The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-05-03
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In conversation with an intelligent
gentleman from Louisiana, who is not
a Republican, yet OF Republican ante
cedents before he went to Louisiana to
live, we CLEAN his ideas Of the present
and future position Of politics in that
State, andwe may add, ofthe South gen.
orally. We prcsume from what he says
that he would still be a Republican il
he lived in this part OF the country, but
he recognizes that politics here and in
the South proper differ radically. There
it is the color line, as was shown unmis-
takably in the late Louisiana election,
and for this line he says there is no
help save in tho supremacy of the
white race. The experiment Of Louis
lana under Yarmouth after the war was
what buried him under $1,000 majority
last month, No pretense is made that
the election was n fair one in the sense
of that word at the North. 1t was only
fair in the Southern sense, which means
to maintain white supremacy by hook
or by crook, by force or cajollery, by
intimidation at the polls or by counting
out after the vote is cast.
Yarmouth, the late Republican can.
didate for Governor, is not personally
unpopular in Louisiana albeit he is gen.
orally believed to have amassed for.
tune out OF politics. Still he is, as a
live business man, as a large sugar plan.
ter, us u liberal citizen, as promoter Of
beneficial enterprises, rather popular
person, but politically, with the shadow
of the past resting upon him, he is very
unpopular. Not even the uprising
against the McEnery regime, with all
its corruption, could propitiate the white
citizenship OF the State towards War.
mouth.
There is no use of talking, says this
gentleman, about Louisiana or the South
letting up on this question Of race and
color. Whatever may be the sentiment
Of the North as to the ways and means
esteemed necessary by the whites down
there to maintain their supremacy is n
matter OF very little moment to said
whites, for all the same they will con-
tinuc to make use OF the means esteemed
by them to be necessary to keep the
negro out OF any species OF domination
in politics.
We believe this statement of the
gentleman referred to, as to the Louisi.
ana and Southern animus toward the
negro, to be a true outline of the pre-
yailing sentiment. Accepting it as true,
the question that comes up is this,
where is the hope of n better state of
things? The day has gone for inter
ference by Federal armed power except
to repel the local exercise Of force. The
whites down there having learned "a
more excellent way" (touse an cquisite
sarcasm) than the use of force, viz: the
counting out proccss-how is Federal
force to be used as a corrective Of fraud 2
Mr.. Henry watterson, in his late
article in the Forum, frankly admits
all that this gentleman admits, and like
him holds that it puzzles and defes the
wit Of man to provide a desirable
solution.
One of the remedies for this state of
things suggested at the North is to take
away from the South such representa-
ton us they have in Congress by virtue
Of their negro-voting population, agree
ably to the Fourteenth amendment to
the constitution, which is in the follow
ing words:
Section .. When the right
TO vote ut any election for the choice OF