The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-02-09

If the fortunes Of b landed proprietor, n
member Of Parliament and the founder OF o
gentepl country family could he built upon
80 absurd basis In solid old England. what
might we not expect In America, where one
man IL as good as another-and a d-n sight
better If he happens TO have more money. re-
gardlesE OF the way no gets 1T.
HOWARD 1s III NO MEANS THE PIONEER OF
HIS KIND
In this country. lie has had illustrious pre-
dscessofs In Bill Poole. Tom Hyer and John
Morrissev. the only material difference be-
tween their cases ana ms Delng thhs tney
Travelled mainly upon their muscle while he
seems to have sort o Slid along on his cbeek
All made their money and built UP their po-
iitcal power In the same way-DreaAing the
laws In order to make money and then using
the power of tfIrt tIttHHt tt make laws; 4
queer enough paradox to put In words. but
still more odd and strange az e8omplliied In
practice.
ards Lottery was about seven years ago, when
il was mentioned as one Of the minor adjuncts
Of the Warmoth regime: concern which
was willing to bleed with tOlerahle free
dom about campaign tune, IN consideration Of
which patriotic voIition 1t had received the
sanction of another concern composed 81 car
petebaggpra and niggers, built upon Grants
bayonets and called, In grim sarcasm, "a
government The two were drcadea antbo
and II seemed q pity TO part them " TACT
after the one died the other became lone
some anachronism. By rights .aey ouahe
But they were not. On the other hand,
when the laat veetlge OF carpet .baggery ana
niggerism had vanished with the rstreatiDg
cpat-tails 81 the troops who had gafrisQiiea
the quarter of an acre OF Louisiana soil which
Packard governed the Lottery appeared
right side tlp. life size and with undiminished
cheek In the midstof
THE DEMOCRATIC CAMP,
But unlike d raw recruit a. " was. IL APP
pesred in the full regimentals OF n major gen
eral and wanted 10 take command before 1t
had fairly enlisted.
Here "a ! understand tho matter. was
where the DEMOCRAT cane In with It's mild
protest. The Louisiana Lottery. az such,
might hive, been concern 70 be tol-
of those broadcast rs to notions OF alb
attract morality, there would always DO
q eneahing sympathy for the poor, Ignorant
dupes who invested their hard earnings III lot
terry tickets and thereby fed the insatate
NAV of Howard's delusive machine. But
that under ordinary circumstances was
their affair. and there was no law APP
ponting ,is their guardian. Perhaps they
might "a we'll illustrate the old proverb about
the fool and his money for Towards benefit
as anybody's else.
Bnt the Lottery. as mandatory Of great
American stateemanship; as maker OF
judges and Legislators. and Congressman and
Senators, and ~ an aspitant mt even Presi-
dominating itself, was q horse OF another
The NEST apt illustration Of the power IL
had acquired
AS A FACTOR IN PUBIC AFFAIRS,
and the influence II had established over the
minds of men, Ia found In the fact that q year
auo. when the war began, out Of perhaps fifty
Iouislanians Of every description In Wash
ington to whom | addressed the question,
sHow will IL come outr' only one expressed
the belief that The DEMOCRAT would whip.
shook their heads: The DEMOCRAT had
started on FOOLS errand.'
"Dupre and Hearsey had taken altogether
too big q contract
the DEMOCRAT, ruin it's credit and break IT
down."
These are samples Of tho average prog
nostication Of that time among the Louisiana
oolonv In Washington. Eustis alone seemed
TO take In the situation wisely. He said TO
me that while. to superficial observer. the
advantage In the fray might seem to be on
the side Of the Lottery, on account OF It's
money and connections, closer examination
would show that the DEMOCRAT had the best
OF Il. for three reasons. First because the
Lottery had n tortuous and vulnerable po-
liticai record In the State second, because
its character was assailable on moral grounds;
and third. because the natural tendency OF
popular sentiment IN the rural parishes
would be against IT, On the other hand,
the DEMOCRAT. either as newspaper or with
respect TO the personnel Of its management,
was invulnprabe, moreover 1t had facilities
of its own for constant attack. while Howard
must depend for his defense upon such as
sistance as he could buy or hire from time to
time. | say EuBtis was the only Louisianian
who predicted
THE SUCCESS or THE DEMOCRAT.
by that mean he was the only one belong
ing 20 the Democratic party. But several Of
the Republicans notably Packard and John
Walsh, told mo that Howard would surely be
crushed In course of time. Their theory was
that In deserving the Republican party, which
had made him, and going over to the Democ-
racy, which had always been fighting the
principle OF monopoly and intrigue that he
represented, Howard would prove TO have
lost the only friends who would sustain him
at a pinch. Packard said TO me one morning
at the Riggs House that when Howard
bought those nine members of my Legisla-
ture and took them over to Nichols he
twisted a rope to hang himself with" This
was last May.
As the fight progressed 1t attracted the
attention OF the Northern press, whose sym
pathies were on the side OF the DEMooAT
without exception, save here and there con-
Germ that had the advertising OF the Lottery
and as the facts of the situation gradually
an interest something like that stirred up by
the celebrated war OF the New York Times on
Tweed, nine years ago.
When Howard was compelled to transfer
one phase of his struggle to Washington. and
press his interests before the Postoifice De
partment, the national significance Of the
matter became plainly apparent, and he was
vigorously assailed by such papers as the
Philadelphia Times, the New York Times,
Springfield Republican, Boston Herald, Chi.
cago Tribune and Cincinnati Gdsette. Of
course these assaults did not tell directly In
the local contest that the DEMOCRAT was
keeping up, but they indicated drift Of pub 40
lie sentiment, and certainly did not help The
Lottery any, while they materially encour-
aged the DEMOCRAT. 1t is not necessary to
20 over ali the tedious
DETAILS OF HowARD's OPERATIONS
here before the Postoffice Department. SUI
flee to say that, between the money no was
able to spend to employ such counsel as Ben
Butler and John Shermans brother -in-law,
Charley Moulton, and the influence he had
with the administration through Judge Har-
Ian, OF the Supreme Court and Wayne Mac
Neagh, he carried all his points here and went
back to New Orleans TO concentrate all his
resources on the local contest with what re-
suit the action of last week shows!
In this latitude tho 1afaot and dpctrHQtiOD