The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-10-22
A WORD TO THE WISE PIoAYUNE.

PROFESSIONALLY our INDUSTRIOUS Old mum
bug, the Pcayune, can set more different
salls to catch stray breezes than any Other
humbug In the list. She filings out one-a biz
one to the advertiser who likes To be gusheC
over as O warm-hearted and enterprisinR
citizen. She filings out another to the com
mercial magnates who may possibly be dis
posed to throw her a little crumb or bone Of
recognition; she turns loose ell sorts OF I'M
expected jibs ut all sorts OF unexpected mo
ments to catch any and everything that may
happen to BE- buzzlng about. She has NJ
convictions which she is not prepared tc
bottle up On demand II there LIZ nickel to BIZ
made by 1t. She has no record SO dear to her
that she won't 90 back on 1t without pang
II there 10 any mercenary end TO DC pro
noted. She Is servie and insincere ant
fraudulent from Alpha to Omega, with
out an ambition or an intention that soarE
above the counting groom, but there Is nothing
In which her true inwardness Is more marked
and more offensive than In her political
course. La this she is precautionary and pc
culiarIy unreliable and disingenuous 1t Il
here that the PIC finds the largest scope for
her characteristic talent. and here, especially,
| that she can crafty her voracious appetite
for misunderstanding will. 1.-THE. lgreatest pros
pect OF safety. @5
We have already shown how the PIC, La one
of the few really honest impulses she has In
duIged for years, set to work abusing and
maligning the late Democratic nominating
convention, impeachIng the integrity OF Its
action and blackenIng the personal character
~ bo al too Va hnt, o1a renintai nIt
how, when challenged In this course, she en-
deavored to evade tho issue by complaining
that the DEMOCRAT WAS "intemperate. 4
Since then, she has alternately fomented dis
cord In the party and expanded In high
sounding but vague generallties as
to harmony. And now, On yester-
day, she comes forward with three
different editorials, written In three diff
ferent veins, directed to three different ends.
In one she patronizes the Democratic nomi-
nees who are just setting out upon the can
vass OF the State commencing them to the
hospitality OF people who will be glad to
honor them and who will regard the PICS
language as only an impertnence. In an
other she works Off q column Of character
lstic platitudes on the subject Of the nomina-
lions for the Legislature. In the third she
harks back to her more congenial work OF
suggesting and discussing splits and split
ters, recommending bolt to every one who
cant get what he wants. and promising aid
and comfort to the.bolters:
Ia the meantime we have to remind our Jour
naltstic and political critics that the less they
haveto say about boilers. splitters. independ-
enis. soreheads and the like the moro .consts,;,
tent they will appear until they have done all
they can to avoid every occasion OF difference
and division within the party.
AS IL 1t were the "crltlcs" and not the Pic
who are working up the ill-feeling and sap
ping and mining beneath the party's strong
tunity to SOW dissension, or had ever said an
honest word In favor OF good feeling!
Let us say, squarely and Enthusiastically,
that we arc not one OF the PicGylne's
"critics" We have not the time nor the
stomach to burrow into the disreputable and
unsavory volume which constitutes the Pcs
history. We are familiar enough with Its
contents, as, indeed, must be all who have
watched the old fraud closely during the last
fouror five years. We know that there has
never been a moment In all that time in which
she was free, even II she had the disposition
which she hadn't--to align herself heartily
and sincerely with the people upon whose
patronage she lives. Her whole
career since 1873 has been an unbroken chap
5er Of disreputable entanglements and humil
atlng obligations, Of shameful subterfug es
ind false pretenses. She has always had
master she would have blushed to acknowl-
'dge always owed service which could only |
% paid In darkness and by stealth,
through receptions and impostures
which would have sickened any one who |
lnew an instinct nobler than avarice. We do
lot wish to open the pages of this reeklng |
history, and, therefore, cannot be classed
.mong the Picayn,es critics, yet we cannot
listen to lectures upon patriotism
nd purity and good manners from a source
which Is famous for nothing SO much as for
citing treachery above patriotism, gain
bove purity and abjectness above good man
ers. We cannot and we will not!