New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-05-16
COUNTED OUT.

Cs n1OSSJ dt Adh6 1TONlUe0CS, E6Jlr0S from
the field with the following graceful vale
dictory:
With this number we suspend further
publication of the True Republican. Our
reason for doing this is that the debit side
of our books is larger than the credit side,
and we find nature never intended
statesman for q journalist. Our news
paper as an investment has proved fail
ure. The attempt as an editor has turned
out worse. Our best editorials have been
read as jokes, and our jokes have always
gotten US into trouble. Our poems were
never appreciated, and as the chief of the
leading journal in North Louisiana, we
have attained nor political prominence
that we know of.
Keep this issue and frame il. A thou
sand years from now it will be a great
curiosity.
The Concordia Eagle, published by
Hon. David sYeung, comes to the concfus
sion that Republicanism has had its day
and can be of no more use to the people.
It shouts new battle cry, set to the fol-
lowing measure:
1t shall work to bring about union of
the Wings, Conservatives ct al. and Re-
publicsns, who, under the banner of re-
form and progress, shall march in solid
phalanx to victory, guaranteeing to all
men ''life, liberty and the pursuit of hap
piness;" to place the financial affairs of
the State and several parishes thereof in
the hands of the taxpayers; to advocate
the claims Of only such men to official
positions as are honest and competent.
The detection of the North louisiana
Journal, of ST. Joseph, has a more inter
esting history. A committee, appointed
by the Democratic Parish Executive
Committee, addresses communication to
the proprietor of the paper, which, as
part of the history of pacication and
compromise in Louisiana, is too good to
be lost. 1t reads as follows:
To H. A. Garrett, Esq, President:
DEAR SLR-The undersigned have this
day been appointed by the Executive
Demomeratic md Conservative Parish
Committee of this parish, to ask of you as
the recognized proprietor of the NORTH
Louisiana Journal, whether you are will
ing, and will in writing acknowledge your
willingness, to publish said paper here
after as a Democratic-C Conservative Jour
nal, aud as in accord with the Democratic
Conservative party in Louisiana. The
patronage of the police jury, of the school
board, and other political and incorpo-
rated organizations of the parish, is a
matter of some moment, as well as the
patronage of the taxpayers of the parish,
and it is regarded as matter of great i'm
portance to the Parish Executive Commit
tee that such patronage should no longer
be extended to a paper which is either
Republican or neutral in its politics.
We desire an early answer, in order that
we may report as soon as possible to the
executive committee of the parish.
THOMAS p. FARRAR, President
WILLIAM G. NICHE,
G. G. GOLDMAN,
A. S. YAMER, Committee.
st. Joseph, Louisiana, May Z, 1877.
BIr. Garrett made the following reply:
ST. JOSEPH, La, May z, 1877.
Messrs. Farrer, Goldman, Niche and Yaue1:
GZNTLEArEN-I am in receipt of your
communication of this date, in which
you ask me, regarding me as the proprie-
tor of the newspaper published here,
whether / am willing and will in writing
acknowledge my willingness to publish
said paper hereafter as a Democratic Con
servative journal, and as in accord with
the Democratic Conservative party of
Louisiana. You further say in your let
ter that "the patronage of the police Jury,
of the school board and other political
and Incorporated organizations of this
parish is q matter of some moment, as
well as that of the taxpayers of the par
ish, and it is regarded as matter of great
importance to the Parish Executive Com
mittee that such patronage should no
longer be extended to a paper which is
either Republican or neutral in its pol
itics"
In answer to this communication per.
NIT me to say that l do not recognize the
right of yourselves either as individuals or
representatives of party to make this de-
mand upon me. l understand the plat
form of the Democratic. Conservative
party, and the utterances of Governor
Nichols and other trusted leaders, to
mean that his administration will be char
acterized by perfect liberation to all men
in this State to enjoy their personal
liberty and the use Of their property lust
as they see fit, so they do SO within the
law, and l am therefore at q loss to under
stand how citizens like yourselves can ar
rogate to yourselves the right to make so
strange demand upon another citizen as
to require him to declare in writing that
he will use his property in certain man
ner.
l am no longer the owner of the North
Louisiana Journal, and am unable to say
what its course may be, but if were the
proprietor, and had control of the paper,
most certainly would never relinquish
my right to edit and manage it as 1 saw
proper, without reference to the wishes
or desires of any man or body of men.
This conceive to be the true spirit Of in
dependent journalism, and acting in that
spirit would endeavor to do my duty,
regardless OF what should be thought of
it, and even though my pocket should
suffer from the withdrawal of that patron
age to which you allude, and which I.had
no idea your committee controlled for dis
tribution. am, very respectfully,
H. A. GARRETT.
This is Garrett's last, even as the swan
sings its sweetest just before its death.
Another column discloses the fact that
Mr.. w. e. Dixon is now the proprietor,
and that he proposes to shorten himself
up to match the procEustean bedstead pre-
scribed by the committee aforesaid.
The Natchitoehes Republican is already
out of the field, and other Republican
papers will doubtless follow soon.