The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-10-25
DEATH AND DIR. HoRrBooK.

| mus goes he on from dHy to day.
| Thus does he poison. kill an slav.
| Ans well paid for t:
| Yet stops me q my Lawful prey,
WI his d-mn'd Dirt
The row now progressing between the
Camp street cherubs partakes. 1t seems to ,ls,
| very much Of the character Of that between
DR.. Hornbook and Death. The reply Of the
Times yesterday morning to the Picav,sns
was not defense of itself against the charge
that 1t had been hand In glove with one fac
| ton or the other Of the Radical party during
| the whole term Of Ito present management
| It's only point was similar to that made by
Death against DIR. Hornbook: that is, that
the Pic. had gone into a business that
was the recognized speciality of the Times,
and had made more money out Of IL than the
Times itself.
Now, then, we have no more interest in this
quarrel than any other citizsn of the COM
munity but it Ia interesting to note. from
disintefested standpoint, q controversy be-
tween two newspapers, each possessing "the
largest circulation In the Southwest" both
claiming to represent, TO the civilized world.
the conservative" people OF Louisiana both
deriving large patronage from the people of
New Orleans, and each charging that the
other, In the darkest and most trying period
Of wrong and outrage through which we
passed, was the secret agent. or organ, or hire
ling, of the villains who led our foes and kept
organized the war againstus.
II is interesting to watch this controversy
for several reasons. In the first place, there
Ia widespread belief In the State that what
these two journals charge upon each other
Ia literally true. In the second place, the
sluggish and cautious temper with which |
they denounce each other for treason |
evinces an indisposition to push the con-
troversy--an overshadowing fear Of each |
other-which confirms the public belief in
their guilt; and finally. the interest wakes
warm with the prospect Of each lashing the
other into u fury that will overcome Its dis
erection and prompt IL to tell all 1t knows
of It's foe. That both have been for years
hollow frauds pursuing personal aims and
selfish purposes-the hirelings of any ring
or politician who would buy them masking
their venality under the feeblest and most
graceful denunciations Of Warmoth, Kellogg,
Clinton and Packard, is generally believed;
but the community cannot but anticipate with
Of eagerness the revelation of
those positive proofs which this controversy
should make of these facts.
Having, with the community a general in
terest In this remarkable controversy. we feel
t to be our duty to correct any errors either
Of the combatants may make. 30 that the
quarrel may be restricted to the facts and no
line lost by either in bringing 1t to head
which will expose the truth.
Thus we think the Picap,ne was In error In
harging the Times, under It's former man
cement with being an organof warmoth.
our information be correct, the Times first
manifested It's Radical proclivities under its
resent management, and has never sup ,
orted that individual. Warmoth and Kel-
ogg were by the ears when the present man
cement of the Times came in, and the present /
! engagement was in sympathy with the KEEL !
ogg wing OF the party. This Is the charge
he PiedW,ne should have made against the G
Zines, for it Is one 1t could have maintained. = =
This people must still remember that &
harles Clinton one of the chief, If not the 2
ontrollng proprietor Of the Times, was
mong the Radical chiefs the bitterest and .
lost vindictive against us. Indeed, the ears i
Louisianians still burn and tingle with the n
Q applied to them when speaking of the
honey spent on the armament sent against Il
le gallant Col. De Blanc, now an honored a
lember of our Supreme Court, who, In the u
arish of st. Martin, with his neghbors, was i
the rights Of our people against q
ellogg's Metropolitans. "Rebel skunk" Clin- !,
N has been for years, and still Is, largely in
crested In the Times, and this fact Of itself :
hould deprive 1t of all sympathy or support =
Louisiana
In relation to Warmoth, the Times seems to n
ave captured the Pcs guns and turned !,
lem squarely upon 1t. It squarely charges Il
lat, "a writer formerly of the Times 1.-THE
d Times, let 1t be understood, who had as 6,
lied Warmoth with so much persistency =
lat ten thousand dollars was offered for =
s discharge, was requested to write an =,
,logy of Warmoth, for the PIC, on his return :,
ON the North, and upon his REFUSAL the :,
nblisher had the said eulogy written to n
der This, and other disreputable facts, :,
he Times openly charges are Of record, and /,
i'll be brought out in suit for the property =,
the Pic, now pending. =,
This is a bold and open charge, and If the r.
icayune wishes to retain the respect of the =,
nblic 1t must fully refute it. We believe 9.
Q have given real, fair and impartial re- :.
ew OF the grave charges these two preten- N
)us journals have made against each other. =
both have told the truth, the one has been =,
g organ and tool of Kellogg and Clinton, p
I'd the other the hireling of Warmoth The =
lsity of these allegations must be proved by
traneous testimony; for though one should
arch the columns Of the two papers for
AIRS past, he could find no internal evidence =
discredit them.
We do not wish to be involved in this wran-
3; 1t is none Of our "cat fight" but the
blic, we think should know whether or not
ey are supporting honest newspapers or y,