The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-05-29
Bribing The Press.
Vienna Sentinel

The Infamous and tyranncal Lottery Com
pany, the monument Of Radical rascality, the
dearly beloved patron Of some OF the North
Louisiana papers, the recipient Of favOrs in
Vulnerable in these latter days OF reform, and
the purchaser of men and measures to do its
own class legislation this monopoly, (which
word Is so distasteful to woud-be reformers),
has discovered respectable gentlemen, o
merchant of New Orleans, who it is alleged
violated it's act No. 8, and has dragged him
before Recorders Court upon the oath OF
one of it's bummers and without jury he will
be incarcerated In the Parish Prison, will be
ttiUested of his rested rights.
1t matters not how many citizens OF this
State lose their pested rights; let it but be
intimated that such laws as act No. must
be repealed, and the liberty OF the citizen pro
tected, and the lotteryiteS rallied, put on their
robes of sanctity and wounded indignation,
and besought members of the Legislature not
to deprive the lottery of it's vested rights
1t can't be done without a breach OF fa1th-let
the lottery violate the liberty OF the citizen
let 1t have its tyrannical laws-it must not be
molested-it violates the constitution Of the
United States. and such other twaddle dd
nGnsedn
country circulate the lottery's documents,
give 1t moral support, and are helping 1t
extend its power for harm, upon their con-
stituents. 1t can't be that they denounce it
and advertise it. Their silence has been pur-
chased for twelve months; in the meantime
the election of representatives, who are to
make laws for the State, will have taken
place. 1t was claimed the lottery had
working majority in the last Legislature,
and having purchased the silence of so many
papers, would it not be much easier to get
such papers to advocate man Of their choice
for representative
We are forced to this concluslon-that pa
pers which publish the lottery will have to
break faith with the lottery or their subscrib-
ers. The lottery means serious business ad-
vertising In country papers, for the first time,
just preceding an election, and we would adj
wise every one to be on the alert. watch as
well as pray"
[Minden Democrat
The Minden Democrat refused the Louis
lana Lottery advertisement. There is hopes
Of that editor, yet Vienna Sentinel.
the last Legislature the Minden Democrat
persistently denounced the Lottery Company
and demanded the repeal of the act creating
it, and has never ceased its war upon all raS-
caIly monopolies created by the Radicals dur
ing their regime. This attempt by Howard X
Co. to bride the country press-it is nothing
more nor less than brioe-is an insult to the
entire profession and they Howard q CO.. de-
serve whipping. We are not yet a
member of the Legislature.
Act No. ..
Lincoln Sentinel
Act No. 9, session 1874, provides that any
person who sells or offers to SELL barter OIL
exchange any lottery ticket other than the
Louisiana Lottery shall be fined $25 or five
n days imprisonment, and provides that the
offender be taken before any police court, and
the penalty inflicted. 1t is a violation Of
State law the constitution provides that
prosecutions shall be by indictment or infor-
nation, and the accused shall be entitled to a
speedy public trial by jury"
This act is no part of the charter of said
rotten company, but is an act of the Legis-
lature, and was called by the Legislature
"vested" rights, and therefore could not be
abolished. Now, svhile the Legislature was
50 tenacious on vested" rights, why did it
not secure the citizens the right guaranteed
by that abomination ycleped the constitu
Jon. They verify did not believe that sauce
for the goose was sauce for the gander.
A just Judge.
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