The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-04-04
LYING As A FINE ART.

Packard bids fair to rival Kellogg
in the fine art Of lying, and Billy
Pitt was never known to tell the
truth, and for good, downright hon
est lying, lying by wholesale and ly-
ing by retail, lying by detachments
and lying by detail, he has hereto
fore been sui generis. 1t may be
that Packaed has had so much to do
with Kellogg that he has become a
liar by absorbsion, as Prentiss said
he got drunk from McNutt. We had
unbounded respect for Kellogg's tai
ent for lying, and had built for him a
metal statue adorned with all the
graces of architecture, and it was
our wont while in pensive moods to
lose all thought of worldly cares in
an enraptured contemplation of his
hooked nose which sot sentinel to so
fine mouth for lying. Our fancy
has fingered around every lineament
of that classic countenance, and our
minds fingers have played in loving
dailiance With the curly locks that
surrounded that brain 90 prolific in
suggesting lies to that facile mouth
that rolled big lies, huge lies, gigan-
tic lies like sugar-plums, around and
ovor that oleaginous tongue that
spat them out with such JUNCTION.
AS an adept Professor in the Fine
Art of Lying, Kellogg was our model
and no burly, thick Tipped and rhi.
noceros skinned Packard shall take
his place upon the pedestal with GU,
consent.
The occasion for these remarks is
the recent proclamation of Packard
the pretender, in which be says thai
the Nichols Government is only sup
ported by the rich and aristocratit
oligarchy in New Orleans, and his as
sertion Of his ability to call all thu
laborers from the fields to the sup
port of his bastard government
Jack Falstaff, the first professor o
the fine art of lying, with his timer
in buckram" was but II tyro in tn
art beside Packard. He required
some foundation to lie upon, bu
Packard first lies the foundation int
existence and then builds the super
structure of lies. 1t is true that al
the property holders and taxpayers
not only in New Orleans, but in tn
entire State, do recognize and supper
the Nichols government, but ths
they are the only ones is not the fact
The laboring classes whose animosi
ties he would arouse in his commu
nistic efforts are and recogniz
the fact that they are as much inter
ested in the maintenance of the Nj
cholls government as the rich, 70
the reason that their living and pros
perity depend upon peace and orde
and an enforcement of the law, ant
they know that the Nichols govern
ment can alone give them these bles
sings. When Mr.. Packard threat
ems to get up first class Commun
and wage an agrarian war agains
capital and property, he knows bet
ter than anyone else that he coul'
not get five-hundred negroes to snip
port him in that scheme out of tn
whole State. In this Parish he poll
ed vote Of 1929, mostly colored
We will give him any odds he ma
ask, and bet him that he cannot ge
the odd twenty nine to 60 to Ne,
Orleans or even come to Alexandri
with arms in their hands to supper
his government Apd not becaus
they are all towards either, but be
cause they love peace and quiet, an
are ready to support the government
that will give it to them without thei
having to fight for it. Packard i
a fraud as we'll as liar, and no bod,
knows it better than himself.
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-Mosr of close thinking peopl
here, who supported and voted TO
the Nichols ticket, begin to believ
that the Legislature as we'll as tn
Executive, are and have been to-
cautious, and that this cautiousnes
borders on slowness. And furthe
they believe that we have fallen o.
a simple change of men and no
measures. AS an instance the sur
of $4,000 has been appropriated 70
the per diem and mileage of member
and surely that is an awful sum an,
smells of old time carpet-bag legisls
ton. We are frank to admit tina
there is too much truth in these Jus
complaints, and hope our Legislator
will yet cure these evils. Then agai
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