attention, and his words carry weight
The people feel that he is one of
them. He has a felicitous, graphic and
epigramatic way of saying things. THAT
is, he grOwls well and keeps time.-REP
This is high praise, but it is de-
served.
Now we leave it to the sense of the
community if this is not bnlling and bear
ing the Booth market on the part Of Mr..
Summers at one and the same time? The
president of the Picayme E. H. Sum
mers, says this chronic grumbler, Booth,
is bore; and the Picayne, E. H. Sum-
mers president, says this graphic orator
ana epigramatic spokesman is an earnest
and deserving citizen, who scorns the
tricks of the politicians. With such
diverse valuations in vogue regarding this
particular lot of goods, we submit that it
is unsafe to invest in the article. There
is too much bulling and bearing going
on in the market.