San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-07
LOUISIANA POLITICS.
MARK HANNA SAID TO BE "AGIN''
THE NEGRO.
A Prominent COlOred Man DenOunCes the
Old Political Hacks aud Endorses
The White Republicans.


low. and knows when the wind blows
from the north" The wind Of pOlit-
ical sentiment is blowing keenly just
now from the north athwart the Her
wig faction of the Louisiana Republi-
cans and Henry feels its chilly blasts.
Last night he talked to your reporter
and ''piped" the writer off in great
shape. First of all Demas in plain
English declared that Mr. Herwig had
no authority to represent the ''regu-
lars in the recent conference held
with Capt. DOnnelly, and while he
would not admit, in so many words,
Demas was clearly of the opinion that
Chairman Herwig has about outlived
his usefulness as an envoy, when put
against so keen a trader as the pres
ent chairman of the Howell campaign
committee. The eXlstate senator from
st. Johns was very wrathy at the way
things were going, and declared his
opinion in very strong language about
the sugar planters party.
The Herwig faction appear to be get
ting in greater straits every day. Not
only are they in a distressingly i'm
pecuniOus condition, but now they are
threatened with litigation of a most
perpleXing character. 1t would ap.
pear as though their every preceding
was' based on unlawful foundations,
as the new election law went into eff
feet July 9th, and their nominations of
congressional candidates and the Sc
lection of electors were made under
conditions that ante-dated the passage
of the new law. This is held to be a
fatal defect in the regulars entire
electoral machinery, and undoubtedly
will be taken advantage of by the
Howell people, who it seems have a
legal bureau attached to their outfit
at No. 11G st. Charles street. On the
other hand it is held that the nomina-
lions and selections made by the sug.
ar planters were in precise conformity
to the new law.
1t is fact that their district elect
ors were elected by the several dis,
tricts, the two electors at large named
by the state convention, held in the st.
Charles theatre, and the whole of the
proceedings of the faction, ratified in
ship-shape order by the st. Charles
theatre convention, which was admit
ted to be one if not the most imposing
assemblies of white Republicans ever
held in this city. The candidates
nominated by the regulars will not be
allowed to go to the polls without the
biggest sort of a fight being made
against their being recognized by the
state authorities, and Secretary Mich
ell and his colleagues have a very del
icate task ahead of them, when they
are called upon to say who is, or who
is not the real genuine gilt-edge 'regu.
lar" radicals of the state.
Another awkward predicament that
Mr.. Herwig's people are placed in, is
by reason of the wholesale desertion
of the cOlored leaders. Even prOmi-
nent negro followers of Republican
regularity in the past few years, but
who have never been in the strict
sense of the term offensive partisans
have gone over to the sugar barons.
]. Madison Vance, well-known local
attorney, is a striking example of this.
Madison Vance is recognized by both
factions as being a strong man, he
owns and edits a paper called the
journal Of the Lodge" and up to the
present Vance has taken on active part
in the rumpus between the regulars
and Lilly Whites. Today Vance is
with the latter, so far as COMPRESSION.
al candidates in the First, Second and
Third districts are concerned. He
says: Il have taken this step advis.
eddy, and after due consideration.
feel that my race will be benefited by
the success of the candidates in the
three districts 1 have mentioned. The
crew that Henry Demas presides
over is about played out. l am not
claiming any particular credit for the
step have taken, because 1 felt that
with the protection of the respectable
white Republicans the negro would
get a chance in the forthcoming cleo
ton; something Demas, or Wimberly
or Desdumes or others of the same fol
lowing could not guarantee"
80 long," continued Vance, "as Loui
siana Republicanism is represented by
the old disreputable crowd l mention,