New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-06-17
Editorial ArneDitien.

AZ the request Of our friend Blackburn
~e give place to the following note to the
Times. i'll reply to a paragraph in that
paper concerning !he position Of tho Homel
Iiad on the gubernatorial question. The
note OF Ex-Governor Warmoth. allude d to
accompanied the communication, but il
omitted here. 1t is dated June >, 1875. and
earnestly requests the editor Of tho IHa0
not to run him for Governor, or to hope
that he will permi: his name TO be used in
that connection. The note 10 conclusive
evidence. if any were needed, that the
writer never instigated. and does not ap.
prove the suggestion Of the Iiad, Monroe
Mtelhgenc.r and the Madison journal that
Che Republicans ought to nominate him tor
Governor in 1876:
A LITTLE BIT OF PROFESSIONAL MEANNEss.
New ORLEANS. June l6. 1875.
Editor REPUBLICAN:
Without asking you 20 espouse my cause
in anything personal, must re questOf you,
in behalf Of the plainest sort of fair play.
to publish the following "subject matter"
which will explain itself, and which the
editor of the New Orleans Times declines
to publish. but instead. makes editorial re-
ference thereto in tone and inference even
more uni us: and unreasonable than his first
allusiOn to the subject. The dispassionate
public never fails in the end to rightly
judge a. to who is disposed to deal fairly
and hOnOrably.
W. JASPER BLACKBURN.
NV ORLEANS, June IA. 1875.
Editor New Orleans Times:
The leading editorial in your evening edi-
tiOn Of to-day gives out false, but trust
not malicious OF vindictive, impression
that Governor Warmoth has bribed the
Homer Uiad. Monroe Intelligencer and Mad
ison journal to name himself as our next
simultaneously" This assertion is az un-
true az the motive attributed is false and
unjust. The Monroe Iatelligencer and Mad
ison journal simply intimated an indorse-
ment some days or q week afterward OF
what the Uiad had done. That was all.
And what the Had did was simply indulged
as far off and most gratuitous compliment
to gentleman who it was thought had in
the past been quite as much sinned against
as he had himself ever sinned-who had
once been Governor under moro adverse
and uDprOpitiOus circumstance, and might
in the future well be allowed another and
more favorable chance.
And do you not think such aIlusion
might naturally enough be made without
bribes
lcould trust that you could not, upon
second thought, have 30 narrow and sinister
views of the calling and high duties of an
editor as your evidently hasty paragraph
of this evening would intimate. And, above
all, could I hope that you would not will
fully do injustice to q country editor"
who has ever worked hard for all he has
received, and who, 80 far from having ever
taken bribe. has often been swindled out
of III sch OF his hard earnings.
inclese herewith letter from Governor
Warmoth, cent NE Immediately ON seeing
my editorial mention Of him, TO which you
alluded, and although tho letter was evi-
IDENTIFY not written for publication, take
the responsibility Of asking you to publish
it, along with this note, as an answeY to
your reference to the matter.
Respectfully. etc.
w. JASPER BLACKBURN.
Editor Homer IIiaR.