The Bossier banner., 1891-08-20
Gpening Of the Anti-L.ottery Cam
paign in, BossieE.
Hg Guns Opened on the Lottery.
Big Ball at Night.


Tie Anti-Lottery League barbecue
andisBeaking at Haughton Thursday,
the 18th. Arriving at this quiet little
town about 10 o'clock A. n, We found
i all astir with bustling crowd of
visitors, who came to partake Of the
Hospitality Of the clever citizens of
Haughton and to hear the Anti-Lot-
tery guns open upon John A. Morris
and his adherents. It was gala day
hDr Haughton, the like of which she
Aas not enjoyed for a great while,
and win be long remembered as one
ef the most pleasant pages in her
history. The spirit of good feeling,
hearty hand-shaking and pleasant
salutations were SO contagious that
even the few Lotteryites, both local
and yisitant, present, forgot their
identity and were irresistibly drawn
into the vortex of this propitious
occasion and enjoyed themselves
without let or hindrance.
About IL o'clock the crowd repair
cd to the grounds selected for the
secession, in the eastern suburbs of
the towA, under a pleasant grove,
where comfortable rustic stand was
erseisd for the speakers, near which
were planted the barbecue pits, upon
which were spread delicious lot of
meats so odoriferous Is 10 tempt the
nalates Of the most exscting guests.
Delightful music was dispensed to
he audience by the Haughton String
Band. When the crowd gathered
around, it was estimated at from 400
10 SEQ people, with full representa-
tion Of the fair sex and children. As
20 the Parish, it was a tolerably rep
xesentatiye gathering, with good
attendance from Webster and few
from Shreveport.
Hon. d. 81. Farrar, of New Orleans,
whose appearance was pleasant sur
prise TO many, was introduced at
about 1880, and made the speech of
The occasion, consuming about two
hours During all this time, the at
tention OF the audience was riveted
TO the speaker, as if they were trying
tocatCh and digest every sentence he
Let fall from his eloquent lips. Mr..
Farrar handled the lottery question
10 8 mastery manner, but in q per-
fectly iair and business-like way. He
exposed the iniquitous workings of
the lottery machine, upon data acces-
siBle to those who care TO examine
and investigate. He demonstrated
that the daily drawings in New Or
leans, alone, amounted to nearly as
much as they propose to give the
State under the proposed Amend
ment, being something over million
yearly, and that in consequence of
these drawings, that there are less
deposits in Savings banks by the
laboring and poor classes of New Or
leans, by far, than any city Of its size
in che Union. He convinced the most
skeptical Of his hearers that the lot
terry could not be kept out Of politics
as long as it was foisted upon the
Stale government as part thereof
That it would be such fostering thorn
70 the side Of the body polite, that
al Of the respectable elements of the
State would eternally be fighting it
until they killed it as dead as the
proverbial s'door nail" So, if they
we're fully intrenched in the organic
law of the State, and were disposed
20 Keep out of politics, the good peO-
pie Of the State would not let them
rest secure, in their great desire to
rid themselves Of such iniquitous in
cnbus. Tho lottery magnates know
ing this, and feeling the constant
danger they are in, would naturally
begin to scheme to control the State
government from Governor down to