New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-01-07
Associated Press Mistakes-Unfair Treat
ment of Louisiana Republicans.

| Perhaps, because their customers of the
Democratic or obstructive press are greater
than of the Republican press in the South
perhaps because the Associated Press
agents in the South, though endeavoring to
do justice to all parties, are unwittingly
prejudiced against the policy and acts OF
| the Republicans, the fact is patent that in
| justice is done to the Southern Republicans
from time to time by Associated Press
| agents in this section of the country and in
Washington.
The New Orleans Associated Press agent
strives to be impartial, but his political
| prejudices seldom permit him to see clear
| where the interests of Republicans are con-
cerned. Not long since Mr.. John McEnery,
holding no special position in Louisiana Or
| elsewhere, submitted an address to the peo-
pie OF this State, which, as a matter of
course, was transmitted throughout the
country by the Associated Press.
Last Saturday evening acting Governor
Pinchbaok submitted through the press an
address to the people of Louisiana, of which
only "brief extracts" were sent by the AS
ton was given by him that evening in reply
to note from this Office inquiring whether
he would send the entire document.
Such extracts were sent as misled the
Washington Chronicle, a journal well in-
formed about Louisiana politics, when it
waits for the news by mail.
Our dispatches this morning show that
the truth had at last reached Washington,
and that it was known there that the New
Orleans dispatch did not include the por-
ton of Governor Pinchback's address essen
tial to full and correct understanding OF
its contents.
The New York Times, of Sunday morn
ing, containing dispatch from it's special
correspondent at New Orleans, was not due
at Washington until this morning. That
dispatch embraced the closing part of the
proclamation, beginning with this para
graph:
am prepared, as the acting executive
of louisiana, to permit without let or
hindrance, faction of her citizens to ind ulge
themselves as fully as the largest personal
liberty may require, and the financial en-
barrassment and social dis9uiet incident
thereto must belong to them; but when
their action becomes organized and suggests
and prompts violations of the law, and OBJ
structions and antagonisms to the author
ity of the State in the exercise of its le-
Ultimate functions, it can not for a mo-
neDt be either ignored or overlooked, but
must be met and suppressed. 1t is my
duty as executive not only TO quell
mObs and instructions, but to prevent, by
The prompt and vigorous execution of the
law, the inception of such riotous and dis
turbed conditions. do not propose that
such state OF things shall be inaugurated
in the State of Louisiana as will make it
necessary for the national authorities to de-
clare martial law therein and take posses
sion thereof, however much this deplorable
issue may be sought and desired by the few
i'll advised, short-sighted and selfseekiDg
men who are laboring to that end.
The New York Times special from New
Orleans undoubtedly furnished its Wash
ington readers with the first correct idea Of
the proclamation that they had.
1t is matter Of regret that the Republi-
cans Of Louisiana can not be treated as
fairly by the Associated Press as are their
Democratic opponents. But until they are
thus treated they must be prepared for mis-
apprehensions and misunderstanding OF
their positions, acts and purposes.