The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-10-13
1.-THE sNAKY SOROEREsS."

hoped that the published list in the morning
will agreeably dsappoint public expectation
and that O convention will assemble to-mor-
row which will nominate @ ticket creditable to
the Democratic party and calculated to heal
all dissensions amongst our people.
It ls to be regretted that the elections had SO
much the appearance of being run ex-
clusively by combinations Of candidates.
Many Democrats declined to vote because
| they knew nothing of the persons whose
| names were on the tickets for delegates from
their wards, and because they could learn
nothing of the persons and combinations the
tickets represented. The lists OF delegates,
except In q few instances, were unknown until
the morning of the election: they seemed to
be made up in secret by unseen
fingers, and then launched at the last mo-
ment before the voters; and those who were
not In the secret, or who were not strikers OF
the combinations, were utterly st q loss TO
| know who or what to vote for.
| Whether this was really the case or not we
shall not pretend to say now. The work the
convention will perform for the party to-mor-
row will be the true standard by which to Judge
it's honesty and representative character. 1t
o1A>""
the charge Is true, that great combination,
including candidates for nearly every city and
parish office and for the Legislature, was
formed with the Louisiana Lottery Company
and other rings to control the primaries and
the convention. II another charge be true,
that the com bination has been very generally
| successful. and the convention carries out the
programme of the combination, there will be
q fierce, widespread and successful revolt
against the nominations; the character OF the
primary elections will be completely exposed !;
the leaders Of the combination will be pointed
out, and the emptiness of the claims of the
4 ticket to Democratic fealty established.
Yesterday afternoon and last night the
town was filled with the mutteriDgs OF revolt,
not from chronic GROWERS and disappointed
aspirants, but from Democrats whose heads
have whitened while they fought the battles
of the Democracy, and from men younger but
not less true to the cause, and who never
bolted O. nomination. We trust and believe
that their fears are unfounded and their COM
plants premature. We trust that the COM
bination has not succeeded, or that the dele
gates who have been put forward in It's in
terests will foresee the horrible error they
will commit in carrying out Its schemes. We
trust. and shall believe until the convention
has beled the Democratic party and dis
graced itself, that it will nominate ticket
composed of Democrats and Conservatives OF
ability and integrity, and who possess the
full confidence of the public
No Democratic convention can nominate
any man for public Office who is not COM
mitted to opposition to the Louisiana State
Lottery. There are other institutions and
! rings to which an honest Democratic candi-
date must be opposed. We refer to this
one especially, at this time, because it is
charged throughout the city that 1t
has largely Influenced the primaries
of yesterday, and will largely intlu-
ence the nominations tomorrow. The
partisans of that corrupt institution hold that
it has contributed to the success of the Dem
ocratic party and that any representation a
Democratic convention and Democratic con-
stituency may give it in the Legislature, will
vote and in all measures cooperate with the
Democrats. On this ground they hold that
the Lottery has 81 right to exercise an intiu-
ence in the nominations of the Democratic
party There is not q word of truth in this.
From the hour that the Lottery sprang
from the womb Of the snaky sorceress' thai
kept the fatal key which excluded right, and
honesty, and justice from our Legislative halls
to the hour when it became apparent thai
Radicalism was doomed, the Lottery stood BY
it's mother. Then, however, it became the
loudest champion of the Nichols government
and all it's watch dogs howled and parked il
noisy gladness at the approach of the new
, hot f,I oh nm
ceasinglv barked around the sorceress at the
gate OF hell yet
II aught disturb'd their noise. back into he]
womb.
And kennel there"
!, at the first attack made by the DEMOCRAT
upon it's charter, obtained by corruption anc
abused and forfeited in numberless instances
the Lottery gang crept back into the bowels
of the Radical party. We have not space here
} to go over the story of its Vaccinations il
the last session of the Legislature, and shov
, how it operated through the Radical mem
| bers and It's few followers among the SO
t called Democrats, and defeated several 0
the reform measures most earnestly de
. sired by the people Of this State. That stor,
. has already been thrice told in these columns
G We now propose to relate an interview whic]
/ took place in Baton Rouge between an agen
of the Lottery Company, who was q Demo
cratic member, God save the mark! Of tn
s last House, and which confirms all we hay
s said against that Ubiquitous corporation.
l. Early in the morning of the sixth Of Au
g gust last the member referred to callet
d at Burch's house. The burly Senator re
+ ceived him with great cordality; on tn
n footing indeed, of a very dear and intimat
Q friend and invited him to breakfast. Tina
invitation, we believe, was declined, and the
: began very interesting conversation on tn
g political outlook, of which the following Is
y very correct report:
n Representative Bureh, the old man want
IS you to run for State Senator again-we wan
Il you In the next Legislature.
It Bmch-Now, Harry, I don't know abou
e that; I have pretty well made up my mind
run for Congress in this district, and dout
"a | if T colld he elected I'D here to the Senate