The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-08-20
A RADICAL DICTATOR.

4 tllnCon is one OF the owners OF this journal
For the time being he Is sole manager.
lie has controlled it's general affairs; he ha
inspired Its editorial course; no on
but Mr.. Clinton has authority to dictate wha
the Times shall say or what Ii shall not say
Here we have O clear, explicit, uneqnivoca
declaration from the Times, that Charles Clin
ton is one CT Its owners that he Is Its man
ager and editor, And now, who Is Mr. Charle
Clinton? The question may be briefly an
sWered. He Is not an obscure Individual Ii
this State: but he owes his notoriety neithe
TO Ills public virtues nor to his abilities. Ell
is one of that horde who rose into prom
inence during the carpet-bag era, and be
came notorious and influential at time whet
utter shameessness, rapacity and hatred o
the Southern people were the only qualities
necessary to success In politics, and when any
| rascal who could denouDce Southern gen
| tleman as q arebe skunk" or rob Louisiana
taxpayer could obtain fat office
identified with the carpet-baggers, this indi
vidual, in 1872, was nominated on the Radical
ticket for State Auditor. W. p Kellogg was
the candidate for Governor on the same ticket
There is not man In the State who does not
remember the dark, infamous, damnable pro
cesses- perjury, bribery ballot-box stufting,
violence, rascality Of every species by which,
though defeated at the polls, Kellogg, Clinton
and their associates were installed into
Office. Mr.. Clinton will not venture to deny
that he was q party to all the means and
measures BY which he was made Auditor
and Kellogg Governor of Louisiana He
is by no means q fool, and he could not
have been indicted into perhaps the second
most responsible Office In the State without
full and comprehensive knowledge OF the
means by which his elevation was accom-
plshed. His hatred Of the white people Of
Louisiana, at that time-only o few years
ago-was vigorously manifested by his do
nouncing them as white rebel ekunks." His
corruption In office was notorious. Detestlng
the white portion Of the people. and enter
tanning supreme contempt for the ignorant
blacks, he felt 1t to be Christian duty to
plumber the common treasury. He escaped
the nenitentiary by the bribery of single
;,r,, AL ,,naar lho m sassure Of the prosecu.
tlon resigned an office which, Ia u corrupt,
Infamous and usurping administration, he
dsgraced. 70 every attack upon the liberties
and properties of the people of Louisiana,
mass during the Kellogg regime, Mr. Clinton
wis an active, eager vindietlve party. Now,
either the people Of this State were wrong,
or the Kellogg government was wrong
Either the people OF Louisiana are Infamous
people, race Of falsifiers, turbulent incendi-
aries and rebels. with hands and souls stained
deep with blood. or the Kellogg usurpation
was an infamous thing. with foundations rest
ing in fraud, violence. corruption and villainy
Of the darkest kind, and every member Of 1t
criminal and an enemy of the State. This
Is plain, simple proposition. We defy any
man to disprove 1t. We defy the ingenuity
Of the human intellect to reconcile the patriot
ism Of the people Of this State and the legal
ity or honesty of tho Kellogg usurpation.
And Mr.. Charles Clinton was one OF the high |
est and most influential members Of that ad-
Reputation ofany description Is scandalous
But, Il there are degrees In infamy, that repu-
diation which defrauds the honest creditor
of the State to validate the fraudulent claims
II the spectators who have been the aiders
md abetters of the enemies OF the common
wealth. IS the most Infamous. This sort Of
population MIR. Charles Clinton. the Radical |
Auditor of the State advised and was a party
o.
The State debt. as it now stands, we be- |
ieve It to be the solemn duty Of the people to |
After the usurpation was sup
planted by government elected by the peo-
ole, the debt was as matter Of great public
policy, recognized, and most of it passed into
he hands Of third parties who were friends
If the people and interested In the welfare of |
he State. Generously the Convention ac-
epted the full face of this debt, ard gene
ously the people will ratify the action OF the
Convention. But until honor and justice have
eased ODE respected, mankind will denounce,
IS crime against the faith Of States, against
'ublic credit. against fair dealing, the funding
cheme Of Kellogg, Clinton d Co, by which
he holders OF honest bonds OF Louisiana
we're robbed of forty per cent of their claims
hat sixty per cent Of the great mass Of the
fraudulent indebtedness OF the State created
y carpet-baggery might be validated.
We have told in as few words as possible
Who Mr.. Charles Clinton, chief owner, man
ger and editor-in-chief Of the New Orleans
Tines, is. The chief writer on his paper Is
!. G. Dibble, with the exception perhaps Of
linton himself and Kellogg, the most ex-
RENE. bitter and vindictive Radical In Lou
siana, while the individual whose name
cures as editor Of the paper Is pronounced
radical who was imported into the State BY
1r. Clinton. who made him solicitor to the
auditor an office unknown to the law-at a
alary of several thousand dollars per annum.
nus we have, as the managers, editors and
writer's of the Times, Clinton, Stoutem yer
nd Dlbble. Angels and Ministers of Grace
efend us!''
And yet the New Orleans Times sits itself
% as the monitor and dictator of the people OF
II assumes to tell us what honor
eqllres US to do in dealing with the public
ebt. When our people differ with IT, 1t de-
ounces them as robbers, highwaymen, ras-
ais, regulators. Auditor Clinton denonnced
as white rebel skunks. Editor Clinton do
ounces us as thieves and faIu -. &c. I.