The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-08
THEY WON'T TALK.

9. The preference which has been accorded
TO the ptcagvne is conclusive proof Of the
confidence OF the publicin its wide circulation
and respectable Endorsement Advertisement
Is born Of circulation, and circulation is the
pubics recognition Of energy, enterprise,
ability and justice. IN o. Picayune.
Thus the venerable fraud Of Camp
street pleases herself with vain self
adulation, and takes In the gentle pub
lie with tender confidence that is too
sweet for rude exposure. Exactly what
respectable Endorsement" Ia we cam
say, unless 1t be those eloquent flights
the Pic takes over some departed adj
vcrtiser. and the soaring gush 1t slob-
bers over the counter OF a lunch house
In exchange for its inspiration.
In this field we are more than delight
cd to acknowledge the musty and cring-
ing cid time-server without rival, but
when 1t assumes, as other "mannish
towards" often do, 50 smashing and a
martial outside" and vaunts its bound
less circulation and unrivalled advertis-
ing patronage we cannot In justice to
ourselves permit the false assumption
to go unquestioned.
For years 1t has earned vicarious ex-
istence by truculency and all sorts Of
questionable practices, and hidden its
precarious tenure Of life and the dis.
reputable entanglements In which 1t
has become involved to keep itself alive,
by false pretenses to responsibility it
never possessed and loud boasts of q
circulation and public confidence 1t
never enjoyed.
There Ia not Radical thief In the
State that had money to give or lend it,
to whom it has not placed itself under
obligations without hesitation, and such
is now the uncertainty OF its title that 1t
must needs slime with It's laudation and
respectable Endorsement every cor
rupt and venal Judge in order to go into
his court with the assurance OF his SYM
pathy. So much for It's responsibility.
Now, how about its patronage and
circulation ? Advertisement" 1t tells
us, els born of circulation" and this
last It has more of than "any paper In
the Southwest and this because of It's
tireless energy, prodigious enterprise,
signal ability, and--boshl
Three days ago we challenged the
boastful old fraud to produce sworn
statement of its advertisement born Of
circulation" before notary, on wager
that we. doing the same, exceeded 1t in
bona flde receipts derived from the
"public's recognition of energy. enter
prise, ability and Justice" As usual
the Ptcdv,tne shrunk from the
trial. and In Its silence the
senile braggart acknowledges that the
DEMOCRAT, the hoy Journal" as it is
pleased to call us, though but fledgling
of but two summers, has already
outstripped 1t In all branches Of journal
ism, and that its pretentious assump-
tions are false and incapable of being
sustained by the disclosure Of its assets.
Then, let us hear no more Of this vaunt-
ing and false pretense.
Az for the Times, to whom we made
the same proposition as to the Picdyune,
we have but little to say. The devious
ways and uncertain practices of that
sheet are familiar to all, and shall pro-
woke no further criticism from us.
Like the Picaue1,e, 1t has also declined
to make the showing we provoked, and
to IL attaches even more strongly than
to the Picuy,tne the presumption of
vaunting and false pretense. 4rcades
an,bot