The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-12-22

| LOT an 1CveStlgatlOn or q trial, but In vain. Ii
this report be true, the opportunity he has
sought is now presented to him.
But the Lottery has not been content with
these measures. It has resolved not only
to destroy, II possible, the reputation
OF the proprietors Of the DEMOCRAT, for
which purpose 1t has hired skillful per-
jurers and able attorneys, but 1t has
also determined, II possible, to ruin them
financially and exterminate the paper That
rotten and corrupt concern has already insti-
tuted two suits against the DEMOCRAT for
libel, each for $4,000. In addition to this. tho
company has picked up some adyenturer by
the name OF Benjamin, claiming, Mt the in
stlgation OF his masters, to be citizen of
England, and TO have an interest in State
warrants, who has applied to the United
States Circuit Court for an Injunction to pre-
vent the payment Of $4,000 Of warrants held
by the DEMOCRAT on the general fund
for tho payment of State printing already
completed and In tho possession of the
State, accepted and received by it's officials.
The object Of this suit was, of course. to
destroy tho resources and ruin the credit or
the DEMOCRAT. We had just passed through
a terrible epidemic, through which, at great
sacrifice. we carried all our employees. and
these warrants, and the credit the DEMO
Graf had established with the revenues Of our
running business and collections on back
business, constituted tho resources on which
we depended to recover from the losses
Of the epidemic and sustain tho organ
OF tho Democracy. These warrants dis
credited and our cash money expended
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done and delivered to tho State, neces-
sarily the resources OF tho DEMOCRAT would
be crippled and its credit damaged to such an
extent that bankruptcy ana tho suspension
Of the paper would be tho icsue
This was tho calculation of the Lottery Com
pany and their calculations were well made
They did tic up and dscredted our warrants;
they did damage our credit and but for these
facts, first, that we had u large general bust
ness and circulation, and second, that we had
tho confidence Of our employees in every de-
partment, the DEMOCRAT would have been
forced to suspend. On the day when the
crisis came upon us, and we could not see
twenty-four ho1rs ahead, Chas. r. Howard
boosted on Canal street that. in three days
he would have the sheriff in possession of the
DEMOCRAT Office.
But more days than three have passed. and
the sheriff Is not here yet, and the DEMOCRAT,
instead Of being bankrupt Is on more solid
and impregnable basis than it has ever before
held. Its capital now Is not in State warrants
or printing contracts, but In the honest, intel
ligent labor Of its army Of employees, the
confidence OF the people of Louisiana and the
generous patronage OF the business men Of
New Orleans. The suits OF the Lottery Com
pany against us, d0gregdtm0 ninety utou
sand dollars, are futile; tho prosecution OF
tho State Printer. who Is our associate Is
what he and we desire.
The future of the DEMOCRAT rests upon the
brains industry. energy and integrity OF its
workmen. and the Lottery has in it an enemy
more formidable than ever. because 1t has an
enemy that 1t cannot bankrupt.
We have given simply the leading features
Of the war between the DEMOCRAT and its
enemies. We have entered upon no refutation
Of the charges made against tho State
Printer or tho DEMOCRAT. That could only
be done by q long and detailed statement Of
figures laws and instructions which would
be tedious to the general reader yet which
are prepared and will be laid before tho
courts In due time. Our object has simply
been, in this article, to point out the sources
from which the charges against us emanated
and the motives which prompted them
We do not denounce the Lottery for waging
It's war In Its own way against the
DEMOCRAT. That institution has no quarter
to expect from us and we ask none OF it. We
only desire that the public shall fully under
stand from whence the charges against us
emanate and tho real motive of those charges. |
It has not been our desire or purpose to OBJ
trude the personal and business aspects OF
this controversy upon the public; but we
have been compelled to do So The Lottery
Company has bought up every defamatory
communication any slanderer would sell and
has published 1t In the city papers to our in
jury. We have borne this as long as we could
decently We do not propose to remain silent
longer. From this time henceforth we shall
follow up these defamatory Scoundrel5 and
expose them to public contempt.