Show If DEMOCRATS AND SILVER The Democratic national convention will consist of 910 delegates This will make the majority 456 Already twentyfive states have held their conventions con-ventions for the election of delegates tb the national convention and adopted platforms declaring either for free silver sil-ver at the ratio of 16 to 1 or for gold Four hundred and fortyeight delegates have been chosen two hundred and seventytrwo for free silver one hundred hun-dred and seventysix for gold Silver Gold Alabama 22 Colorado 8 District Columbia 4 2 Iowa o 26 Kansas 18 Kentucky 26 Massachusetts 30 Michigan 28 1 Mississippi IS t Missouri 34 Nebraska 16 New Hampshire 8 New Jersey 20 Oklahoma 6 Oregon 8 Pennsylvania 64 Rhode Island 8 South Carolina 18 South Dakota 8 Tennessee 24 Utah 6 Vermont 8 Virginia i i 24 Washington S Wyoming i 1 Total C 272 176 This is only a little more than half the states and a little more than half of the delegates but for all the delegates dele-gates elected it is more than one and a half delegates for silver to every one for gold His safe to assume that the same ratio will continue though unquestionably un-questionably the great state of New York with its seventytwo votes will declare for gold At the present time every indication is that the Chicago convention will be overwhelmingly for silver |