The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-07-02
A HEARING FOR ALL.

"A correspondent Of the East Felciana
Patriot Democrat, writing from New Orleans,
says: "YOu cannot yet an article III opposition
to the bondholders In q New Orleans paper
This ID very broad assertion, and, 30 far as 1t
applies to the DEMOCRAT, 1t is the very re-
verse OF the truth.
Instead Of refusing any one hearing up
on the debt, or any other important question
before the Convention, we have, on the con-
trary, thrown our eolum MS open and solicited
the fullest and freest discussion Of every issue
In which the people were concerned. In sub
sanitation OF this fact we have but to refer
to the notice which stood at the head OF our
columns for weeks and the column after
column of communications that have been
published In this paper. In these commune
cations every shade Of opinion has found OK
preston, from the extreme doctrine OF those
who hold that the bonds OF the State are
exigible In the Federal courts, and
that there is behind these courts a
power competent to enforce their judgment
against the State, to the other extreme Of
absolute Reputation. We have refused
no one hearing, and this fact Ia well known
to every Intelligent reader Of the DEMOCRAT.
Iii addition to this we have, ut great expense
made the fullest reports that could be OBJ
tanned Of the discussion Of the debt question,
giving to all sides full and impartial hear
ing. We havgdone this because we believed
that the people Of the State should have the
benefit OF every utterance that served to
throw light upon q question In which they
are SO vitality interested.
| These debates have all been reported and
published entirely at the expense Of the pro-
prietors Of the DEMOCRAT. They employed
thestenographers who reported their speeches
at their own expense and have borne all the
costs OF their publication, and IN doing this
they have been actuated by no other motive
than Esprit Of journalistic enterprise and a
desire to put the people in possession Of the
fullest information In regard to what has
been said and done by representatives in the
Convention. We make this statement because
there appears to be an erroneous impression
among uniformed people that this work has
been ordered by the Convention at the public
expense. The only printing authorized by
the Convention and for which the Convention
Printer is paid, Is the publication Of the
official journal.
In all these debates and communications
the correspondent Of the Pntri0t-D Democrat
certainly might have found something Gin
opposition to the bondholders," and had he
read attentively the editorial columns Of this
paper he would have found somewhat more
of the same character. Every utterance Of
this paper hts been In the interests OF the peo-
pie and Of the State, as we understood them,
and we have from the outset had much to say
Fin opposition to the bondholders," and to all
OF their ultra views.
| Since we are upon this subject, we also de-
sire to say to our esteemed contemporary
the Shreveport Standard, that In giving place
| In our columns to It's article sustaining the
majority report Of the Debt Committee we
did not eliminate any portion Of it, as that
paper has charged. but reproduced 1t, word
for word, as it was handed to us by Mr..
Vance, Of Bossier. Our policy is, and always
will be, to give every side fair hearing upon
any great public question, and we are some
what surprised that our country contempo-
raries should give currency to assertions that
are refuted by the single fact that we have
published fifteen speeches In favor OF the ma
jority report against ten favoring the minor
ity report of the Debt Committee.