The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-28
BLACK AND TAN
 RULE THE BOOST
LOUISIANA CONVENTION WAS THREE-FOURTHS NEGROES AND UNFALTERlNG SUPPORT IS PLEDGED TO ROOSEVELT.

New Orleans, April 27.-Wldly cheering every reference to the recent overwhelm- ing defeat of the lily white ticket in the state election, the regular republicans met here today, strongly indorsed Pres ident Roosevelt and his administration, and sent mixed delegation to the nat ional convention. Thlrty-nine parishes and seventeen wards of New Orleans were represented. Three-fourths of the convention comprised negro delegates, but there were many old-llne white re- publican leaders present. Walter Cohen called the convention to order Joel Moody was made the temporary chair man.
 Four delegates at large were elected as follows: Walter Cohen, H. B. N Brown, Emile Kuntz and Girault Far rar.
 The two former are representative ne- groes. The resolutions adopted denounce the suffrage laws of Louisiana and the separate car laws of all the southern states, appeal to congress 10 pass laws against lynchings, declare the lily white knocked the negro down in the state campaign only lO tDlDTdtt nun UpM III the hope of holding on to the federal officers, and pledge unfaltering support to President Roosevelt. his administra- ton and his candidacy.
 
 charge that some American manufactur- CTS sold their product abroad cheaper than at home MT. Littleheld said that wherever the tariff was the reason for afe h n rn6l1n- ton Of the tariff to deprive such manu- facturer of so much of his protection as was necessary to prevent such result,
 This announcement was received with democratic applause. He explained that In this he was speaking for himself alone, but added:
 T know of no republican who thinks otherwise" This statement met with re publican applause. MT. Llttlefeld said that under the last democratic adminis- tratlon there was a deficit of $l05, ,OO0,0OO It was then, he said. that Secretary Car lisle issued bonds which August Belmont and J. Pierpont Morgan negotiated at profit to themselves of more than $l0,0OO, GOO. Continuing, he said 1t was no won der a return to power was wanted by the democrats in order that they may have opportunity to steal the revenues of the United States government"
 He was cheered, applauded and congrat- ulated by his colleagues.
 Williams Addresses the House.
 MT. Williams of Mississippi then ad- dressed the house, devoting the first part of his address to a comment on MT. Dalzells assertion that hoodlums were to be found among those adventurers who have left their own country for their countrys good, rather than among Amer jeans.
 He recounted the deeds of war of for eigners in this country and referred to the members of the house of foreign ex- traction, drawing the inference that MT. Dalzells statement was unjustihable.
 MT. Williams spoke of the millions of descendants of the pilgrims who came on the Mayhower, and said they would tell you better than that" The foreigners who had come to the United States, he declared, would say that they left their country because conditions at home were worse than would be found in a wilder ness among wild red men.
 Devoting himself to the remarks of MT. Littleheld, he inquired if protection was not a subsidy indirectly. The republicans he charged subsidized anything under the plea of raising the wages of labor, "and yet" he continued, you denounce as a socialist an anarchist, radical, or an agrarian. any man who would introduce on this floor a bill directly to raise wages out of the United States treasury"
 MT. Williams declared that MT. Dalzell had misquoted him regarding his maRa- zine article as to what would be in the next democratic platform on the tariff question, and said that what he had written was that protection was a system of taxation. MT Llttlefield. he said, had H..f .l Ddxs to hot ffr... was the mother of trusts. He would, he declared, tell what trust protection was not the mother of It was not the mother of "that sort of trust which owes it's success to increased efficiency of public service and cheapened products"
 He then asked the direct question of Mir. Littlefeld if he endorsed the admin istration of President McKinIey-"yes or mo-"
 Yes" answered MT. Littleheld.
 Every word of it?" Mir. Williams fur ther inquired
 Yes was the reply.
 As Reminder to Littlefeld.
 Mir. Williams then reminded .dr Little field that they stood together against the spirit of coloniaism, and said if he (Wil- liams) had said yes or no simply to the inquiry to whether he approved the Cochran speech, he would not have been telling the truth There was some things which could not be answered yes or no. In the main he (William9) endorsed the Cochran speech, but in some particulars he differed with It. Mir Littlefeld, he added, knew that there was not only nobody trying to make campaign on free trade, but he knows as a matter of fact that there could not possibly be any free trade in the United States
 MT. Williams discussed the New York democratic platform regarding state con- trol of corporations, and said he did not approve of the federal government talk ing it's arm away from regulating corpor- atlons that are engaged in interstate com merce. whether created by a state or not. He inquired of the republicans if they were going out on the Issue, "bor- rowed from the gamblers table of stand