The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-06-14
back the odd I'VE cents tbey have invested in his

swindle7
| drawing, will have only one chance In eighty
i four years to draw even this s249 30 prize.
/ Old Methusaleh himself had he bugked up
against the lottery from his earliest childhood
to the day Of his death. and bought. ticket
/ every day, would have found nimstl1 winner
OF only sa67e IS after having spent about $780, 900
on the Lottery Company.
Such is the real character OF the daily
policy and combination drawings OF the Lou
isiana Lottery Company. The calculations
were made by thorough mathematician, and
1 no flaw can be found In them. They show
/ that the concern Is In Its nature O swindle
upon the public. There is no necessity to
practice cheating In running such scheme
as this; the scheme is the very essence of
cheating itself. The thousands OF Ignorant
and credulous people who read the Haming
advertisements Of the Lottery Company, and
who are seduced and tempted by every con-
ceivable means to invest their money In these
daily drawings, cannot calculate their chances
themselves, nor, we fear fully comprehend
these results after they have been worked
out for Them. The ignorant and credulous
minds will believe the advertisements; the
flaming posters; the placards on the band
wagons; the dream books the delusive hopes
of their own infatuated minds and hearts in
preferences to our figures, and they will go on
In their folly, vainly spending their money
| for policy and combination tickets until
legislature assemblies here which the Lottery
Company has not money enough TO control
which will repeal It's charter and relieve this
community Of blighting curse.
THE LOUISIANA LOTTERY COMPANY DEMO-
CRATIC INSTITUTION.
Generals Beauregard and Early have inn
bibed the belief that the Louisiana State Lot
terry Is Democratic Conservative institution
They say In the course of their defense OF it :
Before entering into the arrangement for su.
| perintending the. principal drawings Of the
Louisiana State Lottery, we took care TO as
az se W be N ns Gem a.
Conservative party Of the State. and became
satisfied that they were active and earnest sup
| the Legislature. which was In sympathy with
| him, the political condition generally known as
the status IL quo being then In existence.
The Louisiana State Lottery Company from
the day of it's inception to the closing hours
of the last disastrous session OF the Legisla-
ture, has never played any honest or patriotic
part In politics 1t has been on both sides;
but whatever side 1t espoused 1t espoused In
It's own interest, and whatever power 1t has
ever given either to Radicalism or TO the Dem
ocratic party has been In the way OF corrup-
ton. It was created by Radical Legisla-
ture and by votes that were VIGOROUSLY
purchased The obnoxious acts of 1874
which were enacted, in its interest, by
the Radical Legislature of that year
were also purchased. From 1868 to 1876
the Radical party controlled the State The
legislatures were composed of Radicals, the
Governors we're Radicals, most all OF the
judges and magistrates were Radicals, and
the Louisiana Lottery Company was created,
sustained, fostered and protected by all these
1t Is notorious fact that it gave largely to
the Radical campaign fund. An entirely hon
est and truthful man, who was an employee
of the company, informs us that at one time
Mr.. Howard gave emphatic instructions to
all the employees of the company to vote for
| f. q. Dibble, one Of the most obnoxious carpet
baggers In the State, In the spring Of 1876, a
| large stakeholder In the company told
us that Mr.. Howard declared that he was not
q Democrat, and that he expected all persons
employed by the Lottery Company to vote
the Republican ticket. As the campaign pro-
gressed, the signs In the political skies became
so plain that he changed his position. But
| he and his newspaper were but luke
warm supporters of the Democratic
| ticket; indeed, they were regarded rather
as disorganizers than as allies. III the success
of our cause had depended upon the aid It re-
ceived from the lottery party, we should have
been overwhelmingly defeated and the domi-
nation of Radicalism prolonged yet four
years In Louisiana.
| But when the fight was over and IL was
evident that Radlcalism had run it's pestif-
erous course in Louisiana, the lottery ring
grew bold and aggressive as lions, and, as
we remarked day or two SINCE with
banners flying, marched over into the
Democratic camp. This Is not the manner
in which Generals Beauregard and Early
have been wont to espouse q cause. They did
not wait to see how the tide of battle was
going to roll before they drew their swords
and took sides. When the great war be-
| tween States with which their names are
gloriously and Immortality associated began,
the one obeyed the call of Virginia, the
other that of Louisiana, and, through
marches and battles, through victory and
sad defeat, they followed the flag Of their
country until its stars went down on sea
of blood and their light was quenched in
the cloud of universal ruin. II such men
shall investigate the true political asso-
Citations and history of the Louisiana
Lottery Company, we believe they will
not be willing to stand by the assertion that
it is or has been, in true and proper sense,
a Democratic or Conservative institution
They are not of the breed of men who ap-
plaud the zeal In fight (such as that through
which Louisiana passed for ten years. which
is developed after the victory Is won and
displayed only in plundering the battlefield.
AS to the part the Lottery Company played
In dissolving the Packard and organizing the
Democratic Legislature we do not care to
speak. Others may tell that story. We were
not parties to the business, and feeble and
impotent though our pen may be, it will never
be used to defend the uses which the Lottery