Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-19

polled for the Mckinley and Hobart
electors they would be elected and the
state go for Mckinley, though, in fact,
100000 voters in the state. wanted to and
did vots for Bryan. We cannot under
the law vote direct for the president and
vice president, and, such being the case,
a Bryan and Sewall vote and Bryan and
Watson vote, making two Bryan votes
Dolled, amounts only to one vote for Bry
an.
We hope now that our correspondent
can readily see how the continuation of
Watson in the race will effect the vote
for Bryan, provided a Bryan and Wat
son electoral ticket is put in the field.
AS a further explanation of the elsc-
toral college and its workings, win say
to our corresI ondent that the eleven
men receiving the highest vote in the
November election as electors are re-
quired to meet at the capital of the state
and cast their votes and select a man to
deliver that vote in Washington by
certain fixed date where it is opened, to-
gether with the returns from each of the
states, and the result footed up and the
men receiving a majority of the 447 cleo
toral votes, which is ga, will be declared
elected president and vice president
respectively of the United States.
The men elected as electors have the
right to vote for whom they please when
they assemble to cast their votes for
president and vice President, but are IN
honor bound to vote for the men in whose
interest they were nominated and elect
ed, and, of course, as honorable men,
they will comply with what is in honor
required of them.
THEY HAVE STUDIED THE QUESTION
Fire Alarm Foraker, senator-elect OF
Ohio, is attempting to hold the repub-
lican farmers of Ohio in line for Hanna's
man Mckinley and the gold standard.
But Foraker is meeting with world OF
trouble. Like many of the men here in
Alabama who are now worshipping the
golden calf, Foraker has o record on the
financial question, and that record Is
giving him trouble in his present efforts
to hold Ohio republican farmers in line.
Foraker has long been considered by
his republican constituents as silver
man. When ne was elected to the Unit
ed States senate to succeed Senator
Brice, who stood with his republican
colleague, John Sherman, on the money
question, it was a source of joy to free
silver republicans everywhere, and es-
pecially in Ohio, that a gold standard
democratic senator had been ousted and
in his stead a silver republican elected.
As an evidence that free coinage repub-
llcans had just cause to feel that way we
quote below an extract from speech
oil hrr To L. aNt urhi
before he was elected senator and soon
after the failure of Messrs. Cleveland
and Carlisle to get their gold bond
scheme through congress. With refer
ence to silver as a basic money metal
and the bond bill the fire alarm senator
said:
This much, however, can be safely
said, that the way when found will keep
gold and silver at par with each other
and make them both, as the fathers made
them, the money OF ultimate redemption.
tApplause.) This being our settled pur-
pose,we must at all times jealousy guard
our pledge to maintain the parity of the
two metals. We have given this pledge
in our platform and we have put it into
the law Of the land. If we once permit
this parity to be destroyed and allow
this country to be placed on the single
gold standard basis, bimetalism Will be
thereby made an impo5sibiity This
leads me to say to the republican mem
bers of congress from Ohio who did SO
that they made no mistake when they
voted against Grover Cleveland's gold
bond scheme loud applause)
ITO issue a gold bond In contradis-
tinction to a coin bond upon the ground
that a coin bond is payable in silver is
as have said, to inevitably destroy the
parity of the two metals, and to make
bimetalliSm forever an impossbility.
The saving Of SIG, SOC, 900 at such an ex-
pense would be straining at a gnat and
swallowing a camel.
1.-The men who voted down the gold
bond business did right, and the gentle
man, their colleague, who differed from
them and voted for gold bond, and who
was given a banquet at the St. Nicholas
last Monday night made the only mis-
take that was made, as time will show.
Nov, my fellow republicans, on that
question there may be some differences
of opinion among us. l refer to it to-
might because I wanted to say that much
to the Republican members of congress
who voted against gold bonds, and be-
cause l want to invite every republican
to commence study of that question,
for it is one of the most momentous inn
portance, not only to the people of this
country, but to the people of the whole
world
Taking the newly-elecled senator at
his word, the republican farmers, me-
chanics and wage earners of Ohio began
"a study of the question" and news
comes from the Buckeye State to the eff
feet that Foraker, who is now on the
stump trying to stem the tide from Nc
Kinley and the gold standard and gold
bonds to Bryan and bimetallism, finds
himself utterly unable to do 1t. Every
day records the coming over Of new
converts, and men who in 1895 advocat-
ed bimeta llism, complimented congress-
men for voting against ''the Cleveland
gold bond scheme" and criticised con-
gressmen who voted for it, are powerless
to effect anything now in the advocacy
of the single gold standard. Mckinley
and gold bonds. What Is true Of Ohio
Is true OF every other state in this par
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