Louisiana capitolian., 1881-11-10
INTERESTED MOTIVES.


of the Legislature, by the Advocate
and the CAPIToLIAN.
According to those keen observers
into the true inwardness Of things,
the Baton Rouge papers have been
working for the sole purpose Of drum
ming up customers for the saloon and
boarding house keepersof the "would
like to be- Capital of Louisiana.
We would like to place the CApI-
ToLIAN in its proper light, in this
matter. Hence, we will say to our
contreres that nobody connected with
it has the remotest interest in any
saloon or boarding house. We have
given quite a number Of reasons for
holding an extra session, some of
which have appeared of sufficient
urgency to cause the Governor to in
clude them in his call.
So far as our advocacy of Baton
Rouge, as the place where the ses-
sion should be held, we have to say
first that the Constitution designates
her as the seat of Government.
Secondly, that Baton Rouge hav-
ing paid the $4,000 exacted from
her by the Constitution, she is in all
Justice entitled to receive such sub
stantial benefits as the establishment
of the seat of governmentmight bring.
Our confreres ought to remember
that New Orleans, though she has
not paid any $4,000 into the State
Treasury, has some saloon and hotel
keepers, besides sundry other insti-
tutions that Baton Rouge don't af
ford.
And we don't see why these should
be given the preference over those Of
Baton Rouge.
Surely, New Orleans has reaped
the harvest from all the onslaughts
that have been made upon the State
Treasury, ever since the Banks
Hahn Rump Government, by the
grace of Yankee bayonets, was trans
planted in the midst of her saloons
and seraglios, much to the satisfac-
ton Of those country legislators and
statesmen, who cling so tenaciously
to her fleshpots.
Baton Rouge is in the State Of
Louisiana. The old fogies (?) Of
BEFORE THE WAR, had elected her
the seat of government, and had
erected on the crest of her hillocks, a
Capitol that was then the pride of
the people, in those "slow but sure"
days. The Benjamins, the Soules,
the Sigurs, the Moutons, the Rose
lius, the Moores, and others we might
mention, used to assemble within its
walls, and during the sessions used to
put up with the country fare, that
our statesmen and legislators of to-
day, who have acquired the tastes Of
Sybarites, are so 10th to accept.
Baton Rouge, besides being the
Capitol-elect, is apart of gallant
parish, that has never flinched in
either the struggles for the redemp-
ton of the State from Radical rule,
OF when the bonnie blue flag was un-
furled before the battle and the
breeze. Not less than a full regi-
ment of East Baton Rougeaas fought
for Dixie, on almost every battlefield
of the war.
When in 1872, it became necessary
to elect John McEnery for Governor,
East Baton Rouge rolled up for him
a handsome majority, when other
parishes didn't do so well.
| And IN 1876, in the face Of a full
battalion Of us. Troops and metro,
politan deputy marshals, gallant East
Baton Rouge, again fell into line with
a handsome majority for Nichols.
For those reasons alone, we think
that Baton Rouge has some claims
if not rights, which entitle her to tht
consideration Of the rulers Of tht
State, and of our brethren of tht
Press, who have charged our papers
with having SO little regard tor th'
general welfare Of the State, as tt
advocate an extra session for no 9th
er object than to drum up customer