The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-23

PEORIA, ILL.,, June 22.-Never before
in the history of illinois politics has there
been a pontlcal convention as UNIQUE as
that to be convened tomorrow promises
to be.
1t will be called to order without a sin
gle candidate for the nomination for gov
ernor.
OF course, everybody says Governor Alt
geld will be nominated.
According to w. H. Hinrichsen, chair
mittee, So per cent. of the delegates to
the convention have been instructed for
HIM and the others are solid for him.
ON the other hand Governor Altgeld
months ago he even went SO far as to say
that he would not accept the nomination.
But the Democratic leaders declare they
WILL FORCE HIM TO ACCEPT.
Every delegate who has arrived in
the city, and there are hundreds of them,
has caned upon the governor today. And
every one OF them told MIN he was their
choice and that no one else would do.
In conversations Governor AlLgeld has
him, he has but little to say regarding
himself, nor has he permitted them to IN
duige themselves.
His whole thought and talk has been
regarding the national convention to be
held in Chicago week after next.
1T is duty the free silver Democrats
owe to the so-called common people Of
this nation" he said, Ito carry their
point as to the financial plank. Whitney
and
THE LOUD MOUTHED GOLD BUGS
of his class have never led the party
to anything but humiliation or defeat,
during the last thirty years"
Then, referring to Mr.. Whitney's state
nent that he believed. the gold men would
control the party. the governor said to a
number of delegates:
IF the gold men control, they will do
SO by. the use of arguments that have a
ring to them and a clink, as they pass
from hand to hand and pocket.
State Chairman Hinrichsen, speaking
of the talk that Senator Teller might be
named at Chicago, said that while the
free silver Democrats all had the highest
! regard for him, not one of the hundreds
to whom he had talked felt it would be
wise to nominate him for president.
Governor Altgeld and all the free silver
members of the state central committee
are
OPPOSED TO INsTRUCTING
delegates at large to the national con-
vention to support any OF the presidential
candidates.
They are also urging the adoption of a
plank with the words free silver at the
ratio of 16 to l. in the state platform.
! If the leaders of the silver movement
in the Democratic party are to be be-
lieved, Governor John P. Altgeld will
be renominated for governor tomorrow,
and Notwithstanding a desire on his
part to retire from politics, he will be
compelled to make the race.
I II can say authoritatively,' said
| Chairman Hinrichsen tonight, that
the governor will accept. OF course
we all know he has frequently said he
i would not accept the nomination but
{ ] know personally that recent develop
/ ments have canged his course. He
| will make the race
The ticket TO be named at the con-
J vention, according to those best in
! formed will be as follows:
Governor-John P. Altgeld.
Secretary of State-T. J. Medill of
Rock Island.
Treasurer-William P. Pickett of
| Taylorville.
Attorney General-A. S. Trude, Chi
cago.
Auditor-W. B. Brinton, Tuscola.
Delegates at Large-John P Altgeld
and Judge S. P. Mcconnell of Chicago;
w. H. Hinrichsen, Jacksonville, and
ex-Congressman George B. Fithian
of Newton, or G. B. Parsons of
Shawneetown.
The Sixteenth district delegates met
tonight and selected as delegates to
the national convention, A. H. Bell of
Carlinville and J. F. Robinson of
Virginia. AS to the organization of the
convention, it was decided late tonight
to make a temporary organization
permanent