Show THE LOUISIANA ELECTION THE louisiana lottery company has bag at last met its waterloo it re a complete and crushing do de eat in the elections last tuesday the candidate fur for governor on the anti lottery side aide was elected by a majority of there were five tickets in the field the luttery lottery people controlled the politicians claus and even the mac hitie element of both the great part parties les it had bad the whole of the louisiana preys press at its side except one r two papers started specially to fight the lottery jot tery so 80 the recent victory la is ne lor for the people pure and simp leand garried by their determined manly and ea earnest rnett stand ane constitution of nearly every state in the union prohibits the legislature from ever charter ing or licensing ensing a lottery north dakota in framing her constitution omitted the usual anti lottery clause the fact was not noticed till mil 1890 when a bill was introduced in both houses bouses providing for the charter of a lottery company the bill was vetoed by the governor but it soon became apparent that the lottery people had bad strength enough to puss pass it over the veto this aroused the whole northwest the tactics of the gamblers were exposed and the bill was finally final jy defeated the revised constitution of louisiana adopted in 1870 contains an anti lot tery clause ehause which becomes operative in 1895 the charter of the present company expires in 1894 hence the eager eagerness nem is to get a foothold tu in dakota failing in dakota it turned again to louisiana with intention of breaking down the constitution and see securing aring a renewal of the charter the people poured money into the legislature and got a bill passed amending the constitution by extending the charter until 1920 in consideration of a payment of annually into the state treasury the governor vetoed this bill but it was passed over bib head bead this amendment rn out was submitted to the people for ratification at last weeks the result was as already stated A few months ago when the U B ka supreme court gave a decision sustaining the exclusion of lottery matter from the mails the company then confessed itself vanquished an in a sort of address withdrew w from further efleta to renew the charter this thiep was merely a ruse to throw the anti lottery y people off thi ir guard and thus capture the state government and legislature the lottery wing of the democratic party next proposed a scheme for an amicable settlement by submitting the question of all the white voters in this the pro lottery democrats were bated but they would not hold to their aabel r promises there la nothing left forthe for the lottery company now but to seek refuge in one of the central american states there to la no possibility of its obtaining a now new foothold within wilbin united states territory its pronto profits are estimated at yearly ninety per cent of which are drawn from the wage C workers and poorer classes generally the groua gross annual income is estimated I 1 at t but about one half sit of this t to Is said to be paid out in prizes |