The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-09-16
A ScurrillOus Attack.

The West Monroe Plo,c Boy has the fol-
lowing:
"The Ring men and lottery papers have
have commenced to boom McEnery for
Governor.
McEnerys whole career, social and pub
lie, has been evil. He has been the plant
tool of as corrupt a set of men as ever
ruled self-respecting people. 1t is high
time he had been retired to private life.
The crowning glory of all his public
acts was to Join Bermudez and Watkins,
rs supreme judges, in going to the very
verge of perjury in stretching the law to
protect the Louisiana Lottery legisla-
tion."
The above false, malicious and bastard
ly attack upon the character of ex Gov
ernor McEnery bear its falsehood self
apparent upon its face, and will serve to
have very different effect from that in
tended by the Plop Boy. The Plow Boy
must be boy indeed, aud plowiug :,
very crooked furrow, both on truth and
policy for it's own side, when it makes
such barefaced, false assertions, and ex-
poets the people of Louisiana to believe
them as truth. The attack is an inf,-
mons one, though in Keeping with the
general tone of the rabid anti press
Even with the majority of those, how
ever, the extent of the above villitication
and slander was never attempted to be
reached. While Gov. McEnery's course
, as Governor may have been severely crit
/ icised by the political faction opposing
him, they never dreamed OF attacking his
private record. which has been unques-
tionably that of an honorable gentleman,
sans penr ct sans reproache, and 1t has
been reserved for the petty malice of a
new, fiedged journal (') to exceed the
boonds of journalistic honor, courtesy
and propriety, and seek to gain an unen.
viable notoriety by the unqualitiedly
false and malignant assertion, that "Mc-
Enery's whole career, private, social and
public, has been evil" Gov. McEnery
needs no defence at our hands. He Is too
we'll known, honored and respected by
the people OF Louisiana to need any de-
fence. His life record is a complete refu-
tation of any such malicious libels, which
will meet with the contempt and con-
demnaton of all honorable men in our
State. be they opposed to him politically
or not. But the mal,gnity of this green
gosling Of u 'Plow Boy" was not satisfied
even with this outrageous and Indecent
attack upon the private character of a
gentleman whom Louisiana had honore,l
by the gift OF her chief executive office.
MI 4. r
attempt to soil the ermlne of the States
highest tribunal, the Supreme Court, and
assert that Justice McEnery, as one of the
Supreme Bench, joined Justice Watkins
and Chief Justice Bermudez Gin goiug to
the very verge of perjury" in their recent
decision remanding the lottery question
to the people in accordance with the law
and the Constitution of the State. We
suppose if either Justice Breaux or Fen
ner had conceded IN the decision of the
majority of the bench they would also
have been accused of "goins to the very
verge of perjury" As we have said, we
Judge the "Plow Boy" has sought tc gain
an unenviable notoriety by this scnrril-
lous attack upon the private character of
a gallant gentleman, and the public !
character of the majority of the Supreme
Bench. In this desire we will lelp it ont
in reproducing its scandaons attack
Citizens of Louisiana, what is your verdict
upon such an outrageous libel upon the
honor of yonr Supreme Bench' What is
your opinion Of a paper which will thus
mallgn the private and social record off
one whom you have before honored by
making your governor, and whose private |
and pnblic career is SO we'll known and re- :,
spectedf We denounce the libelons as. !
sertions, both upon the private character
of Ex-Governor McEnery, and that upon
the judicial honor of Justice Bermniez, |
Watkins and McEnery, as false and ma
llclons, and one that would not be made !
by any paper with any pretensc to honor
able, conservative journalism. The s.Plow
Boy" should take to the cultivation ofI
skunk weed; it best suits it's tenor.
Il Shreveport Times
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