The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-06-14
THE NEW ORLEANS DEMOCRAT, FRIDAY, JUNE II. 1878

| Is ready at any time TO array itself with the
enemies of the Democratic party when, to SUBJ
serve It's own interests, 1t becomes necessary
| to do SO.
Generals Beauregard and Early are both &C.
quainted with the fact that the Democrats
had q very small working majority In the
House, and that several members Of that
majority were utterly unreliable. With this
slim majority Of Democrats, the seat for the
Fourteenth Ward Of this city was in contest
between one Dejoie. q colored Radical, and
Mr.. Ferguson, a straight Democrat, hostile
to the lottery interest Deioie was seated by
one majority through the influence and agents
of the Lottery Company. We presume Cen
erals Beauregard and Early win accept Mr.
Towards statement on this point.
During the session OF the Legislature
committee of investigation was appointed by
the House to inquire into this and other
charges made by the DEMOCRAT Mr.Dupre
one of the proprletors of this paper, being be-
fore that committee, testified as follows
/ learned from Mr.. Howard that Mr.. Deiois
could not have been seated IL the report of the
Judiciary Committee had been the same on the
bill repeal the act creating the Lottery Com
pany as it was in the cases of the Slaughter
house and Gas companies.
Mr.. Howard was summoned, and testified
relative to this particular charge as follows
/ did state that In my opinion Mr. Deioie
would not have been seated but for the unfair
distinction between the. Lottery Company and
other monopolies in their report upon fneas-
ures affecting m2nopsolies.
To Mr.. Leaf stated that | believed that Mr.
Dejoie was seated because the Judiciary Com
mittee had treated the Lottery Company I'M
fairly.
We call attention to three facts here: /. The
Democrats In the House had @ bare majority
in that body, and several of those unreliable
and thoroughly under the control of the Lot
terry Company, as was every Radical Repre-
sentative.
9. Mr.. Howard distinctly admits that the
negro Radical, Deioie, was seated over the
Democrat, Ferguson, because the Democratic
Judiciary Committee reported adversely to
the interests Of the Lottery Company
Q. That the question as TO who was actually
elected had no weight whatever in settling the
title to the contested seat The matter was
settled in favor Of the negro Radical simply
and solely because the action of the Judiciary
Committee indicated that there was strong
Democratic hostility to the lottery.
These facts must convince any unpreiu-
diced man that the Lottery Company would
not have hesitated in 1878 to throw the control
of the Legislature into the hands of the same
Radicals who had for ten years been outrag-
ing and plundering this State, and that It &C
tually did do all that 1t could to that end; for
Il, as Mr.. Howard testified, negro Radical
was seated in the House over q Democrat be-
cause the action or report of committee,
with Democratic majority, did not please
the Lottery Company, we presume no one
will be absurd enough to deny that the OUT
rage, or rather the rascality, was committed
through the influence Of the Lottery Com
pany.
II Generals Beauregard and Early can con-
template these facts and then affirm that the
Louisiana Lottery Company is Democratic
institution, or that the Democratic party can
trust 1t any longer than it is willing to identify
itself with the lottery and support all Of its
schemes, we are very much mistaken in their
political sagacity. And yet we have given but
one case In number at hand, and which we
will present at another time.
The singular view Generals Beauregard and
Early have presented Of the monopoly feature
OF the Louisiana Lottery Company, is so re-
markable, new ana entertaining, that we re-
serve the discussion of it, with some other
points of ''their defense" for O special article
tomorrow.