Evening star., 1896-10-27
A N E W aP OLICY
To Split the Two. Wings, Of the Free
Silver Combination.
CARLISLE STRUCK TEE KEYNOTE
Surrender to tbs Populists to Be
Emphasized. --..
NO HOPE FOR SEW ALL

Driving the entering wedge between the
two wings Of the free silver combination Is
to be the policy of the sound money demo-
Gratis during the brief period which remains
before election. The ignominy which they
believe has been fastened upon the demo-
cratic organization by surrender to popu-
lism In nearly thirty states Is to be brought
home in a forcible manner to those demo-
cratic voters who are for Bryan and Sewall
because they bear the stamp of party regu-
larity Secretary Carlisle struck the key
note upon this issue on Thursday night at
Covington, when he pointed out that the So
called democratic state committee OF Ken
lucky had usurped the functions of the
party and struck its flag to populism by
putting several Watson electors on the reg
ular democratic ticket. making it impossible
Tor Kentucky democrat to vote, II he
wished, for thirteen Bryan and Sewall elec-
tors The similar combination which has
been made In Indiana has driven the recent
chairman OF the state committee out Of the
Bryan ranks and will be made powerful
lever Tor separating self-respecting demo-
Gratis from the combination ticket. 1t is
declared that many democrats who are
willing to vote for Bryan and Sewall will
refuse to roll In the mud at the feet Of the
ptpulist ticket and will scratch the popu-
list electors If this policy should be pur-
sued by democrats in every state where
fusion ticket exists II would greatly dimin-
ish the vote of the combine In Illinois,
Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan Minnesota Mis-
souri,. Nebraska, Ohio oregon and Wiscon-
sim These are not the only states in which
the flag of democracy has been struck tc
populism. but they are the more important
states where the reduction of the combina-
ton vote might affect the result. 1t Is not
possible for democrats in these states to
vote a full Bryan and Sewall ticket; but
they can at least content themselves with
voting for democratic electors where they
nave been named and scratching the names
OF the populist electors. This policy may
invoke retribution on the side of the popU
lists by leading them to scratch the demo-
cratic electors. This the gold men declare
Is one of the inevitable results of the at
tempt to absorb the democratic party into
the populist party, which will not cause
grief among certain classes of democrats
To Put the Issue Plainly.
The suggestion that the issue be pu.
plainly before the voters, whether they
wished to vote for populist electors and
Put Tom Watson on the high road to the
White House. was made to the national
democratic committee some days ago. The
idea was warmly welcomed, but some
bring the names Il ~ pop populist electors
properly before democratic voters, In order
that they might be Sfratched. Sound
money papers Will be asked, however, to
post these names in their several states
and to invite the attention Of self-respect-
Ing democrats to Sphe hst. 1t Is believed
that some journals which are supporting
Bryan and Sewall because they are the
nominees OF regularly called convention
will take up the issues and advise their
readers to scratch the, populist electors.
The number Of pouulists who are to be
foisted upon democratic voters by fusion
tickets in different states Is between sixty
and seventy. Some Of these are in states
which are surely republican, like Connect
cut and New Jersey, where 1t would seem
been avoided. Some OF the populist electors
also are in states which are safely demo-
cratic under ordinary conditions, and their
acceptance by the Bryan democracy indi-
of sound money democrats has inspired.
The humiliatfng feature Of these deals in
several doubtful states Is the excessive pro-
portion of the electoral ticket given to the
populists. In Minnesota and Nebraska
each party gets four electors. In Michigan
the populfsts get four out of fourteen, and
in Missouri four out Of seventeen. In Ohio
the populists get five out of twenty-three,
The climax of humiliation For democrats is
attained in North Dakota and Oregon,
where the entire ticket was conceded to
the populists. democrat, therefore. in
either of these states has no opportunity
to vote for Bryan and Sewall. but must
take his choice between the populist ticket
of Bryan and Watson and the sound money
democratic ticket Of Palmer and Buckner
There has been some discussion In Oregon
which may result in giving a place or two
to a democratic candidate for elector. but
in any event a democratic voter will have
to vote for majority of populists unless
he prefers the sound money ticket named
at Indianapolis.
Situation of Mr.. SewalI.
The measure Of the number of populist
the place of democrats Is the measure of
the scale with the consent of the demo-
cratic national committee, and in most
cases by it's orders, against the POSSIBLE
election of Mr.. Sewah as Vice President.
Jones of Arkansas and the other free SILL
yer leaders in putting New England man
on the ticket may be judged from the fact
that he cannot possibly be elected unless
one and receives seventy more votes than
are necessary. to his election. Bryan
might sweep the solid south and the silver
west, might add Kansas and Nebraska
winning by twenty-five majority in the
electoral college. and the vote for Vice
President would stand two hundred and
eleven for Hobart forty-one for Watson
The winning of Illinois would not better
matters, for Mr.. SewalI would get only
twenty Of the twenty-fo,lr votes and would
still fall nine votes short Of election. There
Is no conceivable condition under which
he can be chosen Vice President by the
electors, in view of the way in which the
cards have been stocked by the silver lead
ers, unless there Is a tidal wave which
submerges every state south and west of
the Potomac under the silver flood. A
New England man could only become Vice
President upon the condition that nearly
every state outside of New England voted
to make him so. This condition has not
come about, gold democrats declare,
against the protests ofthe so-called dem
ocratic national committee nor even by
their reluctant CONSENT Chairman Jones
has steadily urged upon every state COM
mittee that concessions to the populists be
made; that democratic electors fairly ncm-
mated In their district conventions and
pledged to Mr.. Sewall DE forced off the
ticket, and that Bryan and Watson popu-
lists be put III thetD places. These facts
are beginning to gfate On the self-respect
of many democrats who would have swal-
lowed the Bryan and Sewall ticket on the
Chicago platform, and many on them are
getting ready to scratch the populist cleo
tors. On
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