The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-04-18
SOLID SOUTH TO
BE BROKEN SOON
Louisiana, Rock-Ribbed in
Democracy, is Ready TO /
Go Republican. / /
FREE TRADE SUGAR
Schedule Passed by the Dem
ocratic House is Cause Il
for Change.


NEW ORLEANS, La, April n
Louisiana, the most rock-ribbed DEM
ocratic state of all southland, threat
ems to go Republican this fall.
! Missouri. the mysterious stranger"
OF the famous McCutcheon cartoon
four years ago, may have company
this year.
This is the threat OF newspapers,
business men. and planters. as the
revenge of the state upon Democracy.
If the Democratic party succeeds, in
Its efforts to put sugar on the free
list.
The most warliRe language Is to be
heard from the newspapers and men
, OF prominence who have always, IN
the past been regarded as the men
who would be Democrats to their
graves. but who now fear, in the
threat of free sugar, the humiliation
of the states most cherished Industry
If the North ever thought the
South Slow the Yankees would
have their eyes opend by the activity
of the campaign against free sugar
nowsin full swing. The southerners
are s,ire of their own states delega-
ton, but their efforts are now being
directed toward cooperation with
the beet sugar manufacturers OF the
North and West. Quietly their cam.
paign has been launched, until It Is
now in full swing, on the chain letter
basis. Every southerner who has a
friend or business correspondent ii
the West and North, has written ask
ing that friend to write to his con-
gresham, especially If that congress-
man voted for free sugar in the
House, to protest, against the removal
of the duty. Each friend is also
asked to pass the word along to all
his friends, with the aim of SO bonn
harding the lawmakers with the evil
dence of sentiment against free sugar,
that when the bill comes back to
the House from the Senate, which is
expected to refuse to pass the meas
ure, the lower house will see the
light and reverse It's former action.
The New Orleans Item, a stauncn
old Democratic organ, is the leader
in the voicing Of the threat Of tho
state to go Republican, and break the
solid South, If the Democrats pass
the free sugar bill
The Picayune, newspaper famous
in the days before the Civil war, and
new one Of the leading publications
in the South. gives prominence to a
statement by Charles A. Farwel,,
president Of the American Cane
Growers Association, when he says:
Il say frankly that believe the time
Is ripe for Louisiana to send Repub-
licans to Congress-"
1.-THE appeal of Louisiana to the
beet sugar states OF the North" con-
tinues Mr. Farwell, "is because we
believe this is the time to demonstrate
that, the states of the South and the
states of the North are one In inter-
csts, and old sectional lines should
be forgotten. Louisiana has about
$500 100000 invested in the sugar in
dustry. Seventeen northern states
have the same amount invested in
beet sugar factories. but the interest
of the northern states should be even
more strongly against free sugar be.
cause the beet sugar factories OF the
North spend $lO0.OOO.O0O a year in
buying beets of the farmers, and
these northern factories, like those
of our own state. spend many millions
every year in wages to employees.
"If the sugar trust wins its fight
to eliminate the competition of the
beet sugar industry, the Louisiana
cane sugar industry will fall with the
Industry in the North. with the trust
controlling the industry. by its mo
noply. achieved through free sugar,
can any one suppose that the public
win be the gamer by the cutting OF
the tariff? The interests which now
are fighting for free sugar, won their
fight for free coffee, and coffee since
the day the duty was removed has
never been SO cheap in price"