Show I j iLEliRAPHIQ I NEWS S 5 U n J l I I r l I IIIE SOLID SOUTH IVhflch ThrenteBS Disruption JVashington 5Bourbons from allover over the south are reviling Mabone and display extreme trenidation at the con I Ftant outcropping 6f an inclinntion to follow his footsteps on the part of prom I inent men in other southern tates It is believed among republicans very generally I gener-ally that the break in the solid south will soon extend all along the line and there are strong indications of a split on the tariff issue between the democratic party and the Louisiana democracy the lead ing sugar manufacturers A new Or I leans l democrat who is in the city said today We want the protection 6t our sugar interests in Louisiana and that is our chief interest All of our fortunes are invested in sugar and we would be ruined by free trade Then the government govern-ment is bound by a contract to protect us for we were told that we would tie > protected providing that we were to go into the business Then in the face of this understanding that we were to be protected against Cuban and all other usgars here comes the democratic demo-cratic party and talks about tariff for revenue rev-enue only That will not do If a canvass can-vass was made in Louisiana as it might have been on tat issue Hancock and English could not have carried the state and no party with a free trade plank in its platform will ever do it again Now the republican party is really with us + in our interests First there is the matter of protection and second the republican republi-can party is understoodto be in favor of liberal appropriations for national improvements im-provements That suits us Give us protection for our sugar and build up levels on the Mississippi and we will make all the sugar the people of the United States need and more too S 5 |