The Mexico City Mexican Herald offered the following perspective of the election:
Soon the United States will have as many political parties as Spain and will be split up into innumerable factions and groups. The nomination of Bryan has served to accentuate the tendency to break up the old and badly fossilized parties which had no more vitality than a desiccated codfish. The following table of the rearranged parties is given: (1) The gold Republican party. (2) The free-silver Democrats, among whom are (a) those who want Populist support and (b) those who don't want Populist support. (3) The free-silver Republicans. (4) The gold Democrats, among whom are (a) those who will support McKinley and (b) those who will nominate a ticket of their own. (5) The Prohibitionists. (6) The bolting Prohibitionists. (7) The Bryan Populists, among whom are (a) those who favor Bryan and Sewall and (b) those who are for Bryan and Watson. (8) The anti-Bryan Populists. (9) The voters who are on the fence. (10) The voters who have taken to the woods.
Public Opinion 21(#9, 27 August 1896): 267