The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-13
STILL HARPING ON MY DAUGHTER.

insane asylum. It has gone stark mad. The
State printing has completely added its poor
little feeble head, and IL cannot talk about
anything else. This fermentation began early
in 1877, and has increased year by year until
the poor old thing Is raving maniac on the
subject. The convention; the speakership;
the distress Of the country; the financial
issues; the reform OF the judiciary; the re-
adjustment OF the debt; the sanitary i'm
provement Of the city; the reduction OF taxes
to five mills; the construction Of q railroad
TO Texas-all these great questions, In the
sight OF the poor old demented Pcayone
have dwindled into insigniilcance, while 1t
chatters through its toothless gums inces-
sanity about the State printing, and wanders
around the street in fantastical garb and dis
heveled tresses, peering into everybody's
face and muttering, with idiotic grin, The
State printing! Oh, the State printing! Oh,
the DEMOCRAT the DEMOCRAT, the State
printing Ha, ha, ha' The DEMOCRAT, the
State printing! In heavens name, will this
pestilential, crazy old bag OF Camp street
never give the community rest on the SUBJ
iect of the State printing!
We thought we had satisfied tho mad old
girl on Monday, when we assured her and
the public Mt large that we were perfectly
satisfied with the course of the Governor in
taking the State printing from one OF the
proprietors Of the DEMOCRAT and bestowing
the precious boon upon Mr.. Nicholson Their
q citizen OF Mississippi or perjurer-the
junior proprietor OF the Pic But the Pic. Is
not satisfied with our graceful surrender of
the job, and yesterday 1t devoted two and a
half columns Of its vacuity to a labored ex
cuse Of the Governor for making the change
Of the State Printer.
Now. we do not propose to follow the chat
tering OF the imbecile old PIC. through It's
whole mass OF rubbish, most of which Ia nom
sense and the balance Of which is falsehood.
Neither do we desire to further discuss the
motives which prompted the Governor to
overstep the law and appoint Mr.. Nicholson
State Printer. The Governor organ had bet
ter have left the matter where we put it, and it
had better leave 1t there now. The reason we
assigned for the transfer of the printing from
the DEMOCRAT to the Picayune-an honest but
radical and irreconcilable difference OF opin-
ion upon great political issues between the
DEMOCRAT and Gov. Nicholls.was honor
able to the Governor and to the DEMOCRAT.
But the new organ, drunk with the sweet
and heady must of its new born honors, with
o hot and Incorporate zeal for its patron,
whom we all honor, PUSHES to the front to
prove that the Governor was prompted by
motives which reflect upon the DEMOCRAT,
and which prove, IL the PIC speaks the truth.
considering the time at which the Governor
fnd hat hn ir in Int hapiu al IN NJ
mind which should characterize the Chief
Executive OF great State, and In that candor
and justice which should mark the dealings,
public or private, between men.
III the story OF the Pcdgau.e be true, State
Printer other than Mr.. Dupre should long
since have been appointed. The so-called
trifing Of Mr.. Dupre with the Printing
Board began last December. There has been
no time since the refusal OF the Auditor to
approve Mr.. Dupre's bond that the change in
the State Printer could not have been made
with as much legality as now, and there has
never been time during that period when it
could not have been done with more justice
to Mr.. Dupre. The board left the matter In
the Governors hands, and the Governor
failed to act. Three sep arate times Mr.. Du-
pre- rendered his resignation to the Governor,
and each time 1t was refused. When the
grand jury indicted Mr.. Dupre he went to
the Governor then and rendered his resigna-
ton; the Governor replied that the indict-
ment did not carry with 1t the evidence of
guilt, and he declined the resignation. Now,
then, II the Governor appointed Mr.. Nichol-
son State Printer, as the PIC. says, because
Mr. Dupre trilled with the Printing
Board, the Governor should have made
the change promptly when the Printing
Board declared that it had exhausted it's
functions, or, at the latest, he should have
made the change when Mr.. Dupre rendered
his resignation. Either the new organ, there
fore, has grossly misrepresented the Gov
ernor, or the Governor has been guilty of
trifing with public interests to an extent
compared with which the so-called trifling of
the State Printer with the Printing Board
was as mere childs play. Grave differences
have arisen between this journal and Gov
Nichols, but we persist in believing that he
Is man of frankness In dealing with nen,
honest OF purpose, and fearless In the dis
charge Of what he regards as his duty;
hence we feel certain that he has not au-
,thorized the article in the Picay1tne giving
his reasons for transferring the public
printing from the DEMOCRAT to the Picayune;
and estimating him In the light we have
stated, we are certain that on Monday we
presented the people Of Louisiana with his
real reasons.
We should be sorry for the Governors sake
to believe that the Picayune has correctly rep
resented him In this matter. III the Governor
supplanted Mr. Dupre for trifing with the
Printing Board, the Governor has trifed in
a higher and more responsible position with
the public interest in not making the change
two months ago. That the Governor made
the change because he believed Mr.. Dupre
guilty Of the charges made against him must
be false. Indeed, we are certain that If the
question were put to the Governor, and he
chose to answer 1t frankly, he would say that
no charges would have ever been made against
the late State Printer, and that the warrants
s,r ,rhioh tha DrNOcR n has given M atariaI