People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1896 — The Indiana Electors. [ARTICLE]

The Indiana Electors.

In justice to the committee of thirteen, that met in Indianapolis today and named a full electoral ticket for the people’s party, the actual facts of their conference with the sub-committee of the democratic state central committee should be given, in refu tation of the report that has gone out through the daily press. It is reported that the democrats offered the populist three electors on a fusion electoral ticket. That is absolutely false. The democrats refused to concede the populists even one elector unless the populist state ticket was withdrawn, and even on that quite impossible condition, but three, or at most four, electors would be given the populists. The democratic committee told the populist committee that they they did not need their votes and could carry the state for Bryan and Sewall by 40,000 majority. Further it is not true that populists submitted any ultimatum to the democratic committee. The most that was asked was a consideration of the advantages which would result from granting the populists sev en of the fifteen electors. No demand was made for the removal of Mr. Sewall, and no suggestion was even made that the populists had an ultimation, for they had none, and were willing to unite on any equitable terms, they were emphatically refused any concession what ever. It might be well to note that the democratic sub-committee was composed oj the same gold plated jurists wr.o were appointed by the lately disposed goid standard state chairman, Mr. Holt, and whose frigid courtesy was lavished upon the populist committee two weeks ago. Just why the new democratic chairman should send these men to meet the populists is hard to un derstand. It is well known that their sympathies for the silver cause is measured by their interest in the success of the state ticket In-as-much as the leading free silver democrats and the state chairman are really honestly trying to effect satisfactory fusion on electors, it is within the probabilities that a union may yet be effected.