The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-11-22
Satisfaction Over This Pros
pect Is General in Various
Sections Among the Best
Class of Southern Demo-
Gratis
BY MARK SULLIVAN
National Political Correspondent of the
IntcllisencCr and New York Evening
Post

Post.
Now Orleans, La. Nov. Gl.-Whcn
Srnator -c"ruiuS was addressing the
,p,n air crowd III New Orleans on
i thursday just before sailing Tor rama
, ina, | stood on the city hall steps be-.
hind HIM with the owner and editor oil
one OF New Orleans newspapers. man
+. vnu - not only Il Democrat by r0nNic-
ton. but Is 50 tied to that party by ira
dilIon and official association that IL Is
possible to speak Of HIM as a HrahmH'
among Democrats
The remark which occurred to this
man as We watched the upturncd faces
was this: The significant thing about
that crowd is that there is hardly a
negro in 1t. On former occasions when
Republican pres idcntS visited New or
leans. the occasion was regarded by The
negroes as their particular day, and
more than half the crowd was coloreG.
That crowd. that has come to hear
Harding b. continued, is representa-
tive of the people who voted for HIM.
They are as good aS any people in our
city. In some respects they ar" the best
people in our city
THE people who voted for Harding
include most Of our banking people.
most Of our mercantile people, ana
most Of the people connected with our
leading industries. Actually, t~"-hlt hS
IL the people OF this state voted FOR
Harding. and most Of them were people
uC this class. The negro element in
the vot" that Harding got was ncgli-
Eible fraction, not over three or four
thousand at the outside. With the
votes Of people OF the bust class, Hard,
ing carried several districts of THIS
city. and came close TO carrying tho
city as a whole"
If the Republicans had been we'll Dr.
ganizcd and had made = real fight. or If
lated by the fact that a proposal for n
new constitution was voted on the same
day. Harding might we'll have carried
Louisiana"
same effect this Democratic editor said
and he said them not with bitterness or
regret, but with satisfaction. And this
satisfaction with the prospect that the
South may soon cease 10 be solid unit
politically and may become Il normal
section like every other part Of the
country. doubtful rs between the parties
and with both parties contending for II
In each election. The satisfaction over
this prospect Is general with the class
, OF Democrats OF whom this speaker Is
! typical
in some parts Of the South this salts.
| faction is put On the grounds that 1t Is
| more wholesome for Il community 10
have two parties cOntcndinS for Its
J votes than for one party to have mon.
! Opoly Of them. They cite the .educatinnI
! value of political campaigns. political
delegates. and politicical ramrhlctccr'
| ing.
! In Louisiana the satisfaction over Re-
publican victory Is not entirely altruiS-
tic. Louisiana IS less cotton state
/ than the other Southern states. Louis
! lana Is a sugar state rice state. and
| lumber state. And all three of these IN
dustrrs need. or think they nocd. Pre-.
I lection. When Senator Harding crossed
| the state from west to east on his way
! from Texas TO New Orleans he passed
! through no community that is not a
sugar or rice community.
| All this satisfaction with Republican
/ victory on the part Of thoS" Southcrncrs
/ who enter into that satisfaction includes
/ one important assumption. 1t includes
I tn" assumption that tn" Republican par
I " il and when II becomes equal in pow
or to the Democrats IN the South Will
| take the same attitud" that the Demo
| Gratis taxa toward negro voting.
1t goes on the assumption that where
| even the negro population IL hlrf or
close To half Of the whole. that element
| shall not h" solicited 10 vote and become
n balance "r power between two white
| factions. If IN" South thought tho Re-
publicans would BE- likely to do in tho
future as they have in the past. I"
stimulate the negro to vote rs to give