| Show THE COLLAPSE OF OP A CRIME bo go the lottery in tho tile I 1 north dakota legislature have drawn in their horns borne thia this ie is a circumstance F of borne some interest tiie tile developments r justify tha the belief that tile 1 1 scheme of fixing g s outrage upon north dakota had been under way I 1 for months before the adoption of the state staw constitution and that that in strument ment was framed with the lottery expressly in view so as a not botlo lo 10 conflict with the secret arrangement this baa as of course kept from the public tho the governor who has seemed to be opposing it with all hia big strength is charged with being I 1 an accomplice in ili the plot I 1 from the first and talked I 1 of vetoing the bill simply fore for effect knowing that it would be passed over his big authority this is of course largely newspaper clatter but there is I 1 much matter in it for credence I 1 considering the manner in which the scheme has taken root in tho the lawmaking body the sudden and A awful wr in collapse that baa has befallen it ia is startling lin g the plot had bad been eo so rigorously guarded that not an intimation of it bad had escaped to the public until the bill providing for the lottery bad passed one branch of the legislature a I 1 few days ago then it came as a from which it took the unsuspecting voters a day or two to recover but what a storm they did raise in the ears of the in triggers tri guers when their tongues once occa got a going the governor 4 will perhaps take much creist to 0 himself for the result the president and the attorney general will also come in tor for a share in the political profits of the tile victory to the press however belongs tile entire credit of the achievement the tile governor toight have hive raed raved himself mad I 1 and the president cancelled every appointment in the new state had tho the presa press been contented with the situation I 1 4 the lotto lotte y would have lave gained the day As it is the main movers of the bill have knocked the props from under it and it has gone down but I 1 unfortunately for them the bribery part of the enterprise will not vanish 0 EO so readily the evidence of crime will have its day of hearing bearing later on |
