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Show LOUISIANA POLITICS. It is :i hopeful ligo to sen the republican! repub-lican! of n southern stnto leading oft with tho lirst stale convention of the presidential year. Louisianti is one of the states in which a free and fair election elec-tion would show a clear republican majority, but which has been made democratic by fraud and violence. For several years I lie republicans have, maintained an indifferent organization, although in 1888 they elected one congressman. con-gressman. They are led to hope that the democrats, being seriously split on the lottery question, will expend their energies in fighting one another and thus allow the republicans to escape the violence vio-lence usually dealt out to them when attempting to vote. Hence they are encouraged to make tho contest this year, and yesterday they nominated a full stale ticket. The representation in 1 lie convention was unusually full, and flic delegates included a larger number of whites than have taken part in a republican state convention in Louisiana Louisi-ana I'm' years. As an offset to the unpleasant fact that Hie lottery has captured the regular reg-ular democratic organization of Louisiana Louisi-ana it has been claimed by northern democrats that the lottery would also control the republicans. Yesterday's convention effectually disproved that. The republicans not only denounced the lottery, but declared thai republicans would be read out of the party who voted for either MiEnkkv, the lottery democratic candidate, or for FOSTEB, the anti-lottery democratic candidate, who was at the head of a mob that murdered mur-dered defenseless colored men. There is a bolting faction of republicans headed by ex-liovernor Waimhm tii, but its following will not be large. It has called lor a convention next month, aud may nominate a ticket, but it will not support the lottery, since Wak-jiol'TH Wak-jiol'TH is collector of the port of New Orleans, aud no federal office-holder under Ihe riAHRISON administration will icul ure to aid the lottery. As usual in southern states, the Louisiana Louis-iana republicans are for the administration, administra-tion, at w hose hands the principal leaders lead-ers hold office, and the delegation will lie for President Habkisojt. |