Show THE ILLINOIS DEMOCRATS The Democrats of Illinois have held their state convention and elected delegates dele-gates to the Chicago convention It was an out and out free silver convention con-vention In forty states and territories the Democrats have MId their conventions and elected delegates to the national convention Six hundred and fifty d legates l-egates have been chosen Of these four hundred and eighteen are for free silver and two hundred and thirtytwo for gold a majority of one hundred and eighty for free silver to date Today To-day the New York Democratic convention con-vention will meet It is safe to say that its delegation will be for gold The Ohio convention > also meets today to-day and its delegation will be for silver Whether the silver men can muster a twothirds majority at Chicago Chi-cago remains to be seen The Illinois Democrats endorsed Governor Gov-ernor AJtgeld and condemned the administration The very foolish fool-ish flag law was condemned as it should be It Is as silly as Ohios high hat law Altogether it was a most enthusiastic en-thusiastic convention and will tend to inspire the Democracy everywhere |