Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-05-28
POLITICS IN NORTH CAROLINA.

A Possibility Of the Defeat of the Demo
cratic National Ticket Next FAN.
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
RALEIGH, N. c., May 2s.-An erroneous i'm
preston seems to be prevalent among the nom
residents of this state ''that the peoples party
OF North Carolina will not put an electoral
ticket in the field or send delegates to Or,aha,
but will nominate congressional candidates
only"
The fact is the peoples party last week
elected eight deegates-at-large to the Omaha
convention and adopted resolutions indorsing
President of the National Alliance l.. L. Polk
OF this state for the peoples party nomination
for President.
A state committee has also been organized,
with W. r. Lindsay 4 Rockingham chairman,
ana that committee has ordered county con-
ventions to be held on June 10 and congress
sional conventions on June 16 for the purpose
OF electing district delegates to Omaha, and for
the further purpose of placing congressional
candidates In the field 'wherever advisable"
BoMBsHELL FELL
into the democratic camp on Monday last when
it was announced in the Progressive Farmer of
this city that Capt. Harry Skinner would head the
delegation to Omaha. Capt. Skinner was placed
IN nomination for Lieutenant governor at the
democratic convention last week. but with
drew his name and made ringing DEM
Ocratic speech. and the announcement that he
had joined the third party came like clap of
thunder from clear sky.
THE ELECTORAL VOTE IN DOUBT.
1t is not known now what form the opposition
to the compromise democratic-alliance state
ticket will take. 1t is thought that the repub-
licans may now hold another convention and
place state ticket in the field. But. be that as ii
may. unless some unforeseen contingency arises
the democratic state ticket will be elected by
the usual ma jority of about $4,000.
Bat with the democratic national ticket it is
different. With Col. Polk "a native resident
North Carolinian) as the presidential candi-
date and Capt. Skinner as one of the electors
at-large the peoples party might poll any,
where from %, 600 to 5000 votes in North Car
Olina-and it il from the democratic ranks these
votes will be mostly drawn.
Where the votes to elect the democratic
electoral ticket are to come from is the Ques-
ton which is now engaging the serious atten-
ton of the democrats of this state and it is one
that will probably call for the exercise of much
thought and judgment on the part of the
national committee.
At present there seems to be but one solution
OF the problem and that very difficult and
doubtful one at best. There are thousands of
negro alliance men in the eastern counties Of
this state. II considerable number of them
could be induced to vote for Polk the result
might be the election of the third party electoral
ticket or the success of the democratic electors,
The former would. of course, be preferred by
the democrats to the election of the republican
ticket. for if the eleven votes of North Carolina
are necessary to a choice in the electoral col
lege, the casting Of them for Polk would simply
throw the election into the present democratic
House OF Representatives.