The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-31
The PopuIist Chairman Sending Out
Tickets Without Worth's Name
on Them,--A Mark Hanna
Trick ExpoSed.


In response to an inquiry from the
Chicago Record as to what was liable
to be the result of the coming election
in North Carolina, Chairman Aver, of
the ponulist State committee, sent the
following telegram:
Raleigh, N. c., Oct. 80, 1896.
Chicago Record, Chicago, Ill.,:
situation here is such as to make
a forecast, based on accurate knowl-
edge. impossible. There is fusion ar
rangement between Populists and
Democrats on electoral ticket, and a
cooperative. arrangement between lie
publicans and. Populists ON State and
Congressional tickets. If these ar
engagements shall be supported by all
the parties, and it now seems very
probable that they viii be, the State will
go for Bryan by majority ranging
anywhere from ten to twenty thousand.
THE Congressional arrangements
look to the election of five Populists
and four Republicans under the CO.
operation of these two parties, and
they are all almost sure of election.
Two of the Republicans are avowed
opponents of the gold standard.
~
nominee for Governor, in which he adj
yises Populists to vote for Democrats,
has had the effect of incensing the
Populists to great extent, and many
of them will now vote for the Repub-
lican nominee. This makes the cleo
tion of the head of the Republican
ticket almost certain.
stOn other State officers there is CO.
operation between Populists and Re-
publicans, and this cooperation ticket
will be elected.
sThe Legislature will be largely anti
Democratic. Populists will probably
have a larger number of representa-
tives than any other party. The cleo
ton of a silver United States Senator
is almost certain.
''HAL. w. AVER"
s.You did me an injustice in the
News and Observer the other day, said
Otho Wilson, when you intimated that
I did not want Bryan elected. / do
desire his election. / am willing to
sacrifice anything to secure it. After
I saw the State was in danger of going
for Mckinley / was most ardent
advocate of electoral fusion with the
Democrats"
do you think Bryan will carry the
State?''
81 most certainly do His majority
will not be less than 10000"
.How about the State ticket?'
Russell will be elected. His major
ity will not be less than 1000. Mai.
Guthrie's address will add at least 90
900 to the majority Russell would
otherwise have gotten. The Demo
Gratis cannot possibly poll more than
$4,000 votes"
II hear that you said you hoped
Russell would be elected" remarked.
81 said that as between Russell and
Watson preferred Russell And as
for Guthrie he is no longer seriously
in the race. shall, however, vote for
him."
'How do you figure out the Legis-
lature?"
1.-The Democrats cannot possibly
elect more than 25 members, and with
out the aid of the Populists in certain
counties they couldn't get more than
Is members of the House. The Popu-
lists are practically certain of % Sen
ators and about the same number in
the House as they had in the last Leg
islature. They will have more mem
bers in both houses than either Dem
ocrats or Republicans.
and" he added, ''there is one thing
you may put down as certain free
silver man will be elected to the Uni
ted States Senate"
There was a kind of blue haze and
sulphurous smell about the Treasury
department yesterday. Father Worth's
bald pate wore a sort of crape-on-the-
door expression and he was kept busy
swabbing out the tears that welled
up to his eyes. He was not singing
Il want to be am Angel" any more he
was too busy wishing the other fell
low in the internal regions for that.
And Chairman Ayer-he has not had
such a terrible shock to his nerves
since the Guthrie address-bomb burst
in his midst.
lt all came about in this way: The
Populist tickets We're printed from
stereotyped plates. There were sixteen
of these plates, SO that every revolution
of the press turned out sixteen tickets.
Now it happened that soon after the
press began it's work an accident oc-
CURED by which one of these plates
was blurred. A printer set to work
to remedy the defect by setting up a
fac-simile of it in type. This he did,
except-and here is what caused all
the trouble-he left out entirely the of
flee of State Treasurer. But Chairman
Aver was too busy replying ito Mai
Guthrie's appeal to the Populists to
stand by their principles to notice the
mistake, so the tickets were hustled off
to all parts of the State with Father
Worth's name left off ON every six
teenth package. And nobody here was
any THE wiser until yesterday morning
when Inquiries as to the cause of this
strange omission began TO pour in.
Father Worth and Chairman Aver
held a hurried council of war Ohio
Wilson, of course, was present with a
plentiful supply of free advice and
great gobs of abuse for the wicked
Democrats who had Bought up the
printers and perpetrated this unholy
deed. But somehow this didn't seem
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