The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-07-30
jim YOUNG BOLTS
Calls on Republicans to Fun
Down Mckinley Ticket.
TOM BAILEY SAYS "NEVER'
Scheme to Settle Bryan-SeWall
Bryan Watson Question.

Ged keStler NiCKnSs h"''"~' - .
Nothing--8 Butler IS Resting in Samp-
n4nacrats and Popuiists Are
Taking of Deals That May or May
Not Be Probable.
VIII Democrats and Populists CO.
operate?
That's uppermost in the MINDS OF
the politically inclined.
And while the thousands persplre
and the thermometer humps itself 10
the hundred-mark they seek the an
swer.
The wheels of politics are moving
fast. and day brings forth gooo
IFS right sorry day now that can
oct up its political sensation =.
Nearly all the delegates from -.
TOMS cav they want the Democrats
and Populists to come 10 an unoei
standing on the electoral ticket. oolilo
of them say they would IKE 10 co-oP1l
ate in State matters as wen as III va
tional affairs For be 1T KNOWN 1ilei
is many Populist who does not IelIsn
the idea of Dan Russell gettlhs ny
the governors chair. HOW can .No
democrats and Populists get tose1nel
on the State ticketY many are ASKING
They say the Democratic state con.
yention has met, nominated stialSn'
ticket from Governor down, anu az.
;ourned. They have left no PAGES lol
Ponulists to ILL., But the Popullsts
point to rumor that several gentle-
men on the State ticket are wiling TO
retire if am arrangement can oe
made This is only mere rulnor anu
is entirely unauthenticated.
~ am in favor of conceding the Pop
ulists a good deal in order to save the
State from Mckinley and Russell,
said a Democrat yesterday, but since
comnlete State ticket of as good men
as are in the State have been named,
fail TO see how anything can be ar
RANGED regarding the State ticket.
.Uoy will it be in case some OF your
candidates come DOWN." asked a Pop-
Mist standing by. But not single
one has expressed any such ntentlon'
replied the Democrat.
s.Gutbrie is the only thing in the
way of our fusing with either side'
Republicans or Democrats, SAID
ponnlist Yesterday. For my own
nart . he continued, 81 do not want
n fnse with the Republicans, and |
believe we could elect our ticket II
the Populists were to make straight
nominations.
BUTLER AND GUTHRIE CONFER.
Senator Marion Butler got back to
the state Monday and spent Tuesday
nioht at Durham in conference with
Major Guthrie. Whether the confer
ence had to do with Guthrie's cand1-
dacy for the governorship IS not
known.
Mr.. Butler told a New York journal
CORRESPONDENT Just before he left Tor
St. Louis that his plans We're not YET
mafured. II do not believe in making
a campaign entirely through the news
naners'' said he, although l appre-
ciate the power of the press. AS yet
we have mapped out no plan OF action,
though. of course, we have discussed
phases of the campaign.
HAS the Executive Committee dis
cussed the question of withdrawal OF
either Sewall or Watson?" was asked.
..That question will be arrived at III
due time Doctors often crowd around
and give prescriptions and physlc
when nothing Isl needed. The Amerl-
can people are in the habit OF setting
things for themselves. Give them thlr-
ty days and they viii solve the ques-
ton
Mr.. Butler passed through the city
Yesterday morning going TO his home
at Elliott. Sampson county. He said
that the matter of fusion, co-opera-
ton or anything else in State matters
must be settled by the State conyen-
ton, which meets August 18th. lie
saws nobody can speak for the Populist
party until that time.
He will rest several weeks at his
home in this State before actively en-
tering the campaign as chairman OF
the Populist executive committee
THE "UNQFFICIAL BALLOT-BOX."
Populists yesterday had new solu-
ton of the Bryan-Sewall-Bryan-Wat-
son question.
They suggested that all the silver
men should vote for one set of cleo
tors. who whether Populists or Demo
Gratis should be pledged to carry out
the will of the people. In order that
the people may have opportunity to
express their preference they propose
to have an unofficial ballot-boX at
each voting precinct. into which the
voter NAV place his ballot for Bryan
SewaII or Bryan-Watson direct. And
they propose if the majority of voters
shall be cast for the former the cleo
tors shall vote as a unit for Bryan and
Sewall; if for the latter, they shall
vote as a unit for Bryan and Watson.
On many accounts this method of
settling the question is impracticable'
SHOULD NOT INTERFERE.
81 do not think the mere question
of a Vice-President should be allow
ed to defeat Mr.. Bryan" said Mr.. Ed.
Chambers Smith yesterday. And
number of other Democrats held the
same opinion.
FOR NATIONAL COMMITTEE.
1T seems to me that this talk about
fusion or combination with the Popu-
lists is premature" said Mr.. r. II.
Battle yesterday; ''it would be dis
courteous to consider the question I'M
til it has been brought before the
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