SCHOOLS.-"We oppose the proposed collection and distribution by the Federal Government of money in aid of the educational system of the various States."

GOVERNMENT LOANS.-"We denounce all acts and efforts by the Federal Government whereby it in fact does or proposes to advance or lend money to any citizen, corporation or class upon any sort of security, and we oppose Governmental ownership of railroads, telephone and telegraph lines."

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BOUNTIES.-"We denounce all bounties and subsidies given by the Federal Government in aid of private enterprises as class favors repugnant to the democratic people and unwarranted by a correct construction of the constitutional powers of ConWe denounce all species of class legislation as iniquitous, unconstitutional and subversive of the aims and the ends of government." ELECTIONS BILL.-"We cite the so-called Force bill as the extreme evidence of the enmity of the Republican party to local self-government, and denounce it as a violation of the Constitution, corrupt in conception, vicious in sentiment, criminal in detail, the only mission of which is to foment race prejudice, to produce sectional strife and ill feeling, so fatal to the tranquillity of the people of the several States." SILVER. "While we yield to the wisdom of a majority of the National Democracy in making the reduction of revenue taxation to the necessities of the Government economically administered, the paramount leading issue of this campaign, upon the policy that it is safest to make the struggle to secure one reform at a time, we nevertheless proclaim our adherence to the principle, justice and necessity of a free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio heretofore provided by law, and shall continue to contend for it. We therefore commend our Senators and Representatives for their faithful efforts to promote the success of this measure, and pledge that they shall so continue."

BANKS.-"We oppose the National Banking system, we demand the repeal of the Federal tax on State banks, and favor an amenduent to our State Constitution permitting the incorporation of State banks, under proper restrictions and control, for the protection of depositors and the people. We favor a graduated income tax for Federal purposes."

RAILROADS.-Indorses Texas Railroad Commission law; favors an appointive commission, unless the Constitution be so changed as to permit of the election of one of the Commissioners every two years, making their tenure of office six years, and demands a law to prevent stock watering.

LANDS.-Commends public officials seeking to recover land unlawfully obtained by railroad companies from the State for sidings and switches; promises that innocent purchasers for value and actual settlers shall have their titles validated, and demands law to define perpetuities, prohibit the further operation of land corporations in the State, and require those now in possession of lands for agricultural, horticultural, grazing and speculative purposes, excepting overflowed and irrigated lands, to dispose of these within such reasonable time as may not impair vested rights.

MISCELLANEOUS.-Denounces reports that Texas Democrats are hostile to immigration or the legitimate investment of foreign capital; favors State provision for Confederate soldiers; demands execution of public free school law and endowment of university; opposes convict lease system; promises enactment of mechanics' lien law; favors time limit for Federal officeholders and demands restriction of municipal bond issues.

VERMONT REPUBLICAN, April 13.

"The Republicans of Vermont regard protection for American industries, an honest dollar and an honest ballot the leading considerations, deserving continued and earnest National indorsement. We indorse the Administration of President Herrison as pure and progressive, and in the treatment of foreign questions broadly and courageously American."

VERMONT REPUBLICAN, June 22.

Indorses protection, demanding that tariff laws should be from time to time readjusted to secure full Industrial development; approves of reciprocity; demands that American ports be closed, "not only against foreign criminals and paupers, but also, so far as can be, against those classes who, with no knowledge of our language and no respect for our institutions, seek here a temporary abode"; asserts that the confessed and continued suppression of the negro vote at the South is a menace of free institutions and a disgrace to our civilization; favors such general Federal laws as will give to every American citizen who is qualified to vote In Federal elections the right to cast that vote and have it counted; Indorses Administration of President Harrison; approves Minneapolls platform and candidates; demands continuance of Prohibitory liquor law; asserts that the attitude of Republicans in the State leaves Vermont Prohibitionists without an occupation.

VERMONT DEMOCRATIC, May 5.

Expresses renewed devotion to tariff reform; insists that no more money shall be taken from the people by taxation than the necessities of the Government require; that while the Government must furnish a currency ample and sufficient for the transaction of business, nothing can justify the conversion into money of more silver than is required for circulation, as free coinage is forcing the people to buy what they do not want at a fixed price, much above its market value; that while the Gov

ernment should grant liberal pensions, a more efficient management should direct the Pension Department to disallow unjust claims; that the economy of the Cleveland Administration, as compared with the Harrison Administration, should encourage all honest citizens to renewed cfforts for Democratic success at the coming election.

VIRGINIA REPUBLICAN, May 5.

Indorses President Harrison's Administration, praises Mr. Blaine, calls for immediate action on the free-silver question, indorses the McKinley bill, demands efficient coast defences and a navy that shall inspire due respect throughout the world.

VIRGINIA DEMOCRATIC, May 18.

TARIFF.-"A tariff is a tax; all unnecessary taxation is unjust taxation; the Government has not power under the Constitution to collect from the people any money except what is necessary to defray the expenses of its economical administration; one class of our people should not be required to pay tribute money for the benefit of another class, and the burdens of government should be imposed upon the luxuries and not upon the necessaries of life."

MISCELLANEOUS.-Denounces the "Force bill" and the centralizing tendencies in government; favors abolition of internal revenue; indorses the wise economy, clean and holest methods and non-sectional character of the late Democratic Administration: and demands an increase in the volume of currency to an extent sufficient for the commercial and agricultural needs of the country.

WASHINGTON REPUBLICAN, April.

TARIFF.-"We unqualifiedly advocate and assert our adherence to the principles of a protective tariff as heretofore announced by the Republican party in the National platform and as now practised under the provisions of the act of Congress known as the McKinley Tariff bill."

NICARAGUA CANAL.-"We believe the interests of that great and important part of our country known as the Pacific Coast States require that the Nicaragua Canal should be built as soon as practicable, and favor such friendly legislation by Congress as may speedily effect that result."

WASHINGTON DEMOCRATIC, August 26.

Urges imposition of taxes on luxuries rather than on necessities: free silver; establishment of a Government Assay Office in Washington, and favors Nicaragua Canal.

WEST VIRGINIA REPUBLICAN, May 5.

Reaffirms Republican platform of 1888, condemns the gubernatorial steal four years ago, indorses protection as a principle, and commends the McKinley tariff law and reciprocity; asserts belief in American ability to make all the tinplate consumed in the country, and exhorts all Americans to purchase American products in preference to imported goods, condemns free-wool bill as an unjust and hurtful attack on the agricultural interests of the country, demands better immigration legislation; regards as of highest importance that every dollar issued by the U. S. shall have a purchasing power of 100 cents, so that our gold, silver and paper issues may be kept on an equal footing, favors liberal pensions and denounces as partisan the Democratic attacks on the present administration of the Pension Office.

WEST VIRGINIA REPUBLICAN, August 3.

Indorses Minneapolis nominations and platform: policy of Protection as necessary to the development of the country; favors anti-Pinkerton law, and denounces Democratic State administration for creation of a State debt, legislative gerrymander and steal of the Governorship in 1889.

WISCONSIN REPUBLICAN, May 5.

MONEY. "While we favor the use of both gold and silver as money metals, under conditions which shall guarantee their circulation at a continuing and substantial parity with each other, under existing circumstances and conditions, we are unalterably opposed to the free and unlimited coinage of silver."

MISCELLANEOUS.-Indorses Harrison Administration; commends movement for an international silver conference, recommends a modification of the silver act of 1890 to enable the President to regulate silver purchases; declares the educational issue of 1890 permanently settled; denounces the "Dodge" law as the most objectionable form of paternal legislation, and expresses satisfaction at the "gerrymander" decision.

WISCONSIN REPUBLICAN, August 17.

STATE BANKS.-Asserts unqualified opposition to proposition in Democratic Na tional platform to repeal the tax levied by the Federal law on the circulation of State banks, a policy which would again flood the country with wildcat money and subject the people to annoyance and losses consequent upon a fluctuating, uncertain and depreciated currency.

EDUCATION.-Reaffirms and unqualifiedly indorses the declaration of the May Republican convention, and denounces further agitation of the subject or any attempt by any one or any party for any purpose to create or foster division lines of religion, education or nativity.

APPORTIONMENT LAW.-Denounces outrageous partisanship of Democratic majority in the late extra session of the Legislature in forcing enactment of so-called apportionment law, in deflance of the plain provisions of the constitution pounded by the Supreme Court, and in disregard of the rights of the people.

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MISCELLANEOUS.-Denounces Democratic statement that Republican success involves a surrender or compromise of rights upon the bond of ex-State Treasurers; favors amendment of law regulating balances in State banks; denounces parsimony of Democrats in refusal to make appropriation for a representation at World's Fair; denounces cruel and barbarous treatment of American citizens in some of the Southern States as tending to corrupt good government, and contrary to the spirit of the Constitution of the U. S., and indorses Harrison Administration and Minneapolis platWISCONSIN DEMOCRATIC, May 4.

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TARIFF.-"Unnecessary taxation is unjust taxation, and therefore we reaffirm the oft-asserted doctrine that there should be no tariff except for revenue."

SILVER. "We maintain that the true interests of the people demand sound, honest and stable money composed of, or based on and redeemable in gold and silver coin of equal intrinsic value. We therefore oppose the project of unlimited coinage of silver dollars of less commercial value than gold dollars as unDemocratic, dishonest and specially hurtful to the farmers and laboring classes, the first and most defenseless victims of unstable money and ductuating currency. We denounce the Republican legislation on this subject, more particularly the Sherman act of 1890, as a cowardly makeshift and an inexcusable waste of the national resources in the purchase and storage of tons of bullion per day, and as a menace to the maintenance of a sound and stable currency; and we demand the repeal of this act. We heartily cominend the action of those Democratic representatives in Confrom this State who have opposed all measures for silver coinage on 3 false basis."

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EDUCATION.-Opposes State interference with parental rights and rights of conscience in the education of children, as an infringement of the fundamental Democratic doctrine that the largest individual liberty consistent with the rights of others in ures the highest type of American citizens and the best government. MISCELLANEOUS.-Praises Mr. Cleveland and instructs Chicago delegates to act as a unit; opposes sumptuary laws and praises Democratic State government.

WISCONSIN DEMOCRATIC, August 31.

EDUCATION.-"The Bennett law has been repealed and the Democrats of Wisconsin have shown their loyalty to the cause of popular education in practical form by adding over $100,000 to the school-fund income and by increasing the appropriations to the State University over $65,000 a year for the next six years."

MISCELLANEOUS.-Opposes sumptuary laws and pledges the Democratic party anew to continued honesty and economy, and indorses Chicago platform and candidates.

WISCONSIN PEOPLE'S PARTY, March 30.

Indorses resolutions adopted at the St. Louis conference, demanding free and unlimited coinage of silver, graduated income tax, postal sa vings banks and Government ownership of railroads and telegraph and telephone lines, and demands that evidence of indebtedness shall be taxed and shall not draw interest unless shown to be duly assessed; that board of trade gambling be suppressed and laws enacted to prohibit combinations to control the markets; asks Wisconsin Representatives in Congress to support the passage of an anti-option bill at the present session, and favors woman suffrage.

WYOMING REPUBLICAN, May 4.

Reiterates devotion to Protection; opposes strenuously importation of servile labor; favors liberal pensions; declares that "the money of the country should be founded on both gold and silver, and this result may be achieved by wise and timely legislation and international conference, tending to the restoration of silver, not only as money of the Nation, but as current coin of the civilized world"; demands the enforcement of the law among all, of whatever rank or condition in life; pledges the party to every means and influence in its power to protect life and property in every section of the State; hails with pleasure the presence of ladies in the convention as accredited delegates; invites the women of the State to participate in the party conventions, and praises Harrison's Administration.

WYOMING REPUBLICAN, September 14.

TARIFF.-"We indorse the McKinley bill, which has given a new impetus to Amer ican industries; the Blaine Reciprocity measures, which have opened to the U. S. the markets of the world and brought our exports up to more than $1,000,000,000 per an num: we are opposed to the Democratic schemes of foreing American workingmen to compete with the cheap labor of Europe and Asia by admitting the products of such labor free; of repealing our reciprocity treaties, and closing the markets of the world to our produce for the benefit of other nations."

STATE BANKS.-"We oppose restoring the old wildcat banking system of antebellum days and again flooding our country with worthless money."

LAND.-Favors gession of the arid lands to the State, subject to the homestead laws, with such legislation as will secure maximum benefits to the people and prevent ac

cumulation of land in large tracts in the hands of single individuals or corporations, and with power to lease the same in small tracts to actual settlers; and denounces Democratic proposition to maintain such lands forever as an open common, as making their use and occupancy a constant cause of conflict and contention between our citizens.

MISCELLANEOUS.-Opposes class legislation, favors equal and exact enforce. ment of laws, establishment of Bureau of Labor and Arbitration, and approves Harrison Administration and Minneapolis platform.

WYOMING DEMOCRATIC, April 15.

"We arraign the National Republican party for its pursuance of a ruinous public policy, detrimental to the general welfare of the great laboring and producing masses of the people of the United States, and we especially charge that it has degenerated into a vast commercial combine, using the lawmaking and executive branches of the Government to create and foster favored classes and monopolists, thereby enriching these classes until their enormous wealth threatens the purity and stability of republican institutions. And on the other hand, by its grinding exactions and discriminations it is impoverishing the masses of the common people of the Nation. We denounce the appropriations of the LIst Congress as a reckless and extravagant expenditure of public money and we demand strict economy in the management of Governmental affairs."

ELECTION OF U. S. SENATORS, 1892.

LOUISIANA.

No Senator was elected by the Legisla ture of 1892 to succeed the Hon. Randall L. Gibson (Dem.), whose term will expire March 3, 1895. As this legislature was elected for four years, the choice of a Senator has gone over till the next regular session of it. May 24, 1892, the first ballot was taken, and was as follows: SenateGibson 9, Benjamin F. Jonas 11, Newton C. Blanchard 4, T. S. Adams 4, J. Caffery 4, absent 3, excused from voting 1. House Gibson 17, Jonas 33, Blanchard 9, Adams 23, Caffery 10, Bourgeois 4, Mahoney 1, absent 3. May 25 the vote in joint convention was: Jonas 44, Adams 26, Gitson 23, Caffery 17, Blanchard 13, Bourgeois 5, absent and excused 6.

June 27-A Democratic caucus decided to postpone the election of Senator till next year, but to ballot daily till adjournment. On the last day, July 7, the vote was scattered. Νο one received over 14 votes. Grover Cleveland received one vote.

1892, January 21.-Hon. Charles H. Gibson (Dem.) was chosen to fill the va cancy caused by the death of Ephraim K. Wilson (Dem.), term to expire March 3, 1897. The vote in each house, January 19, was: Senate-John B. Brown 2, John S. Wirt 5, John Walter Smith 4, Elihu E. Jackson 3, James A. Pearce 3, Levin L. Waters 2, Thomas G. Hayes 1, Geo. M. Russum (Rep.) 2, William J. Vannort (Rep.)_1. House of DelegatesC. H. Gibson 7, John B. Brown 8, Robert M. McLane 16, Elihu E. Jackson 14. John S. Wirt 10, J. Waiter Smith 12, James Alfred Pearce 8, Barnes Compton 1, Janes Hodges 1, Bernard Carter, 1. W. A. Foster 1, W. J. Vannort (Rep.) 6, absent 5.

1892, January 19.-Hon. James Z. George (Dem.) was re-elected for six years from March 3, 1893. The vote was: Senate-George 24, Ethelbert Barksdale (All. Dem.) 13. House-George 77, Barksdale 40, James L. Alcorn (Rep.) 1. (Two colored members voted for George and one for Alcorn.)

1892, January 19.-Hon. Edward C. Walthall (Dem.) was re-elected for six years from March 3, 1895. The vote was: Senate-Walthall 36, Clarke Lewis (All. Dem.) 3, Charles E. Hooker (Dem.) 1. House-Walthall 99, Lewis 18, Hooker 3.

(Pending the vote on Senator in the House, a resolution, aimed at Senator George, who had declared that he would not vote for the Sub-Treasury scheme, was referred to 72, a committee-yeas nays 46.)

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1892, January 12.-Hon. John Sherman (Rep.) was re-elected for six years from March 3, 1893. The vote was: Senate

LEVI P. MORTON, of New York, Vice-President and President of the Senate.
ANSON G. MCCOOK, of New York, Secretary.

[Republicans (in Roman), 47; Democrats (in Italic). 39; Independents (in SMALL CAPS), 2;

total, 88.]

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Qualified January 5, 1892, under Executive appointment, to succeed Hon. Preston B. Plumb, died December 20, 1891.