Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-08
GROWS HOTTER.
The Fight Over the Lottery
Question in Louisiana.
Forty Cases of Rifles and 1900
Rounds of Ammunition
Sent From New York by Steam
to Colonel Crandall,
CHAIRMAN OFTHE DEMOCRATIC CAM
PAlGN COMMITTEE.

Colonel Crandan in an Interview Says
They Are Determined to Have an
Honest Election and Fair Count De-
spite the Opposition-Strong Editorials
in The New Delta and The Evening
States.
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 9.--The steam
ship Ell Paso, from New York, her cargo
including forty cases or 500 Winchester
rifles, and thirteen boxes or 2,60O rounds
of cartridges addressed to "a. W. Gran
dali, chairman Democratic campaign
committee, New Orleans, La"
Colonel Crandall Interviewed.
Chairman Crandall, in an interview
ON the subject, admitted that the rifles
had been received, and said:
Eyes, it is fact that these arms have
come to New Orleans addressed to me.
There has been absolutely no attempt
made by US to disguise why the arms
have been secured. We are providing
ourselves with them simply to protect
ourselves against any scheme, armed or
otherwise, to deny us free ballot and
fair count in the coming election.
"Since the nominating convention at
Baton Rouge, we have been met on all
sides with statements from the friends
and supporters of Mr.. Foster that it was
war to the knife and the knife to the
hilt, and that the machinery in the
hands of the existing state administra-
ton was to be used in counting in TIE
Foster ticket, and in counting out the
McEnery ticket. Believing, therefore,
that the state militia and the election
machinery, under the control of the
present state administration, are to be
employed in frustrating, if necessary,
free expression of the public will, we
determined, on the principle that an
ounce of prevention is worth a pound of
cure, to take such means as would pro-
tect us from an illegal and unwarranted
inference with our rights under the law.
1--WE are determined to have an honest
election, and fair count, and | propose
to show that we are not going to be bull
dozed by the manner in which the gCv-
ernor is handling his militia in shift
ing them about from place to place"
He said that they expected further
shipments of arms and ammunition.
Will the Governor Interfere.
1t is expected that Governor Nichols
will seize the rifles now here, before
many days.
Comment of The New Delta,
The arrival of the rifles and ammuni-
ton, consigned to Colonel Crandall,
was noted Friday morning by The New
Delta, accompanied by strong editorial
remarks, concluding as follows: ITO
the Winchester in the hands of the hire
ling oppose the Winchester in the hands
of the freeman. Let every crack of
lottery rifle wake as an answering echo
the report of an anti-lottery gun. If the
hoodlums of New Orleans appear on the
streets of the city armed with weapons
placed in their hands by this lottery
committee, sweep them from the face
of the earth. If the streets of New Or
leans are to be Redeemed with blood, let
it not be alone the blood of her good
citizens. If wholesale murder has been
resolved upon by the lottery, let the peo
Pile resolve upon wholesale executions"
Views of The Evening States.
In reply, The Evening States says Mr..
Foster, of St. Mary, the candidate of
the Ants for governor, was the first
man who raised the cry of rifles in this
contest Every five hundred bill, mean
ing every pro-lottery vote, he said in
substance, was to be met with a $25
rifle. In view of these facts, argues The
States it is not astonishing that the
Democratic committee have taken the
necessary steps to protect the freedom
of opinion and of the ballot. 1t adds:
"If they had failed to do so they would
not be fit to hold the leadership of a
party of American citizens. Ballot
against ballot, rifle against rife, and by
memories of men who fought and bled
for our constitutions, it shall be rifles
against fraud and rascality."