Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-19
LOUISIANA IN NOVEMBER.
AhE REPUBLICANS no MAKE A
TRY FOR THE STATE

1hH FOR THE STATE.
Protection to be their Batt,a Cr~ -.
the Delivery of the state to tp,e u
dependents their Real Hope-Ear,,I,,
1host OF Chance for them to suc.
ceed. ~ Suo-
purlhg the present week, says a New
orleans special to the Chicago 7ymee Il
mas been officially announced from wash.
lngton that Louisiana is one of the three
Southern States that the Republican Marty
VIII contest. A few weeks ago If laid
claim to Louisiana only in a very loose
and general way on the ground that
majority Of its population were negroes
ana did not propose to trouble itself muab
over the State, which was to be left IN tbo
democrats. This change Of front is dme
70 very exaggerated reports Of the eondi-
tloh OF political affairs here, which have
ll Zen puDnshed In some of the Republican
papers, ana TO the great seductive powers
OF kellogg, who has evIdemntiS
persuaded the Republican managers
tnat, with good use Of the tariff
ana a big campaign fund behind
MN, he can carry Louisiana. If not fo1.
blalae, atleast away from Cleveland. The
present campaign, therefore, promises to
20 iliole interesting ana exciting than
any late one in this State, In 19S0 tba
RenHhlioan na~tv uraa all ar,lis .s.. - s-'
cts IN the neld. Neither of these two fac
tons made any canvass Of the State or
did anything but abuse the other wing of
the party. The party is now as united as
1t ever can be; it has the advantage Of
the tarif-always an important factor in
Louisiana-and, perhaps, viii receive
some assistance from the National Com
mittee. Therefore for the first time since
1876 1t viii be possible to see exactly
what is the Republican strength in Louis
lana in national election.
AS for the dispatches and letters from
here claiming Republican gains, converts
by the thousand, and general revolution
on the tarld issue, no confidence can be
placed in them. They are plausible to
those unacqxainted with Louisiana polk-
tics, but - consideration of the situa.
tion wi Sshow that the State IS
STILL RELIABLY DEMOCRATIC.
The Republican specials never aoknowI-
elge that their party is without any or
ganization whatever in tWenty-three
parishes of the State, in many of which 1t
does not receive a single vote nor expect
to; that north Of Red river there is a
reliable Democratic majority ranging
from 10000 TO $4,000, and that they fthe
Republicans have no idea or intention OF
organizing, canYassing, or cOntesting that
district. They have gained converts in
the southern half of the State, but these
can have no effect on the result with
North Louisiana as s0lidly Democratic as
ever. 1t can not be denied that the Re-
publcans are stronger IN Louisiana than
in the last Presidential election, that they
will poll a larger vote, and that they have
secured Democratic converts-mainly on
the tariff issue, and slightly, also, in con-
sequence Of bitter dissensions within the
party-but they have not gained enough
to imperil in the least degree a Democratic
victory.
A large majority of the voters Of
Louisiana are protectionists. Within the
Democratic party it is about an even
thing between the advocates of prOtec-
tion-pure and simple, not incidental or
accidental pr0tecti0n-and the free
traders and revenue reformers. Even the
latter, while in favor Of revenue reform,
are almost without exception in favor Of
preserving the duty ON sugar. The
tariff, therefore, is always an I'M
portant factor in Louisiana politics,
and is more than ever to the front in
the present campaign. 1t was brought
out even before the campaign opened. In
January and March the sugar and rice
planters Of the State, who had grown
very restive under the proposed Morrison
~
nOunced emphatically in favor Of pr0tec-
ton, and warned both Democrats and
Republicans that, in case either adopted
Il free trade plank, there would be IN the
State new and independent party, CONF
posed of whites and negroes, Democrats
and Republicans, who favored protection.
A call has been issued for reassem-
ling of the
SUGAR PLANTERS CONVENTION
to decide upon its future political course,
and this meeting is awaited with much
interest, for its action viii have an im-
portant influence upon the campaign.
The Republicans are endeavoring to per-
suade the planters to place a fun electoral
ticket in the field. They have pledged
themselves, through Kellogg, TO give that
ticket their full suppOrt-n0t only their
votes but their money and assistance.
Seeing no hope to secure the vote Of Lou
isiana for their candidate, they would
like to have it thrown Independent, so
that the Democrats could not get it.
They would like also TO make their can
vass under the protecting wing Of the
sugar planters, who would lend some re-
spectability to the little party Of Office
holders headed by Kellogg.
All the arrangements for such a c0mbi-
nation have been made by the Republic
cans. Kellogg, who went to Washington
National Committee to fuse, and received
the promise Of good share Of ''the SOAP"
The report Of this proposed combination
seems to have caused scare among the
Democratic National Committee and
among some Democrats here-a scare for
which there is no occasion. The Sugar
Planters Convention, which meets here
on Aug. 20, will set at rest forever all the
Republican hopes founded on co-0pera-
tion. There is some division Of senti-
ment among the sugar and rice men as
to which party now promises them the
greatest safety, and the Executive Com
mittee of the planters concluded to refer
the whole matter back to the convention.
A majority of that body believes that the
State Democracy has adopted the protec-
tion idea, and are satisfied with the plank
of the National Convention on this point,
which they interpret as meaning protec-
tion to sugar. If, therefore, the question
is pressed in the Planters Convention, it
will indorse Cleveland by large majori-
ty, but it is more likely to simply declare
that both platforms are acceptable as far
as the tariff is concerned, and leave fts
members to vote for any candidate they
personally prefer. The pretended revolt
of the Louisiana sugar planters upon
which the Republicans are counting as a
measure of carrying the State will be
found not to exist.