Salt Lake Herald | 1896-06-24 | Page 5 | Unexpected Strength

UNEXPECTED STRENGTH I AVas Developed In ilic Vlsconsia Convention MILWAUKEE Wis June 23Free silver developed unexpected strength in the Democratic state convention today I to-day Until within i three weeks the supposed Ito I I gold standard adherent were suppsed to be overvrheimingly in the majority j I in the Waronsin Democracy but when the test vote came this afternoon on the adoption of the minority and majority ma-jority resorts from the committee on resolutlcns the silver men were found to number 128 of the 340 delesraffes in I the convention The delegates at large to the national convention are all gold standard advocates and are headed by Senator William A Via and General Edward S Bragg The district l delegates chosen today by the district delegations include several sev-eral silver men but will be governed by the unit rule They have no preference pre-ference for a presidential candidate