The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-08-27
A PLAN FOR FUSION

and Nobody to Be Taken Down.
Watson and Sewal to Receive in
the Electoral College Their Pro-
portion of Votes Cast For Them
Respectively.
Correspondence News and Observer
To THE EDIToR.-I wish to suggest
a plan for electoral fusion in this State.
We are now at sea, bound nowhere
and held together only by party ties,
with IS per cent. Of the people for sill
yer, and thus far helpless to have their
vote cast for silver. Each party is
afraid to join the other because OF the
effect upon the party in the future.
Each party wishes to know how many
votes it can Gas, To know the measure
of its power in the future. am salts
fed the Southern people prefer Wat
son to Sewall and that Sewall was
nominated TO counteract the idea of
sectionalisIn involved in a union OF
the South and West against the Moth
and thus to keep down the idea Of Sc
cession at the North. The Northern
States where Bryan will get no electo-
raj votes want Sewali taken down.
They are going to send millions OF
money and hundreds Of orators TO
Maine, including Sewall's son who is
stumping Maine against his father as
a Republican in the hope of beating
free silver completely in the Septem-
Der election there and thus get US to
take Sewall down and put up Watson
so they can cry "secession" in the
pivotal States Of Indiana, Illinois,
Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and
Iowa and carrying them for Mckinley.
Unless Mckinley carries each of those
States he is defeated. If We take
down Sewall he can carry them on the
cry of sectionalism involved in the
idea of our taking down Sewall. But
if we don't take him down and if three
electoral tickets are run Bryan and
Sewall can't get plurality Of the votes
in North Carolina or Georgia. With
out these two States it is easy to see
where we are at. For the reasons
stated in enclosed clipping, though |
dislike the Chicago platform very
much, prefer to vote for Bryan and
Watson than to see Mckinley elected.
Now the new election law says the bal
lots may be with or without device.
The thing to do is to have one electo-
raj ticket with eleven names no mat
ter how divided but divided between
Democrats and Populists, say six and
five, and let the ticket voted by Dem
ocrats have the name Sewall printed
on the margin and the tickets voted
by the Populists have the name Watson
printed on the margin. Then, although
there is no provision of law for this,
let the poll holders certify how many
votes Sewall gets and how many Wat
son gets, and thus the Bryan electors
xill get a majority and the electoral
vote can be divided between Sewall
and Watson in proportion to the
strength of each. If this is not done,
and if three electoral tickets are run,
the electoral vote of the State will go
to Mckinley, if his electors get 1907
900, while Bryan and Sewall electors
get 10000 and Bryan and Watson
electors get 10000. Nobody need hes
itate to do this. 1t will carry out the
almost unanimous wish of the Safe to
have its electoral vote cast for silver.
If this is not done ct must be done
we must vote for Bryan and Watson
electors. For my part, having made
up my mind to vote the Chicago plat
form which is eleven -twelfths Populist,
but with the other twelfth gloriously
Democratic-a tariff for revenue only
it is but one other half step for me to
vote for Bryan and Watson. Protec-
ton to my mind is the curse of the
South and West. Please print below
clipping from the New York Woyla
as expressing my views.
T. T. HICKS.
Henderson, N. c., Aug. II.
THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS.
To the Editor of the World-There
is valuation of sl8,OOO,O 900 in this
country and 100000 persons of the
| 10000, 900 own sixteen and half bill
lions. The other SO, $780, 900 have one
and half billions, which, if divided
up, would give each about s2l. Dr.
vide the sixteen and half billions
among the 28O, 900 and each will have
s58,928. Of that 100000 there are
| 3O,00O who own most Of that sixteen
and half billions.
How does it happen that 2S0, 900
people own almost the whole product
of the land? The Republican party has
farmed out this country to the trusts
and monopolies. 1t has put into the
hands of the manufacturers a gun
called high protective tariff, which
they have held at the heads oil the peo-
pie and made them give up the results
Of their labor. It has given them a
license to go out and rob the people.
When they had gathered in sixteen
and half of the eighteen billions of
the peoples wealth the balance was
too scattered to make it paying
proposition to 90 out looking for it, so
they waited till it found its way into
the Treasury. Then they took another
gun called gold notes and put that to
the head Of the Treasury and collected
their blackmail. That is how they got
sixteen and a half billions.
As between free silver with prom
Use to kill off gold-bug robbers and free
license issued to robbers to prey upon
the people, l will take the lesser of the
two evils. If free silver turns out
badly, we can change our financial
basis, but put the forty thieves in
power again and 1 prophesy that before
many years the people of the United
States will be shedding blood in their
fight for bread. JIG. DIES.