The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-08-18
How Bryan May Obtain the En-
tire Silver Vote
OE NORTH CAROLINA
The Ballots to be Marked With
a Device
AND NOBODY TO BE TAKEN DOWN
Watson and Sewali to Receive IN the
Electoral College Their Proper
ton of Votes Cast for Them
Respectjvely.

TO the Editor: I wish to suggest
nlan for electoral fusion in this State.
we are now at sea, bound nowhere
and held together only by party hes,
with SIS per cent OF the people Tor sill
Yer. and thus far helpless to have their
vote cast for silver. Each party is a.
fraid to Join the other because OF the
effect upon the party in the future
Each party wishes to know how many
votes II can cast, to know the measure
of it's power in the future. | am satls-
fed the Southern psGpIe prefer Wat
son to Sewall and that SeWau was
nominated to couuteract the idea or
sectionalism involved in union of the
South and West against the North and
thus to keep down the idea OF seces-
sion at the North. The Northern
States where Bryan will get no elector-
nj votes want Sewall taken down. They
are going to send millions of money
and hundreds of orators to Maine IN
cluding Sewall's son who is stumping
Maine against his father as Republic
can in the hope of beating free silver
completely in the September election
there and thus get US to take oeWan
down and put up Watson so they can
crN 7SSCSSS1On III inc pitcoat o'aV~S "
Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin,
Minnesota and Iowa and carry them
for Mckinley. Unless Mckinley car
ries each of those States he is defeat
ed, If we take down Sewall he can
carry them on the cry of sectlonalism
involved in the idea of our taking down
SewalI. But if we don't take him
down and if three electoral tickets are
run BRYAN and Sewall can't get plur-
alitv of the votes in North Carolina or
Georgia. Without these two States 1t
is easy to see where we are at. For
the reasons stated in enclosed clipping,
though I dislike the Chicago platform
very much, / prefer to vote for Bryan
and Watson than to see Mckinley elect
ed. Now the new election law says the
ballots may be with or without de-
vice. The thing to do is TO have one
electoral ticket with eleven names no
matter how divided but divided be-
tween Democrats and Populists. say
six and five. and let the ticket voted
by Democrats 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 Sawall gets and how
many Watson gets, and thus the Bryan
electors will get 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 10O,-
900, while Bryan and Sewall electors
get 5000 and Bryan and Watson cleo
tors get $500. Nobody need hesitate
to do this. Tt viii carry out the al
most unanimous wish of the State 10
have its electoral vote cast for silver.
If this is not done-It 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 Popul-
list, but with the other twelfth g1or-
iously Democratic tariff for revenue
only-it is but one other half step for
me to vote for Bryan and Watson. Pro
lection to my mind is the curse of the
South and West. Please print below
a clipping from the New York World
of the 18th as expressing my views.
Yours etc,