Show I 1 SILVER STATE convention I 1 NOTICE is hereby given that there will be a state co convention of the I 1 union silver party held in in grand rapids in in this state state at 11 in the forenoon of the seventeenth day of february A D 1897 to put in nomination candidates for judge of the supreme court and two regents of the university and for the transaction of such other bu business iness as may may come before it I 1 all citizens of the he state who are opposed to the single n gold standard and who favor the free coinage of gold and silver at the present leal laal ratio of sixteen to one inde independent penAnt 1 1 of the action of otner nations are cordially invited to participate in in the primaries for the election of I 1 I 1 1 1 delegates in their tive voting precincts and conventions without in to past party affiliations exchange the above is certainly encouraging I 1 to those of us who believe beleve 1 that the restoration of silver to its con place is is the key which will set this country free from tb this 8 financial and indus industrial trial depression we are wont to believe or at least 1 the anti silver people would have us believe that the advocates of I 1 silver all live in the west there was a time when everything this side bide of the alle alleghenies in banies was away out wa t michigan n can no ion longer ioner t er be considered a western state but if she were we can see no shame in I 1 that A large part of her people believe as we do on this silver question and it matters not that one thousand and a half of miles milea separate us yet our hearts beat in in unison on this all important problem the broad ax sends greeting to the advocates of this cause and bids them godspeed in their mis sion of love |