New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-08-30
Governor kellosg's Views Of the Cam.
paign In the South.

| W0SeTnor heiIogG's Views OF the Cam
paign In the South.
The New York HeraM of Friday contains
an interview" with our Governor Kellogg
William Pitt Kellogg, the Republican
Governor of Louisiana, has Just returned
from Washington, where he went to receive
sdvices as to the political outlook in his
State. In conversation with Herald re-
porter he expressed himself satisfied Of tie
success OF the Republican ticket IN Louisi
ana and South Carolina. He has been
! through the SOuth and ie able to speak
autEoritstively Of what the present aspec,
| OF politics there ls likely TO portend. He
says that Ia both Louisiana and South
Carolina the negro vote is SO large that 10
doubt OF the result can be entertained if
the whites DO not endeavor to hinder a
free exercise Of suffrage, and if proper
precautisIs are taken there is reason to
believe that voters will not be impeded in
the performance Of their duty. In Florida
! and North Carolina, too, the Governor
thinke there is still fair chance for the Re.
publicans to succeed, and il is possible that
these States will be gained for the party that
wins the earliest advantages in the cam
paign. At the present moment the people
are wavering, and they are very accessible
to that influence which the prestige of early
success is calculated to give. The October
elections will greatly tend TO decide what
ticket those States will indorse, and it is
probable that many other States, such as
New Jersey, will be gained in the same way
1t is generally admitted that in presidential
elections the weight of the larger and more
populous States example acts upon the
smaller ones, and the vote in Ohio will be
apt to exert very strong influence in this
campaign.
In reference to the probability of any
disturbance occurring in Louisiana during
the election Governor Kellogg said that he
did not apprehend any provided the chancee
of Hayes and Wheeler seemed very favor
able, as the whites would hesitate in such
q case to attempt any outrage or to cOerce
their colored neiehbors in the disposition of
their votes. But if Tilden seemed likely TO
win there was reason to believe that an
effort would be made in some parishes to
gain Democratic majority at any cost and
some of the White Liners would not shrink
from any injustice that might further their
interests if they felt that they could gain
immunity from punishment, as they no
doubt would if the national Democratic
ticket succeeded.
In State where there is majority of
5000 or 10000 negroes outside of a good
many hard working Republican whites.
very little doubt might be entertained of
that party's success, did there not exist so
perfect an organization among the whites
and 80 fixed . determination to keep the
negro out ofAfice, and, if possible, to de.
prive him Of Ms sutfragan privileged The
extremes to which this feeling Of race
animOsity could be carried had more than
once been demonstrated, and although of
late any outward manifestation of it had
been suppressed, there was little dOub: that
it existed as intensely and perhaps as wide.
ly spread as ever. Whether there would
be any such public exhibition of this feel
ing in the coming election as there had been
in the past or not, was something which the
future alone could determine; lbnt the euc-
cess Of the Republican ticket in ether States
in October would go far to make the elec-
ti9n peaceable in Louisiana.
The statement frequently heard nova
days that the colored vote in the South is
likely to be largely Democratic was ridi
culed by the Governor. He thought such
an idea preposterous. He said that if al
lowed to vote at all, the negroes will GER
tainly not vote for the party which has not |
nominal for State or local Office q elm
gle member of their race, and which has
always declined to recognize their right to |
use their own Judgment at the ballot-box.
Some of the candidates put forward for |
office are men who have persistently op-
posed the negro. who have voted against |
the fourteenth constitutional amendment. |
and who are we'll known as leading white
liners. 1t is not likely that any hustings
eloquence is going to be an adequate apol- |
ogy tor the massacre and for all the out |
RACES perpetrated in the State.
The negroes now, as in the past, are de- |
voted to the Republican party, and they |
can not be cajoled very readily into giving |
over their allegiance to 1t. In States like |
and Texas, where there is so |
much terroism welded by the white Demo- |
Gratis, and where the cOlored people are |
voting if they seem indisposed |
to act in political accord with the whites, |
some people fancy that large mass of the |
negroes vote the Democratic ticket. But
# they do, it is more through fear than in
to mark district with large negro popu-
ation as essentially Republican, and the |
result will generally 20 to prove the cor
pectness of such q calculation.
The Governor then went on to say that |
he Democrats had some good men on the
State ticket, and of these the candidate for
Governor was doubtless the best. The
would no doubt be spirited, and
! strong effort would be made to elect him
But only little attention was paid to the
State contest in comparison with that given
% the national issue. On that all the at
sntion of the Southern States was fixed,
md they were willing to sacrifice local in
erests so long as they could gain some.
hing for the national party. In fact, in
uch States as Louisiana and South Caro-
ina they looked to the Democratic admin
stration, if it should get into. power, to
'verride the State government and nulify the
fect~Of a successful Republican State
icket.
The South was gathering all it's energies
o bear upon this campaign. A great effort
would be made at this critical moment to
egain power and the Southern Democ-
acy hoped that. with the aid of that of |
he North, they would be able to secure
irst q Democratic administration, and then,
With their large representation in both
louses, they would succeed in getting the
lpper hand in the nation. The Governor
aid there is no new rebellion to be appre.
lended; there need be no anxiety enter
aimed about the South's ever seeding and
orming distinct confederacy. The dream
f separate rule had been dlssipated, and
q the embers of rebellion which went out
nder the tread of the Union armies the
iea of establishing distinct government
pd forming adistinct people had dissolved.
I The South does not want to break the
Union now. 1t aspires to control the whole
f it; and with q Democratic administra-
eem In the North there are many States
Ike New York, in which the Republicans
nd Democrats are fairly divided, and from
hese there is frequently Republican as
1ell az q Democratic Senator. In the
outh, however, the Senators are generally
the same political complexion, and have
lore common interests and closer afilia-
ions. Now, with such q condition, under
Democratic administration, the South
'ould be able to control the government, |
nd then the people of the North would
waken to the mistake they had made.
low they have ports in the North lit up by
ghthouses, dotted with buoys and with
very provision to make them safe and COM