The morning call., 1892-04-18
LOUISIANA POLITICS.
The Parties Are So Split Up That the
Result Is Uncertain.

\ NEW ORLEANS. April T.-With the set
ting of Tuesdays sun will close one OF the
hottest and bitterest campaigns that Louisi-
ana has ever seen. With divisions in both
the Democratic and Republican ranks
and third party candidate running,
the political situation Is about as
well mixed as it possibly could be.
The anti lottery Democrats are led by
Major Foster. and the lottery Democrats by
Ex-Governor S. ID. McEnery. The dissen-
sions In tie Democratic ranks have made
Republicans confident OF carrying the cleo
tion. The regular Republican ticket is
headed by A. ii. Leonard and Warmoth.
and the Administration ticket by John Il.
Breux. All the factions have been making
Vigorous campaigns throughout the State.
The Peoples Candidate.
Tannehili the Peoples candidate, has
been gaining large accessions of late, and,
although his adherents do not expect to
win, they expect TO poll at least 1900
votes. The regular Republican party
managers claim that with fair
count their candidate will receive
good plurality despite the fact Of
there being two Republican candidates
in the field. 1t is impossible yet to forecast
which party will control the Legislature, as
The Republicans are com blnlng with either
one or the other Democratic faction in the
parishes for local officers The outlook to-
night Is that the real racesiS between Me-
Emery and Leonard. but with the election
machinery in the hands of the Foster people
there is no telling what the result will be.
Suggestions on silver.
DENVER, Colo, April 1.-THE Denver
Rocky Mountain News, In leading edl-
tnrial tomorrow, will put forward the silver
Ila nj of tn hp
lowed should Cleveland or an equally
pronounced gold bug be nominated.
Ii says: There are thousands OF Re
publicans in Colorado who Will not
vote for Harrison and thousands who
will not vote for Cleveland. Yet,
driven from their own parties by nominees
wearing the yoke of Wall street, they will
be disinclned 10 vote for the nominee Of the
Omaha convention, who, though sound on
silver, will also represent so many issues
that their judgment cannot assent TO. Let
the Democrats in their State convention, II
action at Chicago shall force ii, nominate
electors pledged 10 vote against Cleveland
and for such free-coinage Democrats as
Senator Jones OF Alabama and Congress
man Blair of Missouri. Ii urges that this
course shall be pursued by the Democrats
OF Colorado, California. Montana, Wyom-
ing. Iowa, Nevada, Washington and
Oregon; also by those of Kansas, Nebraska
and certain Southern States.
VIII Preserve It's Integrity.
BY this course the integrity of the Demo
cratic organizations viii be preserved aud
the election for President thrown into the
House, in which event free-coiBage candi-
date would ultimately be elected, and free
coinage sentiment produced by such q
canvass would insure the election of free
coinage Congress. The course of the
Cleveland contingent In New York is urged
as an ample warrant for such irregularlty.
The article closes as follows: This der
nier resort for The free-coiDage men is
worthy of calm and earnest consideration.
That this suggestion be passed over lightly
the gravity or the silver situation forbids,
as tens OF thousands who signed the
pledge of the Silver League look
for some such practical plan by which
they may constitutionally and consist
emily exercise the suffrages effectively
The movement If undertaken will demon
strate that Democrats and Republicans are
no longer hewers of wood and drawers of
water for the WRll-street plutocrats. who
now almost entirely dominate one political
party and have paralyzed the free-coinage
majority in the other.