New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-10-28
An UNFoRTUrATE FAMILY FUSS

! have been redeemed from the sheriff
! hammer and SET on its rather sickety leg
| by the benevolent inte.position Of promi
nent Republicans. It is believed to havt
! been purchased with Republican moae,
and run under Republican auspices. Sc
We have supposed that it had the same
! object at heart as ourselves--the reforma'
ton and continued ascendency Of the Re.
! publican party. This object might. per
! haps. have been better carried out unde,
that rather threadbare dodge Of '.immov.
able neutrality" Thus our friends of the
Pic tried 20 comb the wool owe,
the eyes of our co!ored fe!low-cit;zens,
and SO lead them darkling into
the cohorts OF Democracy. But
the Times loses its temper and falls to
abusing its long lost brother, the REpUB-
.icAS. for We know not what ofenses.
As the only daily in New Orleans printed
in the American tongue which has not
passed under the sheriff's hammer. we
bear these filings with equanimity. So we
will not recapitulate the scandalous stories
about the birth and early life Of the Times
up to the period when its putative pro-
prietor and editor cheated the State official
organ ont Of large value in State war.
rants. We neither bear malice against
our neighbor for what il obtained nor for
what it may deserve to gain from the
patronage ofthe Republican party. We will
not advert to The attributed misdeeds of
the Times. 1t may take advantage of the
doctrine Of metempsychosis, and suppose
the earlier spirit Of its founder may
animate some venal and versatile shee.
elsewhere. We had hoped newer and
better life. and FOX the honor Of journal
ism will contri butte whatever of forbear-
ance and oblivion We may. But it is now
very important that the create, and
lesser the open and obscure organs Of the
Republican interest, should be at least in
apparent concord until after the election.
The Tines may find il necessary to
abuse the REPUBLICAN for the purpose Of
keeping up its ruse Of neutrality. I: per.
haps expects the REPUBLICAN, TO return its
abuses. This We can not do. Our time
and character is too valuable 70 descend
70 such . played-out trick. It would !
be exactly what the gamblers do, when
they pretend TO quarrel at the table over
spoils which they divide privately. We
can not do this. We must therefore ex-
hort our colleague 70 conduct its campaign
in its own way, but to spare the RzPUB.
LIcAS from what We would esteem the dis |
grace Of such conspiracy. II the Times
shall make a slight change in its political |
,ppare! and claim the public printing, or !
my other Republican patronage. let it do
20. Perhaps its mode Of affected indie. !
pendence may have roped in rlore Repub- !
lean votes than ouS own outspokeu vindi- |
cation Of principles. Blu. let the
Tines file its claims to be de- !
'ided at future date. when
he Republicans have something 20 give
way. This family fuss may do the Re.
cause much injury and We had
atLez submit TO the abuse than divert /
imo and ability to an assault upon an
'rgan whose object must be the same
WITH our own Already the Picoytne
xulss over the family jars. and We must
ear the jeers Of all the anti-Hepublican
,reSs. How would the Tines :eei-how
would it answer 70 its proprietors and in
iorsers. it its i!l-tenvered and unjust
sssults upon . fellow worker in the sacred
asse of Republican freedom. should occa.
ion any losses: Let the Times preserve
he confidence Of our opponents by some
the, means than abusing its friends. I