Huntsville gazette., 1894-09-22
REPUBLICANS REJOICE.
The Louisiana Sugar Planters
Convention Pleases Them.
DEMOCRATS ARE NOT UNEASY

General Catchings Says, Without the su-
gar Men. Louisiana Is Safe, and That
Element Was Only "A Drawback to the
Party That Tried to Protect Them All 1t
Could, Consistently.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.-The Repub-
lican managers of the campaign com
mittee are greatly pleased at the action
of the planters convention i'll Louisiana,
and expect majority OF the delegation
from that state in the next congress to
be Republicans, elected by the better
class of citizens. They are not saying
much about the matter, however, as
they do not care to frighten OIL new
converts by the revival of the old Re
publican organization there. They pro
pose to have the new order of things
worked out by the people who OF their
own free will have broken from the
Democratic party.
At the Democratic headquarters the
Louisiana affair is made light of. Tncy
insist that the Republicans have no
possible chance of getting more than
one district, and express the opinion
that even that will not be done. Sena-
tor Faulkner said that he was not
alarmed about Louisiana; that he IA
no doubt about the election Of SOLID
Democratic delegation from that state.
The planters, he said, were not strong
enough to affect the result.
Representative Catchings, who was
nassing through the city on his way to
Mississippi, said:
II am delighted at this action OF the
planters. If that element in Louisiana
goes over to the Republican party 1t
makes the way easy for free sugar.
They cannot, in my opinion, elect Re
pubiicans to the house, and Democrats
who are elected in spite of their opposl-
ton will be under no obligations to look
after their selfish interests.
"The demands of the Louisiana plant
ers have been an embarrassment to the
Democratic party, and [ shall not be 1t
all grieved to have them cut loose. Even
if they should succeed in sending Re
publicans to congress it would not be
matter of great consequence to the Dem
ocratic party. don't think there Is
any danger Of our being dependent upon
| that delegation to hold the next house,
| however. The state is Democratic witt :
out the planters, and we can very well
afford to have them i'll the opposition.
| In answer to the suggestion that the
vote of Louisiana might be important
should the next presidential election be
| thrown into the house, General Catch
| ings said that he thought there was no
| probability that the house would be
! called upon to elect the next president.
| Both Senator Faulkner and General
| Catchings, in commenting on the gen
eral situation, called attention 70 evideii-
| ces Of a revival of business, which tn. Y
| believed would result beneficially to the
party in power at the present time.
Senator Faulkner said that informa-
| ton received by him from different
| quarters showed great revival in both
retail and wholesale business, and III
many lines of trade he said there was
| an extraordinary activity developing
| General Catchings pointed to the
| creased demand upon the treasury
| small currency and the large sale
postage stamps as an infallible sign o.
| revival of business. The treasury de
partment, he said, had been pressed
| the utmost for small currency, and con
siderable gold was being offered i'll ey
change for it.
| The sale of postage stamps during the
past two or three weeks, he said, he We
| informed has been almost unprecedent
| ed These two things, he said, Were
| the best possible signs of a revival
| business activity