The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-01-14
FLANDERS.

Public men are at all times subject ta criH-
| ciam. and II Ia not at all surprising that In
the heat OF exciting campaigns. when pas
| aiana are aroused and preyoeation ta given,
| thlnua are said and done which are often
times cruel aud unjust
n Ia DIM mlt Ia determine how far criticism
| may extend before IL deHenerates into Islander
and becomes weapon Tor timld aemagogues
who Affect the bearing Of brave men but nur-
sue their ambition through the aid OF methods
which gentlemen deapse. Werefer TO a case
In pnint In which all honorable mon will dis
gnguleh the line OF demarratinn between
legitimate criticism and cowardly detraeton
We refer to the recent assaults upon u. A,
Burke contained In the New York Sun and
Nav York World
The hostility III the New York Slm to Mr..
Burke growing out Of the electoral contest
Of 1870 and a fanrlei belief that he had done
something to prejudice thu interests of Mr..
ridden In that eveatEu contest accounted
Tor the il-temner Of the Sun
prior to 1sfa but. In September Of that
year. tbls question was disposed OF by
the frank and explicit statement Of MIR. Ill
den. conveyed 10 Mr. Dana aud TO the Demo
cratic National Committee. that Mr. Tilden
had about lost all hope when the electoral
bill was adopted and regarded his contest "a
concluded bv the vote on Florida lie declared
that tho action III Mr.. Burke at Washington
did not prejudice his tNr. Tildens) elaims.
After these explanations the SIM published
a lengthy article highly enlogstie OF Mr..
Burke, aud otherwise indicated the ending of
any further controversy upon the points
formerly ralsed 1t waa. therefore, with sur
prise that we witnessed n renewal of personal
attacks In that Journal some weeks since. aud
we're At less 20 comprehend tho motive
shortly after the Sans publication
special correspondence from New Orleans ap-
reared III the New York World. which was
Appropriately answered In the DEMOCRAT.
On the twenty-nlnth of December however.
the real purpose of these attacks WAS dis
closed In column dispatch in tho Now
York World, from Washington corre-
spondent. repeating the Islander en-
bodied In the telegram from New Orleans.
and retailing tissue of falsehoods
which had Nbeen published and exploded In tho
heated contest of 1872, when Mr., Burke was
candidate for Administrator of Improve
nlents. These publications were marked aud
mailed Is prominent gentlemen In every par
ish in Louisiana, simultaneously with the
discovery Of the fact that a United States Sem
| ator WAS 10 be chosen by our Legislature
| We append the article from the Now York
| World referred to above. which hetrays the
animus OF It's writer upon Its face. Rnd de-
nounclng every insinuaton and allegation
against MIR. Burke as false and slanderous,
leave its despicable author to the contempt of
! eli honorable ssssR
Especial Dispatch to the World,l
/ WASHINGTON Dec. as.--Like Mssissppi.
| t ,utstads4 vii elect United states SENATOR In
i anu ny, 1850 Great local as we'll ~ national
iatare,t attaches to this election which Is to
| give n successor TO the much too celebrated
| X iogg Numerous candidates. prominent In
ar, ia tho held, directly Or i,nd-
rpctiR Among them are the Hon
Randall y aoson the Hon James ,f hasts y.
In he 3 nate bY the ION. b T lnasl, thu don.
+ Jann 4 II. th' Hon, j. FLOYD KING, the lie
do it,re G vernon Of Louisiana MIR John No
M ~. wno ~ Kellogg himself the o hsr day
adtuit5eA was II daubtedy chosen by the poo
pl+. aud justice spofrord SO loag the con,
nv MI. William 7. kellogg. Messrs. 6ies N.
Ellis aud ktng are now memhers So. OF
ne hagse here sor. Phs sb tx at #
eNun-ction With The SanatorsGip. are not ae-
tuaily asptrants, but Mr.. Gibson IL avoEedly In
The asld. - are also Mr.. John MeEaery and
Jutee speffari, Besides all these Mr. Duna N
| l. ksnnar, If New Orleans formerly memb +
of fue Gonfe terate Congress aud W "A kuoa a.
/ tha president OF the late L@yee Company OF
| Louisiana l. understood to be- pressed for Tee
position, as na WIS former y III the election
which sent Mr.. Jonas 70 the Senate.
/ j he apparent contest. supnose, NAV be said
to ha hs. wAen Gibson, Eusus. ksnner. MeEaery
/ AID Spofford. but there are vagns inttmaslons
here that the friends OF Grant In Louisiana