People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1896 — THE SILVER WAVE [ARTICLE]

THE SILVER WAVE

Is advancing and is Bound to Sweep the CountryBryan’s Election Certain. Some Figures on Fopulist Electors—En. couraging Reports From Every Section of the Country. People’s Party News Bureau, I St. Louis, Mo.. October 15. f The chief point of interest to politicians and campaign figurers just now is fusion. The great gold standard papers are calling attention to the fact that a union on electors has been effected in so many states that McKinley’s election is not regarded with that complaisance that characterized his following a few weeks ago. In spite of party feeling, past hostilities and Hanna’s corruption fund, the following union on Presidential electors has been made: * * ELECTORS. STATE. DEM. POP. California 5 4 Colorado 2 1 Connecticut 5 1 Illinois 20 4 Indiana 10 5 Idaho 2 1 Kentucky 11 2 Louisiana 4 4 Michigan 10 4 Minnesota 4 4 Missouri 13 4 Montana 1 1 Nebraska 4 4 New Jersey 9 1 North Carolina 5 5 North Dakota 3 Ohio 18 5 Pennsylvania 28 4 South Dakota 2 2 Washington '.. 2 2 Wisconsin 9 3 Wyoming 2 1 In Kansas the ten electors are all Democrats, but are pledged to vote for the Vice-Presidential candidate who shall have the greater number of votes. In Oregon the electors are all Populists endorsed by the Democrats. In the recent election there the vote stood 14,242 Democrats. 27,965 Populists. In West Virginia the Populists support the four district electors, but named two electors at large. In Utah, the Populists have fused with the Silver Republicans and Democrats, each of the three having one elector. This is Utah’s first Presidential vote. In West Virginia the Populists agree to support the ten Democratic electors in exchange for two Bryan and Watson electors. The Democratic Committee substituted Sewall’s name and the Populist Committee tied—two against two; one being absent. No agreement could be made and the legal time for filing names has now expired.