Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-10-31
Both Sides, However, Troubled With
Doubts.
NOW MORE CONSERVATIVE
WeII-Known Members Who May
Not Be Reelected.
CHANCES IN LOUIS A

The congressional campaigns are virtually
| over. Speaking and club parading and
committee conferences will go on during
| the week, but the estimates in the doubt
| full districts have in the large majority
of the cases received their fnal revision.
| and it remains now only for the votes to be
| thrown and counted. Both sides profess to
| be confident Of controlling the next House.
| but neither is claiming it now by the fig
ures put out month ago. This in itself
argues that much uncertainty really exists,
and that as the day draws near for the
| proving Of their work the gifted predicters
on both sides Of the fence are becoming
smitten with a saving conservatism. The
personal talk of prominent leaders shows
| that either side would jump to close at once
with any power that could insure a ma
jority Of ten.
The Southern Situation.
The republicans are nervous about the
south. They feel that they have good pros
poets down there in a number of districts,
either on their own account or through
combination with the populists, and that If
nothing unforeseen occurs they will make
some encouraging winnings. But they con-
fess that there is always the danger of
race collision during election times, and
they realize that they are always the losers
by such collisions. Some republican lead
ers in times past have charged that dis
turbances of this nature were precipitated
and intensified by the democratic leaders
In order to bring wavering democrats back
INTO the foid. The threat of negro control
still operates strongly in many localities,
and has served to revolutionize and defeat
some very clever and potent plans of
southern republican leaders. The fear is
that 1t may be successfully invoked again.
The Danger i'm Louisiana.
This feeling exists especially with regard
to the first and second Louisiana districts,
which includes the city of New Orleans.
The republicans are making great play for
both of those districts, and their combina-
ton with the boltng sugar planters makes
them very formidable. The planters ex-
pect to bring many voters to the polls on
the strength of their contention about
sugar; but only on The strength Of that.
Their appeal to their old democratic asso-
ciates, and especially TO the white men
employed by them on their plantations and
about their sugar houses, is based upon the
old protection proposition that the interest
of the employer is the interest of the en-
ploye. If the sugar industry in Louisiana
Is destroyed, the whole community, the
planters assert, Will suffer. This is eX-
pected, if kept separate from other ques-
tions, to induce many democrats in those
two districts to vote the republican ticket
for Congress next Tuesday. But the race
question has suddenly arisen there and
New Orleans Is threatened with small
war between an association of white labor
ers on the levee and an association of black
laborerS. The two associations had been
getting along amicably for some time work.
ing side by side, and sharing good wages,
but they have parted company now and
the white association has notified ship own
ers not to employ the blacks in the work of
loading or unloading their crafts.
A good deal of bad feeling exists, and
serious trouble has, for several days, been
imminent No political question is in the
slightest degree involved, and yet the re-
publican leaders see the possibility of the
gravest consequences to their plans IT, be-
tween now and next Tuesday this labor
dispute should take on the form of Dhy-
sical fight. A levee riot between whites and
blacks, or bar room brawl over the uues-
ton at issue, attended with fatal results
would, the republican leaders believe, great
ly lessen the chances of republican success
In those two districts. The old wounds of
the carpet-bag era would all reopen: the
old talk and fear of negro domination
would all revive, and hundreds of waver-
ing democrats not of the capitalistic class
would forget all about the dangers of the
sugar interests and scurry back to old par
ty affiliations.
But no fears of this description are enter
tanned about the doubtful districts in West
virginia and Tennessee. In those two states
the negro vote has never been the factor or
created the opprobrium, that it has in the
extreme southern states. And another point
is that in West Virginia and Tennessee the
native white republican leadership has al
ways been strong. The Goffs i'm the one
state, and the Brownlows and the Houks in
the other, have always commanded the un-
qualified respect of their democratic neigh
bors. The tariff on coal and iron ore alone
makes the issue in those states and next
tuesdays decision there Is expected to re-
fect local sentiment on that subject.
Virrinfn nnl tha r.unu.u.
In old Virginia and the Carolinas the old
claims and counter claims continue The
situation is misty. The republican leaders
do not look for any material results from
the entrance of Gen. Malone into the con-
test 1t was too long delayed, they think,
and, besides, he has suffered of recent years
the loss of good deal of his former per-
sonal prestige and popularity. Some good
things are hoped for from the populistic-
republican combination in North Carolina
but not confidently. The chances for a re-
publican disappointment there are conceded
to be good.
Four welI-Known Democrats.
Some talk has grown out of a recent offer
by visitor here fresh from Ohio and In
diana to bet 500 each against the return of
Holman and Bynum, Springer and Outh-
waite. The offer was not accepted. The
democrats concede the danger of the two
Indianans but they claim to be confident
of the return Of both Mr.. Springer and Mr..
Outhwaite. The leaders on both sides COM
ment pleasantly on the gap that would be
made by the retirement of Mr.. Holman and
Mr.. Springer. Both have been in Congress
so long, and each has made such distinct
place for himself, that even the veterans
are unable to conceive of how an appropri-
alton bill could be thoroughly scrutinized or
a point of order thoroughly debated with
out their assistance.
Hill Helping Tracey.
The latest most interesting news from
the congressional contests in New York is
that Gen. Tracey, in the Albany district,
who at one time was In danger, is likely to
pull through with the aid of Senator HILL
Gen. Tracey is the Presidents friend and
has never affiliated with Senator Hill, but
the Hill enthusiasm around Albany is, by
the Senator's direction, being utilized to
assist the Tracey campaign.