Arizona silver belt., 1900-07-12
FAVOR A THIRD TICKET.
Anti-lmperialists Desire the Defeat of rlckinley and May Name
 Candidates of Their Own.

\ New lOfh speciht to thV boS'oh Herald says: It has now become known that men of influence in the anti'im- perlalist movement are strongly urg- ipg that what antl-imperialists should do in the coming campalgnis to nomin- ate a republican for president, aud put sr Iudepeudent national ticket in the 1gtd on a straight out anti.imperiallst g.atform.
 Few of the men m thls party are of a sort that hesitate to express their spipions. They stood up tor anti l,lperialism when half the newspapers m the land were calling them traitors |, was not, therefore, cowardice that led them to keep very quiet about this plan to name republican for presi- dent The only reason for not speak v4s that It was deemed wiser to first feel the sentiment of the anti-imperial- IsIs of the whole country in the pro- posed ''liberty convention" and then sDnounce the new scheme of action. This new plan of putting national ucket in the field and naming repub- hean to head it was declared to be wise for two reasons It Is urged that it i, good politics to name republican ] cn an independent ticket, especially n republican, with strong personal fol owing, coming from one of the doubt ful states It was argued that be- heyers Tn anti,imperialism are divided between two parties, not equally, but nearly so. What 1t Is desired to do Is to keep this entire vote away from Mckinley.
 It was declared that If the party in- dorsed Bryan the vote of those anti lmperialists who have republican aifilI- ations might be lost They might not vote for Mckinley, but then again a great many of them would, on the ground that Mckinleyism Is less an evil than the financial policy of Bryan. Other anti-imperialists would hold pack from voting for Bryan. giving us 2 reason that the way to fight for the cause best is in the congressional elec- tons.
 It was further urged that republi- can auti-imperialist ticket would catch sll of these votes, and so help the csuse along, and help Bryan by cutting down the republican vote.
 Again the sponsors for the independ' sat ticket maintain that democrats, yhether sound money democrats or nOt, who hold to the anti-imperialistie beliefs will vote for Bryan just the same, even If the republican antrim periallst is in the field.
 
 that the nomination of un antl-imper alist ticket will strengthen the cause The party will have banner up, tho semblance of national organization, an, sill consequently be in better posi- ron to secure anti-imperialist pledges rom candidates in the congressional listricls
 While little IS being said about th' anti.imperialists, there are signs tha ibe republican managers look upon thu aew party as the real danger in th' campaign. There is no way to esti mate what effect the antl-imperialis talk about standing by the Declaration f Independence IS having among tn srmers.
 The anti-imperinlists themselves sa. hat there is tremendous demand 10 heir pamphlets, and that the question being brought home to the con sciences of the people as no politica ssue has since the days of abolition he anti-imperialist at the Plaza hote meeting had statement sho" |ng the narrow margin by whic Mckinley was elected. The de ais in this striking illustration are a olows: Mckinley got 90 electors otes more than Bryan, consequent
 iS electoral votes were taken frol icKinley and given to Bryan, Brya Ould have been elected. Six state lave Mckinley electors by narro
 lUralities, as follows:
 California, plurality 279I, Selector' otes West Virginia, plurality 1l.4S'
 X electoral votes; Oregon piuralit
 :, four electoral votes; Indiana pll Rht, IS,lSl. 15 electoral votes; keI
 lcky plurality lsl, l2 electoral vote
 orth Dakota plurality 5649, thr'
 ectural votes.
 These states, with IS electoral vot'
 Mckinley, ware carried by ni
 l.