Evening star., 1896-08-14
NORTH CAROLINA DEMOCRATS.
They Want Fusion With the POpulists
Only ON Electors.

They Want Fusion With the POpulists
Only on Electors.
Chairman Manley of the North Carolina
democratic state executive committee last
night replied to the letter of Senator Butler
regarding fusion. Senator Butler proposed
fusion as follows: Electors-Democrats, 6;
populists, 5. State officers-populists, gov
ernor, treasurer, superintendent of public
instructions; democrats, lieutenant governor,
secretary of state, auditor, attorney gen.
elal, United States Senator. Or democrats,
governor. attorney general. superintendent
of public instruction; populists, lieutenant
governor, trea asurer, secretary of state au-
ditor United States Senator.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. first district,
fourth district. sixth district. seventh dis
trict; democrats. second district. fifth dis
trict, eighth district, ninth district: third
district to be left open for free fight.
Judges-Each party one supreme court
judge.
County officers-The two state executive
committees to use their good offices to
secure fair and honorable division of
county legislative candidates between the
two parties on an equitable ratio similar
to the above division of state and con-
gressional offices.
The democrats had only proposed fusion
on the electoral ticket.
Mr.. Manley. in his reply, says he regarded
the memorandum from Senator Butler as
private and did not submit it to his COM
mittea He says:
I'm further answer to your communica-
ton l would respectfully say that the ex-
ecutive committee of the democratic party
made this proposition for electoral fusion
in perfect good faith, and we still express
| the hope that our inability to come to any
satisfactory arrangement to the extent ana
| in the manner you propose will not be al
lowed to stand in the way Of some just ar
rangement by which Mr.. Bryan, the nom
| iEee Of the democratic. populist and silver
| parties. shall receive the united support o1
these organizations.
| Its failure to have one electoral ticke;
| for Bryan may result in Mr.. Mckinleys re-
| ceiving the entire electoral vote of Nortf
| Carolina, although he receives many thou
| sands less of the popular votes at the polls
| than may be received by Mr.. Bryan. L
may be that the loss of the electoral vote
4 of North Carolina will result in the elec'
| ton of Mckinley and the fixing of the golC
| standard upon the people for four more
| years. 1t was to avoid the possibility OF
| such a result that the democratic executive
| committee made its proposition of July 81
| for electoral fusion, presented 1t in more
| definite shape at its meeting on the 10th o1
' August and now again presses its accept
ance upon you.
| There is also warm and sincere desire
on the part of the democratic party thai
the prospect of the financial reform legis
| lation demanded in the Chicago platform
and reiterated In the national platform OF
| the peoples party in the event of the elec
| ton cf Bryan. shall not fail because of the
| want of majority for silver in the ma
| tional House of Representatives, and tt
| that end every effort on the part of all par
| ties believing in silver should be directed
| 10 the defeat of gold standard candidates
| in every congressional district in the state
| and if at any time tefore the election ir
| any congressional district there should be
| running for Congress two silver candidates
| the representatives of our respective par
| ties and the division of the silver vote thus
brought about would make probable the
election of gold standard candidate,
| believe 1t would become our duty in some
| honorable way to meet the situation so as
to prevent this result"