People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-10-18
OURKANsAs LOTTERY.

of state and operated under the pro-
lection of our great commonwealth.
Of course it must be regarded as a
perfectly legitimate and respectable
Institution. else it would not be char
tered and sustained in this great state
under a republican administration.
We have read and heard many things
relative to our lottery for months
past and we reproduced from the
LeavenwOrth Times some time ago
an article setting forth some of its
features and a few of its business
transactions. Having some curiosity to
know more abOutit, we made it visit
a few days ago and had the satisfac-
tiOn of seeing its machinery in full Op-
Grafton. Lest there should be some
misrepresentation relative to the true
character of the concern, we will
pause at this point and discuss that
question. After the publication of
the article in the LeavenwOrth Times,
it was vehemently denied that the in
StitutiOn should be considered in any
sense as a lottery. After we repro
duced the article of the Times, in
which some reference was made to Ex-
Attorney General Bradford, we re-
ceived personal letter from that
gentleman, complaining of the aSSO-
citation of his name with the inStitu-
tion and further volunteering the
statement that it is NOT a lottery.
The only allusiOn to the Ex-AttOrney
General that occurs in the article re-
ferred to, is the following brief para
graph:
Ex-AttOrney General Bradford, a
member of the republican central COM
mittee, is the attorney for the con-
Germ:
This, he admits in his letter to us,
to be true, and then he proceeds to
say:
No one will deny the fact that l
have as mu h right to defend men
CHARGED with running a lottery as
for STEALING OR MURDER.
We very willingly cOncede to Mr..
Bradford the correctness Of this propo-
sitiOn. As an attorney his defense of
criminals connected with this concern
is perfectly legitimate and no one can
complain Of it. lie should have
stopped with the above statement,
however. He was not called upon as
a witness to give testimony either for
or against these parties, and the fol-
lowing evidence is entirely gratuitOus.
He says:
This institution at Kansas City is
NOT a lottery; it is sort of GUESSING
MATCH, similar, ONLY ON A LARGER
SCALE, to guessing how many beans in
a jar or grains of corn in a jar, so fire.
quently practiced at G. A. R. fairs or
church festivals.
The small caps are Mr.. BradfOrd's.
This is a very innocent sort of amuse-
ment, surely. No wonder that the
ex-attOrney generalshoul feel so free
to defend it. Such innocent paStimes
might be expected to be encouraged
by church going people and mOralists
irrespective Of party or creed, and to
merit the fostering protection of this
great commonwealth.
Here follows description of the
drawings, as witnessed by the AdvO-
cate reporter who visited it, which
shows it to be a lottery of the vilest
class.
+, +
The Leavenworth Times has this to
say editOrially:
The Leavenworth Times has often
referred to this gigantic swindle,
which is daily rObbing the people, but
SO far it seems the policy lottery is
firmly established and receives the
support of the strong arm of the re-
publican state administration.
OF course, in a fraud like this it is
no easy matter to get at the facts as
to who are the interested parties.
Perjury is no terror to those VINO are
interested in such game Of plumber.
Attempts have been made to crush out
the scheme here in LeavenwOrth, but
every effort has proven a failure, for
the administration at Topeka has dis
countenanccd every attempt on the
part of the city officials to throttle
the monster, that monster that daily
rObS the poorest class of our people Of
hundreds of dollars.
No way has been pointed out. The
Swindle has attached to it the name
of "Wm. Higgins, secretary of state"
and the robbery goes peacefully for
ward, the people are feeced and the
bread taken from the mouths of the
poor by authority given to the robbers
on parchment charter signed "Wm.
Higgins. secretary of state" with the
great seal of the state of Kansas at
tached.
The policy" shop scheme sends
monthly to Topeka $500 Of its profits.
Who gets this money?
What are the facts?
No one but the robbers can tell.
Thav only ORC incida Thav knoup