The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-04-05
PLAIN TALK,

bic candidates to fill our various
lective offices, and naturally suppo-
ing that all patriotic ones in that
inc will remit their claims to its de-
ision, we fall once more into an old
ustom, which has lately, however,
,een broken and disregarded, to an
Iounce what part of the humble pro-
,ramme we are going to uphold
We are matured down at last to the
act, that it takes monied grease to
.un a newspaper, and that the honest
brain work of an Editor, nearly thlr-
" years IN harness, should always
De kept at par, and equal to gllt
edge paper, but somehow or other
right here, Of late years, very few
seem to be impressed with this stub
born fact, and have actually thrown
their patriotic aspirations on the
Democrat to run the breach safely
While we consider all this quite an
honor, and under its heavings, have
made good work for them all, still we
are getting vain enough to believe
that it does not replenish our larder
and that we are "going to the dogs
under this continued overstrain of I'm
selfish patriotism.
The Democrat, under our control,
management and editorship, has al
ways been a purely self-sustaining
institution, never at any time having
received a single cent in the way OF
party contributions or loans, but on
the contrary has thousands of dollars
due it for subscription, advertise
ments, job work, patriotic announce
ments, and this we feel certain cannot
be said of any other paper in the
State of Louisiana. We love the du-
ties of journalism and all the respon-
sibilities which it has so long entail,
ed on US in the continued publication
of the Democrat, and we intend te
continue at it's helm and as evel
WELD our pen in behalf of the tenet:
of the party which has mapped ou1
course from youth, and in the autumn
of our life with nothing left us but
our old favorite, we must carve
living, modest and scant living fol
our family, and as ever keep its guer
don in the front ranks of the battle
We are more in earnest now thar
ever, have the bitter and base ingrat
itude of cold world as past expe
rieuce. and with renewed stiffness il
our back bone, we intend to cleav'
our way to the howery path of wei
merited success.
By all this plain and we'll mean
chat, which we hope all can and will
understand, we mean to herald tina
with Old Hickory we too cry out
perish credit. AS Editor Of TIL
Democrat, we consider ourself in tn
same light of a good criminal lawyer
whose services are always sough
when fellow is in a bad fix, and a
once goes to that lawyer to secur
his services. He goes to the lawye
because he knows and feels that law
yer can help and save him, and
couree the fee is always secured an
arranged and properly so. Now W
humbly ask how many patriots on
office seekers, with the same motive
when painting for a good office and i
a tight about it, rush in the sam
manner to the newspaper man. AS
matter of course the latter Away
responds and rattles his brain
make great man out of poor mate
rial, and nine times out Of ten SUI
ceeds by his dulcet editorials t
thrust greatness on little and wea
shoulders, and like the lawyers fe'
does the poor Editors cheap pay eve
come in2 Patriots, Office seekers, t
you worthy or not, pause here an
reflect with one who is no unweane
chicken and has cut at last his TO
tieth wisdom tooth! We mean RICH
ly, and we mean what we now write
the laborer is worthy of his hire, ar
from this out we want our fee ar
must have it in advance. We hay
no axe to grind, other than the Der
ocrat- Tomahawk, we have no fayo
ties, hence we can afford to stand /
our new departure and every one m;
be assured we will do it. Ia
, enough.
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GENUINE BRAZILIAN PEBBI
'IU SPECTACLES-
FERGUSON g. SCHNAC
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Mn. KELLOGG and all his bu