Salt Lake Herald | 1896-10-28 | Page 7 | May Cast a Vote

MAY CAST A VOTE NEW YORK Oct 27A Sun sp cial from Montgomery Ala says Bryan is almost sure to lose one o Alabamas electors M D Selbert Democrat irom tit Seventh district dis-trict died suddenly on Sunday The tickets have bet printed in 1 the counties and cannot be reprinted Democratic managers have sent instructions in-structions out to voters to scratch Sel bert and substitute C C Appleton A third of the voters cannot read and have been instructed to choose their nominees numerically as the names appear on the ticket These illiterates illiter-ates naturally will vote for Seibert I s will many others who will not learn of his death Another complication is that J B Appleton Is I Populist elector from the Seventh district Democrats Dem-ocrats here confess the chances are that Selberts death will cost Bran an electoral vote