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Show FOR FREE SILVER, Illinois Democrats Preparing for the Next Campaign. THE BASIC PRINCIPLES Of Democracy Say That the People Shall Decide All Important Questions Forty Damage .Suits the Result of the Butta Explosion Other News. SrRiNGFiELD,IlI.,April. 4 The democratic dem-ocratic state central committee of Illinois Illi-nois at a special meeting today issued a call for a state convention to meet at Sprinefield, June 4th next, to consider the currency question, which it is proposed pro-posed to make the issue for the next campaign. The call says in part: "The only national question now before be-fore the American people is that of cur rency. Ihe next national campaign must be fought out with the currency aB the issue between the parties and it behooves the democratic party, as a party, to assume a decided position on this question and to draw its party lines according to the wishes of a majority ma-jority of its members. "The basic principles of democracy forbid the decision ot important questions ques-tions by the party leaders without in-1 structions from the people, and it is therefore proper (or the committee to call on the democrat of the precincts, townships and counties of this state to meet in conyention in their respective localities, to discuss freely the great question before the people, to give expression ex-pression to their views in appropriate resolutions, and to select delegates to a convention to be held at the state capital." At the conclusion of the meeting Chairman Henrichsen in an interview inter-view said he is in receipt of information informa-tion from every county in the state, outside of Cook, which convinces him that 90 per cent, of the democracy favors the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of lb' to 1, without with-out waiting for the action of any foreign for-eign government. The committee expects ex-pects that the resolutions adopted by county conventions will be in line with this feeling. As to the effect upon the republican party, Mr. ilin- richsen Z&idl, "As a party they are pledged to monometallism and can take no other ground unless they straddle the question. ques-tion. Thousands of them will join the democrats, for they belieye in free silver. I certainly expect to carry the state and county in 1896. This movement move-ment will be in effect the reorganization reorganiza-tion of the democratic party," Regarding the prospects of an independent inde-pendent Bilver party he says: "The attempt begins at the wrong end. A few men at VVashinsrton cannot control 12,000,000 voters. The county movement move-ment grafted into a Btrong party organization organ-ization is the only way in which political politi-cal results Can be produced. Th9 extreme ex-treme gold men in our party will go Over to the republicans. The free silver sil-ver men of all parties must come ever to the democracy and with our ob-jectional ob-jectional statesmen eliminated, the confidence of the people in the democratic demo-cratic party will be strengthened and confirmed." FORTY SU.T8. Butte, Mont., April 4. JNine suits for damages, aggregating $145,000, were today instituted in the district court against the Kenyon Commercial company, com-pany, in whose warehouses the great dynamite explosion of January 15 occurred oc-curred The suits are brought by some of the injured and others by relatives of those killed by the explosion. The complaints allege that the dynamite was stored contrary to law and unknown un-known to the public. The attorneys who brought the action state that about forty others would be instituted. CASFER'STHAYOR KILLS A MAN. Cheyenne, Wyo., April 4. Senator Joel H. Hurt, mayor of Casper, shot and killed William Milne last night for suspected intimacy with Mrs. Hurt. Ab.-ut a year ago his oldest Bon reported re-ported .to him that he had gone into his mother's room unexpectedly and found her sittiug on the lap of William Milne, one of Hurt's 6heep herders and part owner wth him in several bands of sheep. Hurt immediately took his gun aDd started on Milne's trail, bat friends dissuaded the mayor from killing kill-ing him. The matter, however, became public, and Hurt separated from his wife, leaving her in possession of their home. He returned to Casper after the adjournment ad-journment of the last state legislature, of which he was a member, in February, Febru-ary, and since that time has been investigating in-vestigating the stories which have been in circulation of Milae's continued intimacy in-timacy with his wite. William Milne was about 28 years old. He had been in Senator Hart's employ as sheep herder for a number of years, and through the senator's aid had secured an interest in several bands of sheep and was in a fair way to become a wealthy man. His slayer has been a prominent figure in Wyoming politics for some time. |