New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-01
now DOTH TIE HEATHEF RAGE.

such restrictions upon the majority ofvot-
ers as will prevent their taxing minority
of property holders or others. This the
organ deems liberty so insufferable that
it threatens bill Of determination against
this publishing company, which it regards
as American Protestants are accustomed
to regard those which emanate from kin
bred impotence beyond the sea. Having,
however, with Lear, denounced
What they ars se1 Know not but they sh. be
The terrors OF the earth
The organ calmly proceeds to berating
US next morning as usual.
Another Democratic organ is concerned
because we have called it "a violent par.
tisan journal"
We could not, unless guaranteed by
subscription, publish the past history of
the Pic, by which it has Sin its time
played many parts, land made its ''e1its"
and its entrances" It has passed
through all the vicissitudes of advocating
high Southern sentiment, submitting 10y
ally to the DEGREES of General Butler, etc.
1t would be necessary to contrast the po-
sition and doctrine Of the paper year
ago, when advocating political settle
ment by compromise, with its recent bar
mony toward those who employed the re-
suit of the compromise to expel the Re-
publican Governor from Office by mere
force Of accusation.
We might contrast the present profess
sions of independence with the mainte-
nance of an agent at Washington who
furnishes daily some attack upon the Re-
publican party, without, SO far as our re-
membrance or observation serves, a
single respectful reference to single
man or measure of the Republican party.
As specimen of this impartiality We re-
fer to the course of the Picay,,ne in regard
to the revenue fraud prosecutions. While
the Washington man at the masthead an
nounced with great delight the breakers
ahead Of the Republican party, and espe-
cially the conviction of all Republican
revenue robbers or defaulters, the prose-
cution of alleged revenue robbers here
has been by no means marked with the
same jealous vigilance over the public
money or the same righteous indignation.
Such are the reasons why we have re-
garded the Picayune as violent partisan
journal, both in its editorial expressions
and its selected and authorized publica-
tons. There could be no higher evidence
of violent partisanship than is contained
in the charge that
The REPUBLICAN is the paid organ of
Radicalism in Louisiana; it lives upon the
spoils of usurpation, and if it were deprived
OF the nurture OF official pap it would
fall under the auctioneer's hammer within
ten days.
The REPUBLICAN is an avowed repre-
sentative of Republican principles. 1t
has done so sincerely, decorously and to
the approval Of those it represents. 1t
has shown its independence by approving
all reformations proposed in the federal or
State governments, considering that in
doing so it maintained the principles of
Jefferson and Clinton and other founders
of the Republican party. The columns
Of the REPUBLICAN are headed, sOficial
journal of the United States and ''of the
city of New Orleans" just as has been the
case with Democratic organs from the ad-
of jackson until the gratuity |
of fifty thousand dollars to Father Richie.
As commentary upon the justice |
awarded the minority press of our city,
We give the fact that our Democratic pre-
aecessors, Messrs. La Sere and Nixon,
we're never censured by the Democracy
for living upon spoils, nor as dependent
for journalistic existence upon ''the nur-
ture of official pap" The REPUBLICAN
purchased the printing stock Of the late
Democratic organ, and occupies its rooms.
That the 'oficial journal of the State of |
Louisiana" did not long survive the appli-
'ation by its Democ ratio proprietor to be
reimbursed in the sum Of $4,000 for
Illeged losses by discount upon State pay
nents, renders the charge against the
REPUBLICAN probably applicable to the
Democratic organ. We even see the
Shreveport Times, which does not, we be-
ieve, claim to be anything else but a rep
sentative of Democratic principles,
at the head of its columns that
is the ':oficial journal Of Shreveport.
The REPUBLICAN is impugned because
elves upon the spoils of usurpation.
lost newspapers live upon the substance
-hich is furnished them for support. The
claims that it does the State
FORK we'll, and is paid fair price for it.
Ve claim, as we may suppose our Demo-
ratio predecessors, La Sere and Nixon
laimed, that the taxpayer gets the worth
f his money fl the service. Such is our
elation. We are paid out Of taxes legally
evied according to contract legally
aade Do our contemporaries derive all
heir living from services more estimable?
The Picayne itself was recently adyer-
lsed for sale. A claimant interviewed as
reditor, and demanded large sum due
rom the journal. This claimant was the
wner of lottery monopoly, and We nay
nfer that the money advanced the Pic
yaoae, or employed in the purchase of the
obligations of that journal,
7as derived in part from the sale of lottery