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Show IHARDING STANDS HI6HJN.S0UTH Growers and Industrial Men Flock to His Support; Ne-gro Ne-gro Element Absent TtY MARK M LMT X. National Political CorrespwMlenl oC th New Vork Breninp unvi. WAftHINGTOff, r r. N,, j. TN'hpn Srnntfir Harding n.iv addressing address-ing the open air crowd In Nv t r-lf-ana of Tuesdax just ln'forc :illinK for 1'annma. 1 stood on Ihe bit hall tops l-ohinrl hini with t hi- owner .m.l i fdltor if ono of N"0W rleans news- . Iaer a man who in ni J J 'emorrat. hy conviction, t t j i i ... J tied to that pariy by tradition and of- I ficial association, thai it Is possible I to speak of him a a Brahmin among 1 l emocrai. I Tho remark which occurred to this I man a we watched ih upturned I facea was this "The nifntficent thine about that crowd, if that there is hardly a nepro In it. on former occasions, oc-casions, when Republican presidents siteri Xew Orleans, the occasion was regarded by the negroes a iheir particular par-ticular da. and more than h.lf the rrowd was colored. "Thnr crowd that has com to hear Harding:," he continued, "is rppre- 1 tentative of the people tnIio voted for him 'They are as good a-s any people In our city, lii sump respects they are the lest people In our city ii. ( P BAR V) "The people who voted for Harding Include most of our booking people most of our mercantile people, and most of the people connected with OUt leading Industries. Actually two-fifths two-fifths of thf people of this state voted for Harding, and must of them were people of this olaas. The negro element ele-ment in thf vote thai Harding got was a negligible fraction, not over three or four thousand at the outside. out-side. With the votes of people of the best das. Harding carried ei -oral districts of this city: And cajnc ie to carrying the, city as a whole. If the Republicans bdd i-eon woli organized and had mode a real fight. or if the Democratic vote had not been stimulated (v the (acl that A proposal for n new i onstitutlori was voted on the fame day. H.irdlnn mlcht well rt;i i u ried Loiilslan i n m 11 sim. i t Bourn All th-s.- things and others to the same effect this Democratic editor said, and he said them not with bitterness bit-terness or regret, hut with satisfaction satisfac-tion Ami this satisfaction with the prospect that Ihe south ma nnn cease to he s solid unit politically, ami may Income a norma! section like every other part of the country, doubtful as between the parties and With both parties contending for 1 In each election. The satisfaction over this prospect is general with the class of Democrats Of whom this speaker Is typical. lii some parts of the south this satisfaction sat-isfaction Is true on the grounds that It is more wholesome for a community to have two parties contending for Its votes than for one DartV to have a monopoly of ii Thev cite th eiu-cational eiu-cational value r political campaign political delegates. and political pa mphleting In Ix)iilslana the satisfaction over Republican victory is not entirely al-trUlltte, al-trUlltte, Louisiana Is less a cotton tau than the other sou t hern states Louisiana is n sugar state', a rice state and 0 lumber state And all threp of these industries need, or think thfs need, protection When Senator Harding crossed the stat" from west to east on his way from rexa tO New rleans he pass-. I through no community that Is nut n sugar or rice community. THK n i:r;K VOTE All this vat isfart ion with Rcpuhllc-an. Rcpuhllc-an. victory, on the part of trios southerners south-erners who enter In that satisfaction includes one Important assumption It includes the assumption that the Republican party If and when It become be-come eipial In power to the Denio-. Denio-. ;iis lii tin south, will take the same attitude that the Democrat take to-I to-I ward negro voting. It gos on the assumption as-sumption that whereor the negro population Is half or close to half of the whole, that element shall not he solicited to VOt'e and become a balance of power between two white factions. if the South thought ihe Republican would be likely to do in the future as they have in the past, to stimulate the negro to vote 10 as to give that main pawns to unscrupulous, politicians, politici-ans, to bribe the negro and huv and sell his power In the national elei -ilons. if the south thought the Republican Repub-lican were going to continue the.oe practice! the Republican pany would have ni better prospects here In the future than in the past But the south has come to feel that nmrh every bod now agrees about what is best to do about the negro as a voter in communities where he Is Bo numerous nu-merous that his vote would he the determining factor. SOI TH LIKES HARDING Aside from the satisfaction of the pugar people the rice people, the lumber people and the other commercial commer-cial and financial tlasss with his election. Senator Harding made In New Orleans the same ini oression of simple friendliness that he has made elsewhere in the south and received from the audience a tribute that was Clearly Intended to make him feel that he had their good will and good wihe Copyright 1 y 20 bj the New York ' K ening Post , 1 its'. |