The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-20
PERLIOE! PERLIOE!!

We feel 1t to be our duty, as humani-
tarians, to call the attention OF the
conservators of the peace, of the police.
in fact, to the threatening aspect of af-
fairs on Camp street. Even while we write
the martial strains Of the hewgag disturbs us
and the buzzy-fuzzy dislocates the circum-
ambient air. The Times has accused the PIC
Of dalliance with Sam Randall, and the PIC
responds, with burst of virtuous indigna ton,
that she is not that sort of o woman-never
got cent, and the Times knows it, and has
maliciously scandalized her. We append the
def OF the Pic:
Mr. Randall were expressed several days before
the election, and at u time when the PtcdVuHes
own correspOs dent and the other CORRESPOND
PntS of tho city papers we're predicting the cleo
ton OF MIR. Blackburn. Whether or not those
opinions or the manner of expressing them
inspire disgust In persons whose metnod Oh
discussing pubic questions is limited to mean
ingees viupesation, aud baseess innuendo,
the Picdvune neither knows nor cares. what
the Pcaynne. however. d. sires to say on ms
that Its views concerning Mr.. fanuall are IN
fuenced by any vsnal or unworthy motive.
asserts not only what Is false. but what he
knows to be- false.
or course the Times is not going to take an
insult Of this kind from any female, hence
our appeal to the police. What are the police
for, we might very pertinently inquire, IL 1t is
not to loaf around on Camp street in order to
see what the Times man Is going to do
about 1t when the PIC tells him that he ''as-
serts not only what is false, but what he
knows to be false2" What we want to know
is, whether or not the police of this great city
feels equal to the performance of its duty'
Are they prepared to say that Camp street
shall not be flooded with gore, and that it Is
Just as fragrant violation of the city ordi-
nances to obstruct its sidewalks with mangled
remains as with dry goods boxes? If they
have any convictions on these points we
should like to hear from them and at once.
Already we hear the crunching OF bones, and
they are not the bones OF "Croppy." This
case does not come under the act
for the prevention OF cruelty to ami
mails, and we do not care whether
that statute be constitutional or not,
or whether dogs are domesticated animals in
the technical legal sense. AS we said at the
start, we are regarding this thing as humani-
tarians, and the good, old, well tried and long
tested laws In relation to homicdes are what
we look to, and they are all that are necessary
from our standpoint. We feel assured that
our position upon this point will be sustained
by both the Times and Pic for certainly
neither OF them would invoke dog law for
protection against the other.
Now that we have entitled ourselves to the
blessings assured the peace-maker, by call
ing the police to keep an eye on our belllgerent
neighbors, we feel at liberty to mildly protest
against vicious habit the Pic has recently
developed OF going raw-headed for peo-
pie without calling names. There Is no
describing the amount OF trepidation
and commotion caused In the DEMOCRAT Office
by the foregoing paragraph OF the PICS, that
might have been prevented by the slightest
intimation that the Times was the object OF
the old lady's wrath. When we read that
paragraph In yesterdays evening PIC. con-
sternation overcame us-we were sure we
were the culprit and sent for our files and
searched them through, with the de-
termination of Offering up the guilty
sub who had provoked 1t as a sacrifice
to appease the old womans wrath. XII vi!
but we were happy, we were cheerful when
we found that our 'withers were unwrung"-
that the wrong end Of the broomstick had
fallen upon another head. Yet our happi-
ness does not compensate for the pangs that
preceded it, and we beseech our respected
contemporary" to specify in future at the
beginning of the attack.