Our esteemed contemporaries of the
New Orleans daily press. have been
for several weeks involved in an an
imated though scarcely edifying con
troversy, growing out of the shaking
up of the police system of that city
and the selection of E. S. Whitaker as
inspector of police.
The Daily Item says with much per
tui cy that it is passing strange to see
the Times-Democrat and the Picayune,
which both lambasted Martin Behr
man unmercifully during the campaign
that culminated in his election as
mayor, now hankering for his speedy
vindication in connection with his suit
against Proprietor O'Malley and Pub
lisher Denholme of the Item for al
leged defamation of character. Many
observers besides the Item have noted
and marveled at the radical change of
base on the part of the T.-D., the Pic.
and the mayor with respect to their re
lations towards each other, but it must
be the general verdict that a still more
peculiar feature of the situation is
presented by the attitude of the Item
itself.
