Wichita eagle., 1888-04-08
LOUISIANA REPUBLICANS.
Their Contest This Year for Control of the
State-Somo Reasons Why They Ough,
in Sucr>>d

Their Contest This Year for Control of the
State-Somo Reasons Why They Ough,
to Succeed.
The Louisiana Republicans are making
their first real fight for control of the State
since 1876. Leaving out all considerations
es to the manner by which it has been OBJ
tanned, the average Democratic majority in
the State has been 5000 1t was 5000 at
the last State election, but in that farce not
Republican speech was made, not Re-
publican organization effected. When the
Republican party has "gone through the
motion Of conducting q campaign the ALI
ance of force and fraud has not been able to
defeat it by more than 5000.
This year there is reason to feel certain
OF reduction of such Democratic major
ity, and very hopeful of Republican ma
jority. In the first place, the Democratic
quarrels have forced the party into unani-
nous confession of fraud in time past: and
this of itself makes the limitation of Demo
cratic fraud more possible for this year. In
the second place. the campaign is to be no
still hunt ON either side; it is to be day
light and torchlight affair of sufficient brill
liancy to illumne all the parishes; if there
be force or fraud it will hardly be hidden !;
and this condition will also tend to the linn
itation of evil agencies. In the third place,
Governor McEnery has pledged his word
to free and fair election, and knowledge
that the country is waiting for the evidence
of deed to determine the value Of his pledge
may incline him to redeem it. In the fourth
place, there is the new South in Louisiana
to be heard from and seen IN action.
1.-The new South would quickly prove
itself growing and dominant power were
there more discussion with 1.-The old South. u
The old South would like to get higher
prices for its land, better home markets for
its 'truck," which includes vegetables,
dairy produce, eggs and the hundred profit
able, though minor, outcomes of the farm,
and it knows that manufacturers make
towns, and that towns make home markets,
and it also knows that good wages to work
men in towns encourage larger consump-
ton Of farm products than low wages. The
storekeepers of the old South also know the
old system brings them no such trade as the
storekeepers in Birmingham and the towns
of the new South are getting, even the
editors of the old South are learning that a
newspaper published in a county whose seat
has population of 5000 to 10000 is more
profitable than where the county town is
made of two "tahverns," three stores, a
church, blacksmith shop and couis. house.
Two things prevent the old South from vot-
ing for protection to native industry and the
Republican party. One is 1.-THE niggah;"
and the other is" the wah."
Can the new South make the old South
understand that the war is over and done
with! Can it impress it with the truth that
in the Republican party and in the Northern
tier of States there is desire to let bygones
be bygones, and that when the I" bloody
shirt -" is waved in the North it is because
it has been dragged from its resting place
by Southern fraud or force. As an aid to
the efforts of the new South in it's work of
conversion of the old South the Inter Ocean
reproduces these words of General Garfield,
uttered in Congress but few months prior
to his nomination to the Presidency. He
said:
Il want to say another thing So far as
have studied the current OF public thought and
OF political feeling in this country no feeling has
shown itself more strongly than the tendency
of the public mind in the past few months.
The man who attempts to get up political ex-
element i'll this country on the old sectional
issues will find himself without party and
without support. The man who wants to serve
his country must put himself in the line Of its
leading thought, and that is the restoration of
O2SlnesS, tlaue, COMMERCE., industry, Sounu
political economy
And he added, "the man who can add
any thing in the direction of any of these
purposes is pi3blic benefactor." AS to the
bugbear of negrpsupremacy, the Inter Ocean
would direct tn attention of the South
new and old-to the wise and patriotic utter
ance of that colored delegate to the conven-
ton of Republican clubs of the State of Illi-
nois: "We are here as citizens not as Irish
Americans, German Americans, colored
Americans, just as Americans who want to
learn the right thing to do and the right
way to do it." The Inter Ocean believes that
the colored people in the South can be law
fully directed by the more cultured intellects
of the whites, until themselves become Gull
tured-always provided that they have free
choice of voting with white Democrats or
white Republicans, as may seem best unto
them.