New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-02-28

cratic press-only the disposal of the pat
rOnsge under it which gorged them with
vituperstive venom. "Trsy, Blanche and
Sweetheart" bark and yelp at the attempt to
reduce the charges for official printing pro-
posed by the Odd Fellows Hall caucus;
and charges which under Republican rule
were denounced as robberies and extortion,
are suddenly found to be only fair rates and
proper rewards of merit to partisan organs.
There is much unanimity on this subject
among all the would-be sucklings at the
public teat; but we have space for only
spt cimen yawp found in the Minden Demo-
Crat of the seventeenth:
This is the reward of the Democratic
Legislature, we will not say party, to its
press. After struggling for years to re-
deem the State ana to place the Democrat
ic party in power, the Conservative press
see among the first bills introduced sham
reform bill calculated to legislste out of ex-
istence One-half or one-third, at least, of
their number. If this is q sample of the
reform of Democratic Legislature, the
people are surely leaning on broken stick.
1t is penny wise and pound foolish"
body, and the sooner its two years expire
the better 1t will be for the people and the
State.
The most vigorous and effective warfare
waged against the Republican party has
been by the Democratic newspapers of the
State. The publishers of these sheets, by
economy and patent Outsides, have man
aged to keep going, and keep up the war
upon carpet t-baggers and RadioRliem until
victory has crowned their efforts, and they
were beginning to look forward to better
and easier times, under laws that would
give all an equal chance to Give and let
live" but they have reckOned without their
hosts, and awake to the knowledge that a
set OF ninnies-who largely owe their Off
cial positions and the success of the party
to the press-are trying to complete what
eight years of Radical legislation failed to
dO-the demolition of the Democratic press
throughout the country parishes.
We say to these reform legislators, Ego
it," and may the devil take the hiRdmOst in
the race to reform Louisiana and abolish
the press.
The waterwOrks bill of ex-Mayor Leeds
has not been taken up and adopted with
that enthusiasm it was expected to enjoy.
And there are ugly runners of Democratic
"Beares" anxiOutly inquiring "Where they
come in" under its present make up.
The Picayune boasts of 'large contribl-
tions to the support of the government, y
made by adherents of Nichols, in the
shape of advances on their tax assessments.
| There is very general desire to know how
these "large amounts" have been expended,
if they really have been paid in. We sug-
gested some days ago that such a publica-
tion of disbursements would serve to allay
the hints at fringe" if unfOunded.
The sentiments of enc of the best and
most intelligent men of Feliciana are a
curious muddle. "Hayes may be President, .
he says, "but Packard never can be Cover.
nor. The planters have been raising too
much cotton and not enough corn and
hogs. The bad government Louisiana has
had has enabled the Western men to get all
our cotton trade, and all our money has
gone to them. The people have made up
their minds to have Governor that will
keep their money at home, and then the
eOlored people will know they can never dc
anything but wait on the white people We
want them to come back home and raise
| hogs and corn. Then when we have money
they will get some. We must keep our
money away from the West, and they must
help us. Therefore we won't pay the black
Packard any taxes, SO that we will have
Nichols for Governor, and then we Can
raise corn and hogs. There will be no peace
till we can do that"
Fehcians had better be fenced in or the
population and hogs transferred to Japan.
And here is Monsieur Tonson some again!
His name in 1879 was "H."-was it not
"HP' He threw the then Odd Fellows,
| Hall Legislature into almost daily congest-
i've caucussings, and the mystery and the
secrecy which shrouded these proceedings,
like the rich curtains of royal couch, gave
large promise to the expectant Democracy
that a new Governor was about being born
unto them. Yesterday the present Odd
Fellows Hall caucus inaugurated similar
tactics, and mysterious cypher dispatches,
translated to suit the ssnguine auditors.
are filling with Joy the souls of expectants
of reformed tax collectorships.
There are reports of lists in circulation
for subscriptions to fund for the support
and equipment of the Nichols militia.
This does not augar well for the promised
recognition.