No paper has endorsed more warm
ly-or will continue to do so-the ex
cellent financial management of Mr.
Clinton, than the CHIEF, and when
we see reason to criticise his actions,
we claim the right as his supporter
and friend to do so freely, yet in no
captious spirit, and we are confident
our strictures will be regarded in the
light they are made. In this matter
relative to the public printing we
speak not for the CHIEF alone. The
CHIEF can exist with or without pub
lishing the laws, with or without the
parochial and judicial advertising
which its standing among Republi
cans have secured for it. But we
speak also for other good and true
Republican journals, that have striven
against the business ostracism and
politicaL hate of the more enlight
ened class of Louisianians to build up
themselves and the grand principles
of their party, to educate the people
to a standard of intelligent liberality
commensurate with the spirit of our
institutions. Certainly they are de
serving of something more, especially
at the hands of their natural friends,
than a deprivation of the well-earned
patronage which party usage the na
tion over declares to be their due.
There is an equipoise in this matter,
in which the demands of public econ
omy, political necessity and common
justice can be nicely balanced, and
we hope this will be arrived at ere
the close of the controversy.*
II
The New Orleans Tines prints a
special dispatch from Washington
announcing that it is the current be
lief in political circles that Gov.
Pinchback has abandoned the fight
for a seat in the Senate and will apply
for admission to the House of Repre
sentatives as Congressman at large.
When this report receives confirma
tion we shall give it credence.
