The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-06-06
Is in full and congenial keeping with the
snimus of other reflections.


animus Of other reflections.
The additional and gratuitious intimation
that this same gentleman exercises any undue
influence or authority over the affairs of the
Louisiana Jockey Club is directly attributable
to the fact that he is noted for discharging
the duties of his Office with rigid fairness,
with great zeal and fidelity, and has, very
possibly, thereby hurt somebody's feelings
But while such woful breach of "Spartan
fidelity" may CRATE harshly upon the more
exquisitely attuned nerves Of the would-be
Chesterieldian editor and his no less am
bilious correspondent, we must be permitted
to believe that those of the public who love
fair play and impartiality have never, even to
the smallest tremor, uibrated in response.
Not satisfied with being a defamer. the
1urf's correspondent assumes the role OF
prophetand predicts with amusing seriousness
the downfall aud demolition of the Louisiana
Jockey Club and the formation of another,
which, to use his own hifalutin language,
Twill excel any thing that has been seen in
the shape of stands and other accommodations
in the South, a" and which will make tile MEM
bers of the present club "soon drop their
diminished heads and die" This, when We
consider the real circumstances of the case;
when we reflect that the success Of the Louisi-
ana Jockey Club has been quite unparalleled;
that it comprises in its membership the very
best people in the city and State; that its ap-
pointments, its club house-which is by long
odds the finest in the United States-its
stands, course and stables, all of which are
unsurpassed, sounds like the raving of q
mailman, or the utterances of vindictive
spirit blinded by passion.
The other complaints, SO unworthily digni-
fed by the Turf, Held and Farn,, are all of a
kindred nature, and based upon equally un-
substantial foundations.
One special reference is entirely of pri-
vate character. It is in regard to an offer
having been made to the owner of q stable to
throw off race. For some reason, which
the anonymous correspondent Of the Z. f.
and f. forgets or neglects to explain, but
which is doubtless aperfectly proper and salts
lhCtOty I0dSOus SuAo CiICuu4oUnuOO was AOSOA
reported to the club as it should have been,
otherwise the clubs action in the premises
might have been readily anticipated. As it
is, the failure to report SO grave an ofense,
thus depriving the club of all official cogni-
zance, should certainly absolve it from the
shadow Of any either direct or implied blame.
That public institution is always open to
journalistic criticism, and justly so, cannot
be denied; bat the editor Of the Turf Field
and Farm should have reflected that the Press
of New Orleans comprehended perfectly both
its privileges and duties. That where it dis
covered no cause for complaint, New York
contemporary would be hardly warranted in
assailing with snobbish and spiteful stric-
lures. In this he has been guilty Of the
gravest professional offense, and, if not an
exception to all general rules, is amenable in
his turn to little criticism. We, therefore,
feel justified in counseling him to the
exercise of little more fOrbearance,
q little more consideration for the opinions
of others, and to the further avoidance Of
any similar over indulgence in the censurable
and "brutal ignorance" in which he has in
this case been so fagrantly guilty.