San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-09-21
SHORT STOPS.
What the People are Saying.

What the People are Saying.
Louisiana has gone whooping in,
to the Republican party. Three
thousand citizens met in New Or.
leans on the 18th and there has sell
dom been such a meeting held in
the history OF this country, where
a great body of the wealth and in
telligence OF the state deliberately
bolt their life long political faith
and boldly espouse the cause of the
opposite side.
The Picayune, an old Democratic
sheet, heads the account of the
meeting with such startling lines
as, orally of New Republicans"
"Great Convention Called by the
Sugar Planter" "Come Out Un-
equivocally for the Grand Old
Party" "W. S. Parkerson's Speech
Makes the Widest Enthusiasm"
"EX-Naval Officer KernOchan and
James Wilkinson also Glory in
Their New Political Garments"
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The hundred vice-presidents who
graced the stage were composed of
the cream of Louisiana business
men and aristocracy. In short, Re-
publicanism has become the fash
ion in Louisiana and we may eX-
pect to see that state completely
revolutioniZed.
This was all brought about by
| the free trade raid made by the
Democratic party in power in Con-
gress and in the White House up
on Louisiana's great staple-sugar.
The planters of Louisiana prefer
the Republican and Protection to
Democracy and ruin.
The condition of the Louisiana
planters is so alike that of our
sheep growers and cattle growers,
and the situation so aptly fits the
18th District that few quotations
will be good reading for our read
ers.
Mr.. Edward w. Pugh opened
the meeting and delivered a care
fully prepared address, full of the
soundest reasons for the new de-
parture in party politics. care we
to close our eyes," he asked, and
heap ourselves in sentimentality
and await the doom that will come
to us. We have always marched
In the ranks of the Democracy, but
we can do it no longer. The policy
of the party is changed, and it be-
hooves us no longer to support it.
In the Republican party protection
is a principle. That party will not
allow us to be destroyed. The road
Of Democracy leads to destruction"
Mr.. KernOchan, eX naval officer
under Cleveland, was called to the
chair. He said:
"Gentlemen, have been all my
| life until lately a Democrat, but at
the same time protectionist per
Sc and on principle, for all Ameri-
can Industries, but | could at that
time act consistently as | did, be-
cause the Democratic platform at
that time called for tariff for rev.
enue with incidental protection.
Samuel Randall was alive then,
and he and his thirty.five adherent
protection Democrats gave us the
last hope that there was a protec-
tion p ank yet to stand on, there
fore, thought it best for all of our
interests to act as / did at that
time. Today we meet again in this
hall and this same question con-
fronts us: is it best for us to re-
main in the Democratic party any
longer, or for self-preservatiOn to
declare our allegiance to the ma
tional Republican party, whose
watchword is protection"
will tell you why we should
all be protectionists, and they can
not call our reasons selfish or
avaricious. When anything is
made in this country the money
paid for it is kept here to support
our own American wage-earners.
When anything is imported the
money goes abroad to support for
eign wage earners in foreign coun-
tries. Let us be in favor of run
ming America for Americans, and
let this be our "battle cry"
Gentlemen, ini:my opinion, the
time for "trimmlng" is past. II
we send, without a struggle, six