The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1880-10-30

the IaxIH AktlGSG1Ous
ny EMERSON BENTLEY.
Every owner, manager and employs Of
i sugar plantation every dealer, shipper
and factor Of sugar, as well as every
friend Of American industry in general,
owes it to himself and the interests he
desires to prosper, to lay aside all sec
tional feeling or aspiration and exam
inc the merits Of the presidential candi-
dates now before the people, with . view
to make his ballot count IN behalf Of
those interests.
1t is notorious that large number Of
citizens Of New Orleans have failed to
register. The press charges this indiffer
en:e to bad municipal administration,
and party nominations of all inferior
kind. The''trnth is deeper down. The
commercial metropolis of the State is in
sympathy with the commercial centres
of the country, and they....have pro-
nounced for the Republican candidate
by a large majority by every legitimate
test to date. The astounding Republican
victory in Indiana is mainly ascribed to
the rally Of the business men to the
support of business interests involved,
without regard to past party affiliations.
In New Orleans it is clearly discerned
that the election Of Hancock and a Dem
ocratic Congress is fraught with danger
to the commercial world, but 80 great is
the prejudice against the Republican
party, and powerful in its effect upon
their social and business status, that
men prefer TO exert negative influence
by voluntary Acknowledgement, to cast
ing an open, manly ballot for the Re-
publican ticket. A considerable number
will 60 to the polls and vote the Repub-
lican presidential ticket who perhaps
never did SO before. An advertising
solicitor for an illustrated Hancock cam
paign paper reports that he met with
many refnsals Of patronage, because it
was thought not polite to insert their
business cards in such u paper. 1t is we'll
known that in the great Democratic city
Of New York a large majority Of the
Stock Exchange has declared for Gar
field, and the North american Rerie,c for
November contains public appeal
signed by twenty-five financiers and
millionaires against a restoration of the
Democratic party to power.
Thoughtful men now concede the cleo
ton Of Garfield to the Presidency. The
main question presented to the Louisi-
ana sugar planter is the protective tariff
and the ACCESSIBILITY Of establishing a
community Of interest with the tariff
party by casting their votes for its can
didates. It appears timely to exercise
some sober good Judgment, and make q
new departure Of . practical nature.
Long before any one seriously antici
pated that Gen. Hancock would become
the Democratic candidate for the presi
dency Gen. Garfield ascribed to him !;
line Of political action with an ambi
tious design for that Office. Gen. Gram
| testities that Hancock has had the presi
Dental bee i'll his bonnet for some time
Certain it is that his whole politica
career is connected with that of mos
noted l,artisans. 1t was to assist AndreW
| johnson, that after period Of coaching
| he was sent to New Orleans, where Ii.
! issued Order No. 40, i'll complete ACCORD
with the Presidents policy, and agains
that Of the country. There are som,
who even deny to Hancock the anthor
| ship of that order, and declare it a pro
| dnction Of that celebrated journalist ant
Democrat, Judge Alexander Walker o
New Orleans. His letter of acceptance
| which was issued to the public after ;
| very lengthy and cordial interview with
! Samuel j. Tilden. was so general ant
| nOn-specific in its declarations as to in
| spire the warmest hope Of Democratic
| success. His telegram Of congratulatiul
to Harris E. Plaisted, Republican
| Greenbacker, an impromptu affair, a
| once alarmed the business men, and wa,
responded to by the Indiana vote. Hi
! letters on Southern claims and the TART
have not evoked confidence on the con
| trary, they are properly interpreted a
| indications Of weakness, the earnest eff
fort Of a candidate to pose for votes, il
antagonsnl to the predilections ant
platform Of this party. The record o
Gen. Garfield is 80 complete, clear ant
clean, that no explanation from him OF
any issue has been necessary during the
campaign. His declarations are mos
positive, and not eyasive in character
| and he is in full accord with the part,
which nominated him.
The eloquence Of Henry Clay and hi
| school Of statesmen impressed upon tn
people of his country the duty Of estab
fishing tariff on foreign importations
which would prevent pauperized Euro
pean labor from monopolizing America,
markets and breaking down American
industries. The Republican party ha
steadily adhered to the protective policy
and the present state of unequaled pros
perity which the country enjoys,
mainly attributable to its legislation il
fidelity to that policy. Gen. Garfield i
thorough tariff advocate, and person
ally interceded on more than one coca
sion to Illustrate the free trade attemp
to food the markets with foreign sugar
by removal Of the sugar tariff demande,
by Louisiana's representatives. Gen
Hancock heads party that in its plat
form in 1876 declared:
We denounce the present tariff laid upo
nearly 1000 articles as masterpiece of in
| Justice and false pretense. 1t has impover
ished many industries and subsidized
few, etc.
In 1880 the Democratic convention
pledged itself anew to the doctrine
"elnbodied in the platform Of the las
(1S76) national convention" and speci
ally declared for "a tariff for revenn
only" If these free trade declaration
are admitted to be correct, there is Ii,
branch of trade more deserving of de
nunciation as oppressive and subsidized
than the sugar industry. The sugar tar