St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-06-05
sILvERITEs IN CONTROL.
SENTIMENT IN FAVOR OF Ma
TIONAL MONEY CONVENTION
is RAMPANT.
PoPUL1sT TAuBMEoK TALKS,
Says the Peoples Party Will
Gather in All the Free Silver
Men of the Country.

DemOcrdtlc state cOnV CdllSu Wy
the state central committee to adopt
policy for the party in Illinois upon
the money question will convene at
noon tomorrow. There is every indi-
cation tonight that every county in
the state will be represented by its
full quota of delegates. The sentiment
among the delegates in favor of free
silver seems to be so nearly unani-
nous that there is no prospect of even
a show of fight from the opposition
The movement in the direction of a
national money convention seems to
be gaining force every hour. Judge
Goodrich, of Chicago, is one of the few
Sound money" Democrats who are
delegates to the convention. He will
oppose the scheme to call national
money convention. He said tonight
that he could see no sense in such a
proceeding at this time The sudden
appearance here today of Herman e.
Taubeneck, who will be remembered
as one of the Farmers Mutual Be-
nevolent association members in the
famous senatorial fight of 81, caused
much comment. He said this even
ing that he had no interest in the con-
vention except as spectator. He ad
ded, however, that certain managers
of the Democratic party are now plan
ming to steal the Populist platform"
Taubeneck has no objection to this
in fact he is doing all ne can to en-
courage the agitation, for he feels
sure it will in time disrupt the Dem
ocratic party.
''The silver element of the party"
said he, ''is much more in evidence
now than the other wing, but this is
owing to the fact that the silver move
ment is being promoted by the ma
chine of the party.
THE SILVER DEMOCRATS,
in Illinois are not nearly SO numerous
as they seem. think it may be safely
estimated that fully one-third Of the
Democrats Of Illinois are gold men,
and a declarat ton for free silver would
drive these men out of the Democratic
party. When the issue is finally
forced upon the Republican party, as
it must be, it will certainly prove de-
moralizing. Ultimately the result
will be that the Peoples party will
gather in all the free silver men of the
country. Personally, I favor the
union of all the forces opposed to the
gold standard in next years campaign.
| mean the silver Democrats of the
South and West, the silver Repub-
licans Of the West, the Populists Of
the whole country and the bimetal-
lie party. If the union can be accom-
plished the victory for silver is won.
If it cannot be, the contest for 1896
is lost. These elements cannot be
united in either the Republican or
Democratic parties. I feel certain that
the silver sentiment Of the country
will eventually be consolidated into one
party. That party must be the Peo-
ple's party" 1t is probable that
there will be a meeting of prominent
Populists here tomorrow evening, and
that an address to the country will
be issued, based on the action of to-
morrow's convention. When the Cook
county delegates and visitors arrived
this evening they marched at once to
the executive mansion, where Gov.
Altgeld received them with free sill
yer speech.
AT meeting Of the Democratic state
central committee tonight there was a
lively fight over resolution authoriz-
ing district committees to request
their delegations to select delegates to
national convention which may be
called. After considerable wrangling
the resolution was adopted. After the
adoption of the resolution temporary
officers for the convention were select
ed, the chairman being Judge Craw-
ford, of Union county. A resolution
was also adopted stating that the call
for a convention was regular. Gov.
Altgeld was present during a large
portion of the time the committee was
in session, but did not address the
meeting.