The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-31
LOUISIANA SAFE
 FOR WILSON AND
 PARTY POLICIES
Political Leader of Pelican State Declares the Re- publicans Have Lost
 Confidence

The first feeling of doubt among democrats about the result of the pres idential election which followed the nomination of Hughes, and the refusal of Roosevelt to accept the progressive nomination has now given way to one of the utmost confidence" said J. T. Bryant, a prominent Louisiana political leader, who has just returned from a trip to Washington, New York. Chicago and other points. MT. Bryant stopped over with relatives in Birmingham for few days on his way to his home at Monroe, La
 T talked with many of the leading poli- ticians In Washington and the democrats
 were without exception entirely confi- dent of the result said Mir. Bryant.
 The republicans seem to have lost the confidence they claimed to feel early in June, and I am of the opinion that their leaders consider that they have an uphill fight ahead of them. One of the most encouraging features which has de- veloped during the past month Is the ap- parent determination of large part of the progressives not to be delivered into the hands of the very men their party
 was formed to fight. John M. Parker, the vice presidential!
 nominee of the progressives, is one of the leading men in our state, and stands very high with the people of all parties.
 In the recent gubernatorial race in Lou l isiana he made a remarkable race, which was interpreted by the republicans as indicating dissatisfaction with the demo-
 cratic party in the south. Some of the anti-democratic leaders even expressed the opinion that Louisiana. on account of the sugar tariff proposition. would vote against Wilson. Nothing could be further from the situation. The vote of Parker was largely personal one.
 LOUISIANA SAFE
 We have one republican or anti-demo- cratic district in our state, but practice
 ally all the other sections are just as strong for the democratic party as Ala
 balna or Georgia There is no more dan-
 ger of Wilson losing Louisiana than there is of losing either of the other states mentioned. The sugar producing
 section of our state did not like the tar if bill, but the other people are in fa- vor of the democratic tariff, and the democratic party's policies.
 While in Washington, I attended the meetings of the postmasters of the first and second class from all parts of the country. Of course, they are naturally ! inclined to look with favor upon the can- didacy of the President, but they were so | confident of the result that it can be taken as a good indication of the senti- | ment existing in the sections they repre- | sent. The same opinion seemed to be | held in New York and even in the mid- | dle west.
 "The south will vote the ticket as | usual and since Wilson has given us peace with honor and the greatest pros- perity in all sections, at least except the
 south, the prevailing opinion among po- | litical leaders seemd to favor his election by large majority. As to the progress sives, am of the opinion that unless
 they should decide to put out a ticket of
 their own, which would make democratic | success fully certain, the majority of
 them will line up for Wilson,