New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-05-20
A NEW WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTs

4. A NEW WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS.
} Our carpet-bag friends of the Tim.
: have become, as we may say, instant;
neously intimate with the public men (
Louisiana.
1t takes up tom Anderson" and put
fishes as if by authority
l. That he is very much dissatis6e
with the Republican administration i
Louisiana; has had many officers remove
and will have more sent the same road.
?. That he proposes to establish sney
newspaper
3. That he intends to be the next Gov
ernor Of Louisiana
4. His motive in this is thus explained
It Ia said that one of Anderson's motive
10 desiring to bound into the executive sea
Is lound IN a long sustained and earnest
desire to elevate John E. King, of Opelou
sas. to the chief justiceshp in place O
Luoeiing' Toms anxiety in this direction
Is said to arise from the fact that King i.
largely indebted to him, and that it King
Will get his money in the course of time
Nlng, although lawyer of some ability, is
pAralyzed, and his usefulness as Chief .Jus
'lce would probably be a matter of much
uncertainty. However. as the world goes
nowadays, it isn't always mans fitness
lor an office that let's him in. Anderson
trled hard to run King in last winter, and
nau MIN oown here while he assailed X 9!
logg IN his behalf, but the game didn't
work.
This programme is in some respects
probable. Hon. T. C. Anderson may be
the Republican nominee for Governor. in
which case he would be very hard to han
die by any of the light weights of our
city A planter, a merchant, resident a
LIE time among US. 1t is not every seedy
politician who can beat man of estab-
hshed interests and antecedents. So this
nomination is not only probable but the
election also.
As for the establishment of a new news
paper, that will scarcely be necessary,
when there are old newspapers which
might be pursuaded to the support of am
bilious men either in or aspiring to
office.
The Times, however, goes some dis
lance toward verifying the words of the
English satirist:
The man who ais you Tom or Jack
AND proves by thUmps upon your back
How ne esteems your MELT
Must have decided claims upon the
friendship of the party thumped TO JUS
tity the familiarity.
1t is a part Of the Times history that
its opinions have been of such Importance
that men of whose character it has
circulated doubts. have gone to law and
compelled the Times to pay swinging
damages for defamation. When a pape,
passes the bounds Of familiarity so far as
to charge citizen with a purpose to
seek the executive chair to save bad
debt, it becomes an innuendo almost
to libel. While we have no
idea that Mr.. Anderson will an
prehend any injury in the commu-
nifty where he is known and to
which the circulation of the innuendo
is limited, we must protest in the name of
journalism against such unnecessary slang
1red OF SO far in advance Of any partisan
occasion for the discharge. That this cart
1dge is exploded by a non-partisan
ournal renders it more unexpected.
AS we are not expected, however, to be
summoned as witness in the case we will
omment a little on the imported idea
hat man may be run for Office by his
reditors. We are inclined to regard it as
formidable suggestion, and one likely to
e of great force in the next canvass. Ac-
ordlng to the Times, General Anderson |
) to press the election of Mr.. King in or
er that he may thereby make doubtful
ebt out OF the official salary of Chief
ustice.
Then we may suppose that some Of our
'emocratic friends will run candidates on
lie same principle. Suppose, then, ward
oiitician owes all the milk men
akers and grocery keepers in his neigh
orhood. What a constituency to press his
aims for nomination. Not merely these |
nfortunate tradesmen would attend the
omination but they would enlist all their
lstomers and debtors. Ascending to
indicates for higher offices we might
ld gentlemen who, having little business
means of their own, have borrowed
avellng expenses, board bills, clothing
lttlt and whisky money for several Years.
ow upon the motive attributed to Gen
al Anderson, what swarm of friends
light we net anticipate atlthe next nomi-
itlng convention, Pressing the names of
e various gentlemen who have claimed
the State offices during the preceding q
ur years. Banks Of discount indorsers. =
ldlords, confding keepers of saloons, =
nerous and political adherents, who had q
en- promised office undar the CLAIM "
t, everybody from a washerwoman up ~
Washington city hotel keeper may "
We their interest centered on these i'm -
cunious candidates. Talk about the :
wer OF capital. 1t would be nothing to
potency of poverty. The question -
long the politicians may be, not who is :.
most able, but the most needy among %
aspirants, and the appeal to creditors .
II be more powerful than to the patriot 'e
or intellect Of the constituency. We
" perfectly appreciate the frantic zeal a
the person who, when An ALBANY canal | az