The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1890-08-09
Resolutions.

At a meeting of the Lafourche Branch of
the League of louisiana held
July 81. 1880. at Protector Hall Thibodaux.
the following officers were elected:
President, OZeme Naquin; Ist vice presi-
GENT, Judge j. NJ; Howell; 2nd vice president,
Major G.. Lagarde; treasurer, II W., Tabor:
secretary, ?. Toups; asst secretary, r. ".
Nioholls. w.
The committee on resolutions, mo
OF Jedge ): NJ. Howell, Messrs. Thos. Beary,
j. d. Kent and W. H.. Price and DR.. A., j.
Meyer. presented the following resolutions,
Whlcn were unanimously adopted, and or
dered spread on the minutes and copies sent
70 the New Delta, ThibodauX Sentinel and
L~aIourche Comet for publication:
whereas, by a two-thirds vote of both
branches of the Legislature OF the State, re
Gently in session at Baton Rouge, certain
amendments to the constitution were formu-
lated proposing to recharter the Louisiana
state Lottery Company for a period OF TWEEN
sy-nVe years in consideration OF the promise
OF SAID company to pay to the State the sum
OF u, $780, 600 pei annum; and for the accent.
ance or rejection Of said amendment it is
proposed that the people shall vote at the
next general election to be held In 1882; and
whereas, Judging from the public utteran-
ces of those who favored said amendments
they were chiefly influenced in their action
by the large amount of money promised BY
SAID company and by a desire that the people
should decide for themselves whether they
would accept the offer of said lottery rom.
pany Or not; and
whereas, whilst we fully recognize the gen
eral proposition as sound and Democratic,
shat in all political questions, vitality affect.
be the nnal arbiters OF such auestions. in
this instance we believe that those members
acted wisely and for the best interests of
submission, because, in the first place it was
doubtful whether a majority Of the people
desired such submission; and, in the second
place, they knew that in an election involv.
ing such issues there would be arrayed on
the side OF the lottery an active, dishonest
and u~nscrupulous element. with millions of
money AZ its command to be used in purchas-
ing all the purchasable voting elements of
she state, and that this vote, thus secured,
added to the honest one in favor of the
amendments, would present an unfair con-
test. and be nothing more than q mere tray-
csty on an honest election, and illustrating
only the power OF money unscrupulously
used and,
Whereas, we believe there is danger that
such q contest would result in fatcional vic.
lencs and possibly in %bloodshed, in the en-
dangerlng OF the division of the white voters
again in the hands of the negroes and their
u~nscrupulous Republican leaders; and
Whereas, a venal and subsidized public
press, stult,fylng itself by contradicting it's
OWE recently published u~tterances when the
lottery company was not actively in the field
urging a renewal Of its charter, and when in |
terest seemed to point in an opposite direc.
has suddenly discovercdthat the State
Is nothing moro than a pauper, unable to
support herself, her schools or her charities. !
or to rebuild her broken levecs, and with one |
eSSoANs ~ 4 AChlaEhdDlO occurrences az |
to statement. has SO declared to the world
will iteration and reiteratlon nd nausoum. !
Those declarations we pronounce to befalse. |
The state and her people are richer fb-day |
and better able to maintain schools. charities |
and levees than ut any time since the ciose of
the war between the North and the South. |
But II it were true that eur people are poor. |
and unable at present to accomplish ali that
is desirable in the establishment and main. |
tsnance OF schools and charities, we would
to live in honorable poverty, honestly
striving to better our condition, than to bar.
Ter our manhood and independence to the |
company for even Il greater price
than Il offers: ~
Resolved. That as Democrats having at
heart the interests of the people, their inde-
pendence. the preservation OF their man.
hood. the purity OF their morals and the good
name OF our state, we pledge ourselves to use
honorable means IN our power to prevent
,uch a vamipir as the lottery company from
fastening itself upon US, that it may fatten
our substance. corrupt our youth and
bring shame and reproach upon the good
OF our State; and we call upon all good
citizens, whatever their opinions NAV have
been IN regard to these matters, to pause
ma renect upon the consequences of giving
his monster a now lease of life, feeling ns.
'ured that when they do so they will aid in
il now and forever.