The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-08-22
WORTHY A REPLY

Your cheek turns pale, for a guilty con-
science tells you you are undone.'
Our esteemed Republican contemporary,
the Times, does not venture to reply to the
DEMOCRATS exposure Of its real character
and purposes, and the pronounced and no
torious Radicals who are running 1t, instead
OF freely and In a manly manner meeting and
disproving Or admitting our charges, are
attempting to wriggle out of sight of the
people and conceal their horns and hoofs I'M
der what they call a "consociation."
The charges Of the DEMOCRAT against the
Times were clear and explicit. We charged
that Its chief owner, editor and manager, Mr..
Charles Clinton, had escaped the penitentiary
by the bribery Of q Juror. Eleven Of the jury
were for his conviction for a crime committed
In an office to which he was nominated by the
Radical party, and which he obtained, after
being defeated by the people, by the perjury
and forgery Of his partisans. His conviction
was certain until q certain sum OF money was
paid O juror, who forced q mistrial, and subse-
quently a partisan not. pressed tho case.
We further charged that the chief owner,
editor and proprietor Of the Times was q lead
Ing party to a scheme of reputation by
which the holders Of the honest bonds of
the State were robbed of forty per cent OF
their dues, that sixty per cent Of the fraudu-
lent bonds Of the Radical regime might be
validated.
Finally, we charged that III. C. Dibbie,
the most Infamous and obnoxious carpet
Dagger in Louisiana, was tho chief writer
on the Times; that the man who had made
himself most obnoxious to the people
of Louisiana In the past ten years; who
had, as q Radical partisan and enemy Of
the State. disgraced the bench and the high
office Of Assistant Attorney General, and who
had made himself forever Infamous BY his
cooperation with the enemies Of the people
on the Fourteenth OF September. was the CO.
adiutor Of ex-Auditor Clinton In the conduct
Of the Times, and the mar whose facile pen.
diverted for the time being from abuse OF
the Southern people, was embodying the
edlcts Of Mr.. Clinton to the people Of Louisi- |
ana and debating to them how to vote on tho
debt ordinance. 5"""%
We %reassert all of these propositions,
n we affirm that, In the whole history OF
free government, no such example of scan
dalous audacity and presumption has ever
been known; that never before nave the enc
miles, plunderers and ~contemptuous denuncia-
tors Of Q civilized and free people assumes to
become their monitors Ia morals, their guides
IN politics and their dictators In government.
Now, the charges we have made, and here re-
~iterate, the Times-(the paragraph written by
Mr.. Clinton, or more probably by Mr.. Dibble,
whose hands are more deeply than any other
mans stained with the blood of.the Fourteenth
Of observation-disclosures as false, Hbelous,
and unworthy a reply.
Our esteemed Republican contemporary
cannot thus evade our charges. Charges
made by this paper will have their weight
with. not only the people OF Louisiana, but
the people Of the South, and Clinton,
Dlbble, Stoutemyer & Go. cannot evade them
By Sinking behind their new tangled "conso-
c%iation."
If the charges of the DEMOCRAT are libel
GUS, let the proprietor and editor-in-chief OF
the Times, Mr.. Charles Clinton, institute a
suit for libel. The proprietors Of the DEMO
are personally and pecuniarily respon-
men, and they are prepared to meet the
suit. They have made their charges, and
they hold full and sufficient evidence to prove,
before any court In Louisiana, any charge
hey have made.
This Is a fair challenge. In the face Of 1t
Mr.. Clinton cannot repeat his ridiculous and
allegation that our charges are
Unworthy q reply. The charges have been !
deliberately made. We repeat them, and we
'ay to the people Of Louisiana, whom the New
orleans Times, In the secret interest OF the
Radical party, is seeking to influence and
that we hold the evidence to prove {
every allegation we have made. s