The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-26
THE PICS STATUS.

shafts of truth and with an awkwardnes
born of guilt and bad associations, sh'
makes her bow to that public which she ha
detained aud insulted to say that all report
and rumors concerning her virtue ar
wretched falsehoods, born of private malice
or unclean rivalry" She has heard it com
planned that she is "deaf to the calls of pa
triotism;" (Oh, immortal truth y that sht
"winks at fraud and corruption, and thai
forgetting her duty to the people among
whom she has lived, side by side, with whom
she has fought and from whom she has de
rived her revenues, she has consorted with
our common enemies, ard
"Crooked
The pregnant hinges OF the knee,
That thri might follow fawning"
ALI these things has she heard, and some
If these things she knows to be true, and
yet she has the brazen effrontery to think
that she can further hoodwink the people
by simply entering general denial, ignoring
entirely the specific allegations which have
been made.
With what others have charged or believed
against the Pic we have nothing to do; but
the charges made by the BULLETIN we
stand prepared to prove, if the Picayune
dare deny them.
We have alleged, from time to time, that
the Picoyune was in sympathy with the Kel-
logg Government and tho men who have
conspired against our people, and have
given, as our reason for this belief the fact
that 10 sooner had the paper fallen into the
hands of its present manager and propre-
tor, than he issued orders to his staff that
they were to write nothing against Rel
logg nor any State official, and especially
they were to write nothing against Judge
Durell.
That these orders were given the Picayune
cannot deny, for they can be established by
several credible witnesses; and we submit
to reasoning public whether the charge Of
sympathy with Kellogg is not more than
warranted by these orders.
The time has passed by when the dicta
of the Hcayune can be accepted against
undisputed evidence, and the time has also
among this people can excuse for offenses
against them. Such a plea is rather an
aggravation than an excuse; for while the
public had perhaps no right to expect JUS
tice or fair play from the official Repub-
lican organ, they had every right to expect
that paper which they had built up with
their money and fostered through long
years, would maintain their interests, under
any and all circumstances, and not seek to
hide behind the fimsy cloak of neutrality
whenever a crisis vitally affecting the State
should arise.
A discerning public has not needed, how
ever, the averments Of the BULLETIN to
prove to them the true status of the Picayune
They have noted the timid and halt hearted
support accorded them, and especially be-
fore the advent of the BULLETIN did they
observe remarkable blindness and silence
on the part Of the Pic in regard to the mo-
mentous issues Of the hour, wherein Louisi-
ana was specially interested.
When Carpenter was struggling herocally
to call up his bill of relief, where was the
aid and moral support, which the Picayune
should have afforded him, and why has its
columns been dumb in regard to the most
iniquities which passed the KEEL
ogg Legislature? These are grave ques-
ions and will be difficult for the Pic. to |
answer. ...
But let us glance again at the siilted and
article by which the old dame
attempted to throw dust into the eyes Of its
readers on Sunday. After denouncing the
allegations against her as false and thereby
adding to the gravity of her offense, she
Jays:
And this brings us to what we intended
aging with reference to the coming cam
,aign, wherein, SO far as regards any party
names and party expedients, we pupose to
'e strictly and immovably neutral.
"Immopably neutral" which means ac-
lively against the people of Louisiana in
heir life and death struggle with political
hieves and highwaymen. In other words,
the people are worsted in the struggle, she
fill be in an attitude to take advantage Of
he situation. The people Of Louisiana
gant no Weakened friends in this SUI
rene crisis of their fate, they prefer open
Des, and will not fail to class as such all
hose who, like the Pic, shrink from the
attic and cry on. neutrality"
In closing, we will give just one Of numer
us communications which have come to us
q reference to the very lame excuses of the
PC. 1t shows that the BULLETIN is, by no
leans, peculiar in its views:
New ORLEANS, May p, 1874.
Q the Editors Of the Bulletin:
l was much entertained by labored edi-
Drial in Sundays Picayune, headed "The
'ioayune and the coming campaign"
Without entering into the merits Of the
ase, would ask the Picayune why is it they
ave lost the confidence Of nearly all the old
esidents Of this city, myself for one, who /
as been constant reader of the paper since
he first number was issued; why has it be-
ONE common remark, Oh the Picayune is
o better than the Republican, and why is it !
ne BULLETIN, paper Of yesterday, is fast /, :
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