186 THE AGRARIAN CRUSADE 



placed in nomination, quite appropriately, by Gen- 

 eral Weaver, who again expressed the sense of the 

 convention: "After due consideration, in which 

 I have fully canvassed every possible phase of 

 the subject, I have failed to find a single good 

 reason to justify us in placing a third ticket in the 

 field. ... I would not endorse the distinguished 

 gentleman named at Chicago. I would nominate 

 him outright, and make him our own, and then 

 share justly and rightfully in his election." The 

 irreconcilables, nearly all from the South and in- 

 cluding a hundred delegates from Texas, voted for 

 S. F. Norton of Chicago, who received 321 votes as 

 against 1042 for Bryan. 



Because of the electoral system, the agreement 

 of two parties to support the same candidate for 

 President could have no effect, unless arrangements 

 were made for fusion within the States. An ad- 

 dress issued by the executive committee of the na- 

 tional committee of the People's Party during the 

 course of the campaign outlined the method of 

 uniting "the voters of the country against Mc- 

 Kinley," and of overcoming the "obstacles and 

 embarrassments which, if the Democratic party 

 had put the cause first and party second," would 

 not have been encountered: "This could be 



