New-York tribune., 1891-12-26
THE FIGHT IN LOUISIANA.
DEMOCRATS FEAR THE Loss OF THE STATE.
PROMINENT LEADERS, VIEWS on THE LOT
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A PROMINENT LEADERS VIEWS ON THE LoI-
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Washington, Dec. 25.-The bitter facuonal fight In
Louisiana is giving the Democratic leaders In Washing
ton grave concern and most OF them freely admit In
private conversation that, unless the split can be
closed before the State election the Republican elec
tOral ticket in all human probability will win ne1t
year. In conversation with Tribune correspondent
yesterday prominent Louisiana Democrat said:
The McEnery ticket is the regular Democratic
tichet and the ticket opposed to 1t Is composed OF
boilers. They call themselves the AnLOttery party
and style the supporters Of the regular ticket the
Lottery party. Now, the truth Is that among the
supporters of the regular ticket hundreds, nay
thousands OF men who are strongly opposed to the
lottery as the polters. but they feel bound TO
stand by the regular party organization and support
the regular ticket You cannot realize the intensity
OF the bitterness which exists and Which at one time
threatened TO provoke bloodshed Why, one OF the
anti-lottery orators in a public speech. which was
applauded TO the echo, appealed to his hearers. in
arguments failed to convince their opponents TO
fall back on their guns, which would never fail.
Another one threatened that the State should be
drenched In blood unless the boilers could have their
way.
Everybody who refuses to be budozed is accused Of
having been bribed. l win mention an example.
When the State Committee met motion was offered
was adopted by majority OF one vote. The chair
man did not know that no had right to vote, and
80 did not He was ant-ottery man, and his
vote would have defeated the motion by making the
result tie. few hours afterward the sntl-lottery
men discovered that the chairman had right to VOTE
and they Immediately accused him OF having accepted
bribe from the lottery company to refrain from
voting. on the following Sunday the pastor OF
leading church In the parish In which the chairman
lives preached sermon ekanst the lottery, in which
he mentioned the chairman by name as an awful
example of the demoralizlng influence Of the lottery
as a man who had long been esteemed as one OF
most respected citizens, but who, when he found
himself in NewOreans yielded to the Establishments Of
the lottery company, fell. and refralned from voting
In consideration of a bnbe OF 10000 OF course,
when the State convention met the chairman OF the
state Committee did not call 1t to order and preside;
under the circumstances he could afford to do so'
"How is the fight In the Democratic party on a
local issue TO help the Republican party In National
election ?" asked the correspondent
Well IL the regular ticket Is defeated, the men
who supported it, and who for years have borne the
heat and burden Of every contest aud held the State
in line for the Democratic party, will cease their
efforts. They have been denounced and revlled until
they will no longer endure it. They have only to
keep quiet next year to give the state to the Repub
cans, Everybody knows that the negro voters out
number the white voters, and that they Repub-
element in the State and 1t is steadily gaining in
strength and influence We have succeeded thus far
in keeping the State in line only through tile kindly
relations between the white and the cO0red people.
Among the latter, fealty u the Republican party
amounts TO a superstition, If not TO religion but
been able largely to curtail Its influence by
friendly persuasion, ard the men who have done Ia
are the same who denounced as scoundrels
and brbeakers by the 'sllk-stockng gentry, who lead
and control the boilers movement and compose its
rank and file. If they win goodbye TO Democratic
ascendency in louisiana as far National politics are
concerned"
There can be no to dstr1lst tie earnestness
and sincerity Of the Democratic leader the substance
OF whose remarks has been quoted, and he is by no
means the only who expresses such opinions
That Louisiana is a Republican state-or would be on
a full and fair expression OF the peoples will-few
intelligent will deny. she Is so, not only because
of the large preponderance OF cOOred voters. VINO are
naturally and almost unanimously Republicans, but
for other reasons well. one OF them Is the sugar
Industry of the STATE, the prosperity OF which depends
so largely upon the maintenance OF the system OF pro
lection to domestic industries. The sugar question.
indeed. has been almost difficult matter for the
Democratic leaders 10 manage and control as the
negro question The necessity OF large annual appro
prations by Congress for river improvements, as an
auxiliary 20 the lcvee system OF the stae, mas also
weakened to some extent the ties which have bound
the planters and plantation owners to political party
which, If il were true TO itself and Its tiahlu0nai
policy would refuse all such appropriations. Ine
lottery ques ion may, and many LOUISIANA pehocfds
fear II will. prove the last straw -, ,,.. -.
Among the Louisiana Democrats In washington VINO
are strongly opposed 10 the Lottery Company and be
eye that the use Of almost any means 10 break 10
down would be justiable and 1ustlned, are senator
Gibson and Representative blanchard. The latter Ii
extremely outspOken in his opposition, and he pro-
poses 10 offer Joint resolution in the House ior an
amendment 10 the Constltut on prohibiting lotteries
and giving the General Government power 10 enforce
the prohibition 1t is understood thai senator uib.0h
will offer a similar resolution in the senate rms
seems 10 indicate that they regard the net against
the Louisiana Lottery Company through ihe agcnees
csrturng IT, as hopeless and that In their opinion
the only way 10 cope with and destroy IL Is by le
concurrent action OF tvo-tlirds OF both branches m
Concrass and three fouhs OF the states In the form
Of an amendment TO the Constitution IL resolution a
in Congress il will be likely TO command the two
thirds majority in both branches ~leh VIII, VIII 9e pc re-