Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-02-18
JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 49, 1892.

How are the mighty fallen. III were
pitiful, almost, their fearful discomfit.
ure, their utter rout and defeat.
Scorned and condemned of all hon
est men aud women everywhere are
their pilfering schemes denounced by
the church of the living God of every
creed and denomination as workers OF
iniquity, covering, as matefactOrs, be-
fore tribunals where justice sits en-
thrOned, with arraignment, conviction
and sentence threatened, how could
humiliation be more abjectP
And, under circumstances like these,
Mr.. Morris iCrites letter to the people
and says that he CithdreW his amend
ment.
His hirelings of the press speak of
"Mr. Norris" as if he were the sOver-
eign lord of all, as if he had the power
to take an act from the statute book.
Can he withdraw what the majority
of the Supreme Court justices decided
to be legal enactment? Will hc or
der the Secretary of State to stop the
publication of his proposed amend
ment? Will he direct the election of
| ficers 20 receive no ballots on the
question of his lottery amendment?
If lie is honest and means to stop his
| lottery deviltry out of consideration
for the welfare of the people, let him
reimburse the State the forty or fifty
thousand dollars expended by the
State in publishing his amendment,
and then let him withdraw his nomi-
nations for State officers. Let him
tell McEnery to "step down and out"
In Morris interest McEnery was nom
mated. If Morris wants harmony re-
stored, let him withdraw his Doodle
and order his candidates to come
down. They will obey the order.
| They dare not disobey Norris.
Does he do this? On the contrary,
his lottery papers are all saying "the
ant-lOtery party are left ,cithOH an is
sue since Norris has Withdrdwn his
amendment, and they ddrocdte McEnery
more rehemently than erer.
"Advocate," did we say That
word but feebly expresses the idea.
Have not McEnery's committee of lot
teryites and bosses invaded the gov
ernor in the privacy of his home with
lavish boasts of what they intend to do?
| Have not Baldwin & Co. and Crandall
imported from New York forty cases
of Winchester rifles to shoot all men
and all women, who do not vote fOr
McEnery Is not Baldwin lottery
prince, the peer. almost, of Morris him.
self, and was not Crandall the lottery
company's man of all acork, when they
tried to bribe Governor Nichols with
100000 two years ago, and have not
all the lottery people centered on Nc
Emery as the one man above all others.
who will best further their gambling
schemes ? The true Democracy, with
one accord, will say:
No, Mr.. Morris. Your trick is toe
transparent. AS long as you and Bald
win and Crandall and Houston anC
the Times Democrat and McEnery
and all your bosses and heelers keel
together there is some lottery scheme
some lottery interest at the bottom o
your plans.
Your amendment is pretendingly
hauled down, so far as your say so goes
in the hope that the antis will disband
in the hope that outside opinion will
cease its thunders in the hope tina
contributions among good people tt
aid in putting down your lottery viii
stop in the hope that Congress vii
pass no laws to tax your lottery out o
existence in the hope that all agita
ton, in and out of Louisiana, will sub
side.
When. by the magic of your word
all opposition shall be lulled and tn
people go to sleep, your idea is to ge
McEnery and an attorney general VIII
will not only not proceed to forfeit h
present lottery charter, but will let yo
operate it until 1895, one gear lORge
than the grant Of that charter.
Nay, more. With McEnery and
lottery Legislature in your interest
you will call constitutional conven
ton, gerrymander the State, cOntro
that convention, as YOU did the Legis
lature, get new lottery charter fo
$4,000 a year, WithOut sabmissiO
to the people, and YOU WILL DOMINATE
OUR POLITICS AND OUR GovERNMEN
AT YOUR SWEET PLEASURE.
That is what your 'pithdrdrat
means. You relax your hold, whicl
is fast breaking away, to secure
more firmly than ever.
But your fox-like cunning will no
save you. 1t has cost too much troubl
to put you down. Our victory owe
the l>ttery has been hard one, and
will take more than the promises an,
professions of a lottery gambler to de
prive us of its fruits. We had lotter,
promises in 1879 and 1888, and the,
were shamefully broken. The wor,
of these men, where their lottery i
involved, will not pass. 1t is no
good.
Until all lottery dealings shall b
suppressed absolutely, our people will
keep up the fight. Delenda est Car
thago.