The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-29
A BURsTED BOON.

a BUkHTED BUM.
The Ogden boom seems to have nearly OK
pended Its force. The voice Of the hoarse-
sounding wind has sunk into feeble moan,
and though the managers blow until
they crack their cheeke, they cannot recruit
Its waning power, or revive It's racket.
At the start, when the boom was first put
Ia motion, even the lightning was enlisted to
swell its grandeur, and q telegram was sent
to every part OF the State announcing the
stupendous Intelligence to waiting world,
that number of patriots who scorn to hold
office or run politics had determined
to run Gen. Ogden on boom for
the Baton Rouge nomination for Gov
ernor. This telegram. signed BY several
well-lSnown gentlemen, with Hon. =.
John Ellis In the lead, ostentatlousy
| announced that the boom" had scooped up
| two great newspapers. and that the Times
| and Ptcapune were It's organs. 5.1=#
| There WAS bitter irony in enlisting the
Iymcs In the support Of O gentleman who Is
| running for Office on Fourteenth OF Septem-
Der record. and thus forcing 1t to become the
champion and defender Of a revolution which,
at the time Of Its occurrence. 1t denounced as
|
which were little II any, better than muir
derers. But 1t is generally understood that
whenever the Times and the old Pic 60 into a
"boom" It means business, and hence the an
nonncement, through the telegram OF Mr..
Ellis and his committee, that the boom" was
to have the support OF the Times and Ifcaunle
was matter Of consequence.
But every thing has not been lovely. Tho
boom La on the wane, and the allies are break
ing up. day or two since the old PIC took
occasion to declare officially that 1t was not
an organ of 'the BOOM" This was sudden
and unexpected. But, 1t seems the boomers
didn't "tote' fair with our venerable and
punctilious contemporary. The PIC did not
boom with sufficient fierceness and racket;
indeed she could only be made to boom In II
very mild and feeble sort of way, while Oh the
other hand Dibble and Clinton were booming
like blazes through the Times and the same
types which denounced the blood Of the Four
teenth OF September, were industriously
painting the grandeur Of that his
toric day aud the glories Of its he
roes. Hence, when the boom COM
mittee came to order papers, they ordered
very nearly three times as many copies OF
Clinton's paper as they did Of the PIC
Consequently the PIC took the dumps; for
a day or two, for oil that appeared in her
columns the world would not have known OF
, the boom, and then finally she declared she
was not an organ.
But the troubles of the boomers did not end
! with tbep outing Of the PIC. You cannot learn
, an old dog new tricks, Is well-know maxim
in mental philosophy, and 1t Is equally true
that you cannot learn an old Radical politician
new methods Clinton, Dibble Il Go. were
trained In political school In which the free
dom OF the ballot meant intimidation by
troops and shoulder hltters ut the polls, and,
though they have become simon-pure, dyed
ID the wool, White League Democrats, they
naturally turn to their old tricks. and would
carry elections now as they did In Kellogg 8
time. Enhappily, this propensity OF the
: Times to fall back on old-time methods was
50 strong that It involuntarily cropped out
Saturday evening and the city
, was startled by the announcement
Of that journal that organized bodies
of men were to be stationed at the
polls during the primary elections on the
third Of October, aud that they were to have
) secret signs by which they could recognize
each other, and rally and organize for action
In clse Of necessity.
OF course the supporters Of Gen. Ogden
propose no such thing. But 1t was bomb
shell il the camp, and Mr.. Ellis, who. only q
short time ago, SO ostentatiously photographed
to every parish in the State that the Times
was an organ Of the boom, felt 1t necessary to
publish pronunciamento repudiating the
statement Of the Times as unauthorized and
untrue. Hence, while the venerable PIC is
seeking to wriggle out Of the boom, the boom
finds 1t necessary to wriggle out Of the posi-
ton In which it was placed by the Times.
Indeed, the attempt to run Gen. Ogden,
than whom there is no more popular or esti-
mable gentleman, after he had declined to be
, "a candidate, has resulted as we apprehended
1t would, in dead failure and the only result
Is that 1t has added much asperity to a can
vass which would otherwise have been
| entirely free Of bitterness and excitement.