The morning call., 1892-02-06
PREPARING TO VOTE.
New Orleans Democrats Want a
Fair Count.
rIGiy l. . H. r n!g. l. n III
Shipping in a Cargo Of Rifles to Be Used
Election Day.
The Chairman Of the Executive COmmi tee
Says That His Party Will Not
Be BuIldOzed or Blufed.
ETecisl 10 THE MORNING CALL..

New ORLEANS, Feb. 5.-The steamer FL
Paso arrived yesterday from New York
with q cargo including forty cases of Win
chester rifles and thirteen boxes of car
tridges addressed "a. w. Crandall, Chair
man Of the Democratic Campaign Commit
tee, New Orleans" In an interview con
cerning these arms Colonel Crandall says:
Yes, it is a fact that these arms came to
New Orleans addressed to me as Chairman
of the Democratic Executive Committee.
There has been no attempt TO conceal their
shipment and no effort to disguise why arms
have been secured. We are providing our
selves with them simply to protect our
selves against any scheme, armed or other
wise, 10 deny us free a ballOt,and a fair count
in the coming election. Since the nomilat-
ing convention at Baton Rouge we have
been met on all sides with statements from
the friends and supporters of Foster that il
was war 10 the knife and knife 10 the hilt,
and that the machinery in the hands of the
existing State administration was to be used
in counting in the Foster ticket and counting
out the McHenry ticket
believing that the election machinery
under control of the present administration
will be employed in frustrating, if necessary,
the free expression of the public will. we
have determined, on the principle that an
ounce of prevention is worth pound OF
cure to take SUCH means as will protect
US from illegal and unwarrauted interfeT-
ence with our rights under the law. There
will be another consignment Of arms shortly
l'hara iS M iufputiOn IN no RI nj repulg-
Democrats to precipitate trouble; no desire
10 provoke the shedding of blood. All we
ask is the privilege Of every voter to vote
as he chooses in the election and the assur-
ance tnat his vote will be counted as cast
We never intended to bulldoze or bluff, but
aie firm in the determination not tO be bull
doLed Or Ouffed."
WAR AGAINST LOTTERY.
The New Delta, the organ OF the antj-lot-
terry party, will contain an interview with the
Chairman Of the Antl-LOttery Democratic
Executive Committee TO the effect that
Morris withdrawal of his lottery PROPOSE
ton will not make the slightest change in the
programme Of their party. lie adds: The
proposition heretofore made by the lottery
is no longer acceptable TO its advocates by
reason OF the cuTtallment OF Its revenue
through the decision of the Supreme Court
But should the attempt to capture the
state not succeed, they may yet strive TO
call a Constitutional Convention under the
preteXt uf regulating suffrage and obtain
another grant for the lottery in a new Con-
stitutUn on terms more favorable than the
amendment now pending, or adopt other
means Of achieving their object. All former
experiences with the lottery" says the
Chairman, 'have taught US it is fertile in
schemes to effect its purposes. We intend
TO see the amendment voted down in April
by such a majority as TO preclude all posi-
biity Of further agitation on the question,
and none but anti-lOttery men will be
placed on guard until all the lotteries have
ceased TO maintain a legal existence in the
State of Louisiana"