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NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



uncom- 

 this Conven- 



tant than any or all others, and the legal prohibition 

 of the liquor-traific as a most efficient means of pro- 

 moting temperance ; and whereas our independence 

 was achieved and our Government founded through 

 the privations, sufferings, and patriotism of our fathers, 

 and is only to be maintained by emulating their pa- 

 triotism and their virtues, and adhering to their time- 

 honored and wise counsel : therefore, 



Resolved, That we still hold fast upon the principles 

 of the founders of this Government, that temperance, 

 morality, and the impartial enforcement of our laAvs 

 are the guardians of our civil and religious liberties. 



Resolved, That we strongly commend and concur in 

 the declaration of Washington that our laws, State 

 and national, should be impartially sustained, and 

 that all opposition to the executive and proper author- 

 ities in the discharge of their duties, coming from 

 whatever pretext or from whatever source, should be 

 frowned upon as unpatriotic and dangerous in its in- 

 fluence upon the perpetuity of a free government. 



Resolved, That we desire that the laws of this State 

 should be so amended as to prohibit the manufacture 

 of all distilled and fermented liquors. 



Resolved, That we demand the repeal of the local- 

 option law in relation to lager-beer, and an enactment 

 declaring lager-beer and all malt-liquors intoxicating. 



Resolved, That having no evidence or belief that 

 the leaders of either of the old parties have the desire 

 or intention to enforce the prohibitory law, we there- 

 fore deem it necessary to make and support inde- 

 pendent prohibitory nominations for State and other 

 officers, while fully endorsing and supporting the 

 nomination of Neal Dow and H. A. Thompson for 

 President and Vice-President. 



Resolved, That we pledge our hearty and i 

 promising support to the nominees of this C 

 tion. 



Resolved, That we recommend and desire the par- 

 clon of Thomas E. Drake from the State Prison, as 

 demanded in the interests of law, temperance, and 

 justice. 



The Greenbackers, so called, held their State 

 Convention at Manchester, on October 6th, 

 when they adopted a platform declaring their 

 views, and nominated a full ticket for the sev- 

 eral officers, as follows: 



For Governor : Warren L. Brown, of White- 

 field. State Councilors: First District, O.L. Gid- 

 dings, of Exeter; Second District, D. M. Clough, 

 of Canterbury ; Third District, Peter Woodman, 

 of Manchester ; Fourth District, John Norwood, 

 of Richmond ; Fifth District, H. L. Colbath, of 

 Barnstead. Rail road Commissioners: Nathaniel 

 Wiggin, of Greenland ; and John D. Emery, of 

 Manchester. 



Of the third candidate for Railroad Commis- 

 sioner, the Convention intrusted the nomina- 

 tion to the Executive Committee. 



For Congressmen : First District, Lafayette 

 Chesley, of Chester ; Second District, John D. 

 Woodbury, of Manchester ; Third District, Dud- 

 ley F. Chase, of Claremont. Presidential elec- 

 tors : Lafayette Moore, of Northumberland ; 

 G. J. Greenleaf, of Portsmouth ; P. B. Holmes, 

 of Greenland ; D. 0. Whittemore, of Manches- 

 ter ; and E. M. Blodgett, of Wentworth. 



The election, on November 2d, proved favor- 

 able to the Republicans, whose nominees for 

 almost all the offices voted upon in State and 

 local elections were elected by considerable 

 majorities over their Democratic competitors. 

 Besides the Governor, they had their candidates 

 elected for Presidential electors ; for the three 



seats of New Hampshire in the Lower House 

 of Congress; for the three Railroad Commis- 

 sioners ; and for four among the five State 

 Councilors, one of the Council districts hav- 

 ing returned a Democrat. 



As to members of the State Legislature for 

 the next session, the proportional numbers 

 elected by the two parties in either House were 

 as follows : In the Senate, 16 Republicans and 

 8 Democrats. In the House of Representatives, 

 179 Republicans and 114 Democrats; which 

 gives the Republicans a majority of 73 on joint 

 ballot. 



The aggregate number of votes polled in the 

 State for President this year exceeded by 193 

 that for Governor, which was 86,050. Of 

 these, Mr. Bell had 44,376, Mr. Jones 40,796 ; 

 the remaining 878 votes were reckoned as scat- 

 tering. 



Evarts W. Farr, the member of Congress 

 from New Hampshire's Third District, who was 

 also elected on November 2d, to continue in 

 his seat for the next term, having departed this 

 life on November 30th, the Governor, on De- 

 cember 3d, issued a precept ordering a special 

 election to be held in that district on December 

 28th, "for the choice, by ballot, first, of a 

 representative for the unexpired term in the 

 Forty-sixth Congress, to fill the vacancy oc- 

 casioned by the death of the late member, 

 Evarts W. Farr," and " second, of a represent- 

 ative in the Forty-seventh Congress, for the 

 term commencing on March 4, 1881." At 

 this special election, the competing candidates, 

 nominated by the opposite parties in the inter- 

 val, were : Ray, of Lancaster, Republican, and 

 J. D. Hosley, of West Lebanon, Democrat, with 

 the result that Mr. Ray was elected by a ma- 

 jority of nearly 5,000 votes over Mr. Hosley. 



From the tenth decennial census of New 

 Hampshire, it appears that her aggregate popu- 

 lation in 1880 is 347,311 (the tables of the Unit- 

 ed States census fix it at 347,784), showing an 

 increase of 28,961 since 1870, when it was 318,- 

 350. Not a few of her towns have considera- 

 bly lost in the number of their respective resi- 

 dents during the last decade, Avhile many others 

 have more considerably gained. Concord in 

 1870 had 12,241 inhabitants ; their number in 

 1880 is 13,849 which increase, in the appor- 

 tionment of town representation in the Legis- 

 lature to be adjusted on the basis of the present 

 census, entitles Concord to two representatives 

 more than formerly. Manchester has gained 

 enough in population during the ten years last 

 past to add seven members to her representa- 

 tion in that body. 



The Railroad Commissioners of New Hamp- 

 shire, in their report for the year 1879-'80, 

 which is the thirty-sixth annual report of that 

 Board, state the business of her railways to 

 have " improved during the year in proportion 

 to the general prosperity." Besides the dis- 

 cussions and recommendations on other matters 

 connected with railroad management, and their 

 prudent regulation by legislative enactments, 



