New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-07-10

alleged losses by his contract. In our
own State there was always, before the
war, State printer. We have before Us
venerable volume, containing $40 pages,
IN alternate English and French. It is
printed on very cheap paper, and this
copy is unbound. purports to be acts
OF the General Assembly of the State Of
Louisiana, session of IS IS. and was printed
al New Orleans by Emile La Sere. State
printer. In the appropriation act of that
year we find the following items: Fo,
printing. advertising, and paying State
printer, forty thousand dollars: for pub.
fishing decisions of the Supreme Court,
five thousand dollars. Mr.. La Sere was
never anything but Democrat, Repre-
sentative in Congress, and the conductor
OF the Courier, a Democratic journal, SUBJ
sisted in part from the public printing
fund, and regarded as the personal organ
OF Mr.. Slidell.
The system survived the war. The
southern Star was published by the public
printer, Mr.. E. L. Jewell; and Mr.. j. o.
Nixon. the public printer and our imme-
diate predecessor, made application. like
MIR. Richie, for the sum Of fifty thousand
dollars as indemnity for the depreciation
OF the Democratic warrant currency of
that day.
The Times itself has been an applicant
FOR the public printing Of the State. 1t
could not obtain it in competition with
Colone! Nixon. gallant Confederate, be-
cause the Times had been founded under
circumstances not at all calculated to en-
dear it to Southern people. The Times
subsequently enjoyed the city printing.
and while supporting the Republican
movement of 1872 accepted gracefully a
warrant for one hundred and twenty |
thousand dollars. or thereabouts. rendered |
it by the then Governor Warmoth.
These facts in regard to our domestic
history We have deemed proper to state
to our super-Southern confreres. They
have not been among us long enough to
allow the nap 70 have worn off their
Connecticut carpetbag, albeit that capa-
clous and elastic receptacle may have
been somewhat banged about in pros.
pectiDg the West. We advise them as
newcomers to be very careful how they
EAST nettles upon the graves of dead or
demolished Democratic State printers.
such wholesale denunciations may awaken
wrath, and defeat the very popularity
which they seem intended to secure. We
therefore. that whether
his system of party organs, aid
d by public printing. be right
u not, it is perfectly apparent the
Republican party did not introduce,
nd likewise apparent that the anti Repub-
lean would make no very arduous effort
o repeal it. The REPUBLICAN does the ;
'ublic work as well as others have done
!, and receives payment in like manner
'ith its official predecessors. This is done
penly, according to law and upon ap- {
roved vouchers. If there have been s
theirs which, like the Times with the
Varmoth warrants. employ the patronage
the State, derived indirectly from the t
ame fund with the REPUBLICAN, and even
! direct intrusion upon the interests of
le REPUBLICAN, it would not be con- s
stent in such journals to derive from '
le Republican government or its officials a
fund with which to assail the Repub- d
can organ.
1t certainly behooves the Times to pay T
.ck into the conscience fund all the
oney directly or unofficially derived :,
ON the Republican State government :.
its officials, before it denounces the II
EPuBL1cAN for having accepted an Office y
ID contract long made legal in the Il
ate, and for which the Times has been y
ten an applicant, and sometimes sue. Il
ssful. .