The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-04-18
LARGE CHOICE OF TICKETS.
RECULLAR SITUATIoN IN TEE LOUIS
KANA STATE ELECTION To-DAE

REcULLAR sITUATIoN IN TEE LOUIS
LASA STATE ELECTION TO-DAE
i've Sets OF Candidates, with the Chs.eei
ravoriae the Anti.Lottery yviss OF q,
Democracy-The Republicans Fail q
Take Full Advantage OF Their Oppor
tunity. and One wiax Has Hopes or Vic
tory-The Way the Numerous Splits DC
eurrrd and the Danger that the Scenes OF
the Seventies May he Repeated.
New ORLEANS. April 17.-Loulsiana holds a
State election tomorrow for Governor and
other State officers. and for all its district.
parish local. and municipal offices. in New
Orleans and other towns. and for full Legis-
laturo which elects United States Senator to
succeed II. l. Gibson In 1893. tits frankly
admitted on oil sides that tho election will
also decide the electoral vote OF the State in
November. and that tho party which carries
the election now will secure tho Presidential
electors then. 1t Is also suggested that the
split In the Democratic ranks which threatens
: to bring about the success OF tho Republicans,
may spread to other States. especially to Ala
, bama. whore there lie division OF much the
same character and on much the same lines.
Hence. the election is regarded as by long
, odds the most important hold in tho State
! since reconstruction days.
The present campaign has been watched
I with deep intorest by the whole country. and
tho money to carry It on has been raised elso-
osr1 that Il ns F Ss S n IL
0 fsef TO aFs R Se S S s.s.o tickets in M
Fo-.,, Or AM. xsEnryor Peop,s' Par.
p;rf ss:.r s. ' Ss:a x 1 Issss
s xiv; E.ss va. :sss
Auditor .....w. W VIII Heard O. B. Steele John Hen.
rrs.surer..."John Pickett Gabriel, Men. John Maho-
$751; tss Hs:s. S:ss.a $:!;:s
n,,.., a,,,,,,oo, e SsS-H Hs..'
i d Essnsa os" W.l STsa"r
xssltss JSs. la fsni SH kd Edwards
ssS '''
hGs tickets to
division in tho Deemocratie ranks and tho
Sthsr. that sneh is willing to do a almost most
a.her 0Ms so9 tho d hs IS appa
rentiy and nomnalIy due to tho lottery Iues-
different lines. The Democratic party Of Louis
since 1870. which have been Kept together
eny by ne ,osr 81 in the
have finally brought about that result. i It was
uss t the TT question
ton q ths Louisiana State Lottery Company to
give 9 PIT ths Of
the proposition: tho minority set up u sepa-
rate organization calling themselves Anti-lot-
money from tho North began the campaign
which win terminate Tomorrow o.. They formed
This combination has steadily grown In
ste sr
tSe te f heaed S cEas s Ro
& Foster and which
Secretary Of State T. S. Adams. is President o,
SSo ths candidate
I.afargue. is lecturer OF the Alliance and the
candidates for r. Treasurer and Auditor, John
An attempt was made to reconcile the two
%arc MssR
these two tickets SHOULD be adopted by the De:
two Democratic factions more bittsr toward ard
SstH hs
s%a Re as Of
suit q t6e election; and declared that tie Fos-
ticket ss e"a SGe tSa MeEnsrHy & ns 5s
boited whom the State Convention decided
hS TINE NJ 5s parties in the
% Be. In four or i've parishes where tho
two factions have come together in Sllpnort of {
their local ticket but elsewhere they are Fight s
Democrats and Republican, do OF old. and each
seems ns1sr t to
he are s$Remins to esct 'e the
ticket. and it is probable that some
DeH9 ,n votes t VIII 90 to tn, that ticket
MAJORITY of the Alliance decided not to leave G
% tat tie
ND in tRis Was by the national s or nar
:atIog was aed nnd
lnce men and momfers Of the Knights Of
more loss local: that is. It's strength is con-
lnea t9 half dozen parisdhSSsmNew Orleans.
FolIqwinr tho examni eNo Of t the bomocrats
md the Farmers, Alliance. tho Republicans. CT
oS f sst ksoss
,ther by Collector OF Customs Wnrmoth. md n
consisting mainly Of the ofticeholdcrs In the
,nlly on the lottery, issue. and was duo to tie
action OF the President In insisting that every "
tederal of1iceholder should declare against =,
he lottery. The real motive. however. was u
he Offices: nor Is tho split anything near as 1t
'evero or as bitter as the Democratic one. and NJ
half dozen words from the President would :,
ring tho two factions together again More q
wen. one. and Will srlit the party into two "
'qual halves. whereas the Republican division Il
no field on election day. tho Custom House II
wing will not get over 20 por cent. OF the party
'ote. z
Besides these five tickets. there are num- v
,er OF independent candidates throughout the IL
state, and local tickets OF all kinds. In the p
,aIisheSS where tn" heGuDlieans, have no