The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-01-25
SERVICES AND sPOILS.

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teresf. In the intallt tion of a government Of
our own people. and the restoration Of. law,
order and bust sess. and by the solicitation ri
pride our qualification and our interest to rem.
DER very important and effective service. In
breaking up and peacefully dispensing the Pack.
ard government and absorbing his .pfetendei
Legislature. In that OF Gov. Nichols. These
facts are well known to the leading gentlemen
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proprietors Of the DEMOCRAT, who were the
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were alike familiar with orr vices In this
behalf. and Who have been alike eager. In their
forgetful Of the value and effectiveness OF this
our second and last Interference In politics.
This paragraph Is tissue OF errors from
beginning to end. The services rendered the
Nichols government by the Lottery Com
pany are to this time unknown to us except
through report. After the election had been
carried by the Democrats and Conservatives
Gov. Nichols was inaugurated and Packard
set up revolutionary government, which for
weeks kept this city on the verge OF civil war.
The DEMOCRAT, the only English paper In
New Orleans which had made an effective
| fight for the election Of the Democratic Con-
sentative ticket, promptly took ground in
favor of the dispersion of the revolutionists
intrenched In the st. Louis Hotel.
| But the leaders OF the party deprecated
any such proceeding, and system OF dplo-
macy was inaugurated which lasted for
weeks, and finally terminated in the sur
render Of Packard and the organization Of a
compromise Legislature, largely composed
OF men who were never elected, and who, we
we're informed. were bought out Of the St.
Louis Hotel Legislature by money supplied
| by the Lottery Company. Whether this be
true or not we do not know. The DEMO
Graf had no authentic Information OF any
OF the proceedings OF the CAUCUS or OF the
purposes and measures OF the parties
who were carrying on the negotiations wit
the Packard people. We were opposed to the
policy adopted, and hence were never In the
confidence of the managers. We did not at
tack the line Of settlement adopted for OBJ
vIous reasons, but neither did we support It,
principle and bad In policy. We entertain
the same opinion to-day, though at the same
time according to our fellow citizens who
adopted and carried out the policy the fullest
measure of integrity and patriotism. But we
had nothing to do with, and knew nothing al-
thentically tbout It, and we knew nothing at
the time, and we know nothing now, except by
common rumor, Of the services the Lottery
Company claims to have rendered the present
State government. The allegation, therefore,
that we knew OF It's peculiar services, which,
according to public rumor, amounted to the
expenditure OF considerable sum Of money
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tionists into the Legislature, when, according
to our views, they ought to have been arrest
ed and housed In the penitentiary, and that,
therefore, 1t has claim upon our liberation,
Is utt rly baseless.
We make this statement simply to set the
DEMOCRAT right on the record and to show
that, whether or not the Louisiana State
Lottery has any claims upon the government,
it has none on this paper.
And now, referring to It's peculiar services,
the Lottery says that, knowing of those SER
vices, the proprletors OF the DEMOCRAT were
"the first to rush for ward and seize their share
Of the spoils of its victory" The audacty of
statement could not be carried to a greater
extreme. Brazen impudence has In this ale
cation reached Its highest and most perfect
development. The DEMOCRAT sharing the
spols of Democratic victory won by the
Louisiana Lottery Company! Insolence I'M
paralleled; audacity sublime! Let us briefly
review the facts.
Since 1868 the proprietors OF this paper have
been, In one field or another, waging war upon
Radcallsm and for the establishment Of Dem
ocratic government in Louisiana. Since 1870
until this hour we have, with no intermission
save that enforced by overtaxed energies, been
fighting the great battle for the emancipation
of Louisiana through the press In this and
other portions Of the State. When ex-Gov.
Warmoth and his party-to use his own sig
nificant language-were milking the Louisi- |
ana State Lottery, and that institution was
the petted darling of Radcalism; when It's
employees were under strict orders to vote for
H. G. Dibble for district judgeship, and Mr.
Howard was Wanting that it he were but
permitted to continue turning his lot
terry wheel he would control the State
OF Louisiana: when the Lottery Com
pany, Warmoth, Kellogg and the Radical
party were all In loving unison, preying
upon the vitals Of our society, and growing |
rich on the taxes wrung from our people, we
were with the forlorn hope of the Democracy |
denouncing these men and their corruption:
pleading with our fellow-citizens to stand
against them; denouncing the faint spirits |
who deserted for share of the plumber and |
encouraging and strengthening those who
were standing true to their principles and
their STATE. In 1868, in 1870, in 1872, in 1874,
there was little ip the advocacy Of the Demo
cratic cause to promise those who Upheld It |
either spoils or rewards. Hard fighting, defeat,
poverty. often contumely. were the portion of |
those who stood by Louisiana in those days. |
Yet we were with our people in the almost |
continuous struggle, and we believe it s not In |
bad taste to say that our services are recog-
nized and honored by our fellow-citizens. In
the great campaign Of 1876 the DEMOCRAT
led the journalistic fightin the State Its record
in that contest Is known throughout Louisi- |
ana, and it Is enough for us to say that it has |