The Opelousas courier., 1885-05-16
The N. Q. Pieayune and the
Louisiana Democracy.
Pointe Coupee Banner.

Pointe Coupee Banner.
For a long time the N. O. Pic.
ayune has pursued a course well
calculated to create dissensions
in the Democratic party OF
Louisiana, and since the presi-
Dental election it has joined to
its forces a Washington cores
pendent whose sole duty seems
to be to furnish material for the
feditor Of the Picayune to en-
large upon in Tuning editorials,
which may appear quite heroic
to unsophisticated readers way
off in the Green Mountains, but
which in reality are nothing but
br,ttem futneeR and totally devoid
of merit, as is well known to all
the working and devoted mem
bers of the Democratic party OF
Louisiana, who remember the
trials and struggles through
which they have gone during
the last seventeen years, and
who have not forgotten the de-
votion, the consistency and the
honesty of purpose of those
gentlemen who are assaulted by
the Picayune as ringstcrs. The
Picayune and it's Washington
correspondent have carefully
cultivated the apple of discord,
and harped upon the words the
ring" the reform Democracy"
until the legitimate result is be-
ginning to crop out, and that is,
elimination and recrimination.
The names now kept most
prominently before the public,
and used in this war of crimina-
ton and recrimination, ofsuper-
lative praise and vile detrac-
ton, are those of Senators Glib
son and Eustis, ex-senator
Jonas and Gen. F. n. Ogden.
All of these gentlemen are
equally we'll known to the Dem
ocracy of Louisiana, and there is
nothing which the Picayune or
its Washington correspondent
could say which would detract
from the justly earned reputa-
ton of either. just now Sena-
tor Eustis is the bette noiye of the
Picayune, and the energies of
correspondent and editor have
been over taxed to injure him
in the estimation of the Demo-
cracy-all to 10 purpose, for
Mr.. Eustis' ability as ii man, his
consistency and devotion 10
Democratic principles and his
many eminent services to the
party are too well known aud
appreciated to permit of their
being forgotten and clouded.
As to Gen. Ogden, everybody
knows that in the last canvass
for the gubernatofial nomina-
ton, up almost to the last mo-
nlent, when there was All appa-
rant detection of Gov. Mich
oils from Ogden, there was
nothing laudatory which the
Picayune left unsaid of Ogden,
both us d man and as a Demo
crat now, however, that his
name is urged upon President
Cleveland for appointment as.
Collector of the port Of New
Orleans, and he has the support
OF Senator Enstis, the Picayune
passes him over with a silence
which amounts almost to con-
tempt, only that far away allu-
sions are made which would in
dictate that there was a vague
suspicion resting upon the III
minous mind of the directing
spirit of the Picayune, that an
unholy alliance had been enter
ed into between Gen. Ogden and
!" the ring Gen. Ogden, how
ever, has the satisfaction Of
knowing that his reputation
was built in the hearts of the
people by his generous and gal
liant acts, which justly entitled
him to be called Ghevalier
sans penr ct sans reproche"
long before he was the subject
of laulatory editorials in the
Picayune, and he need not fear
that his bright laurels can be
withered by the scorn Of the
Picayune. Senator Gibson is
for the moment the bean ideal
OF the Picayune-the embodi-.
ment of ali that is honorable in
politics, the Joshua that will
lead the heightened, long suf-
fering reform Democracy out of
the octopus-like grip Of the
dreadful firing 7 and raise them
out Of the slough Of desponden-
o. and place them on the pedes-
tai Of glory, i. e., the Custom
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