The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-07
SUGAR PLANTERS REVOLT.
Rebellion Organized in Three LOuiSi;
ana Congressional Districts.


An Alliance with t6s Republicans
Advocated as the Only Hope of se-
curing Protection for Person.
mel of the Bolters-A Plan to Collect
the Bounty on This Years Crop.
The Negro Question Cuts no Figure
Now.
New Orleans, Sept. 6.-The sugar plant
ers' convention in this city to-day was the
most remarkable gathering in many
years, and the first serious break in the
Democratic party in twenty years is now
actually threatened. The convention de-
clared in favor of an alliance with the
Republican party on national issues, and
two and possibly three con-
gressional districts, comprising the
sugar region, are endangered to the demo-
Gratis. There were probably 300 repre-
sentative men present at the convention,
and as nearly all of them are men Of
wealth with large influence and with
power to control a considerable following,
the action they have taken cannot be un.
derestimated.
PERSONNEL OF THE BoLTERs.
Richard Mccall, one of the leading
planters of the Third district, and Mr. f.
N. Pugh Of Ascension, a near relative OF
| Justice Nichols, was made chairman.
| Among those who participated in thedis-
| cussiou were: Mr.. w. e. Howell, a prom
| inent democrat of LafourChe; H. p Kerr
| nochau, who was naval officer under
! Cleveland; Albert Estopinal, a demo-
! cratic state senator who may be the
planters candidate in the First district;
! G.. r. Anderson, a wealthy planter
| OF Plaquemine; James A. Ware, demo-
| cratic representative in the legislature
! from Iberville; Col. j. ID. Hill, Capt. j, n.
| Pharr and others, Mr.. John Dymond
was the only speaker who strenuously OPP
! posed secession from the Democratic
| party. Messrs Howell, Weems, Kern
cochan and Wilkinson, brother of Col
lector Wilkinson, were appointed a com-
| mittee TO propose plan for the collection
of the bounty on this years crop.
The committee reported and the reporb
was adopted.
The convention then took up the politi-
| cal question. Messrs. Mccall, Pugh,
| Kernochan, Estopinal, Ware and others
| advised an alliance with the Republican
party. They said that they had been oe-
trayed by the democrats, and that the
only hope Of protection for sugar lay in
a Joining Of hands with the republicans.
| They realized tho full import Of breaking
| with the Democratic party, but
feeling that the negro question was
no longer an issue, and that the white
race would forever govern the southern
country, they said they had reached the
conclusion that self-preservation required
an affliation with party that would give
them the protection necessary for the
prosperity Of the industry, which is the
backbone of the state.
MEN or MEANS IN THIS.
The following committee was appointed
| on resolutions, and IL may be said that the
gentlemen named are among the wealth.
est and best known in the state: Messrs.
| D. A. Ware, n. Mccall, ID, l.. Monnat,
| Charles Matthews, Louis Clark, B. A.
| Oxnard, Charles GodchauX, G.. p. Ander-
son, ID. $. Ferris, i. j. Sully, Charles
| MaGinnis, Wyley Thompson, John Dy-
mond, w. II. Chaffe G. Breaux, Honore
! Dugas, w P Flower, Gen. w. H. Be
hand, r. Sufle and Capt.. j. N. Parr.
The report of the committee on resolu-
tions which was adopted at the outset de-
olares "A crisis has arrived in the poll
tics Of our state. Very many Of US who
have for many years co-operated with
the Democratic party and have
Loyalty supported its candidates,
have done 50 with the belief and with the
assurance that that party would main
tain fair protection on the products
| grown by us We had personal and posi-
tive assurances from the democratic can
didate for the presidency, Grover Cleve-
land during the late presidential CAM
paign, and we likewise had the personal
! assurances of the leaders of the Demo-
| cratic party to the same effect"
The committee reported elaborate reso-
lutions setting forth that the white
people of Louisiana and the planters for
many years had been loyal to
the Democratic party through victory
and defeat, but that the state had been
betrayed and blow struck at its chief
industry by that party, that this meant
its ruin, and that the nomination Of pro-
lection candidates and their election had
become a necessity The resolutions were
adopted by a rising vote. IL was decided
to meet again on Sept II in this city,
when the plans Of the sugar planters will
be perfected. IL was also decided to
nominate a candidate in the three sugar
districts and to affiliate with the repub-
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