New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-02
CENTENNIAL NOTES.

number of itself on Wednesday evening,
and it contained the following editorial:
A Radical club. occupying rooms in the
building of the Home Insurance Company
on Camp street, for some days past nave
had q ring. atre aked and striped tarpann11
blazoned with the names OF Hayes ana
the flag is political one, the Home" mol
being q political corporation, the secretary
very politely requested the chief of the CLUB
to take the flag down. Whereupon the
REPUBLICAN sauanders itself in half dozen
verses Of dirty dcggerel. The Home" OF
of course has perpetrated an outrage upon
q Iowa club; it is q Kuklux organization IL
the aisgulse Of an insurance company.
Phil Sheridan ought to send brigade to
reinforce the troops here and order the
Canonicuss and half dozen other monl
tors to train their guns on the building OF
tha Home Insurance Company. We fear
the people of this city will never become
loval enough to please such of our masters
as the New Orleans REPUBLICAN and the
head of the American Union Club.
Exactly what this scold and apology
was written for is not known. What is
called ''a ring, streaked and striped tar
paulin, is the American flag. The Re-
PUBLICAN did publish certain doggrel
verses; there was no mistake about the
doggrel, but there were only four verses,
not half dozen. The Democrat is to be
commended, when question of fact is ct
issue that it comes within two when four
is the sum total To be two-thirds right
is better than to be Sam Tilden. The
Democrat says the secretary of the Home
company every politely requested the
chief of the club to take the flag down. "
Right again. The request was contained
in as polite note as could be written un-
der the circumstances. That all may see
how polite the request was, it is here
printed:
Established A. D. 1882
HOME Insurance COMPANY OF NEW ORLEANS. }
No. 70 Camp street,
New Orleans. June a, 1876.
Y. A. Voc " ard. ESQ.,, Commander Grand Army of
the Republic, New Dreams Louisiana:
DEAR SIR am instructed by the officers
of the company to request of you to please
occupied by you, for the reason that the
directors of the company are unwilling that
political flags Of any kind whatever shall
be displayed from the building Of the COM
pany. We trust, therefore. that you will
comply with our request without delay, or
in the case you decline to do go l am in
structed to give you notice, which hereby
do, to vacate the rooms On the sixth of
July, 1876. Respectfully.
CHARLES LESASSlER, Secretary.
Since the day Jack Sheppard said to a
travelling acquaintance, 'Sir, 1 will
trouble you for your coat and vest" but
few more polite requests have been made.
Then, again, it was polite and considerate
to the feelings of the ex-Union soldiers to
let the flag stay until after the fourth Of
July. The Democrat is wrong in saying
that the "Home" has perpetrated an out
rage upon loyal club. Where no vio-
lence is offered it can scarcely be called
an outrage, in such case, to express a
desire. The general feeling is that the
company has simply placed itself in RI
diculous position, and the embarrassment
is not lightened by the assistance of the
Democrat. That paper speaks of the Re-
PUBLICAN and the American Union Club
as being masters of the city. Such q
thing is not possible. We compose only
a part Of the city, and in common with
others have certain rights, some of which
will be mentioned during the fourth of
July exercises at St. Patrick's Hall. In
tie centennial year it seems not too much
to claim among the rights of American
citizens the especial privilege of hosting
an American flag from the window of a
rented building. Does the Democrat OBJ.
ject?