The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-05
TAKE The BULL
BY THE HORNS.
THE ILLINOIS FREE SILVER
DEMOCRATS
Will Call a National Free Silver
Convention This Fall.
1915 For Free Silver and Only go
Against 1t.

Not only will the free silver Demo-
Gratis of Illinois adopt an unlimited sill
yer coinage platform at their state con-
vention at Springfield next week, but
they will also adopt and send forth Q
Democrats Of the country calling for q
memorial address to the free silver
national Democratic monetary conven-
tion to be held during the coming au-
state committees.
This idea of following up the Illinois
state convention by national monetary
conference is one of recent growth, but
the leaders Of the silver movement in
Illinois have already included 1t In their
program, and will ask the state c0nven-
tion to name delegates to the national
conference. It is proposed TO select
forty-eight delegates from Iliinois-two
from each congressional district and
four at large. The memorial to be
adopted by the state convention Win
suggest that all states responding to
the call shall send representatives In
the same ratio.
was called bv the Democratic silver
leaders, they did not dream Of the Tar
reaching effects such movement would
have. Since the call for the.convention
was issued, however, the free silver
Democrats Of other Western and South
ern states have become infected by the
craze, and several of these states are
preparing to hold similar conventions.
So widespread has become the silver
epidemic in the West that the Hinrich-
sen-Altgeld silver crowd has determined
to push the alleged boom to it's utmost 7
and to that end will now call for a ma!
tional conference of Democratic repre-1
sentatives from every state, to take ac-
tion in behalf of the free silver move
ment.
Secretary Nelson, of the Democratic
state central committee, said yesterday
that the state convention, which will
assemble at Springfield next Wednes-
day, would undoubtedly name a delega-
tion to national monetary conference,
the date Of the latter to be fixed here
after.
while 7 do not know what basis oil
representation will be agreed upvn,"
Mr.. Nelson said, "it will probably be
two delegates from each of the twenty
two congressional districts in the state
and four from the state at large, making
a total Of forty-eight delegates
SILVER LEADERS CONFIDENT.
The Democratic state central commit
tee will hold meeting at the Leland
Hotel, in Springfield, Tuesday night,
when the matter will be more fully dis
cussed and a plan of action arranged.
The leaders say that every state west
of the Alleghanies will send full rep
resentatiOn to such a convention, while
it is also believed that majority of the
Eastern states will respond to- such a
call. It is thought that the convention
will be held in St. Louis, that being the
most central point for the Western and
Southern states. The leaders affect to
believe that by such convention they
will be able to show that the Demo-
cratic sentiment is overwhelmingly in
favor of the free and unlimited coinage
of silver at the ratio Of 16 to 1, regard
less of foreign nations, and that such Z
convention will have the effect Of re-
storing harmony in Democratic ranks
on the money question
Every county in the state will have
representatives in the state convention.
The counties Of Dewitt, Clinton, Union,
Schuyler Macon and Putnam will hold
their delegate conventions today. Mad
ison and Menard counties will hold their
conventions Monday, and these will
complete the list. Secretary Nelson,
who went to Springfield last night, said
that Of the 1,076 delegates comprising
the convention less than sixty would be
against the free silver platform.