The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-02-06
COMPLIMENTARY.
Jersey City Journal


| We GRE delighted to see that The New Or
! leans DEMOCRAT has been selected as the
official journal OF the State Of Louisiana and
the city Of New Orleans. The DEMOCRAT Is
well edited, thoroughly Democratic in tone,
and a true and worthy representative OF the
South. a
sparta Tim1s.
There is a general expression Of satisfaction
among the papers Of the State that the New
4 Orleans DEMOCRAT has been continued as tho
! official organ. 1t was we'll merlteu. Tor, al b
time when there ovas little certainty. of0ts
getting any remuneration for the work done,
the DEMOCRAT accepted The situation ana
,perforrned the labor, depending solely upon
the triumph OF n cause it knew to be just Tor
tho pay the work entitled it to-
ILincoln Ssntinoll O
The DAILY DEMocRSr is an institution d.
| this redeemed land. and no other body dld
more to redeem the Stateohan The DEMOCRAT,
d ATsitor Jume says ifOhls report, that when
heSook his oath OF Office he had no books
stationery nor any nucleus around which to
gather, but that Ohio DEMOCRAT came
to the rescue and furnished everything
needful, knowing too that if the Nichols. gov
| einnent went down, 1t would receive nothing.
1t did the partipg and official work for the
Nichols govSGnment during the contest. with
the like knowledge IL is now what it do
serves to be. the official organ Of the State
and should be continued as such, so long as
| tho work is satisfactorily done and nt living
rates. EveRy citizen should take tho WEEKLY
DEMocRAf..if If the daily cannot be afforded.
Send fora copy of the WEEKLY and see how
you like it, O
Marshall Texasl Herald.l
| During the Republican regime In Louisiana
much was said, and justly too, o,eagainst the
odous printing law. But we noSScs that the
present administration use the State printing
| te keep IN Il pnrty organ inste0 OF giving It
to tho lowest bidder. Is tS.s reforn2IE Dallas
Commercial
This is not stating the case fairly. DE
printing law was odious TO the true peopl6u
| Louisiana, first. because the charges under 1t
were enormous, and, second, for the reason
! that it took money from the pockets of the
tax payers to keep pup n hreling. corrupt press
| in New Orleans and throughout the State,
that sustained the thieves in power, and ma
ligned and mlsrepresented 0,oncst citizens
abroad. The Democrats had nS organ in
was found to establish one, and even
| then. such were the Influences Mt
work that it would have died at the very
commencement of the struggle if it had not
rescue. and backed 1t with their means A
party organ il needed in every State. but in
mono more than Louisiana We wish there
was one at Austin, sustained by sufficient
State work to render 1t independent OF indi-
vduals and factions. This could be given
without any sacrifice. 1tts an easy matter to
ascertain fair prices. These should be
paid no matter who gets the printing;
| for why should q great State wish. any
more than an honest man. to drive hard bar
gains and employ capital and labor for less
| than their worth2 The Democracy wero
never so compact, devoted to their principles,
and resolute in the patriotic performance of
public duty as in the days when they took m
honest pride in maintaining party organs at
Washington and the respective State capitals;
nor the people SO well Informed as in the days
when there were such papers as the Washing
ton Union, National Lactigencr Richmond
Mercury, all of which were sustained as party
organs.
Montgomery tAla.l Advertiser.l
We admire tho New Orleans DEMOCRAT not
| only for its ability. but for its bold and out
| spoken denunciation Of everything dishonest
and dsreputable that dares longer to trifle
with the sorely tried patience of the people Of
| Louisiana, 1t has few words to say about
| the miserable thing that has been stuck up in
the United Statts Senate as the representative
of brave old commonwealth:
Elm closing his recent message to the Legs~
lature, the Governor Of Louisiana said:
% 4 cannot close without entering my solemn
protest against the recent action OF n ma aior
ity of the United States Senate, under the
forms of the constitution, IN refusing to Lou
isiana tho representation in that body to
which she was entitled, by rejecting the claim
to seat therein of the Hon Henry M. Spot
ford who was elected by you, in accordance
with the consultation and laws OF the State
uDaninity."
Last week the House of Representatives by
q large majority, and Monday the Senate, al
most unanm sly, passed u preamble and
resolutions, declaring that the Senate of the
United States. in seating W. 2. Kellogg had
recognized as representative OF this State,
"a pretender, who misrepresents her people,
with ono voice tho press Of Louisiana, from
the borders of Arkansas to tho shores OF the
Gulf, have repudiated the action of the Senate
in this matter, and the people have proclaimed
and denounced Kellogg as q fraud and Inn
poster without any authority to represent
their interests or to speak in their behalf.
"No man, we venture to say, has ever occu
pied u seat in any representative body in any
free country under such extraordinary cir |
cumstances We venture to say that no hon
est man, nay, no dishonest man with even tho
sense of decency which sometimes character
ICES genteel rascals, would be willing to oc-
cumnstancss. nn The Governor of the State,
the Legislature of tho commonwealth, the
people and press'o5f y, Louisiana, repudlate the
the Senate; and yet there, without tho faint |
est blush upon his brazen cheek, which q whole |
people have slapped aud spat upon, he sits in |
the American Senate, the stencil Of the dead
filthy refuse OF the iniquitous era of recon |
struction; the detested "reminiscences of mill |
tary violence; the foul creation Of fraud, par
tisan villainy and desperate and INSCRIPTIONS
political trickery." !
There is but one solitary objection we have
to this just and terrific rebuke Of the poor
creature who has had the audacity to exhibit
itself in the United States Senate as the repre-
sentative Of one of the noblest and tr,iest In
the proud sisterhood Of States. That obiec-
ton is that it does notput the name of Spencer
side by side with Kellogg. They belong to-
gether; they are bound to one another by an
indssoluble chain of infamy. You cannot
kick one without jarring the other from centre