The morning times., 1896-08-19
BRYAN AND WATSON.

| ing
! BRYAN AND WATSON
| Tie Peoples Iarty ticket as Gamed by
! tie ST LOUIS convention is Bryan and Wat
| son. and tlat will he the Peoples Earty
| ticket until tie polls desc in November
Mr.. Bryan is as much our candidate as
| Mr. Wa son is and a = ia this con:mittec
/ Ids At POWER II Will strive Just IS Land
10 elect one Us IT viii To ,leCt tie otEcr,
and VIII leave nothing in its POWER uIdone
'o Eoip c!ther or LOtn, hut IL viii not help
one cani!di.e AT the expense OF tie other
You May say added Mr Butler, to
Tie press. that this Is the uDanimous
opinion Of the committee"
At Den ocIatic h, adquartcrs the general
conHlCut on this was To the effect that
Senator Butler could not have said any
Thing else consistently with he fact that
Bryan and Watson Were the nominees Of
The Populst party. Other opinion was
that ,lfthiS executive committee niu SPOKEN
Ia This way long ago, that fusion by which
watson WIS sacrificed wholly or in part in
some States would have been impossible
The >tatemcnt Is read literally means but
one thing. and that is that the PoDulists i'm
States which have not yet fused arrexIected
I" stand ny Watson without any dicker,
giving scwall electors place on their
ticket
STATES THAT ARE AFFECTED.
one OF the States which will be affected
by this Ii anifeSto Will undoubtedly be-
North Carolina. 1t is well known that the
straight out Democrats ofthat State, under
the leadership of Mr.. joseph Daniels, for
mcr chief clerk under Hokr Smith, have
made an offer for fusion to the Populists
TINS fusion las been i'll allegiance, but it
would appear that If the statement OF Mr.
butler means anything at all there will
now he no fusion unless the Democrats ac-
ccpt MIR watson.
Mr.. Daniels was in I've city yesterday
and lcft for home last night A reporter
for The Times asked him what would lie the
tnH1ie hy Senator Butler Mr. Daniels said
that If il was necessary 10 have three
tickets the faction he represented would
win. He places tie strength OF th. Pop
uliSts IN North Carolina at so 600. that Of
the Democrats At from l2o.UoO to 1885,
eco, and that Of the Republicans at no.
u"". gold Democrats at about 5000.
We, however, he said. don't want
Ia make any division. and il was for this
purpose that we proposed 10 the Populists
to give them five electors. we to take six
electors. The Populists ceased terminating
their electors after having chosen one and
matter is row in the hands of the Popu-
list executive committee. They have not
yet given US an answer
SILVER ABOVE PARTY.
Mr.. Daniels is CT tie opinion that fully
80 per cent Of the people of NCrth Carolina
are for silver and that their desire is
for the election of silver nominees He
does not think that the people for silver
will follow any lead that may hurt the
chances Of Democratic success.
Assuming as some Democrats do that
the Popul.St Executive Con mittee means
that there can be no compromise on Watson,
which they are found to assume as lie is
their candidate. there is ruthing left for
the Bryan -Scwall combination but to run
its own ticket and take the chances of what
the populiSts win DO ard also taking into
trat tie Poprlists have here
tofore won by the aid of Republicans.
Senator Buffers attention was call,.l
To the statement that the Populist vote in |
North Carolina was about O.GCO. He said |
that if this were so it would |
rppear strange that the Democrats, claim |
ng from 10000 To 1875 .OtO should have |
though it prudent to have made an offer |
or fusion with the Populists.
He was asked to state the PopuIist |
strength. He did not give this numeri- |
ally, hut said that any party that could |
command 10000 votes in North Carolina |
'ould carry the election.
III then, he was asked. there are three |
ickets in the field in North Carolina this |
Election. will the PopUlists win? He said |
hat if he did not think SO he would be
unfit TO hold the position he now does.