New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-04-09
THE TYP1cAL SOUTHERN EDITOR.


in politics than in all other things. He con
sequently ignored everything for politics
The truth is, that, with q large majority o.
readers, politics is a secondary consldera
ton. Current information, called news
stands first on the list of wants with the
reading public. The rationale of this intel
ligence comes next, be it general or partl
san, and hence the great newspapers CT the
world devote the better part Of their edi
tOrial space to topics of domestic, financial
scientific, literary and social concern. The
dreary waste of partisan platitude is aban.
doned for q more fruitful and extensive field
| OF disquisition, and with its abandonment
comes an increased audience OF women and
children, who now read the newspapers as
eagerly as the men. 1t is this circumstance
which has augmented the power Of the
| press more than any of the many agencies
that have elevated it from poverty to
| riches, from vassalage to independence.
Such is the testimony of "a man Of in
tegrity, full Of capacity and accomplish
ments," of whom it is said:
Mobile owes him much. He has been a
galley-slave in her service during more than
quarter Of century.
Now we will give the Comier-Journal a
specimen of 'the typical Southern editor
of the old school," The Fusion organ here
was some weeks since so complicated with
the attempt to establish the validity Of
certain ''tainted and fraudulent bonds, as
to earn from its colleague Of the Bee the
appellation of the ''bondholders' organ
In yesterdays issue Of the Picay'tne it
evades the position assigned it, and claims
that it only meant to secure the judicial
examination of these Objectionable obliga-
tons. This might we think be contro-
verted from the columns of our contem-
porary, but it is not this evasion to which
we now advert. "This typical Southern
editor" rests his vindication from the i'm
putation of his neighbor, upon an assault
on the Republican party. The syllogism
runs thus:
1. We are charged by the Bee with
being the bondholders organ.
2. But the Republican party bears all
the infamy of this Indebtedness; therefore,
3. The Picayune was not the bond
holders organ, as charged by the Bee.
Here is the typical assault upon the
party.
This very party, which bears all the in
fanny of this very Indebtedness, has added
to the other crimes that of defamation
and falsehood.
1t is quite natural that those who are
loaded down with the spOils of fraud and
jobbing should impute such motives to
those who oppose the imposition of the
burden Of their dishonesty upon the State.
Seeing that the Picayune was dubbed
The organ of the bondholders by the |
Bee, the most casual reader will see that |
it seeks to defend the position assigned it,
BY abusing the Republican party. The
levice Of escaping the officers Of the law
~ crying 'tstop thief!' against somebody
Else, is one of those old-time devices which
modern journalism does not tolerate.
There is another example in the same
fusion journal Of the truth of Mr.. For
yth's observation: 1.-The typical South
m editor ignores everything for politics."
A few days since we had an appeal to
he "white people" to organize against the
olored people for the next political cam
align. We had yesterday notice in the
anne paper that the young men of this
ity must enroll themselves for the fall
lections. These young men, it is said, oc-
upy the roles of "supes, chorus, walking
entlemen lay figures, etc. They are
sked what they propose doing in con-
ection with the approaching campaign"
he typical Southern editor has no
.her social use for these men. Hundreds j
them are unemployed. They live on I
leir friends, or on their families, or on ,,
leir wits. Commerce, the mechanic
is, agriculture, all need their services.
be election is six months off, and these
pes and lay figures have the summer, j.,
th its cares and duties, before them. :
there nothing worthy young mans h
ergies except to march in procession or t
tie in clubs to secure for himself SAL .
y payable from the labor of others? t
It such is the counsel Of partisan jour- g
lism which is neither patronized by the Il
,rkingmen nor by the reading women q
d children of the South. These, dis G
sted with the senseless attributing of il
erything to political causes, grow tired 3 =
the dry and unvarying diet. They d
rchase northern papers and they find il
lrces of information and pleasure in u
! narratives and illustrations of those L
pers which they cannot expect from the q
lily denunciations of Republican tyran- c
and corruption, the biography of &C
inch by a special reported detailed "
that duty, or rumored dissensions be-
cen certain Republican leaders, which 1n
composed or contradicted in the next ID
he. W
We have often thought that to an intel We
emit lady, instructed in the progress, tu
nature, fashions and public events of ey
world, the leader and locals of the on on
'ayrne afforded perhaps as small attrac- co
q as could be packed into print. Now ST.
Corier-Joerndl has taken the pledge, o %,
forswears the intoxicating draught til
political intemperance without zone
p Of allaying' intelligence or good ff
per. We may hope the example of Re
Forsyth will have many disciples. No ine
bit if, like Mrs. Van Cott he could be ne
lced to make crusade against poll wi,
intolerance and the blind stupidity vii
abuse, much good might re- riv
With n comparatiyeIv small nro- if