Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-10-17
GOV. NJ KIN LEY
His Coming Appearance on the
Stump in Louisiana.
A new ERA IN SOUTHERN POLITICS
What the Revolt of the Sugar
Planters May Accomplish.
EFFECT IN OTHER STATES

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The appearance of Gov. Mckinley on the
stump In New Orleans next Saturday night
will be an event of interest to the entire
| country. 1t may prove to be the beginning
| of new and most momentous era In the
| history of southern politics, and II such
| shall be the result the politics of the other
sections must in the nature of things be
very materially affected by it also.
The man, the place and the occasion are
most happily joined for far-reaching effects.
and the political managers are discussing
| the movement and its possibilities in way
| to indicate that they possess unquestioned
importance.
The One Issue i'm the South.
For twenty years the south has known
but one issue. All other issues-the tariff,
| reciprocity. free coinage. an extended and
aggressive foreign policy-while freely and
forcibly discussed, both on the hustings and
in the newspapers, have invariably given
way. when divisions were threatened and
democratic control imperiled, before the
question of how far the negro should be
permitted to participate in shaping the
policy to advance the material fortunes OF
that section. The white man, with his
superior intelligence, his incalculably great
| er property interests and his far larger ex-
q
insisted on exercising full control, and
| therefore the negro question has been the
| only question in those states where. by rea-
son Of the size of the negro vote the or
ganization of the whites to accomplish
| their purpose has needed to be perfect and
| at all times to be carefully watched.
In no southern state has this feeling run
| higher than in LouissLa. So determined,
| INDEED, were the democrats of that state to
cont o, it's fortunes that they at last took
| guns in their hands, p:cketed the streets of
| thafv-
| a regular battlefield ard sliced the state
government by force of arms. And they
| have ever since held 1t. Now and then
| little f1urries have occurred In this district
| or that, resulting In the sending of a re-
publican to Congress- but as a rule solid
| democratic delegations have been coming
up from down there, and registering the
| vote of the state in Ger gress for democratic
| candidates and democratic measures.
| A Political Revolution Threatened.
| But at last there is a furry which threat
/ ems a political revolution in the state
| Louisiana has been touched in her most
| sensitive spot. Free sugar and no bounty
| means ruin to her, and she is up in arms
against the threatened policy. Her demo-
| cratic representatives in Congress. it is
true have helped to bring this threat about
| In the speakership fight in the forty eighth
| Congress, when this policy first began to
| take shape, they voted for Mr.. Carlisle, the
| low-tariff candidate, against MIR. Randall
| an dNOWeu anu proven
| friend of the south and of sugar. The
| Louisiana congressman have likewise sup
| ported all of the democratic tariff bills
presented since that time, some of which,
as 1t was complained. threatened the life OF
many southern industries. But the pelican
state is at last aroused on the question of
| free sugar; and whether such a policy
| grows logically out of her past attitude on
| the. tariff question Or not she is now talk
| ing protection, and threatening to ally her
self on that issue with the republicans.
Gov. Mex Kinley's Purpose.
Governor Mckinley goes into the state
to forward the purposes of this revolt and
| 1t is the subject of general remark in polit-
| ical circles that the invitation shows ad-
mirable judgment and insight on the part
of those extending it. The sugar industry
| has never thrived under any system as it
| has under the bounty system, and here
| Will be the republican leader who incor-
porated that system into the republican
| national policy addressing the men who
| bave benented So greatly by it. Then
| Governor Mckinley, by reason of his per-
| sonal address, may be expected to make a
| most pleasing impression on people IL
| Illustrating in their own address the best
| points of social conventions of q finish ed
| and attractive character.
| What the Result May he.
| Reports conflict as to what the result at
| the polls is likely to be. The contest is
| confined to the three sugar districts, the
| first, second and third. Both sides are well
led. The boilers have rut up strong men
and had them indorsed by the republicans
while the straightouts. holding on to the
| democracy, in spite of its record on sugar
| are represented by old and weli-tried favor
ties. The campaigns are being pushed with
| energy. A great deal is at stake, as evil
denced by the calling of Gov. Mckinley to
the scene by the bOlterS and the taking of
the stump by the two democratic Senator's
| Messrs, Caffery and Blanchard, in behalf
OF the stra,gntouts.
The straightouts are relying somewhat,
upon the hope that the boilers and their
new allies, the cOlored republicans and their
old leaders, will not be able to work well
and effectively together. The best of the
witticisms of the campaign is the demo-
cratic Characterization of these allies. The
| original republicans are called the "old
smok- and the boilers the new sugar
cured" The democratic leaders do not be-
| lieve that the old-timers. like ex-Gov. War
mouth and his lieutenants, will do their
utmost, when in the event of the success
| Of the allies the new sugar-cured" repIb-
licans would become SO essentially the
leaders, and In the event of national re-
publican success in 1886 so certainly the
| dispensers of the local federal patronage.
But so far as can be learned the combna-
| ton is working well, and the republican
| claim is that it will carry the second and
| third districts beyond a doubt, and push
the democrats hard in the first.
Possible Consequences I'm Other States
While this movement is as yet confined to
Louisiana, the politicians are canvassing 1t
with regard to what the consequences may
be. in case of success. in the other southern
| states. The question Of the solid south has
| been examined from many points of view
1t has repeatedly been declared that the
| south at heart was for protection. Louisi-
ana, Alabama, Tennessee. North and
South Carolina and old Virginia and
West Virginia have interests, sugar.
coal, iron, rice, that 1t was urged,
would best be developed under the republi-
can policy. The republican leaders have put
this matter in many alluring forms, but
never, however. with success. The south,
in the face of all the arguments, and to
which at times she seemed partly to assent,
remained democratic. The democratic lead
ers were always able at the last moment
to hold their lines unbroken by conjuring
with the old battle cries and appealing to
old intimacies and associations The repub-
lcan hope now. however, is of a new time.
II Louisiana breaks away on sugar, how
long will 1t be before Alabama, Tennessee
and West Virginia break away on coal and
iron, the Carolinas on rice and their mineral
resources? Some of the republican leaders
name as early a day as 1895, and see Gov