The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-07
SEWALL TO LOSE.
Even if Bryan Is Elected He
Can't Be,
Says the Boston Herald After
Close Figuring.
SEWALL'S CAKE DOUGH
On Account Of the POpulist Plan
Of Fusion.
Boston Herald's Figures Given
In Full.
SEWALL'S CAKE DOUGH


Boston. Sept THE Herald publish
es the following special from its Wash
ington correspondent:
The defeat of Mr.. Sewan and Of the
possibility of the election of a full Dem
ocratic ticket of any character seems
to have been settled by recent state
conventions The plan of fusion which
is being carried out between Chicago
Democrats, free silver Republicans and
Popu1ists makes it impossible that Mr..
Sewau can be elected vice president
by the electoral college, even though
1Ir. Bryan may be chosen president
The fusion programme in the great
states of the west and in the southern
states contemplates a union electoral
college upon which at least q part of
the electors shall be for Bryan and
Watson instead of Bryan and Sewall.
Mr.. Bryan may sweep these states by
tremendous majorities. but Mr.. SewaH
cannot get more than the fixed proper
tfon OF electors allotted to him by the
Popuhsts. because there will be only
that number of Sewau electors in the
field
The fusion plans are not yet COM
plete in all the states, but Ohio Demo-
Gratis have conceded five of the q cleo
tors on their ticket to the Populists
AA1C4l4@dL4 JEI12OGIdLS nave GQuCGQeQ
three out of IA. California Democrats
have conceded four out Of nine Colo
rado Democrats one out Of four. In
Oregon the Democratic organization.
even of the silver sort, will have no
party to claim the field, and will sup
port the four Watson electors.
Plans for fusion are under considera-
ton in Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky,
Missouri. Texas and in nearly every
southern and western state.
The southern states, without Mary
Hanm N=Tr- IL
bly, go against silver, have 14s e1ector-
al votes. The 10 votes Of the mining
states, ten from Kansas. eight from Ne
braska, nine from California, four from
Oregon and three from Washington,
would raise this total to POI. One more
great western state like Illinois. or two
smaller states, like Indiana and Mich
1gan. would elect Mr.. Bryan. Illinois
alone would make his vote 225, and give
him a majority of six in the electoral
college.
It is an interesting question where
Mr.. SeWaIl would be left by such a com
biratiOn of evert is. The five states in
the north and west named above would
choose IT less Sewall electors than Bry-
IN electors. and Mr.. SewalIs vote
would shrink by that number.
The votes which he will lose in the
southern states are likely to be much
more numerous. The Populists of Ken
lucky have demanded half Of the cleo
taral ticket for Watson. and the big
sound money revolt in the state makes
can be chosen without the Populist
vote. This would take six or seven cleo
tors away from Mr.. Sewau, even if the
state went for Bryan and Watson. The
loss Of SewaU electors throughout the
south would hardly be less than 40
and with additional losses in California
Oregon, Colorado and Illinois, the total
loss, even if Mr.. Bryan were elected
would be about so.
The election of Bryan by the combi-
nation given above would leave Mr..
Sewall with 165 votes. Mr. Watson with
60 and Mr.. Hobart with 219. The only
probable chance for Mr.. Sewau under
such conditions. would lie in the fact
that his would be one of the two names
submitted to the senate for their choice
and the senate viii have a majority of
former Republicans. and. even though
some of them are for silver. they are
quite as likely to prefer their party
candidate as a New England free sill
yer Democrat.
Nothing could elect Mr. Sewall vice
president under the plans of the Pop
ulist combine except a silver victory
which carried every great state of the
Mississippi valley Illinois, Indiana,
Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin. Moth
ing less than this would make Mr.. Sew
all possibility as vice president Of the
United States. and even this possibility
would vanish if sound money should
carry one or two such states as Ken
lucky, Missouri or Virginia.
Sound money Democrats who have
been studying this situation declare
LIktaN lI VIII De a powerful argument
against the Bryan ticket. The sftua-
ton proves, they declare, that there is
no sincere purpose to elect any Demo-
cratic ticket, even of the sort put in
nomination at Chicago, and that the
Democratic organization IS simply
made to tender to the Populist machine.
The pretence that the Democrats have
upon their ticket g conservative man
of business from New England loses Its
force as an argument in favor of its
conservative character when plans
have been made which make 1t inpossi-
bic that such a man can be elected.
These plans, moreover, have not been
made against the wishes and protests
Of supporters of the Chicago ticket but
have required and received their full
consent and appreciation. The hand of
the national committee and of Chair
man Jones is well understood to have
been felt in many states in favor of
fusion, where reputable Democrats
seemed to hesitate to sink their party
in the new silver combine.
If it IS said that these concessions to
Populism are necessary to success the
sound money Democrats answer that
the only sort Of success possible of
achievement is the success Of the Pop
ulst end of the combination. Bryan
himself is a half-hedged Populist, and
what Democracy there is on the ticket
is to be carefully excluded from any
possibility of sharing in the triumph
which is expected by the PopuIists in
November.
A Look Through South Missouri Tor