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THE OBSERVER. FAYETTEVILLE. N. C. TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1896 E. J. .HALE. Editor and Proprietor. E. J. HALE, Jr., Business Manager. NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC TICKET. FOR PRESIDENT, BRYAN, of Nebraska. FOR VICE PRESIDENT, SE WALL, of Maine. STATE DEMOCRATIC TICKET. THEY WILL BE ELECTED. ' FOR GOVERNOR : CYRUS B. WATSON, of Forsyth. FOR LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR : THOMAS W. MASON, ' of Northampton. VOR .SECRETARY OF STATE : CHARLES M. COOKE; of Franklin. FOR STATE TREASURER : B. F. AYCOCK, of Wayne. FOR STATE AUDITOR R. M. FURMAN. of Buncombe. FOR SUPERINTENDENT FU1JLIC INSTRUCTION JOHN C. SCARBOROUGH, of Johnston. FOR ATTORNEY-GENERAL : F. I. OSBORNE, of Mecklenburg. FOR ASSOCIATE JUSTICES SUPREME COURT A. C. AVERY, of Burke, GEO. H. BROWN, oi Beaufort TBS A CTION OF, THE STATE COMMITTEE. I . Saturday's Charlotte Observer con tained its usual Raleigh letter of the day belore, which began in this wise : "The Democratic party has taken the piuage. it nas declared lor electoral fu sion with the PoDulists. At noon T7pcfpt- day no man could say.' At 8 o'clock it a-k.A A. A 1 . m . occamc prerty ciear mat a majority of the committee favored fusion: vet after nil th quickness of it was rather a surprise, for many tnougnt tne committee would do as Maj. E. J. Hale said Wednesday night to mill is wait until .Bryan and Chair man I ones said what should be done. But Maj. Hale was one of those who coangea tneir minds and so the quirk ac tion of 'last night came about. At i o'clock there was Quite nositivf ncciit- auce that the committee would take a re cess until this morning at io o'clock and so the tired, hot and waiting newspaper people on the outside were told. So thev ucFa'icu. xt was a nttie alter 2 o'clock when the resolution, they had oreviouslv ran asauicu wuuiu De adopted was adoot- uu ii given out by the cen sor." The Observer, having enjtire faith in the wisdom of Mr. Bryan and Chairman Jones, had counselled patience until should make known the course they mignt aoopt lor solution of the Demlex. ing condition into which the endorsement ofBryanandthe rejection of Sewall by th,Populists at St. Louis, had thrown the Democratic plans. The editor of the Ob server had given expression to the same view in Raleigh pn the Wednesdav even i no- preceding the Committee meeting in that ms was teiegrapned by Col. Olds to the papers for which he ftuditis that to which he refers in the i . . I extract quoted above from his letter in 1 Saturday's Charlotte Observer. The cause for the" change in Major Hale's mind and that of the other members of the commit tee who shared his views, is very simple. We presume there is no reason why it should not be stated, as the next morn ing's papers contained the news that the fresh information on which the commit tee acted was entirely correct. This was, in substance, that Chairman Jones was favorable to any proper fusion on the electoral tickets in States (as in North Carolina) where a division of the silver vote would result in the election of Mc Kinley electors Friday morning's papers, as intimated above, contained the follow ing : Atlanta. Georgia. Jul v 30 The Atlanta Constitution telegraphed to Watson: In your statement sent out last night you say that unless Sewall retires you know of but two plans first, two distinct elec toral tickets, and second, olectoral tickets composed partly of Democrats and partly ot Populists. Un the basis that neither you nor Mr. Sewall can nor will retire, how can fusion on electoral tickets be ac complished, and on the basis of what vnt should apportionment between Populists and Democrats be made? Watson replied as follows: In event that Sewall does not retire Populists will nut out full electoral tii.kt There can be no fusion unless Sewall with draws. I crive vou this as mv own opinion merely.' Thomas E. Watson. Senator James K. Jones. Chairman of the Democratic National Executive Com mittee, was informed ot this and replied: HOPE, ARK., July 30. To the Atlanta Constitution: I cannot consider any proposition for the with drawal of Sewall, but will entertain as far as i nave power, and promote to tho host of my ability, any just and fair proposition for fusion on electoral ticket. James K. Jones. The condition which confronted the party was well stated by the Chatham Re cord in its last week's issue, as follows: "While Bryan seems to be the fthoifA of a large majority of the voters of th TTnitH States, yet it is by no means certain that he will be elected President. "And why? "Because according to ' th constitution the people do not vote directly for the President, but in eanh Stt thv 'Electors' and these Electors meet in each State and cast the vote of their respective oiaies. xnererore, it the Populists and Democrats of any State should all be in favor of Bryan and vtt should hr r. arate electoral tickets, the McKinley elec tors would probablv carrv that State htr a plurality not a majority of the votes cast. Thus by a division among the friends of Brvn. although thov ,. k largely in the majority, the vote of a state may be cast for McKinlev. "Shall this be done! "We cannot believe that th h on act masses of the People's Dartv ar wil li n rr that their votes should thus be lost. It certainly would erreatlv delight Mrt Hanna if the Populists and T)pr..noo should run separate electoral tickets, and ii wuuiu oe me neignt of political folly. And yet it is much to be feared that tUi suicidal course may be pursued in some oiares, and tn,e electoral vote of those states be given to McKinley, although a larere maioritv of the vot Are max K Bryan and free silver." The condition to admirably described bv Mr. London as prevailing in the countrv at large, was eminently the case with us in North Carolina. As soon, therefore, as the committee was apprised, as they were on Thursday night, of the views of rh chairman of the national nrnivmn they had no alternative but to hasten to put Chairman Manly in a position to carry out Chairman Jones's wishes. Th nnm mittee Would have been guiltv of an n. pardonable blunder if it had adjourned without! giving its Chairman the power to' enter upon the negotiations made neces sary by the mixed action of the St. Louis convention. The issue of the camn.i.n ; the restoration of silver to equal privi! at the mints with gold. The success of the Democratic party assures that. Those who desire such restoration will welcome any aid, that does not sacrifice principle, by which the party's success may bo secured. Majorities, not minorities, win elections. In North Carolina, there is not the slight est chance, by reason of the intervention of the electoral machinery prescribed by the Federal constitution, for carrying the State for Bryan if two sets of Bryan elect ors are put in the field. We ar amazed that any one should object to what seems to us to have become the obvious duty of the committee as soon as the desires of the national chairman, the head of the party, were known. With respect to the Vice Presidencj7, the settlement of the result as between Mr. Sewall and Mr. Watson is a matter of de tail, which it strikes us is not difficult of accomplishment. For example, if Mr. Sew all secures the election of a number of electors greater than those secured by Mr. Watson, an agreement that the whole number should vote for Sewall is a very simple thing. And vice versa. J On the other hand, if no agreement should be reached that would cover all the States, the election of the Vice President would fall to the Senate. That b .dy is re quired by the Constitution to choose froju the two candidates, who have received the highest number of electoral votes. They will almost certain y be Sewall and Hobart, and the Senate would choose Sewall. It is immaterial what motive Mr. Butler, may have had in usiog his balance of pow er to defeat the evident intention of the St. Louis convention to nominate or en dorse both Bryan and Sewall. The fact remains that that convention met us half way in adopting the chief part of our tick et. If we certainly we of North Caro lina, where the party is in the minority had refrained from an adequate response, the Populists would have had us "in a I hole." As it is now, the vantage ground is shifted. If the Populists decline our present counter offer, they will manifest bad faith, and themselves be put in a hole. 'We do not expect those who at heart would prefer to see the Democratic party defeated rather than that silver should triumph, to share our views. But the real lovers of the Democratic party will heed the calm words of their great leader, who gave out on Tuesday last from his home in Nebraska this appeal for rational behavior and for faith in his loyal leadership: "He begs all friends of the cans A in nil parties to refrain from harsh criticism of those who, however much they may differ, agree in desiriug the immediate restora tion of free coinage. He feels sure that a solution of all difiiculties will be found in due time and that the solution will be hon orable to all parties, as well as satisfactory." knrtw, it offered the only practicable plan for its prevention. But, because that plan was not adopted, the Observer does not propose to kick against the consequences th e inevitable consequences which con front us today. Because its pet remedy was rejected, it does not therefore reject the only remedy that is left. FREE SILVER--16 TO 1 W. G. CLARK, . . . GROCERIES . . . 16 Ounces to the lb. CANNED GOODS Potted Ham, 5c. a can, Deviled Meats, 5c. a can, English Brown, 10c. a canM Lunch Tongue, Chip Beef, Sab.'1 on, Mackerel, 'Oysters, Sardines, Pine-Apple grated, Pine-Apple sliced. Pure Lard 7jc, Compound 5c. John S. Martin's Gilt Edge Butter, 25c. Flour at all prices. Call and jjet prices on other goods. Call at "Little Danis," at the up-town store and prices vrill be the same. Respectfully, W. G.CLARK. ICE ! ICE ! ICE ! THE FAYETTEVILLE IK COMPANY Furnish Ice at their new quarters, Welsh Building, Franklin Street, and at Cook's Drui Store, Hay Street. , ICE DELIVERED AT ALL HOURS. s 90 ' It may not be amiss, at this stasre. to j remind a certain faction of the party that the Observer's hands are clean of whatever necessity for fusion the party may now find itself compelled to recog nize. Even since the election of 1892 dis closed the fact that we were a minority party, the Observer has urged that steps be taken to recover those whose defection had put us in that condition. These urgings took a more concrete form after the committee meeting of the 20th of May, 1895, when we advocated the calling of a convention, if necessary, to authorize the opening of the primaries to all who would agree to support the State and county tickets in any event and the national ticket if it were for free silver. Our object was to prevent the necessity for electoral fusion, which we foresaw was inevitable if silver won (as we never ceased to believe it would) at the national convention. In season and out of season the Qbser ver opposed fusion, and, so far The Clyde Steamship Co. New York. Wilmington N.C. AND Georgetown, S. C, Lines. FROM PIER 29, EAST RIVER, NEW YORK Located bet. Chambers and Roosevelt 8ta., At 3 o'clock P. M NEW YORK FOR WILMINGTON. S. S. ONEIDA.. S.S. PAWNEE,. S.S. 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