The Silver State

CERTAIN
OF
SUCCESS,
The People's Party Sure to Carry Several Southern States.

National Executive Committee
People's Party of United States
Of AMERICA.

St. Louis, October 28, 1892.

Geo. S. Nixon, Winnemucca, Nev,.

My Dear Sir: The situation at this date is as follows:

In Arkansas and Louisiana the Republicans and People's party have fused on electors, the Republicans taking four and we four in each state.
In Alabama the Republicans will vote for all our electors unconditionally.
The same I think will be done in North Carolina. The best information that I can get from Louisiana, from all three sources, is that we will carry the state by twenty or thirty thousand. We will get Alabama I think by fifty thousand. Things are at a white heat down there. Since Kolb was egged he has arrested the whole outfit. The Republicans have taken their candidates for congress out of four districts in North Carolina and will vote for ours. The same has been done in four districts in Virginia, one in West Virginia, two in Kentucky, four in Tennessee, all in Georgia, all in Alabama, three in Mississippi, three in Louisiana, three in Arkansas and four in Texas.

In Georgia they have three electoral tickets, but our candidates for congress are on both the Republican and People's party tickets. The Democrats carried that state this month by getting the solid negro vote. Their law is that no one is entitled to vote until he pays his poll tax and shows his receipt for the same. The negroes had their poll tax paid by the Democrats and they voted them in return.
Now the negro says he has got his tax paid and intends to vote the Republican ticket. Sixty-five thousand out of seventy-five thousand of our voters at the October election in Georgia were white men, in fact a majority of the white vote of Georgia is ours. If we hold that, which we will, and if the negro votes go back to the Republican party, who voted with the Democrats in October, we will carry a majority of the congressional districts. United States supervisors and marshals have been appointed in every precinct in nearly all the states.

The chances of fraud have been decreased at least 75 per cent from their state elections. Everything is working as well in the South as could be expected. The Republican congressional committee at Washington concede us the balance of power in the next lower house of congress. In fact I cannot see how we can be defeated out of that. The Northwest has no cause to complain of the situation in the South. Advise every man to stand firm to their colors. The general breaking up is coming on the 8th of November, and I think we shall get as many pieces as any one of the old parties.

Very truly,
H. E. TAUBENECK,
Chairman National Executive Committee.