THE GOLD DEMOCRATS
Will Not Put Ticket in the Field This Year.
A fragment reporting that the Gold Democrats, the sound-money faction that broke from the party in 1896, decided against running their own ticket in 1900 after failing to get electors on the New York ballot.
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Daily Inter Mountain · July 13, 1900 · Page 1
1 min readNew York, July 13.
New York, July 13.—A special to the Times from Washington says: "The gold democrats will not put a ticket in the field this year," said [the] chairman of the gold democratic executive committee of 1896. "We cannot get our electors on the official ballot in New York, because the votes were cast [...]
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