LOUISIANA. 



LUTHERANS. 



425 



. tding it penalty I'nr tin- willful violation of 



"iiti-act* nr interference therein by person* not 



|i- the contract. 



Making women i-iigihic to any office of control or 



management Under tllC school la us nl' I lie Statr. 



I'lvM-nting tin- employment of children in places 

 dangerous to their ho. lie.-, or tlu-ir morals. 



l'i-o\ iilim; against unsafe ilnod'niir m- irrigation of 

 ippi lands. 



Political. The Farmers' State Union con- 

 vened at Mmiroo on Aug. 2, with President T.S. 

 Adams in the chair. In his address the presi- 

 dent (It-cliin-d that class legislation had forced 

 the fanner into organization. He said that four 

 dt i-ades since the farmers owned r )0 per cent, of 

 tin- wealth, and, notwithstanding much larger 

 crops have been made, they only own ',!."> per 

 cent, cf the national wealth, and pay 80 per cent, 

 of its taxes. He recommended the appointment 

 of '^ standing committees for the future, to wit: 

 1 on education and 1 on legislation. lie sug- 

 gested that to do good work in their ranks they 

 must "try to capture the next State Democratic 

 ('(invention in that party's ranks." He recom- 

 mended that no political resolutions be passed. 



The Republic-ail party was divided for some 

 time into the Warmouth and the Leonard fac- 

 tions. Not until Oct. 3 was harmony finally re- 

 stored, the Warmouth faction then withdrawing 

 aini leaving the Leonard faction free to run the 

 campaign. This action was the result of an 

 earnest appeal made by the State Executive Com- 

 mission, a summary of which is given below: 



It has been the purpose and effort of this commit- 

 tee to effect a union of all the different factions and 

 dements of the people inclined to support the Repub- 

 lican presidential and congressional tickets. Recog- 

 nizing the necessity for such a combination, this com- 

 mittee lias striven to secure a representation of the 

 various elements and factions in a single State com- 

 mittee. To this end it proposed to create a new State 

 committee, claiming onfy a small representation in it 

 for tliis committee. Failing in that, it proposed a 

 campaign committee, whose authority should be lim- 

 ited to this campaign and for only one third of the 

 representation on it. These propositions were rejected 

 by the ('aire committee. In order, therefore, that the 

 iu-st efforts of the party may be put forth under exist- 

 iiitr circumstances, and in order to show the good will 

 of this committee and its desire to make every and all 

 sacrifices necessary to secure Republican success, it 

 lias been determined to withdraw the electoral ticket 

 named by the Republican Convention on the 19th of 

 February lost, and to recommend that all Republicans 

 shall vote for the electors named by the Cage com- 

 mittee. It has also been determined to recommend 

 to all Republicans to vote for those candidates for 

 Congress chosen, or to be chosen, by the congressional 

 organization reco.rni/ed by the National Republican 

 Convention at Minneapolis. Having withdrawn our 

 electoral and eonirres-ional tickets, we urge all Re- 

 publicans to vote for the candidates named as a 

 means necessary to the triumph of Republican princi- 

 ples. We urge all Republicans to forget and forgive 

 imy wrongs or insults, real or fancied, which they 

 iia^e Mi>taine.l, and t.> remember that they are voting 

 for Benjamin Harrison for President and Whitelaw 

 Kcid for V ice-President when they vote for the eke 

 toral ticket 



The harmony of the Democratic campaign was 

 marred by certain controversies in the Fifth Con- 

 gressional District of the State over the basis of 

 representation for the congressional nominating 

 convention for that district. The difficulty grew 

 out of the action of the district executive com- 



mit tee, which met at Monroe on Aug. 6. Then 

 arose a discussion as to the ba-i- nf repre-eut;i- 

 tion for that convention. The committee. l,\- a 

 large majority (15 to 4) resolved to adept as a 

 basis tin- total population of the district at the 

 rate of 1 vote for each 500 of people and fraction 

 of 250 or more. Four members of the commit- 

 tee bolted the body, claiming that the representa- 

 tion should be based on the vote cast for Demo- 

 cratic candidates for Governor in the last elec- 

 tion, which would practically confine it to the 

 white population. This was the view held by 

 the minority, who proceeded to call a separate 

 ((invention to nominate a congressional candi- 

 date, this convention to be held on Sept. 10. A 

 white basis would have made a great change in 

 the representative strength of the several par- 

 ishes, cutting down that of the river parishes, 

 where the negro population is large and the white 

 population small, while the hill parishes, which 

 are largely white, would have had a vastly pre- 

 ponderating influence in the convention. 



After much exertion in the way of harmoniz- 

 ing, it was determined to reconvene the commit- 

 tee, securing the presence of the members who 

 had been absent at the previous session, and have 

 the matter of the basis of representation passed 

 on. This was done, the committee having been 

 reassembled on Monday, Sept. 5. The subject of 

 the basis of representation was then taken up, 

 and by a vote of 12 to 3, 4 members being absent, 

 the action of the committee at its former meet- 

 ing was ratified and the basis of representation 

 for each parish fixed on the figures of the total 

 population. 



For platforms, etc., adopted by the conven- 

 tions held late in 1891 or early in 1892, see " An- 

 nual Cyclopedia " for 1891, page 445. The State 

 election was held en April 19, 1892, and the fol- 

 lowing tickets were in the field : 



1. A Democratic ticket, with Judge S. D. McEnery 

 for Governor and Robert C. \Vickliff for Lieutenant- 

 (iovernor. A majority of the delegates elected to the 

 State Convention favored McEnery. 



2. The Antilottery ticket, headed by Murphy J. 

 Foster, ex-State Senator, with Charles 1'arlange, ex- 

 Unitcu States District Attorney, for Lieutemtnt-Gov- 

 ernor, and Thomas Scott Ames, of the Farmers' Alli- 

 ance, for Secretary of State. 



8. A Republican ticket, headed by A. II. Leonard, 

 who \\as formerly Tinted States Attorney, and H. 

 Dudley Coleman, ex-Congressman from the Second 

 Louisiana District. Roth these gentlemen we;. 

 Confederates. Ex-Gov. Kellogg has made a vigorous 

 canvass in favor of the Leonard ticket. 



4. A Republican ticket, headed by John Ebreaux 

 for Governor and .lames <'. Weeks for Liciitcnuiit- 

 Governor. This ticket was supported by ex-liov. 

 Warmouth. 



5. The People's party ticket for Governor, R. L. 

 Tannehill, for Licutenant-Governor, I. J. Kills. 



These tickets received the following vote: 

 the McEnery ticket, 40.006; the Foster ticket, 

 TH.lTii: the Leonard ticket, 20,062 : the Kbreaux 

 ticket. 12,012: the Tannehill ticket. N.47!. 



At the presidential election in November, the 

 Democratic electors received 87,922 votes, the 

 Republican 25.382. 



LI THKRANS. The statistics of the Evan- 

 gelical Lutheran Church in the Tinted States, 

 as gathered by the writer for the "Church Al- 

 manac," present the following results: Synods, 

 61; ministers, 5,2l9; congregations. S,908; com- 



