The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-06-02
MR.. NIOHOLsON'S GARD.

NlIs 0FUlEU ANlOboA1Shg usA0 hieb"GSs
OF the Piooyt1e, afflrms that the DEMO
CRAFTS assertion that ''for months the
Picay,tne and Times had monopoly OF
Geographic news, and they refused
to admit the DEMOCRAT to the privileges
OF the associated press" Is untrue.
This same individual then, over his own
signature, proceeds to state that for sew
eral weeks the DEMOCRAT received the
dispatches; that, being unable to pay
for them, 1t stopped them; that It
applied for them secon time. received
them, and again stopped them from in
ability to pay the charges.
"The Associated Press" says Mr..
George Nicholson. Eat length became
tired Of this triiling business, and when
they 1.-THE DEMocRATl made a third APP
plication they were informed that they
could have them on the same condi-
tions that they were furnished to the
Republican," Mr.. George Nicholson has
herein concocted and printed two DELHI
crate lies; indeed, the whole text and
spirit OF his card, printed in yesterday
evenings Picav,r,e, Is falsehood.
On the change OF Its original man.
agement the DEMOCRAT was permitted to
receive the Associated Press dispatches.
Under financial stress. Of which no one
connected with 1t ever had any reason
to be ashamed, the DEMOCRAT was
changed from morning to an evening
paper, and, as the dispatches were then
OF no use orvalue to 1t, 1t ceased to take
them. It was never subsequently,, as
Mr.. Nicholson says, accorded the use of
them, and 1t never applied for them
until 1t had become so much OF success
that 1t was again changed to morning
paper and made an eight-page journal.
When the DEMocRAT applied the second
time for the dispatches they were not
withheld from it because "the Asso-
ciated Press had" to use the lam
guage OF the manager Of the Pic
aattne, "become tired OF this tri-
fling business" but because the
DEMOCRAT had, by its fearless and I'M
faltering advocacy Of the rights and
interests of the people Of Louisiana,
become a formidable rival Of the Times
and Picdy,t,ae, and those two ring sheets
had concluded to crush out and destroy
it, II possible. na0e
Mr.. Nicholson. therefore. we affirm,
has deliberately. knowingly and will
fully lied In his statement OF the rela-
tione Of the New Orleans DEMOCRAT to
the Press Association.
We do not deny, nay, we do not hest
tate ourselves to declare, that the pecu-
mary embarrassments Of the DEMOCRAT
mt one period Of Its existence forced it
to retire from active competition with
the Picau,ine and Times, and to cease
taking the dispatches. But, in justice
to ourselves, we must add that, IL the
DEM oCRAr, like those journals, had been
The hireling and beneficiary OF KEEL
logg, Clinton and Packard; IL it had
been willing to borrow money Of those
arch enemies Of Louisiana and TO treat |
them as legitimate political opponents
IL It's columns, like theirs, had been open
to every ring and monopolist who was
ready to buy them, 1t would never
have been reduced to the necessity
of giving up the press dispatches, and
Mr.. Geo. Nicholson, whose connection
with the Picdy,tne has been almost |
coeval with its existence, and party |
to Its subservience to Beast Butler
and its surrender to the enemies of
the South and Of Louisiana upon
every occasion when its pecuniary
interests required 1t, would not now be
able to chide us with having been at one
time so poor that we could not hold our
own with the Picayllne and Times.
The truth Is that, as we stated, the
Times and Picaytne for months past
nave had a monopoly of the Associated
Press dispatches, refusing to the DEMO
RAT the privilege Of receiving them,
except upon conditions we felt unable
o comply with. The Times and Plea
rune had an undisputed right to their
monopoly and to exclude the DEMOCRAT
rom it, we have never complained Of