The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-26
ELECTORAL FUSION
Comment of State Press on
Committees Action.
THE DUTY OF DEMOCRATS
Those Who Want Mckinley De
feated Will Support 1t.
REPUBLICANS ADMIT DEFEAT

the Durham Herald--Some Not
Only Endorse the Commit
tee, But Were Willing
to go Further.
AS for ourselves we confess tnat y
seems probable that this (Dem.-Fop
electoraD fusion will win.-Hlckory
Press (Repl.
Ont of a poll of nearly 375 people on
The special to Greensboro last Ihurs~
dav over the c. f. and Y. V. Railway,
there were about $40 votes for Bryan
and silver. against 90 for gold and Me-
Kinley-seventeen to one.-Maxtou
Chief.
The great journalistic authority OF
North Carolina, (the Charlotte Ooser-
very has ruled itself against the party
and humanity, and the only excuse IL
attempts is, that this action OF the
committees, though in accord with the
popular will, is technically unparlla-
mentary in partisan vIew.-Durhalh
Herald.
At last the silver forces in North
Carolina have come together, Demo-
Gratis. Popuilsts and Silver parties all
agree to cooperation. The eleven elec-
toral votes have been divided as fol-
lows: Democrats, 5; Populists, 5; Sill
yer party, 1. This insures the State
for BRYAN and his majority in the State
vii be something like 50,0o0.-Roanoke
Beacon.
In the early hours Tuesday morning
a work was done which gives the cleo
toral vote of this grand old State 10
William +. Bryan. Shame that any one
should have had cause to think to the
contrary. Tt was 1880 o'clock this
morning, when the Democratic, Popu-
list and silver parties agreed on cleo
foral fusion. The silver forces are
now united, and they will carry this
State by a majority anywhere between
10000 and 75,000.-Fayetteville Obser-
yer.
The Democratic and Populist parties
having effected electoral fusion so as to
promote and secure Bryan's elction as
President, why may not the silver
forces effect fusion on congressman
and members of the Legislature, so
as to secure Congress which will en-
act a free silver law and send it to
Bryan for his signature? Having be-
gun, let us finish the work and get the
silver legislation we all desire. Unit
ed we stand, divided we fall under
the dominion of Mark Hanna.-David-
son Dispatch.
lit seems Ito be the unanimous opin-
ion of those who are posted, and who
wish to effect the defat of Mckinley,
McKinleyism and Mark Hanna's ne
farious Republican policy in North
Carolina, that all who favor such de-
feat should vote for the electoral tici-et
as given out and endorsed by the COM
mittees of the three parties. y y
To those who are disposed to resent and
CRITICS lectoral fusion we would like
to suggest that this arrangement
has the unanimous endorsement of
the trusted leaders of the respective
parties, Democratic, Populist and Sill
yer, who are avowedly opposed to the
success of the Republican gold ticket,
Mckinley and Hobart. The effect of
the arrangement in North Carolina
Bryan and Sewall will receive six out
of the eleven electoral votes, thus
casting electoral vote of the State for
the Democratic ticket.--Maxton Chief
The position of the Star is so well
known on the question of fusion that
we do not deem it necessary to say
much about it now, for action HAVING
been taken any further discussion
is not only useless, but might prove
hurtful. Believing that the members
of the State Executive committee, with
all the lights before them, acted for
what they believed to be the best
and were governed by patriotic mo-
tives, we subordinate our opinion to
their Judgment and accept their de-
cision as the best that they, ait least,
thought could be done 1t insures the
State for Bryan and does not jeopardiZe
the election of Sewall, and as that
lis the main thing as far as the national
ticket is concerned, we are willing
to tread the surest and most direct
route to the attainment of that end,
especially when this is done without
any surrender of principles for which
we are contending.- Star.
The matter with which every voter
has to deal now is the fact that fusion
has been arranged. This being the case
the question arises: What is the duty
of Democrats as respects this ticket
To our minds that duty is evident
Others may think otherwise, but, as
for us, we believe that it is the duty
of every man who calls himself Dem
ocrat to support the ticket. We be.
Iieve it to be the duty of every man
who wants Mckinley defeated anc
Bryan elected to support this ticket
\ A word to those Democrats
who want to see Mckinley defeated
and Bryan elected, whether you b'
cold man or silver man. This fusion
was arranged for that very purpose. 1T
success means that Bryan will ge
North Cardinals vote. Mark Hanna'i
money cannot now give the vote of thi
State to Mckinley. That much is as
sured. Mr.. Bryan will carry this Stat
by from $4,000 to $4,000 majority. /