Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-08-26
WILLIAMS PLAN.
s. W. WILLIAMS, OF vINCENNEs PUB
LIsHES AN AGREEMENT DESIGNED
TO SETTLE ALL DIFFICULTY
AS TO BRYAN AND

LISHES AN AGREEMENT DESIGNED
TO SETTLE ALL DIFFICULTY
AS TO BRYAN AND
WATSON.
Special to the Chicago Record.
VNCENNEs, Ind, July 3l.-Samue
w. Williams of this city has prepared
and forwarded to William J. Bryan 8
draft of an agreement to be submitted
to the populist and democratic confer.
ence committee. 1t throws light on
the inside workings of the st. Louis
Convention. Mr.. Williams was the
originator of the idea of nominating
the vice president first. He was chair
man of the sub committee of the popu.
list national convention which was Sc
lected to formulate the order of bust
ness of the convention. Mr.. Williams
acts for the middle of the road'' ele.
ment. The text of the agreement is as
follows:
Memorandum of agreement between thf
Peoples party and the democratic party mad.
on behalf of said parties by the respective ma
tional committees and to be in force and effec,
mittees be ratified and approved. This agree
ment relates to the selection of presidential
electors in the several states where this agree
ment is in force and to the making up the of
ficial ballots in said states and the CASING OF
the votes in the electoral cQlles--os-i Se prynil
electors elected in states.
lit IS Understood that William j. Bryan Is
the Peoples party nominse for president and
&c fho Do
nee for vice-president. 1t is understood that
president and Arthur Sewall is the democratic
nominee for vice president.
ut ia agreed that in each state bound nv
this contract each of said political parties
shall have its own full national ticket In a col
umn under its own party emblem, consisting
of full list of candidates for presidential cleo
tors. The identical same names of candidates
shall be on each and both of said columns.
I'm each of said states each party shall Sc
lect as nearly as possible one-half in number
of said candidates for elector: that is to say,
in each state the democrats shall select
one candidate for elector-at-large and the Peo-
pies party shall select one candidate for elec-
tor-at-large. In the congressional districts
with even number the Peoples party shall Sc
lect the candidate for elector and in the odd
numbered districts the democrats shall select
the candidate for elector.
ION the official ballot the Peoples party col
umn shall be headed by the names of Bryan
and Watson and the democratic column by
the names of Bryan and Sewall. The intent
OF this is to give the individual voter of each
of said parties an opportunity to vote his own
party ticket and TO make a selection as be-
tween Watson and Sewall for vice-president.
1t is understood that after the election and
prior to the state meeting of the electors a
special committee of four, composed of two
populists and two democrats, shall ascertain
and determine from the official returns the to-
tai popular vote cast for said elected electors
under the Bryan and Watson column and the
Bryan and Sewall column respectively, and
as between Watson and Sewall the one having
received the highest and largest vote
shall receive in the college the entire vote of
all the Bryan electors aforesaid