The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1893-07-29
Still Harping.

negiects absolutely to show any proof
OF his sweeping charge" &c.
Why say the CoUR1ER's writer ?
Look at the head of the CoUR1ER's
column and you will see printed there
the name of the editor and proprietor.
This being the case the avriter of the
Clarion knoaus who is responsible for
all that appears in the COURIER. We
say the "Clarion's writer because we
can never know positively who does
Write its editorials. 1t is true we
eften satisfactorily recognize who the
writer is by the nothingness of his pre-
tentious evaporations which he some
times spreads over it's columns.
We have no disposition to Jump on
him personally, any further than he
proyokes us to it by his occasional fog
horn noise. We have to look foroh
in the fog where from years of obser-
walton we have been taught to expect
him. Let him stand out as the editor
or affix his initials to the articles he
writes or assume the responsibility for,
and he may fcst-assured we will notice
them whenever we deem it proper to
do so, as the lucubrations of the known
author.
But there seems to be no editor of
the Clarion and to tho public and to
ourself it has the appearance of a
Journalistic Briareus waging war against
a patent truth The Clarion's writer
appearing to be- the multiple of unas-
certaiDable numbers, we have to
pounce upon that writer whose ear
marks enable MS TO identify him. Not
every one is equally vulnerable and
we would stand convicted ia the forum
of our own conscience, were we to fire
at random and have our arrows reach
mark the archer never meant
We trust this explanation will in
duce the arriter Of the Clarion to ex-
cnse US for speaking of him as such.
The fact that he squirms on being re-
minded of certain facts but serves to
convince us that we have not erred
in our illusions. Indeed, we would
not have touched him on the raU, had
he not first sought t. berate as, for
having mentioned a truth which no
honest man will dare deny. Now he
says We made no effort to prove our
statement and proceeds to make re-
marks, tantamonnts TO say that if he,
the HHkROlrn, saw proper to require
proof we should have been prompt to
offer evidence.
To prove that twice two makes four,
that u moon beam is imponderable-
that water rnns down hill-that the
sun shines, or that our allusions to the
political gymnastics of the Clarion's
writer are true, were the veriest non
sense-a "Wasteful and ridiculous ex-
cess.n
The writer endeavoring TO screen
himself from the blaze of discovery
throws up the screen of impotent ridi
cnle and repeatedly babbles of the
APOSTLES of the school of TRUTH" as if
he thought his pointless mutterings
would induce any one to believe he
had taken course in such a school.
Such an Alma Mater never yet turned
out a matricnlate that did not res.
pect her teachings.
We are not surprised when he tells
us that being a Warmoth republican
he was not in II position to know that
.never since the war among the States,
has there been single fair election in
Louisiana" We take it for granted
that he was not, and fail TO understand
how he can claim credit when he de-
nies it. He says he believes just the
contrary of what we stated from which
we suppose he wishes To maintain that
all elections were fair when Warmoth
held sway He says he "belieyes the
elections carried by the Democratic
party in Louisiana since the war
among the states, have generally been
fair" We of course cannot tell what
the writer believes but this we be-
lieve: If he really does believe what
he says he.can also believe that War
moth can sew up microscopic incision
made below the fifth rib of a red bng
with the cable of the Great Eastern.
Bnt he says he is not graduate in
the school Of truth and really we do
not see why he thought it necessary
to tell it for that which is made self
evident needs not to be told
We are not arraigning the demo
cratic party for the purpose of having
it tried. There are no Jurors who
could sit IN the case uuIess we take
Philae Warmotheans and we cannot
trust some If them. Our inability to
among them would lead
to a mistrial. We don't propose to
proselyte those who having eyes will
not see, and having ears Qong ones at
that will not hear. The Clarion's
writer is too old for contrition and too
for conversion. He says,
.slong live the COURIER and its writer
and the school of truth" Amen. And
should such be our good fortune we
win continue to hold aloft the torch
Of truth hoping that as long as the
light may continue TO burn, cen the
Chrion's writer may return.