The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-10
THE STATE PRINTING.

Ihh 0IAlb fhlN IINH.
The Governor on Saturday appointed Mr.
Geo Nicholson, one Of the proprletors Of the
PtcnBtale State Printer, in place OF MrsDupre
The DEMOCRAT 10 entirely satisfied with the
new arrangement, and 30 far as we are con-
cerned Mr.. Nicholson Is cordially welcome
: TO the honors and emolumeDt OF q position
which, II the utterances Of his own paper
during the last two years are to be credited,
is O grinding monopoly which should be
broken up-an Office discredtable to the
holder and oppressive to the people, and the
pay OF which Is nothing else than plumber
We repeat that the new arrangement is en-
tirely satisfactory to the DEMOCRAT, but we
must remark that the appointment Is o most
extraordinary one Why Gov. Nichols
should have appointed citizen Of Mississippi
State Printer Is utterly incomprehensible. It
may not be known that Mr.. Nicholson Is q
citizen Of our sister State, but such IL the
case. In o libel suit, brought In one Of the
State courts last December, Nicholson applied
to have the case transferred to the United
States Court on the ground that he tNichoI-
som and his wife were citizens OF Mississippi,
and he made % sworn affidavit TO the fact.
III Mr.. Nicholson was q citizen of Mississippi
two months ago, he cannot be citizen of Lou
fsiana now and he is ineligible TO hold pub
lie Office here. However he and tho Cover
nor may arrange this little difficulty TO please
themselves; we only refer to 1t as singular
sort OF an appointment; and right here we
would dismiss the whole matter, were 1t not
that many OF our friends have expressed some
curiosity to know the reasons which prompted
she Governor to take the printing from the
DEMOCRAT and give IL to the Picayune. We
believe that the Governor has given no rea-
sons for his action, but we think we compre-
alend them. 1t ID d well known fact that the
DEMOCRAT has never been In full accord with
the administration since the day following
the Inauguration Of Gov Nichols.
We opposed the plan adopted TO get rid Of
the Packard fraud We opposed the payment
of the Metropolitan police, and the members
of the fraudulent Legislature, while they were
in open revolt against the government and
threatening the city with riot and bloodshed.
The administration was bitterly hostile to
our war ON the Louisiana Lottery Company
The administration favored the Moffett regis
Ter law, and the DEMOCRAT forced It's repeal
The administration Was opposed to the call
Ing OF a constitutional convention, and the
DEMOCRAT devoted nearly two years of UNI
firing labor TO have convention called
The administration has deprecated the
methods by which, in what are known as the
.bulldOzed regions Of the State o number Of
our finest parishes have been rescued from
brutal negro and corrupt white rule, while
the DEMOCRAT has advocated those methods,
and increasingly defended the Democrats for
The course they pursued. The administration
accepts the theory that the bondholders have
a contract with the people under which the five
and half mills interest tax must be wrung
ont OF the people even IT,, thereby, the State
be utterly impoverished and sold out on the |
block. The DEMOCRAT believes that it is the |
imperative duty Of the convention to reduce
the expenses of the government and the |
volume OF the debt and the interest on 1t so
that the State rate of taxation, for all pur-
poses, may be reduced to at least five mills.
These are the great leading measures on
which the DEMOCRAT has differed with the |
Governor. The people Of Louisiana have
upon every one Of these issues agreed with |
the DEMOCRAT. Every measure we advocated |
mas been carried, and our position on the |
State debt will be fully sustained. The Pie
aysme on every one Of these questions sided |
with the Governor, and the Governor and the |
Picayaoae carried not one single measure they
advocated before the people.
These differences of opinion between the
DEMOCRAT and the Governor, we assume,
the Governor to go even to the ex-
treme of taking a step of very questionable
legality to appoint Mr.. Nicholson State
Printer. If, however, he is satisfied that he
tlas acted within the law in making this APP
poihtment, we have no cause to censure him
Aol the step. There are SO many grave and
we are sure honest differences OF opinion be-
tween ~ that the DEMOCRAT could expect no
AdNolS ~ lhe Governors hands But we are
Atee W congratulate ourselves upon the
Aacl lhaI losing the favor Of the Governor Is (
10Y losing inc favor Of the Democratic partv. {
Inc party mas sustained US In every nositinn 1
we have taken, and the House Of Renraaan+o-
Gives, elected fresh from the peonla rob,,I,a4 Z
the effort OF the majority of the pr;n4t,,~ +
Board for attempting to wrest the oontns'. +.
from us last December, 10y electng To fiI1 ~
vacancy on the Board staunch and -. s.lo =
bounced friends of the DEMOCRAT. f-V
we are not, therefore, in the least vvo,,,,,,., =
or discounted by the loss of the Co,os 'l'.1'e
commence The Democratic party is with 70
ana we are with the party; and since tho 1ao-
ernor mas antagonized the party upon an ~ Az
great issues which have arisen under bie 80
tnirlsration, the DEMOCRAT natnr.ll~, -
sReG-ef Kim to antagonize it. 1s *
It's. pe1eniary sense the change il an =,
IsnA 70 this paper. The DEMoaa a - :