The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-01-02
A ISLANDER RErUTED.


The New York Sun In Its Issue of the seven
teenth Of December last published the follow
ing special telegram from one OF Its Wash
lugtcn correspondents:
uoutsrANAs yoTE ON THE DEBT ORDINANCE.
wAsHIsaToF, Dec 1e-No Information ran be
reeeiyet here of tha result Of the separate vote
ID Louisiana on the debt ordinance. Congress
man King says that he has snent yerai doi.
lars III teagraphing t9 learn the result ana has
that the returns OF the vote on the debt ofdi..
nance are being tempered with for Fnrposes q
speculation. have never felt great cohhdehmnne
In the honesty OF Treasurer Burke or Mr.
Strong. and / think those persons are holding
back the returns for pufp ses OF their nWp. !
en greatly mstaken " sheir e9g III, vi, .eaa
the. Democratic party IN louisiana trom some
OF the rascas that ihfest II.
Gen. King, who was quoted as having made
the damaging and slanderous charge against
the State Treasurer, arrived In New Orleans
yesterday morning, and In answer to q note
from MIR. Burke. asking II he had used any
such language, has polntedly disclaimed It,
| II appears. therefore, that the statement
emanated from the Sun correspondent, who
| manufactured II out Of the whole cloth, and
| that the New York sun. without investigation
or inquiry, lent itself TO the circulation Of
| the SANDER.
The Sun, is tangible something with which
Mr. Burke viii know how to deal; 1t has
local hahtaticn and IL responsible for its ut
| terances, but the wretch who for his own con-
| temptihe purposes penned the slandefous dis
patch ls more difficult subject TO reach
with the instinct Of an assassin he has at
tempted TO stab the reputation of gentlemen
by the utterancs Of what he knew to be q base
calumny, and screened behind the newspaper
Of which he ID dishonest and unworthy rep
resentatiep, he writes lies anonymously and
attributes them to gentlemen OF prominence
IN the hope either Of wreaking private malice
or OF making sensation. The fellow was
not even An artistic felsifier, and In his at
tempt 10 iniure Mr.. Burke ignored facts
which were notorious, and which In them
selves proved the untruthfulnees OF his allega-
tlons. lis dispatch was dated on the six
teenth of December, and he declares that "no
information can he received here washing
toni of the result oil the separate vote In
Louisiana on the debt ordinance" Eight
day= before that was written ton December 81
the DEMouRAr, of which Mr.. Burke is the
managing editor, published an estimate OF
the result OF the election SO far as the debt
ordinance was concerned, and gave the ma
iority for the ordinance az 11,071. That esti-
mate was based upon special kilograms and
correspondence TO the DEMOCRAT and upon
the statements made In our country ex-
changes, and was very nearly correct, as a
comparison with the official PRONUNCIATION OF
the returns published yesterday will show,
the discrepancy being only GA votes. In that
estimate the full vote OF the State was given,
as far as It was possible to obtain 1t at that
time, and was amply sufficient TO indicate,
beyond all doubt, the adoption Of the osdi-
nance.
The DEMOCRAT, which went TO consldera-
BILE expense In order TO obtain full and accu-
rate data, was the only city journal that ap-
proximated the result. The Pcagune's esti-
mate, based upon the best Information attain
able by that journal, placed the majority for
the ordinance on December ., with sixteen
parishes TO hear from, at s162, The Times
published no estimate OF the vote.
IL Ia perfectly clear, therefore, that Mr..
Burke IN his capacity "a managing editor Of
the DEMOCRAT, gave to the public the earliest
and most reliable Information on the subject
of the debt ordinance In his capacity as
State Treasurer he had nothing whatever to
do with the election returns and could not
possibly have retarded or accelerated their
publication. The statement Of these IRE
futable facts prove ooncusively that the New
York Sun haa In its employ In Washington
an Individual who is capable of the infinite
haseness Of wreaking hls personal malice
upon respectable gentlemen by manufactur-
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