The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-05
SILVER IN ILLINOIS.
WHITE METAL DEMOCRATS WILL
MEET TODAY.
But Few "SOund Money" Men In the
Ranks-SiIver Element of the Par
tyIs Very Much in Evidence-Tau-
beneck's ideas.

Springfield. Ill, June 4.-The Demo
cratic state convention, called by the
state central committee to adopt a
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 50 nearly unanimous
that there is little prospect Of even a
show Of fighting.
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 a
national convention. The sudden ap-
pearance today of Herman E. Taube-
neck, who will be remembered as one
of the F. A. D. A. members in the
famous senatorial fight of 1891, caused
much comment. He said he had no
interest in the convention except as a
spectator, adding, however, that Ger
tain managers Of the Democratic party
are now trying to steal the platform"
Taubeneck has no objection to this; in
fact he is doing all he can to encourage
in time disrupt the party.
THE silver element of the party"
said he, sis much more in evidence
now than the other wing, but this is
owing to the fact that the silver gove-
ment is being promoted by the fma-
chine of the party. The silver Demo-
Gratis in Illinois are not nearly so num-
erous as they seem. think it may be
safely estimated that fully one-third
of the Democratic ara ernld and q
declaration for free silver will drive
these men out Of the Democratic party
when the issue is finally forced
upon the Republican party Us it must
be, 1t will certainly prove demoralizing.
Ultimately the result will be that the
Peoples party will gather in all the
free silver men of the country. Per-
sonally 1 favor the union of all forces
opposed to the gold standard. 1 mean
the silver Democrats of the south and
west, the silver Republicans of the
west, he PopulistS of the whole coun-
try a. / the bi-metallists. IF this union
can be accomplished the victory for
silver is won. If it cannot be, the con-
test is lost. These elements cannot be
united in either the Republican or
Dmocratic party. 1 feel certain that
the silver sentiment of the country will
eventually be consolidated into one
party. That party must be the Populist
party"
1t is probable there will be a meet
ing of prominent Populists here to-
morrow afternoon and an address to
the country will be issued, based on the
action of tomorrow's convention. When
the country delegates and visitors ar
rived this evening they marched to the
executive mansion where Governor
Altgeld received them with free sill
yer speech.
A Lively Tilt.
At meeting of the Democratic CEN
trail committee tonight there was a
lively fight over resolution authoriz-
ing district committeeman at the
several district meetings tomorrow to
request their delegations to select
delegates to national convention
which may be called, and further
select members of a committee to elect
four delegates at large to such a. CON
vention, all subject TO ratification or
rejection by the convention tomorrow
Finally the resolution was adopted
Some Of the delegates took the posi-
ton that the resolution was not con-
templated in the original call and the
delegates not elected with a view of
such resolution being passed.