The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-07-29
ALL PREDICT FUSION
Populists Expect to Fuse With
Democrats on Electors.
THEY ARE ALL BRYAN MEN
How Electors Might Vote fer
Vice President.
Fusion Will Be Arranged, Says Senator
ButIer--But with Whom--Capt
Ktchin Wants Democrat
ic Cooperation.
ic Cooperation.

..1bere viii be fusion between Demo
Gratis and Populists on the electoral
ticket said S. Ohio Wilson yesterday.
He seemed to express the desire OF his
party.
returned Yesterday. Most of them
were enthusiastic for Bryan and Wat
son. but all was not serene.
Delegate Ray was one OF the tan
kickers against the whole proceedings
at ST. Louis. ,...,o
Senator Butler says; ''There is little
doubt whatever that Bryan Will carry
North Carolina We will have fusion
and everything will come out all
right"
"CAN MEAN ANYTHING"
Col. Harry Skinner, who was on his
vav 70 Morehead said: The Populists
propose to fight everywhere on prlh-
cinle If the Democrats want free
silver. as they profess, they must vote
the Populist electoral ticket"
what does the nomination of Wat
son at St. Louis mean to North caro-
lina?" was asked.
1T can mean anything to this State,
he recl;ea5!. but would not clear up
this rather indefinite statement.
FUSION SAYS KITCHIN.
Capt. Buck Kitchin, of Halifax, was
decidedly more in evidence than any
other passenger aboard. He has talked
for BRYAN until hoarseness has ceased
to be a novelty.
IF the Democrats behave them
selves and act right he said, we VIII
carry North Carolina for Bryan by a
large majority. The Chicago conven-
ton by its action threw the RESPONSE
bility for the defeat or success ot
silver on us. 1t was on US 1.-THE Popu-
lists) until we went to St. Louis. Now
we have shifted the responsibility to
you, and you must bear It At St.
Louis we exhausted all our ingenuity
and all our patriotism in getting all
our people in line for silver. We pur-
sued the only course we could have
taken. And if the Democrats will act
fairly by us we will sweep the State"
That's right Yes, we will" said
several of the delegates around him.
what do you call fair and right"
/ asked him.
Il mean for the Democrats and
Populists to agree upon an electoral
ticket that can be cast for one man
as President and one man as Vice
President"
Then he added significantly, "And /
want to see the same thing on the State
ticket" How this latter combination
could be accomplished he did not say.
my great ambition and desire" he
continued, reyerting TO the National
ticket, sis to see all the silver men
united. They can afford to vote for
Watson or any other true free silver
man nominated to accomplish such
result
The Captain was enthusiastic and
seemed to think some arrangement
would be made by which the State
would be kept out of the clutches of the
Mckinley gold-bugs.
THE PLAN PROPOSED.
Editor Hal Aver, of the Caucasian,
was the only one who had a definite
explanation of the reasons for the
action of the party at St. Louis and
a plan for a union of the silver people.
1.-THE silver forces ought all to unite
in one grand march TO victory" he
said.
THE endorsement of Bryan by the
Populists does not mean an endorse
men of the Democratic party. He was
man known as a Democrat and who
Democrats themselves recognized as
the only man in all their party to
command the confidence of the silver
men outside their party. The reason
Populists insisted on the nomination
of the candidate for Vice-President
was to fix a way by which they would
not feel they had been swallowed up
by the Democratic party, and by which
they could give a test of their strength
and growth without necessarily inn
perilling the cause of financial reform.
They had built hopes of success as a
party on the record made by the Demo
cratic party in the last four years, but
found they were asked to surrender
the basis of their hopes because the
large majority of the Democrats re-
pudiated that record and promised to
do better. However, they felt it neces-
sary to post a sentinel of reserve power
to compel the fulfillment of the promi-
SEES made by the Democrats, and
thought they could best provide that
sentinel by deyising some plan for the
preservation of the organization of the
Peoples party.
This is the proposition:
''In each State where the silver
forces are divided those forces are
to divide the electoral ticket. These
electors are to go TO the electoral col
lege pledged, /, to vote for Bryan for
President; 2, if there are more Popu-
lists than Democrats to vote for Wat
son for Vice-President, but if there are
more Democrats than Populists to
vote for Sewall for Vice-President. 1t
seems to me that can be easily ar
ranged
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