Show ALTGELD AND ILLINOIS this THE storm center between the silver forces and the gold bugs is now going on in the state of illinois it is a fight of the bankers officeholders office holders and cuckoos on one side and the people on the other to gai daiy control of the democratic state convention ninety per cent of the che people are for the free coinage of silver and they are led in their fight by that sterling champion of human rights altgeld the gold bugs ra scenting defeat in in the air have resorted to new tactics and will now hold separate primaries and select separate delegates and enter the convention and contest their right to be seated they were afraid to trust the people so the necessity for these disreputable methods but they will not win arid if they do and the democratic party is to be delivered over to these pharisees pharis ees and shylocks shy locks then it would wound be the time to revolt by walking out of th the convention and reorganize organize re the party after the fashion of jefferson jackson and all its bright lights who have stood between the people and oppression for the last hundred years governor john P altgeld is the logical candidate for governor having made a splendid record during d an ring the past four years and he commands the confidence and respect of the people the cook county convention has declared for unqualified free iff silver lver which alone constitutes about one third of the illinois delegation with illinois in the silver column and altgeld heading the state ticket running on a national free silver platform the democrats will sweep the state by uty fifty thousand majority hurrah for altgeld free suver silver and the democratic party park |