The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-02-04
FLOPPED AGAIN.

We begin to experience the same sort OF
feeling towards the Picavnne that ID sala 10
have filed the breast OF Mr.. Cruncher wheh-
ever he looked upon the partner oil his posoh'
"That woman Ia going to flop again, MT.
Cruncher was accustomed TO observe and Or.
Ctuncher was generally right But IN tne
matter OF "fopping" the matroniy Isc. 10
not less reliable than was the hlsSorlc MIS-.
Ctuncicr. $50. 49, a,o,o
In Yesterdays evening paper I'D regard 10 the
convention. Five times before had the PIC.
"fiopped" upon this one question. But, after
its stalwart stand OF the past few weeks In
onpositIon TO convention, and after the abuse
heaped upon the Legislature for passing the
bill calling It, we were not altogether pre-
pared for the cooling strains that quieted us
last evening. Hence we proceed to anticipate
this last "flop" and to enter our mild protest
against It; otherwise 1t would not be long ere
the PIC should claim to have championed the
measure and pull 1t through against won
derful pressure on the part OF the commercial
and financial classes. It has not been a
classes-it never speaks for any other-were
solidly arrayed against q convention. Now
1t soothes US with the assurance that this
opposition was wild" one and that the
financial and commercial classes have been
treasured by the pro rata bill and the refusal
Of the House to pass the resolution pledging
the faith OF the State to the payment of the
'honest debts" OF the State. The Pic speaks
Of another measure that has treasured the
aforesaid commercial and financial classes,
but II relates to the State Printer, and upon
this subject we have natural reluctance to
speak. It sufficeth to say that II the COM
mercial and financial classes are braced up by
1t the DEMOCRAT Is not disposed to quarrel
with them on account of their cheerfulness
II the Pic is satisfied with the outcome of the
printing business, we are quite sure that we
are, and there 10 no reason, in view of Its
latest position on the convention question,
why we should not Immediately organize
sort Of happy family and be altogether hila-
rious.
We are delighted to have the assurances of
the Pic, but we may be permitted to
say that we refuse to believe that the classes
1t assumes to speak for have been influenced
by any such absurd nonsense as Is advanced
for the sudden change the Pic would have us
to believe has overcome them. The sober
truth is that these classes, like all others In
our State, have from the beginning, been
heartily, earnestly In favor Of a convention.
There has never been anywhere, or among
any interests within the borders of Our State
outside OF a few rings and monopolies, any
such distrust OF the honest purposes OF our
people, any such apprehensions Of bad faith
and Reputation as the Pic informs us led the
classes for which 1t assumes to speak into a
''sort OF wild opposition to the project" The
apprehensions which inspired the Pic did not
exist In these quarters, nor has it died out
yet In the hearts of them In whose behalf our
consistent contemporary ratified Its sheet
iron thunder week ago.
The same fear that moved them then
abides with them now, and the only conclu-
sion an honest man can draw from the Pic 8
flop" Is, that its engagement in that quarter
Is at an end. In any event 1t will be safe for
ali honest men to mind nothing that sheet
may have to say In regard to the approaching
convention. Its opposition, when 1t has OPP
posed, and It's advocacy, when it has favored
a convention, have alike sprung from dishon-
first to one side and then another, and conse-
quently what 1t advises or suggests must
always be looked on with suspicion and dis
trust.
The manly course for the PIC. to take would
be to come out and acknowledge that 1t had
changed It's attitude on this question five
times and that it wishes to do SO again-to
confess that while the question was before
the Legislature, 1t was compelled by circum-
stances beyond it's control in assaultlng the
caucus and villifying the city members for
yielding to Its dictation, or else that it made
a grievous mistake In its Interpretation OF
popular sentiment. This last confession no
one would believe, yet 10 would be more seem
ly than the evasion and equivocation to
which 1t is resorting
LOUISIANA'S PROTEST.