The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-19

As we have stated, this is q mistake on the
part of the Times. The DEMOCRAT, SO far
from being inimical to Gen. Ogden enter
tains for that chivalrous and patriotic citizen
and Democrat the highest sentiment OF re-
gard and friendship, and, were he the nominee
Of the Democratic party, this journal would
give him q cordial support, though 1t is
just and proper for us to say that he
ID not our choice for the nomination.
SO far we have advanced the claims OF no
gentleman for the nomination. Our policy
has been simply to print all that Ia said Of the
several candidates; and. though Gen. Ogden,
In letter to body OF influential citizens,
positively declined to be candidate for the
nomination, we have reproduced in our col
umns every line that has been published LII
the country press In his advocacy which has
come 10 US. II communications urging his
nomination have appeared In the Times or
other papers than the DEMOCRAT, 1t is be-
cause they were not rendered or sent to Us.
Now we shall, briefly as possible, present
the real reason which induced US to dsparage
the Times advocacy OF Gen. Ogden for
position OF honor or trust.
We have recently exposed the fact that the
by the most bitter, malignant and corrupt
Radicals In the State. We have shown that
Mr. Clinton, Kellogg's ex-Auditor. an uncon-
victed feloD, Is one of Its chief owners
and that the belief Is general that Kel-
Iogg Is his co-partner; and finally, we
have shown that H. @. Dibble had
been for months Its chief political writer;
while the head of one Of it's most important
departments was formerly an editor of the
defunct Republican, and is now, or was up
to few weeks ago, member OF the
Republican State Central Committee. These
exposures have aatonished the country. and
given the Democrats In every parish clear
insight into the motives which prompted the
vigorous and abusive attacks OF the Times
upon the Democratic members OF the Consti-
tutional Convention, and the organization
and leaders Of the Democratic party. We
have thus drawn the fangs OF this Shiny and
creeping reptile, and though it may still rear
Its burning crest and strike with envenomed
fury, it is harmless to the Democracy.
But there are some OF our fellow-citizens
whose memories are detective and for their
benefit It is proper that we shall show that
sistent organ Of the opponents of the Demo-
cratic party, and that we were entirely cor
rect in assuming that it deserves neither the
confidence nor respect of the people.
Just now We do not care to go further back
into the record of Mr.. Clinton's paper than
the Fourteenth Of September, 1874, and the
periods imm ediately preceding and succeed
ing that great and illustrious day in our his
tory.
It Is well known that at that time the De-
mocracy Of Louisiana were engaged tn a fierce
and stormy struggle to defeat the band OF
Radical robbers and usurpers who held the
State by the throat while they plundered the
treasury and the people and instituted riot and
disorder throughout our borders. That cam
paign, indeed, was scarcely less than revolu-
ton. On one side were the white people OF
the State; on the other Kellogg's and Clin-
toms usurpation backed by Federal power, a
horde of adventures and thieves, known as
carpet-baggers, and the mass Of the ignorant
colored voters.
In that terrible contest, in that life and
death struggle, the New Orleans Times threw
its influence and support against the
white people OF the State. The RESPONSE
bility for every riot that occurred, for every
drop Of blood that was shed it attempted to
fasten upon the Democrats. In its columns
during that exciting period. we find no defence
OF our outraged people. Its reports OF trOu-
bles here and in the parishes were as one sided
as those Of the Inter Ocean, tempered only by
a mean hypocrisy which furnished at once
shield for the coward and mask to his deadly
blow.
Not content with furnishing the bloody
shirt journals with Southern Conservative
authority for their war upon our rights and
interests, and their crusade Of abuse and defa-
nation Of our people, whenever resistance to
the robbery and oppression, the infamous
and damnable measures Of outrage and
tyranny Of the Kellogg usurpation was
talked Of by our leaders or press, the Times,
promptly denounced such utterances as ruff
fanism, and threatened US with an invasion
OF the army and the strong arm OF the Fede-
raj government.
During the days preceding the Fourteenth
OF September the columns Of the Times over
flowed with denunciations Of the spirit OF re-
sistance rife among the people both of the
city and the parishes In one issue it plead
sycophant, and in the next threatened the
White League In the language Of hired
bully. On the morning OF the Fourteenth its
leading article referred in contemptuous
manner to the call for an assemblage Of the
people, and denounced the request that the
stores and other places OF business be closed
as unwarranted, and as "a flourish Of the polit-
lcal lash" Other measures than those OF mere
rem onstrance it fercely declared would be
r1otous, and it held that no good citizen should
take part in them. In another column. in
the same Issue, it refers to the papers that
were supporting the people as 'organs of
confusion and blood" "They want" said the
Times, referring to the Democratic papers
throughout the State "the blood all on their
side, the wrong all on the other" On the dav
following the great victory Of the people