New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-02-20
NEW 0RLiANs RlPUBdt0AN SATURDAY FEBRUIRY 90 1875
jealousy, goes even further, and makes
other charges against the P;cdyune. It


jealousy, goes even further, and make
other charges against the P;oayune. ]
imputes as criminal
Its failure to notice, until the matter b.
came notorious, the recent drainage pet
ton, its oblivion of the action Of Mr.. Nj
Comb in his attempt-since Abandonment
locate the terminus Of the Texas Pacji
road 1t Ponchatoula, and, in fact, it
ominous silence concerning everything an,
everybody in which Mr.. H. c. Warm0th
particularly interested.
1t then intimates, with much OBJ
security, other errors, of which, a
they. appear to refer rather to in
dividual than professional affairs, W,
neither know nor care to know anything
But seeing the alacrity with which oul
opponents have pounced upon the alleged
agency of an expelled member of the Re
publican Legislature for the Colfax rai6
and massacre, we shall take the liberty o.
preserving for campaign use one intima
ton ct the Times It is that the Picay,,,,,
SO far forgot the common decency" Of
"a newspaper proprietor" as to dispatch
every light ''guardsman Of his editorial
staff" to ''the private residence of the DE-
tacto exc cutive to beg loan Of money.
The Times adds rather illogically:
After, through the influence of that de
f0cto obtaining it, common aecency, Round
about might suggesr, should have prevented
the newspaper proprietor from using the
money thus secured-and according to
latest accounts still unpaid.
Well, if man borrows money why
should he not use it? We should like to
understand this St. Louis point of fnan-
cial etiquette.
"Using this money!" the parenthetical
paragraph goes on
In disseminating low filings and con.
temptib!e descriptions of q bed of illness,
TO which even IagO, were he q journalist,
would decline to stoop.
Now we are aware that the Picaytne is
abundantly able to explain that it bor-
rowed this money, if it did SO, to disable
its political opponents, just as a cunning
fellow intending fight might send over
"a very light guardsman" to borrow every
cartridge his unsuspecting antagonist had
about him. But there is one defense
which may not occur to the Picayune, and
we will give it the benefit of the precedent.
In the days when there where Democrats,
the name of an eminent Wing of Little
Rock was brought before the Legislature
as Senator of the United States. It
had SO happened that he had from
time to time aided Democratic friend
and neighbor. It was of this able and
genial man afterward written:
And now when he shall come to die
With all this comes to pass:
Don't hold no feather to his lips,
Nor yet 10 locking glass.
But tell him that friend in need
OF either heart or baud,
And he'll make a move to help him if
They hav mt got him damned
This fine Arkansas gentleman.
So when the vote came to be taken in
The Legislature the Democratic friend and
neighbor voted against the Wing can
didate, with this consolatory explanation:
Albert, by Cd! pecuniarily I'm your
friend; but politically, I'm agin you, by |
G-d!'
Such may be the explanation of the |
Picayune for borrowing, and not repay
the fact be so-the money of
political opponent; using the money on
he same hypothesis to defeat the Repub-
lean party for campaign use. For the
'harge will be to show the recognition of
he de .facto Governor by trying to borrow
money upon his credit, feat that might
lot, perhaps, have been performed as east
y on that Of Governor Kellogg's COM
'etitor, the latter not being then in re-
eipt of an executive salary. We hope
he public will appreciate the REpUBL1-
ANS success as a peace-maker between
be Fusion and confusion journals