The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-11-08
AN APOLOGIZER,


! Democracy In the late election. The Times
for number Of years past has been putting
forth all its energies and ability to head off
| our other esteemed contemporary, the
| Iicnuune, and make Itself par ercellenCe
the journalistic representative Of the
| commercial class Of our community and
also Of that tishy element whose polit-
! icnl status could never be determined
though it generally leaned toward the
! Custom House. Very naturally the Ma
| tionals, the Citizens and the Republicans
counted In one way or another on the slip
port Of the Times against the Democratic
ticket But some wonderful, subtle and un-
known influence, for the first time in the his
tory OF their existence, moved both the Times
and the Ptcnp,1,e to operate on the same line
and for them, q most extraordinary line.
| Mr.. Clinton, ex-Auditor, Is the moneyed man
Of the Times, and its Ostensibe proprietOrs
and editors were all oarpet-baggers to Louis
ana and arrived here as iirst-class Radicals
Indeed the mission of the Times has
been to disntegrate the Democratic party
and organize a sort Of Conservative Repub-
iican party. For this purpose it has, as assid-
uously as the Picnyatne, courted the CONNER
cal men; 1t has appealed to their well-known
and very proper hostility to violence and ex-
tremeisms. and to their equally well-known
Conservative temper. Naturally, therefore,
when the Citizens Conservative Association
was organized, the leaders Of that movement
expected to receive the support Of q paper
which had been toadying to them for years and
which had been the loudest and most blatant
denouncer of the Democracy On the morn
ing following the PRONUNCIATION of the Odd
| Fellows Hall ticket, the Times declared that
/ the ticket was only just not infamous. A
thousand hearts were moved with joy and
exulted in the belief that the Times was GO
ing to support the "Citizens." But alas! oil
these rosy expectations were dashed on the
succeeding day. when our esteemed contem-
porary came out in q red-hot article. declaring
that the Democratic ticket was the best that
| had ever been nominated. and that any man
who refused to sustain 1t from top to bottom
was traitor to his people, because the best in
terests Of the city and State demanded Its
election.
From that time on to the evening of the
election the Times distinguished itself by its
| violent partisan support of the Democratic
| ticket as o whole. 1t could find no words too
strong to apply in denunciaton Of the Citi-
| zens' Association and the Nationals. Any
copy OF the Times during that brief canvass
is SO red hot for short-hair Democracy that If
it be dipped In water it will sizz. Our able
contemporary laid itself out in denouncng
| the Citizens Association, the Nationals and
| the Radicals; but the Citizens seemed to be the
| especial object Of its ,lenunciation and horror.
It could find no terms 100 violent and op-
probrious to apply to the old and tried Demo-
crat sand White League heroes who in an un-
| fortunate and mistaken zeal set up q revolt
against the Democracy: the organ of the
party ourselves, VIC read the ferociously
| Democratic articles from our esteemed con-
| temporary with dismay, feeling for the first
| time in our lives that there was more violent
and extreme Democracy than our own. From
| 1868 until the present timc VIC have worn the
harness of the Democracy; in NIL those years
W. mover struck blow that was not struck
from the shoulder against Radicalism and for
Democracy. We with many gentlemen
Of the Citizens Association, wero fight
ing the good fight when the Times
people wore hobnobbDg with Warmoth
and Kellogg and receiving $4,000 salaries from
Charity Hospital funds. We stood by, there
fore amazed at the reckless and feroCious De-
mocraey of the Times, which sprang up tho
day after it discovered that the Odd Fell
lows Hall ticket was only not Infamous,
grew like Jonahs gourd in q night, SO that
1t covered the earth and the heavens with
It's luxuriance. We apprehended that there
was something morbid In this eXtravagant
Democracy of paper run by Republicans and
long time enemies of the struggling Democ-
racy. We were not deceived.
AS we have said, our esteemed contempora-
ry has begun q series of apologies for its con-
duct. We say a series, because it has already
apoogized to the head and front Of tho Citi-
zens' Association for It's support of the DEM
ocracy and must In justice to minor
criminals apologize to them also. All
tho most violent positions taken in the
Citizens Association were taken by Mr.. Chas.
G. johnson, chairman of the managing COM
mittee OF the association. A worthy and es-
timable citizen and gentleman, Mr.. johnson
yet was the most extreme and violent leader
of the Citizens Association; it was he
who published the ill-advised address to the
negroes In the negro organ, the Observer;
1t was he who consented to put the names Of
Gardner Castellanos and Cullom at the head
of the Citizens ticket If the negroes would
vote the Citizens ticket; 1t was he who more
frantically and aggressively than any Of his
associates antagonizcd the Democratic party,
as party. Consequently he is the man to
whom the general and Incorporate denuncia-
ions Of the Times during the canvass were
specially applicable.
But 10! in its issue Of the sixth-the day
after the election-we find in the editorial
columns of our esteemed contemporary an
elaborate apology to Mr.. johnson and a de-
Tense of his course as chairman of the election
committee of the Citizens Association.
Associated with Mr.. johnson, and far less
violent and extreme in their course in the late
canvass, are a number of estimable gentle
men and well-tried Democrats. If Mr. john
sens course is to be excused and an apology
is made by this ferocious organ of the Bour-
bon Democracy to him, an apology is also