People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1896 — TILLMAN IN DENVER. [ARTICLE]

TILLMAN IN DENVER.

Speaks at tbe Democratic State Convention. Denver, Col., April 15;—At the invitation of Secretary Newell Senator John Tillman is making his first visit to this state. He will address the democratic convention today. In speaking of the national political outlook Senator Tillman declared that the silverites would have a slight majority in the Chicago convention, but have little show of accomplishing much in St. Louis. “If the goldbugs carry the Chicago convention there will a split,”' said he. “And it is high time for the democrats to split. lam a democrat, but if I may be permitted to offer a word of advice to the free-silver republicans of Colorado, it is this: Send Senator Teller to the St. Louis convention as chairman of your state delegation. Sena him with specific instructions to lead his delegation from the convention hall the moment McKinley or any other goldbug is nominated ior president on any other platform than one demanding the free coinage <ft silver.”