Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1884 — Sugar Planters in Convention. [ARTICLE]

Sugar Planters in Convention.

[New Orleans telegram.] ♦The convention at New Orleans of Louisiana’s protected industries declared for protection as a principle. It refused to indorse W. P. Kellogg, and indorsed Carleton Hunt. Democrat, for re-election to the First District. The same compliment was paid to Senators Jonas and Gibson. The other Congressmen from the State were not mentioned. They were all Democrats and voted for the Morrison horizontal bill. No politics were discussed, nor any resolutions proposed looking to the indorsement of any of the Presidential candidates, although the majority of the delegates will support Cleveland.