Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1872-03-09
ARap at the Reformers.
The Shreveport Daily Times, Of til


The Shreveport Daily Times, Of the
9TH inst., thus lectures and instructs
the two great reform papers. OF New
Orleans The Times is undeniably
democratic, and evidently thinks the
reform advocateil By its New Orleans
namesake, and the Picssune, merely
means reforming the ins out and the
outs in. q =
NEW ORLEANS JOURNALISTIC Re
FoRMERs.-On the 9th of February,
the Grand Jury of the parish OF Or
leans presented report to the First
District Court, containing a severe re-
buke of the. Louisiana State Lottery
swindle, which appeared in full only in
the National Republican,. Itturns out
that the Times, the most blatant of all
the ,refumers, and the -Picaynhe, the
Peoples Paper, and especial guardian
of the public morals, and rights, 'pub-
| lished the report in a mutilated form
the expose of the lottery swihdle be
| ing i'm both papers suppressed. The
National Republican lsoldly charges
that the mutilatien of the document
occurred in the Times Office, the only
paper furnished with the manuscript
The pen was run through the lottery
passage in the Times office, and the
other journals were furnished with
proof slips from there, the Picayune,
through criminal negligence or crilni
nal motives, publishing the document
as furnished by the Times. The Ma
tional Republican affifins chat, sus.
pecting the fraud, its editor took the
proper steps, secured and publishes
the report in full. This latter paper
charges the Times with corrupt mo
tives in the transaction, and is ready
to substantiate its charge. Shouldn't
wonder.
The Picayunc and Times are the er
cans of the reform movement.
II The Picayune says pitched
battle is to be fought between the rad
ical and democratic parties in Novern
Der next, both having thrust aside al
reform organizations. The Picayune
INDUCES in lamentatiOn over the
taxation of the State, the diversion a
trade from New Orleans, etc. The
tenor of the Peoples Paper article il
to throw the responsibility of a con
tinuance of this state of affairs upOr
the democratic party, intimating thai
it should have fallen into the embraces
of the reform movement. We tak'
this occasion to inform the Picsysme
that the people of Louisiana weult
place firmef reliance In this reform
mOS ehfelft, had those who brought j
forth displayed in the past NOR
earnest desire to do their duty as citl
zens. The public happen not to be ig
norant of the fact, that more than tliI
= ty of the Committee of Fifty one neve
registered until very recently; tha
, they belonged to that silk stocking
: breed of men, who felt they were to
, nice to dabble in politics, and stood b.
with dainty sheer while other an
> better men gave their means and labor
D ed day and night to save the Stat
from her present degradation. Ha
these silk stocking reformers rallied t
our support, and manifested thel
? patriotism i'm deeds rather than in fin
words, something might have been a
:, compIished. The men who for veal
have stood by their guns, who hay
a fought this fight and have struck wit
e matted hand. do notintend to give wa
+ now to the leadership OF pink fingere
heroes in kid gloves.
y We will here remark further, th'
c the " Peoples Paper" may find bett
d and more creditable employment thu
n publishing virulent assaults upt
= Schurz, Trumbu.l and other conscrv
" tive Republican Senators, who, whs
'e ever may have been their oppositi'
Ia to the Confederacy, are now doil
c. their best to stay Grant, Morton al
Sherman in their efforts to buiM uI
corrupt and infamous despotism. /
q. the Picayune understand that t
. democracy are not yet prepared to f
I, low it's advice to sell out to Grant.