Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1884-08-27

elector, who will receive merely his
party vote. The twelve electors will
receive the combined vote of the
Democrats and Butler men, and these
twelve electors will be elected. The
Democrats will vote for seven of their
own men and six of the Butler men,
and the Butler men will vote for
seven of their own men and six Dem
ocrats. The vote cast for the thir-
teenth elector on each ticket will show
how many votes are cast by the Dem
ocrats and the Butler party separate
ly, while the votes cast for the other
twelve electors will show the COM
bined vote of the Democrats and But
Ter party. These twelve men will be
elected. because the combined vote
of the three parties will, we believe,
exceed the votes cast for twelve Re-
publican electors, but as the Repub-
licans can cast more votes than any
one of the three opposition parties,
they will thus elect one of their
thirteen electors.
The electors on the Fusion ticket
are to vote for President as follows:
If the Democratic and Butler vote
should be equal, then Cleveland will
get one-half, or six electoral votes,
and Butler will get six electoral votes.
If the Democratic party should poll
twice as many votes as the Butler
men, then Cleveland would get eight
electoral votes and Butler four cleo
toral votes. This is the Butler plan,
and the twelve electoral votes are to
be divided between Cleveland and
Butler according to the number of
votes cast by each party, MS shown by
the vote received by the odd clcctor
The Conventions have instructed
their State committees TO arrange, i'll
they can satisfactorily, some plan
whereby the thirteen electoral votes
can be jointly voted for by all the
three opposition parties, and yet show
the number of votes cast in favor of
Cleveland and Butler separately, so
as to determine how many electoral
votes Cleveland and Butler are each
fairly entitled to.
To elect a President will require
POI electoral votes.
The State ticket nominated by the
Democrats and Butler men, meets the
and will receive the votes of
the members of the Democratic and
Butler parties, and it can not fail, we
believe, to be elected. To form such
a combined ticket is wise plan. 1t
is the only way to drive the monopoly
party out of power in this State. The
alliance is one made in response to
the demands of the people, and by
this alliance they will help to drive
the monopoly tyrants out of power,
and restore the government of the
whole country to one of the people,
for the people and by the people.
Every voter in Michigan who de-
sires the overthrow Of monopoly; of
official cor ruptionists of the terrible
system whereby the Republican mon
opoly party has made few hundred
and millions Of paupers,
and brought misery, restitution and
starvation to millions of American
citizens, will vote the Fusion or
Peoples ticket.
What little influence this paper has
will be used to help elect the State
and electoral tickets put up by the
parties, and the duty that
the Democrats and Butler men of
Alpena have to do, is to see that the
ticket receives majority of the votes
cast. They can do so if they will on
ly 60 to the polls on November 4th,
and cast their votes in favor of the
ticket. The opposers of the monopo-
Iy party should make up their minds
that Begole and the rest of the men
nominated on the State and electoral
ticket should get at least 200 majority
in Alpena county. From now until
next November, every Democrat and
Butler man should consider himself
delegated to see that this
200 majority program is carried out.
They have the votes if they will only
bring them out.
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