Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-06
THE FIGHT IN LOUISIANA.

THE FIGHT IN LOUISIANA.
The two leading factions in Louisiana are
headed respectively by Congressman n.
Dudley Coleman, OF the Tenth district, en-
bracing a part of the city of New Orleans,
and P. F. Herwig, capitalist of that city,
who is chairman and principal contributor
of the Executive Committee of the State.
Mr.. Herwig stays with his family
at Willard's, where he has suite
of rooms and dispenses hospitality with a
lavish hand. In the same hotel are quar-
tered his lieutenants, ex-senator Kellogg
and A. s. Badger, of New Orleans Badger
is the Herwig candidate for the Office of
postmaster at New Orleans, which he once
filled, but he keeps one eye on something
else. The ex-senator is not an applicant
for Office. Having been long leader in
Louisiana politics, he finds time, from his
business Investments here, to aid the old
line element.
WHERE THE co LoRED MEN ARE.
The colored men mostly adhere to the Her
wig-Kellogg faction. Two or three sleek,
well-dressed, well-educated darkies are
always to be seen around the lobby at Will
lard's or standing in front of that caravan
sary or the Postofice Department. They
are candidates for something or other. That
fne-looking chap is addressed as colonel
and has expectation of a prominent position.
He asks for appointment as Surveyor of the
Port of New Orleans.
The head of the new-fangled. faction,
Representative Coleman, is just now en-
gagged at home in placating opposition to
some of his candidates. The chief objects
of his solicitude are the offices of Collector
of the Port, Postmaster and Superintendent
of the Mint Major Andrew Hero, the
Chairman of his Congressional committee,
and by whose aid he received the colored
vote in his recent race for Congress- is Cole
mans candidate for the Colleetorship of
Customs in opposition to Chairman Herwig,
of the State Committee, who wants the
place for himself. His man for the post
Office is Major Eaton, Commander of the
G. A. R. for the Department of Louisiana
and Mississippi.
EATON'S FATAL MISTAKE.
Eaton made the mistake of conducting his
candidacy on Grand Army lines, beating
the drums and blowing the cornet, but the
President told him plainly that the Grand
Army must not expect anything as an
official body at the hands of this admins
tration. Since then the Major has placed
himself entirely under the wing of Coleman.
There is third great factor in the person
of Ex-Governor Yarmouth famous for the
part he played in reconstruction times, and
who claims at present to be devoted to
sugar planting and railway building.
While here he professed to be doing nothing
in politics except to aid one or two of Cole
mans friends in their efforts, but Mr.. War
mouth is q very subtle and very active
worker. He went to see the President, and
he bore away with him a sort of commission
to compose the differences in Louisiana for
the good Of the party in power.
SPOKE A WORD FOR HIMSELF.
1t is believed that Governor Yarmouth
served his own interests more than Cole
mans, for he openly advocated the appoint
ment Of DR.. Smythe for the Superintendent
cy of the New Orleans mint against Cole
mans man. AS to the honors in this pro-
longed free fight they are easy. Coleman
was obliged to withdraw under fire his
nominee, Kursheedt, and select j. B. Don
nelly for Marshal of East Louisiana.
Badger was presented as the Herwig candi-
date, but not seriously pressed.
At the Postoffice Department most of the
lana in the postal service have been made
upon the Endorsement OF the old liners. The
latter have gained q slight advantage over
the young blood element in Alabama, al
though the principal contests have not been
decided. In Mississippi there is no divi-
sion on such lines, or on any line of policy.
The fight is merely personal, with no
picturesque element in it. The same may
be said Of North Carolina and most of the
other Southern States.
HUNDREDS WANT EACH PLACE.
There are hundreds of applicants for local
IA, sv,k kho e Ofo4a
and they make Mr.. Harrison's daily life a
torture. They tell him of large gains and
prospective gains due to their special efforts,
and his aceeptability to the people. But
the President has learned before now to
take these rose-colored views with sus-
pieion. Sc far as he has Southern policy
it is also entirely safe to say that it does not
mean an engagement to carry out the pur-
poses of any faction or individuals.
AS the President told some of the Louisi
anians, no one man would be permitted to
control the patronage OF State. His idea
is to do the practical thing, as far as he can
see it, in every instance, no matter if it ap-
pears to contradict what he did the day be-
fore in another State or locality. This poll
cy is necessarily one of Regeneration. 1t
leads him to
GIVE OFFICES TO WHITE MEN
recently connected with the Democratic
party in one place, and to bestow them in
another upon carpet-baggers who are odious
to their neighbors. 1t means the appoint
ment in Bay st. Louis, Miss. fashionable
suburb of New Orleans, or IN Halifax, the
old capital of North Carolina, Of negro at
the instance of a black Congressman or ex-
Congressman.
The administration, so the President told
Governor Warmouth, will avoid friction OF
the races where it is the evident purpose to
build up an intelligent and respectable
white party, but in all such cases the
colored Office seeker will receive compensa-
tion for loss Of Government employment at
home by the bestowal Of some suit
able occupation in the District of
Columbia. The negro yisitors here