The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-11-28
OUR CONTEMPORARIES.

ing at the insolent and audaeious attacks Of
the Pieav,t,,e and Times upon the DEMOCRAT.
We have not desired to influence the Printing
Board on 10 engage In personal controversies
with our contemporaries relative to the pub
lie printing contract Trusting In the in
tegrity Of the Board and willing to abide by
Its action, we have preferred TO leave the
whole Issue In their hands, and devote
our time ard space to the
discussion Of questions Of more
general interest. We feel fully competent
to do justice to the State II we obtain the
contract. and we are very we'll able TO get
along without it II. under the method Of dis
posing Of 1t finally adopted by tho Board, 1t
passes into the hands Of other parties. Our
amiable contemporaries, however. have not
appreciated our anioable temper and, during
the last week scarcely day has passed In
which they have not, In their weak lingo and
miserable twaddle, assaulted the DEMOCRAT
as a pap organ, the favorite Of clique, and
d journal upheld by public patronage.
There Is point at which the most amiable
temper becomes aroused, and there Is q
measure Of obloauy which common deeeney
requires the most reluctant victim TO resent.
We have forborne 10 the full extent Of our
sense Of right and reluctant as we have been
TO do SO, we shall now discuss the journalistic
issues these papers have been so eager TO pro-
yoke.
The picay,tne Is an irresponsible sheet. It
has no editor or proprietor who holds himself
responsible for It's utteranees, or who can be
reached or attacked In any manner without
bringing ridicule upon the assailapt. 1t is o
sort Of privileged harridan In New Orleans
journalism which takes advantage Of It's ire
sponsibility to wag Its seurrulous and lying
tongue In the most reckless and indecent
manner. Hence, until some one comes to the
front to assume tho responsibility Of It's bill
linsgate and farther It's miscellaneous false
hoods we presume 1t must be endured as any
other public nuisance.
The violent and extraordinary Juror into
which that old journalistic vixen has fallen
during the past week, has attracted great
wonderment throughout the city. It has
shrieked, and howled, and yelled about the
disposal Of the printing contract as II the
honorable gentlemen who compose the Print
ing Board were about to swindle the tax
payers of Louisiana out Of all their fortunes
When was the New Orleans Pieaptne before
SO ardent and indignant champion Of the
public treasury When before did Its pros
tituted-its bought and sold oolumns-ceho
with such denuneations Of public Off
Gals Was 1t when Warmoth and his
band Of robbers were plundering the State
of millions Was 1t when Kellogg and his
gang were gathering up the remnants of our
fortunes their predecessors had left Nay
In those gaudy days Of political and journal
istie corruption and debauehery, the New Or
leans Hcayne, except during the period Of
Col Rhett's administration of 1t. was
simpering coduette of the most easy vir-
tue The old vixen was in those days the CO.
quette Of the Southern press. When Kellogg
approached her she was all frowns and pro-
testations, yet. like the lovely Julia,
"A little still she strove, and much repsnted,
And whispering / will ne'er consent con-
seDtea."
But Don Juan is played out, and the old
dame has grown tiercely virtuous. She wants
q State contract that rs, and therefore re-
CARDS every proposition which does not look
10 the promotion Of her ends as fearfully COR
rupt.
Seriously. there Ia something very disgust
Ing in the attitude Of the Pcuyune. It has
had 30 much to say recently of the public in
terest and has 50 violently denounced the
,orruptions and protligacies of Kellogg and
his administration. that the publicis naturally
Interested to know what relations existed be-
tween Mr.. Kellogg and the New Orleans Pic
1v,ns. These relations may be very readily
by the reader who will turn to
the column in this issue Of the DEMOCRAT,
headed New Orleans Journalism There
he will find letter addressed by Kellogg to
The proprietor Of the Picapume, the nature
md character of which will readily account
Tor the mild and gentle reproaches the Radi-
,als in this State received from that journal
when Kellogg was in power.
It Is needless for us to comment on that
etter further. All that the Picayu,,e has said
recently of the Kellogg Administration is
rue; nay it is but u small part Of the truth.
But what then does this letter show were the
relations of the Picayune to tho people of
Louisiana and their oppressor and plunderer,
W. p. Kellogg. Alas!
A little still she strove. and much repented.
And whispering III ne'er consent consented"
The impertinence OF the Pcaytae Is only
eclipsed by the nsolence of its neighbor, the
Times eshall deal very briefly with this lat
tor sheet With Its attacks upon those gentle
men on the Printing Board whose opinions do
not happen to accord with those Of Messrs.
Il Judson, we have nothing to do.
But when these individuals presume to pub
lish this paper as the organ of any official or
we feel bound to put them in their
proper places. The DEMOCRAT has been,
still is, and will continue to be, the organ Of
The Democratic party Of Louisiana. Of this
relation to the Democratic party we are very
proud. With or without the public printing
we could not publish anything but a Demo
cratic paper, because we are Democrats our
selves, and our columns, unlike those Of the
New Orleans Times, are not for sale.
But how are we to find terms in which to
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