The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-07
HOW THEY TALK.
Opposition i'm the East and South to
n Third Ticket.


The first to arrive for the conference
were L. NJ. Crawford and ]. Fl. Smith of
Texas. A little later in the day j. f. Bal
lard. of Atlanta; II. c. Simms. of Hunting
ton, W. Va; Randolph Stalnaker. of
Wheeling. and Edward Crosse, of New
I York, came in. 1t is apparent that there
will be not a little opposition to a third
ticket coming from the Southern and East
ern States, where the sound money Demo-
Gratis prefer TO take their medicine
straight" as they express it, and vote for
Mckinley. II myself think third ticket
is good thing said Mr.. Ballard. of At
lanta but the most Of our people in Geor-
gia do not believe in il. They want to see
Bryan defeated, and believe that the surest
way of doing it is by voting for Mckinley.
The Eastern people, so far as 1 can learn.
feel very much the same way. Another
point that holds them back is that by de-
claring for third ticket they might lose
their hold upon the organization, and once
they should lose that they would be prac-
ticaily out of politics. / want to make
sound-money speeches in the campaign,
but / would rather do ii in behalf of
straight Democratic sound-inoney ticket
than for the Republican candidates. 1 want
to be able TO look any Democrat in the eye
and be able to tell him that am as good
Democrat as he is. One swallow does not
make summer, nor does one issue make
a party and though i cannot agree with
the Chicago platform at all, ! am Demo-
crat and want TO remain Democrat"
"Our people, said Col. FL. c. Simms, of
mand for a straight Democratic ticket and
platform meeting their honest-money
views. We want something for which we
can make a straight, aggressive, fight
While most of the machine politicians in
our State have fallen into line, you can go
along every line of railroad in West Vir-
ginia and you can hardly find Democrat
in business who Is not willing TO vote for
a sound-money ticket They cannot bring
themselves TO vote Tor Mckinley. but il
there is not another Democratic ticket in
the field most OF them will stay at home
while considerable number will, be
brought into line and vote Tor Bryan"
The Texas men favor the idea of advis-
ing sound-money Democrats 10 vote the
Republican ticket. with US it is a simple
he Tesas delegates. What We want anf fo
do is 70 defeat Bryan and the Chica go
pla atform. If we vote for third ticket we
simply exert half vote by keeping a vote
ley straight give a full vote where IL
would do the most good. II seems TO me
third ticket would constra;n us to vote
for Mckinley, bitter as the dose might be- {"
GERMANS FOR SOUND MONEY.
Edward Crosse is secretary of the Ger
man Sound money League of New York
II simply came out to look on" said he
"and do what / can for the sound-money
cause. / cannot speak either for the State
or for my own organization, for neither
has yet taken definite stand upon the
question of a third ticket or turning the
yote to Mckinley. Only this much is GER
tain-that the Germans of the country on
whole are not Jikely to support Bryan
though you will occasionally find spora die
instances of such support BY nature and
training they are for the best money in the
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