The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-31
MANLY AND AVER REPLY
Aver Says He Has Duly Sent
Each Precinct Regular Ticket.
PROPER TICKET GIVEN BELOW
C. Ed. Kestler, the Populist-RadicaI
Treasurer of Cabarrus Said to be
Man Who is Sending Them.
Did He Tell Ayer2
Raleigh, n. G., Oct. 3oI

lt has come 10 our hl1ON1S0SN 114SDe "a
ticket is in circulation purporting to
be a Populist ticket, headed "A Straight
Populist Ticket" on which ticket are
only the five Populist electors We de-
sire to state that this is bogus ticket,
gotten out by an enemy to Mr.. Bryan
and one who desires his defeat.
The undersigned, chairman of the
PopuliSt party, has duly sent out the
regular Populist ticket TO each of the
precincts in North Carolina where there
are Populist voters, which ticket con-
fains the eleven electors to-wit:
For Electors Of President and Vice
President of the United States:
LOCKE CRAIG, Ninth Congressional
District.
ROBERT B. DAVIS, Sixth Congress
sionaI District.
RALPH ROWLAND, First Congress
sional District.
HOWARD f. FREEMAN, Second Con-
gressional District.
CHARLES r. THOMAS, Third Congress
sional District.
WILLIAM S. BAILEY, Fourth Congress
gressional District.
WILLIAM d. MERRITT, Fifth Con-
gressional District.
BENJAMIN f KEITH, Sixth Congress
sional District.
THEODORE f. KLUTTZ, Seventh Con-
gTessional District.
TYRE YORK, Eighth Congressional
District.
ROBERT d. GILMER, Ninth Congress
sionaI District.
AS chairmen of the Executive COM
mittees of the respective parties, to-
wit. the Democratic and the Peoples
party, who have jointly presented this
ticket as the Bryan electoral ticket, we
respectfully call upon all Popu1ists and
Democrats, and all others who desire
the election Of Mr.. Bryan, to vote this
ticket and none other.
CLEMENT MANLY,
Ch'm'n Dem. St. Ex. Com.
HAL w. AVER,
Ch'm'n. + p. St. Elk. Com.
WHO SENDS OUT BOGUS TICKETS.
G. Ed. Kestler, of Concord, the Popu-
aist-Radical county Treasurer of Ca
barrus, is said to be the man who is
sending out these bogus tickets. 1t
will be remembered that early in the
spring he denounced Senator Butler
because the Senator opposed fusion
with the Republicans all along ithe
lime. He also advocated the return of
Senator Pritchard, who is known by
him to be gold-bug. Kestler is also
known as the man who, at ST. Louis,
favored a mfddle-of-the-road ticket,
and denounced Senator Butler, Con-
gressmen Skinner, Shuford and Strowd
because they favored the nomination
of Bryan.
Kestler was in Raleigh early this
week in consultation with Chairman
Aver and other Populists. Did he
tell them that he was going TO send
out these tickets? Chairman Aver de-
clares that he has sent out the full
electoral ticket. His joint letter with
Chairman Manly puts him on record as
repudiating the tickets Kestler is said
to be sending out.
The above is borne out by the fol-
lowing article in Yesterdays Char
lotte Observer:
at has come to the knowledge of the
Observer that a ticket having the
names Of the Populist candidates for
the State offices and Congress, and of
the Watson candidates for elector,
with The SewaH or Democratic candi-
dates left off, has been printed and is
being distributed Eighty thousand Of
these tickets have been printed and are
being mailed to the nine Congressional
districts. The nine lots are each sub
divided into packages of 25 tickets TO
each, ard the theory is that each OF
these packages is to be placed in the
hands OF q man with whom an ar
arrangement has been or is to be made to
see that they are accessible to the voter
ON election day. The order for these
tickets was placed and the tickets have
been received by a Populst politician
Whose name is frequently seen in the
newspapers and who is himself cam
didate for a local office in one of the
count les Of the State.
''We are not at liberty to be more
specific, but the facts above set forth
are abs0lntel accurate. At this stage
of every campaign many false alarms
are raised. but we give the assurance,
upon authority which cannot be ques-
toned, that the foregoing statement is
true"