The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1894-10-12
A eaRREcTI0N.


THE smsrieeH q last week PUBLISHED
"a excerpt from the Yinten (Ea.l Eagl
whieh, not only nsisrepressnts ne posi-
tsen 81 the ECHO, but proves the edito
of the Eaal, GO DC Is ignorant Of southerl
lpolitics as a esUinaa nigger il Of tn
tsru6k verb or Starms shssFssss As tar al
that Is concerned, however he compares
hsvorably with the present heavy writer
of the .8merisan.
Among other things tho Bagle says
sFThe ECHO takes the strange grouad
that the majority OF the sugar planters
are northern white rasn, and are not en-
titled 10 mach consideration. Ii III
Inmates that they have been humored
heretofore, ana that they were stumbling
blocks in the way Of simon-pnFe demo
crass It.ealis them paid hirelings and
heanty jumpers.
Those who have been constant readers
Of the ECHO for the Hast twenty-five
years, know thar at no time in IT'S history
has it ever published anything that
could be construed into theeSpressiun
attributed 20 us by the Eagle.
after locking over the past few NUM-
bers of the Echo in search Of tho article
which Taisled the editor Of the Eagle, we
came to tho conclusion that it must have
been the editorial entitled, 'Tbe Sugar
Bolt OF our Issue of September Itch, in
which We said: .sFor every vote the ne
publicans would gain in Louisiana, by
promising either a tariff or a higher rate
of duty on sugar, they wonId lose hum
slretls in the northern and western states.
The leaders OF the republican party
plainly understand tho Situation, and
while they Will lare the sugar men,
with gllttering geaeralities, about the
beauties and advantages of protection IN
general. and ef the bounty in particular,
they dare not promise either there-estab-
lishment Of the bounty or high pre-
teCtive duty en- sugar, which is the only
enc Of two things which can allay the
desires of the sugar u1alesntents,
The democrats, on the other hand,
deeply regret the new departure of their
old friends AMI allies; not because they
are interested IN the production OF sugar.
on they believe tine party viii suffer amy
permanent damage by their detection;
hnt simply because the sugar planters
ara mostly all southern white men, with
whom they have stood shoulder to
shoulder during the dark days. in de-
tense of their social rights and white
supremacy. The democrats sympathiza
with them rs friends and ne8ghbors, not
as politicians. As friends they bright
snel every doorstep and iIlumined every
hall As politicians they always proved
a stumbling block to party measures and
party pOliey
In order 70 eanclliate them, the rrne
democrats of the .'se-called'' sugar dis
triets, have. time and again. swallowed
the bitter pill of .,protectiVe" democrats
20 represent them in congress, and in
their speeches and platforms they have
been compelled to conceal their feelings
and oaiuions for fear of antaguuizing the
tender sensibiIities of the sRgarplanters.
But they have wilied it otherwise; they
have opened the breach themselves; they
have deserted the democratic fortress.
and those who now stand in its defense
VIII dare utter their true sentiments
without fear Of causing the desertion of
those who. 1t seems, stood with them
heretofore, not as volunteers or patriots,
hnU as paid hiEelings and .buantyr
jumpers.
1t is but fair to state that the copy Of
the Echo sent M the Eagle read Rorthrrs
instead Of soHtArrH white men, hat the
next lew lines should have shown him
that this was an error not detected in
proof reading Everybody knows that
the majority of the sugar planters are
mot northern men hat southern men.
Wei do many Of them remember those
OZARK days, and here comes this sur
prise to as that they, fer the sake Of
greed, should invite negro supremacy
and ali that is thereby implied.
Oar northern contemporary is wsefaily
ignorant Of the situation. There is no
such thing As white republican party
u Louisiana. Niaeteen-tweutieth of
those who vote fer the republican eandi-
date tor congress in this gthe Sui) dis
trict viii be negroes.
The bOlting sugar planters comprise
not more than one-half Of the white men
identified with that industry Many
who were ut first inclined to join the
balieFs have seen the folly ofsuch astiun,
and are now the most earnest supporters
Of Prizes who Is ons Of the largest sugar
planters In the south