Show THEY FORGED IT UPON HIM Altgeld te Unanimous Choice of the Illinois Convention Con-vention HIS REFUSAL WAS WASTED The Platform Is Strong for Free Silver Nearly All the Candidates Were Nominated by Acelaniation There Wa No Strife and No Acrimonious Acrimon-ious Speeches Save Those Directed Direct-ed Against the Enemy A Meeting Which Will Not Soon Be Forgotten Forgot-ten PEORIA II June 23 For governor John P Altgelt of Chicago Lieutenant Governor Monroe C Crawford of Union county Secretary of state Finis E Downing of Cass county Auditor Edward C Pace ai Wash ington county Attorney general George A Trade of Chicago University trustees Julia Holmes Smith R N Morgan M W Graham Delegates at large John P Altgeld S P McConnel W H Hinnchsen George W Fithian National Committeeman Thomas Gahan of Chicago John P Altgeld is the nominee O the Democratic party for governor of Illinois He was unanimously placed at the head of the ticket this afternoon He had no opponent and a few hours before the honor was thrust upon him declared he did not want it He said so at the conclusion of one of the most impressive speeches ever made before a Democratic convention He said he was physically unable to lead the fight and his financial affairs were in bad shape and needed his attention No 1 sooner ha he mentioned his desire to retire from public lie than there came an impassioned shout of disapproval not only from the delegates but from thousands of people who were crowded in the hall I was a strange convention conven-tion and will not soon be forgotten I was in session only a little over five hours Nearly all the candidates were nominated by acclamation There was no strife There was no acrimonious J speeches save those directed against 1 the enemy j The convention as had been predicted pre-dicted came out strongly for free silver ver and so instructed t delegates at large to the national convention The platform w almost diametrically opposite op-posite L all Its parts to that e the Republican Re-publican party and the 1065 publcan pa delegates voted unanimously for its adoption |