Show COLORADO DEMOCRATS the state convention meet st at deaver dearer on 1 the tho the Demo democratic cratto state convention was hel halil I 1 in denver or on the 11 P montgomery of arapahoe Arapah oc was made temporary chairman and james Gar garrahan rehan of pitkin secretary the committee on permanent organization handed banded in two reports rc porta the majority favoring the election of all Chicago delegates by the state convention while the minority report favored the election of tour four of them by the delegates k from gia the two congressional districts dietr lote sitting bitting aracely ara tely the majority report was rejected b by a vote of to 26 tt it was agreed at last after a treat great deal of argument to adopt the plan proposed by the minority report and to I 1 elect the officers named in the majority report po rl the following are the off officers leers elected Por permanent maneA chairman J M fitlin r apt vice presidents summit 8 B Fity fitzgerald gerald san miguel MIf fuel secretary R 8 king lake assistant 11 n H el paso james garrahan Garm ban sergeant at arms arma lon hartigan creeds the selection of four delegates at large was then in order T patterson Patte raon of arapahoe Arapah oc was elected by acclamation and after quite a struggle the following were elected dr henry paul of pitkin J B arman onnan af of pueblo and T J odonnell of arapahoe Arap ahoo the following alternates were elected J I 1 J ryan larimer alfred pueblo senator walters waiters custer george jacobs weld the main features of the platform as adopted are the following that we hereby demand such modification us ot of existing tariff laws as shall reduce the duty rates toabe i tie by they will produce revenues to the government and afford such euch protection only as yet accrue that the tree free and unlimited coinage of sll 1511 ver vcr Is demanded na as a right of which the people of this country were unjustly illegally and clandestinely deprived that it Is the sense of the democrats of colorado that they can have little hope forthe for tho election of the chicago nominee unless the party parly shall declare in favor of the free and unlimited coinage of silver la in its national platform that the democratic party of colorado favors the appropriation of public funds for experiments for the production ot of artill artificial cial storage and preserving water supply y by a system of mountain reservoirs and otherwise r iw saying saving the quantity of water available ble for irrigation and that this Is now important in view of the large and continual growth of the agricultural interests of the state A Bi olval that the democratic party denounces doa dea the policy of the present general administration which has failed to carry out the treaty with the ute IncI In ilLius laris for their removal to the reservation in utah and as a result withholding a largo large body of public land from settlement the following minority report was sub knitted and voted vetoed down that we will support no man tor for tho the presidency or vice presidency who Is not unequivocally in favor of the free and unlimited coinage of silver and our delegates to the chicago convention are hereby instructed that in case the platform or nominees tire aro not in favor of the tree free and unlimited coinage of silver to withdraw from the convention the convention then divided bluto anto two dla dis triot ariot conventions convention for the first district tho the following delegation to chicago was chosen delegates M D currigan arapahoe Arap ahoo and 1 D C ddnovan Dc novan boulder alternates B F montgomery of arapahoe Arapah oc and A 11 de franco france of jefferson A 8 whittaker and JC bayard were chosen congressional committeemen and W it perry chairman of the congressional district the second district convention selected lelec ted frank adams of creedo and william bayly of durango as delegates and W G nines of las animals sad and J E mcclura of montrose alLer alternates nates |