The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-01-22
THE LOTTERY COMPANY TO THE
FRONT.

long stood, to the shame and detriment o
this State, is slipping away, and the gorgeous
palace OF corruption is about to tumble upol
, the heads of It's builders For three years tn,
DEMOCRAT has assailed the Lottery as al
INSCRIPTIONS and dominating power In Lou
isiana politics, and as an institution democrat
izng to public manners and ruinous to its
multitude OF infatuated victims. Months IL
and months out the DEMOCRAT has at
tackled this monopoly without evokina
a single public response from It's man
ayers in its defense. Born of bribery
Its conductors believed more in the power
Of money to buy up courts and legisla-
lures and to control primaries and con-
ventions than they did in the honesty and
patriotism OF the people; hence, they treated
our attacks with silence, IL not with con-
tempt. while they poured out their corruption
fund In all directions where men were to be
bought or controlled. Three times bill re-
peallng the charter of the Lottery Company
passed the House OF Representatives, and
| three times the bill was smothered In the
Senate. Recorders and judges have sus-
tanned the so-called rights Of the company,
and sentenced citizens to degrading punish
ment for trespassing upon its sacred privi-
leges. Infamed with concelt and filed with
confidence in corruption by long success, the
Lottery disdained to enter the field of discus
sion or to attempt to protect itself by any
other means than bribery
But IL has at length discovered that there
| IL has discovered that public opinion, organ
lied and intelligently guided, Is as Irresistible
as the tempest or the earthquake, and that
before Its sweep lobbyists, bribers and bench
| men are but as chaff In the whirl Of the
winds. Our attacks upon the Lottery and
exposure of its corrupt influence In Louisians
politics have organized public opinion through
out the State against it, and the people who
sent the present Legislature to this city are
watching how their representatives will vote
on the repeal Of the Lottery charter. The
managers Of the monopoly have been star
tied to find that their old tricks are worth
less. The press has spoken freely and
fully, and the Black-artist, wrapped in
clouds and fire and smoke, directing courts
and Legislatures, conventions and grand
juries by the wink of his eye or tile crook
ing Of his finger, turns out after all TO be
nothing but a common juggler OF the most
vulgar type. The present Legislature repre-
sents the organized public opinion against the
Lottery, and In its moment of terror the insti-
tuition for the first time rushes into print
and wildly seeks to stem the tide setting
against 1t by nearly column OF vulgar abuse
OF the DEMOCRAT, and mass of faisehoods
as patent as they are shameless and brazen.
Divested Of the abuse it contains OF the
DEMOCRAT the card Of the Louisiana State
Lottery Company, printed in the Times
and Picayune yesterday morning, amounts
simply to an impudent denial that it
has ever meddled in the politics OF the
State except to aid In electiDg the Fusion
ticket in 1872, and In effectng a peace
able dispersion of Packard's government.
This unblushing statement is notorious
ly false. III there was no other evidence
Of the fact that the Louisiana State Lottery
Company was in league with the Radical
party of Louisiana, when that party was
riotous In the plumber Of this people, the
statement Of ex-Gov. Warmoth in the House
o few days ego, is sufficient to prove It. The
Lottery Company declares, nay, mark it,
gentlemen OF the Senate, declares on the
sacredness of oaths, that its participation in
politics has been strictly confined to the cleo
ton OF Gov. McEnery and the establishment
OF the Nichols government. But Warmoth
openly, broadly and unequivoeally declared
In the Louisiana House of Representatives,
three days ago, that the Lottery concern had
been source Of large revenue to the Radical
party, and that In his day and in kellogg's
the Radical leaders freely MIXED this will
ing COW. We presume no one will doubt
Warmoth's knowledge Of all the corrupt or
willing sources from which he and the
managers Of his party obtained their cam
paign funds. He knew whereof he spoke,
and his evidence is specific and to the point,
and 1t alleges that the Lottery Company free.
ly supplied his party with election money.
But there Is other testimony equally direct,
and IL is from Mr.. Howard himself The
head Of the Lottery Company has stated
that it was his influence which seated the col
ored Radical Deioie in the last House OF Rep
resentatives over Mr.. Ferguson, the Demo
crat, who was elected. This action was
taken by the Lottery managers not
withstanding the fact that the Commit
tee on Elections had reported in favor
Ol MI. TeI& iSou, auu MISUNDERSTANDING Cne
other fact that the Democratic majority in
the House was so small that it could not be
counted on. 1t Is we'll known fact that the
Lottery attempted to have another contest
ing Radical seated, but failed In the
effort. 1t Is also notorious that the solid
Radical vote in the last House belonged to
the lottery people, and was used by them
sOlidIy throughout the session In favor
Of such measures as the Lottery ia
vored, and solidly against such as it OPP
posed. We have direct evidence that q
trusted agent of the Lottery Company at
tended the last Democratic convention at
Baton Rouge and endeavored to per-
suade the notorious J. Henri Burch to run
for the State Senate from the Baton Rouge
district; that the agent of the company prom
Used Burch the money necessary to carry
on his canvass, and then spoke with him
of the clever manner in which the Radical
members of the House had been manipulated
h.y hj,pcalf apd other lottary auants We