St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-01
POST MoKTEM SPA SINS.

The lottery business is a defunct and
Etill-born industry in North Dakota,
but it fills the papers OF that state quite
as much as if it were all intensely alive
issue. Many of the prominent Repub-
lican journals were committed to the
project, and with hardly an exception
they still deliberately insist that they
were on the right track, and not colid-
ing with any of the principles of the
party. II was to bring million dollars
to be diffuSed in the banks without inter
est, and good many people were to be
directly enliYened with financial tonnes.
The Fargo Argus of Thursday has
special dispatches from Manager DAU-
PHIN in New orleans, confirming the
claims made for his company, and the
same issue has some columns Of hiStOri-
cal and other information from N ew
Orleans pertaining to the great gam
bling institution. In this is this state
ment:
"The Republican party chartered the
lottery, and its representatives here al
ways voted for it, both in the legisia-
ture and convention"
The Democrats. the narrator states,
have been divided on the subject, fac
tion going with the lottery; but it owes
its origin and has derived its chief sup
port from the Republican party. But
this quasi-Official exposition has the
further statement that the lottery has
been liberal contributor to the CAM
paign funds of the Republican party :;
but, to diSarm antagOnism, AYERS that it
gave equal amounts to both parties.
There have been denials by some that
the lottery contributed to the Republic
can national committee under any spe-
Citic con ditionS, but it could we'll afford
to have made the subscriptions at least
equal to that of prospective post
master general. But the details are
not stated. 1t is. however, alleged by
this account that in the big fight an
ticIpated for the renewal Of the charter
in Louisiana in 1892, 1.-THE Republicans
are likely to be practically solid for it."
The only opposition in the party appre-
hended is from ''some Of the negro
preachers" Possibly this effort to show
that the lottery is pretty much Repub-
lican institution is made only to vindi-
cate the party LOYALTY of the champions
of the scheme in North Dakota. Some
might presume that this was in view of
the future rather than to recttfy objur-
gated positions of the past, but Mr..
SPENCER, who remains there to develop
the sheep industry; asserts that the
mOrtuary conditions are accepted as
irretrievable; all the others say dead
also. Still, the president of the lottery
expendS little of his hard earnings in
the telegraphic assurance to the Fargo
paper that he twas and is ready to or
ganize in North DAKOTA" Possibly the
Republican leaders, who alone have had
the management of the thing. have dis
covered that blunder was made in not
educating the general financial senti-
ment in advance, and even may be
hoping to secure the same Republican
support that it has in Louisiana, with
view to a revival. There mas been no
movement IN the legislature to submit
to the voters an anti-lotlery amendment
to the constitution. Still, the lottery is
dead. Its friends have put on Grape and,
like one of old, refuse to Oe comforted."
Are they Sadducees?