New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-04-13
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virtue was possibly thrown out by Som'
new hand shipped since the disaster o
our consort. we propose TO make small
reminder Of the cautious navigation hece9
sary fox craft cruising in these poiltlca
waters. They may serve as sailing di'''
tons"
Tho ErrrDI1c.N is ridiculed for having
shown the injury arising TO party IRON
III. ;,discriminate defense of every THE
who robs in the name OF political party
This a,grmen. was offered with no hypo
critical assumption o: superior virtue. Il
was proposed as canon OF party dscip'
, line, 70 be interpolated upon the code Of
| all parties. 1t was avowedly based Oh
| the injurious examples OF such men as
Tweed and Cakes Ames. each Of whom
had imposed upon the party 20 which they
respectively belonged an injurious
anoun: OF responsibility. 4 response,
bility in which neithe. the influence MOI
services of these men give their party as
soc:ates any equivalent.
IN regard to the compensation granted
the REPUBLICAN by law. we have no other
observation to make than that the sums
received. are in the opinion Of the LeGis.
| lature Of the State sufficient to Justify the
appropriation. There is no party living
| or dead that has not resorted to the same
service for the maintenance Of its doc
trires. The late Democratic party re-
garded the press patronage rs one Of the
first spoils that enured to the yictors.
History tells that since the administration
of General Jackson, at which date the
late Democratic party was born. Blair.
Kendall, Riyes and Wendell were all en-.
riched as party favorites from this prolific
fund. It may be even read that Mr..
Richie, the Jealous defender Of the spoils
gang of that day. tool: the public
printing as the lowest bidder. and at the
end of his contract asked for personal
indemnity Of fifty thousand dollars. which
was voted him by Democratic Congress.
We do not knos that such precedents
were quoted by those Republican journals
which have received patronage at the
hands of our Legislature. They. however.
exist. and are some points Of party ad.
ministratiOn presented for example and
support.
Our neighbor may not be responsible
under this category. 1t claimed to be an
Independent journal. which may be truly
translated neutral. ready to take cargo
from all belligerents. It is thus that it
has caught the favorins breeze from any
quarter, from the days Of Butler to the
present. 1t has thus received public
printing whenever It was consistent with
its relations to either the State or city
government. During the last campaign.
under it's role Of Independent, it became
one medium by which the Liberal section
of the Republican party obtained access to
the public mind. IN that capacity
it received no mean slice Of that,
which in a party sense. WAS our
legitimate patronage. Its much discount
ed warrants were sought by the warrant
resisters. and claims for some one hun
bred and forty thousand dollars did not.
we believe. by any means, realize their
face value. What with the incumbent
weight OF incongr.ous party conglomera-
tons. and the inconvertibi!ity Of the Sc
cugities obtained. the Times, ;glratively
speaking. made no more by its carp than
Messrs. Bidwe!l, Mcdonald and Noyes
seem to have done ia !. late and distantly
related enterprise of a similar nature. The
REPUBLICAN, has had no more proper op-
portunity than the present to heap Goals
OF fire upon the head Of its con-
temporary. It is censured for its
alleged hypocrisy in recommending
public virtue while it receives public pa
tronage 1t returns its thanks 10 the
Times for having accepted last year the
public printing to which the REPUBLICAN
was entitled. It took off our hands at the
same time the responsibility of defending
3 very obnoxious interest and also politi-
cal defeat that has involved every Repub-
lican in fusion with the defeated in inevi-
table destruction. This astute strategy of
the independent journal instead Of placing
il at the head Of a triumphant revolu
ton, brings it in with the herd Of the
paroled and pardoned. The REPuE-
11cAH is thankful for its Intervention.
Without this Independent greed for
warrants, the REPUBLICAN might, as Ma
poleon-we acknowledge but one Napo-
leon said of Russia, been dragged along
by a fatality which il could not have re-
sisted" SO. in high good humor and
Christian forgiveness, We congratulate our
neighbor that it has dragged through the
slough Of pecuniary and editorial trouble.
II has turled It's Fusion flag, taken down
the names of its former navigators, and
is now an unaImed neutral, mp for Cowes
and a market. Changing the figure. it
now stands forth a model and a miracle
Of unmerited redemption. : teaches
virtue after a not altogether unexception-
able life, and counsols abstinence after
an unlucky attempt to secure feast of
very fat things. i reproaches those to
whose superior morality Providence has
been more indulgent. Let not the Times
reproach US or repine. The receipt Of
public pat:onagoi is legitimate as American
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