The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-06-17
THE COUNTRY PRESS.
VIEWS ON DIFFERENT TOPICS.
The Lottery.

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! tNatchitoohes vindleatorl
The PicagIne crawled out to defend act No
3, the great lottery outrage We desire every
man n IN Louisiana to know this fact, so when
that little official CLIQUE attempts to take
the public printing from the DEMOCRAT nexI
December they may be made to feel the pres
sure OF an indignant people.
f[Vermiionville Cotton. Boll.I
4, me people Of New. Orleans and of the en-
an everlasting debt Of gratitude for the able
manner In which it is opposing the Howard
Lottery. sWlndle and moulding public opinion
against 1t. This journal Is the cause of the
Fourth District Court of that city has twice
decided against the lottery monopoly. Oh
course HoWard's suit against the DEMOCBAT
1or damages, will not fare any better.
Legislative work.
| Union Reeordl
| In looking over the acts OF the last session
! OF our Legislature we notice that that body
passed ten Joint resolutions, twenty-One acts
| OF q general character and ninety-six special
acts, making in all one hundred and twenty
seven acts; 1t has been said that the world
| is too much governed, and surely the Lepis-
lature OF this State has been doing too much
WORK oil special nature. II all this expense
10 the people grows out of constitutional re-
strietions or any other legal barrier. search
Ing, investigation should be made for them
and they should be expunged. We will add
That the last Legislature did not do more OF
thls klnd OF work than the previous one that
we are aware OF, but we taken the acts of 1873
as an illustration of our argument.
A Constitutional Convention.
shreveport Timesa1
We never had but one opinion on the subject,
OF a constitutional convention. That the peo-
pie demand one, and that it is necessary there
sshould s be one, is q question in our Judgment
700 plain to be, argued. But while we think
this, we do not admit Of the policy OF getting
up quarrel within the party on the ques-
ton, Let each parish Instruct it's delegates
on this subject and when they meet there
VIII be no cause for elimination or recrmina-
tlon. All necessary to be done is for each to
vote aye or no, as he may be Instructed.
should O. majority vote mo" all left for those
OF who favor convention to do will be to
accept defeat as gracefully as may be, and the
same, rule should hold good with those op-
posed to d convention.
tNatehltoches Vlndieator.1
The baldest attempt to circumvent public
sentiment. public demands and public wants,
Dy the amendment men and the Conservatives
IS that which suggests we should not make a
ntGonstitutional convention an issue this year"
~ might split the party" say these meek
This suggestion bears on it's face the starnp
OF It's intention. Driven to the wall, the men
VINO nave proven recreant to every pledge
mace 20 the people by the Democratic party
now grasp at every means to avert the enur-
ciation OF such an issue as the emphatic de-
mands for q constitutional convention. for
such would be the condemnation Of their
course.
The Democratic party OF this State Ia in no
danger Of disruption from such course. IN
dlvlduals may wander off, they are not the
party however, much they imagine go and
we unhesitatiDgly affirm that any man now
apcIlng padlg WIN the Democracy could take to the
hadlcal camp, should he depart would be his |
own personal baggage. Men have tried that |
who had more personal power than anv man |
In this State has to-day.
Ihls dodge" Is the last gasp of the cum
the people, for they will demand O. constitu- |
Gional convention and support no man who
does not favor it.
TRichIand Beacon.l
=, AS the political campaign begins to omen
The controversy as to whether we shall have
, constitutional convention or not grows
warm within the ranks of our own Darfv. so
much so that no one can expect harmSnv in
me party until the nominations have ali been
made, and even then we are Threatened with
llscord That is being engendered by the bitter
aess less, WIN Whlc1 the subject is being dis
eussed. Let US discuss this question calmly
md dispasstonately, and If we fail to carry
)ur point, watch and wait patiently. We are
DOund to nave q new constitution some time
u lnd 4 We fail to elect Legislature that will
"A ~ Oiii5 bllue, TWO years are not alWayB-
,n0ugh IL Is long time to still live under the
miserable old patched up concern We now cali
1ur constitution. N'O' '''''
state Capital.
EHouma Courierl
From our exchanges we learn that nanv
parishes arc in favor of having the State can't
al removed to Baton Rouge, 70 Rafon
Rouge! Why, the idea is absurd. Tn oI1r
opinion the capital should remain where If is
md where it should be. New Orleans the
principal commercial city of the South-is the
proper place for the assembling Of our law
makers, and no more subject to the evil in
1uences OF mOnopolies than anv other citv
| he friends OF the removal" movement claim
hat legislators would breathe the pure air ~
honesty In rural town, and that rnononoliea
md rings would thereby lose their debasin0
but, if this be the case, we advise the
constituents Of those protective lepisIators1
o elect men who represent them with honor.
integrity and dignity-be the influences good
'r evil. Our representatives should be mon 8
Who can stand the fire Of political gamblers
set, who, but too often, control the destinies
u this great State, and the same time under- {
nine the weak fabric of our republican insti-
utlons. We go further and say that we he
leve that there is some hidden sipnificance
a the advocacy of the removal of the STATE ;;
apttal-whether it be lob or NOT. OF one !
hing we feel satisfied, it is that we have read
no logical arguments that would convince :
sensible man that Baton Rouge is the :
roper place for the coverted honor of being :
ne capital OF this State
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