The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-03-31
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the class that is supporting lhe
mayor. There are some good
christian people supporting Mr..
McCulloch, and they are good men
| l do not include them in that class;
l only refer to the gamblers.
Speaking of street improve
ments l Will say there has been
some good work done in that re-
spect. l commend the council for
their efforts in that direction, but at
the same time some of it has been
miserable. If l am elected mayor
] want to see the home people get
the street Improvement work. l
can produce witnesses and prove
that the 5000 appropriated by the
council for street work, to give en-
ploy ment to idle citizens, was used
for campaign purposes. Applause.
If man went there to get work he
was asked:
Can you voter Yes. Are
you a McCulloch man?' If he
answered yes there was room. If
he answered no, there was no room.
| Applause.
"Mayor McCulloch says he has been
a merciful Judge. If he had not been
merciful the town would not have
been so full of gamblers and tt ug's
Applause ! want to read the law
about tue punishments of violators
of the law. l want to read it to
the mayor, because l don't believe
he kno 20 what it is." Applause.
Mr.. Moore read as follows:
eff any justice of the peace,
mayor or recorder, shall know the
fact that an offense against the gam
ing laws has been committed by any
person, and shall fail or neglect to
cause such person to be arrested and
lrosecuted for the same, he shall be
punished by fine not less than
twenty five nor more than one hun
dred dollars"
II suppose we can excuse him,
as he says he doesn't know Of any
open gambling houses. He ought
to know, he goes rather often to
the House of Lords, The Turf and
the Cosmos. We know that 365
days during the year 1898 the gam.
bling houses were open in Waco.
|, Here is what the law says about
! that:
"If any person shall keep o,
exhibit, for the purpose of gaming,
any gaming table or bank of any
} name or description whatever, OF
any table or bank used for gaming
which has no name, or pigeon-hole
} table or jenny lind table, or zine OF
ten pin alley, table or alley of any
; kind whatever, regardless of the
number of pins, balls or rings used,
for gaming, or shall be in any man
, ner interested in keeping or exhib
iting any such table or bank, OF
J nine or ten pin alley, table or alley
of any kind whatever, regardless Of
the number of pins, balls or rings
, used, AT ANY PLACE, he shall bs
punished by fine of not less thar
, twenty five nor more than one hun
! dred dollars and IMPRISONMENT IN
THE COUNTY JAIL FOR NOT LESS
THAN TEN OR MORE THAN NINETY
3 DAYS"
81 wonder if the mayor knows
that law is on the statue book
Pleas Warner, a notorious negro
gambler, got up and made speech
. for McCulloch, and said that if
am elected mayor cannot stop hin
from gambling. | say if l an
4 elected | will either stop him or
} will keep him in jail until he rots
Applause. He is not the only one
1 refer as much to the we'll dressed
gambler, with his diamonds, as
do to the negroes. They are al
alike. 1t is easy enough to oonvic
: the gamblers. When q complain
is lodged against one he goes W
and pleads guilty, pays light fin,
and goes right back to his business