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ALABAMA. 



ALCOTT, AMOS BRONSON. 



N. F. Thompson; Superintendent of Educa- 

 tion, M. 0. Denson. 



A platform was adopted demanding, in ad- 

 dition to prohibition, national aid to education, 

 a residence of twenty-one years by foreigners 

 before voting, better election laws, and the 

 abolition of the internal-revenue system. 



On May 9 the Democratic Convention met 

 at Montgomery, and nominated the following 

 candidates: Governor, Thomas Seay ; Secre- 

 tary of State, C. 0. Langdon ; Treasurer, John 

 L. Oobbs: Auditor, Cyrus D. Hogue; At- 

 torney-General, Thomas N. McClellan ; Super- 

 intendent of Education, Solomon Palmer. 



Brief resolutions were adopted as follow : 



That the firmness, ability, and statesmanship dis- 

 played by President Cleveland in the administration 

 of his high office entitle him to the confidence and 

 support of his fellow-citizens. That we indorse and 

 approve his administration, and especially his action 

 and efforts to make a reform and reduction of the 

 tariff, and we believe that the interests of the country 

 demand his re-election, and to that end pur delegates 

 to the National Convention arc hereby instructed to 

 vote for his nomination. 



That we arc unalterably opposed to the present 

 war tariff. We demand reform of the tariflt and a 

 reduction of the surplus in the Treasury by a reduc- 

 iton of tariff taxation. 



That we indorse the administration of Gov. Seay, 

 which has been so eminently satisfactory to the whole 

 people of, Alabama. 



That we favor a liberal appropriation for public 

 schools, in order that the means of acquiring a knowl- 

 edge of the rudiments of education may be afforded 

 to every child in the State. 



That we favor the encouragement of immigration 

 to this State ; and to that end we recommend such 

 wise and judicious legislation by the General Assem- 

 bly as will best accomplish that result. 



The Republican State Convention met at 

 Montgomery, May 16, and nominated the fol- 

 lowing ticket: Governor, W. T. Ewing; Secre- 

 tary of State, J. J. Woodall ; Auditor, R. S. 

 Heflin; Attorney-General, George H. Craig; 

 Treasurer, Sam T. Fowler: Superintendent of 

 Education, J. M. Clark. This ticket was con- 

 siderably changed before the election, Robert P. 

 Baker being the candidate for Secretary of 

 State, Napoleon B. Mardis for Attorney-Gen- 

 eral, and Lemuel J.Standifer for Superintendent 

 of Education. The following resolutions were 

 passed : 



That while we depreciate all sectional issues and 

 wish for harmony between all the citizens of our great 

 country, we demand as the legal and constitutional 

 right of the people that the exercise of the right of 

 suffrage shall be full and untrammeled, and that the 

 ballot shall be counted and returned as cast in all 

 sections of this great republic, and to help secure this 

 end we favor a national law to regulate the election of 

 members of Congress and Presidential electors, and 

 demand that the election laws of Alabama be so 

 amended as to hinder fraud and not encourage it. 



That we condemn President Cleveland's tariff mes- 

 sage and the Mills tariff bill as tending toward free 

 trade and to the destruction of American industries 

 and to the degradation of American labor to the serv- 

 ile condition of European labor, and we favor liberal 

 protection to all American industries and labor. 



That we condemn Senator Morgan's declaration that 

 the vast mineral wealth of Alabama is a "doubtful 

 blessing," because it tends to increase the laboring- 



man's wages^ as hostile to labor, which is the great 

 foundation of human progress and. wealth. 



That we favor national aid for the education of the 

 children of the republic, and therefore indorse the 

 Blair Bill. 



That we favor civil-service reform, and condemn 

 President Cleveland's wholesale removal from office 

 for party reasons, while professing to be in iavor of 

 civil-service reform. 



That we favor the entire abolition of the internal- 

 revenue system. 



That w'e opposej now as heretofore, the present 

 convict system of Alabama as brutal, and because it 

 brings convict labor into competition with honest free' 

 labor. 



At the election, August 6, the Democratic 

 ticket received its usual large majority. The 

 Legislature elected is overwhelmingly Demo- 

 cratic, 32 out of 33 Senators and 91 out of 100 

 members of the House being Democratic. An 

 amendment to the State Constitution, designed 

 to reduce the amount of local and special legis- 

 lation demanded at each legislative session, 

 failed of adoption, receiving fewer than 50,000 

 votes out of a total poll of over 180,000. At 

 the November election a Democratic delegation 

 to the national House of Representatives was 

 chosen. The Democratic presidential ticket 

 received 117,310 votes ; the Republican, 57,197 ; 

 the Prohibition, 583. 



ALCOTT, AMOS BROi\SON, educator, born in 

 Wolcott, Conn., Nov. 29, 1799 ; died in Boston, 

 Mass., March 4, 1888. The family arms was 

 granted to Thomas Alcocke in 1016, and the 

 first of the name appearing in English history 

 is John Alcccke, who, after receiving the de- 

 gree of doctor of divinity at Cambridge, be- 

 came Bishop ot Ely, and was preferred Lord- 



AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT. 



Chancellor of England by Henry VII. He 

 transformed the old nunnery of St. Radigund 

 in Cambridge to a new college called Jesus. 

 Alcocke was "given to learning and piety from 

 childhood, growing from grace to grace, so that 

 in his age were none in England higher for ho- 

 liness." Thomas and George Alcocke came 

 to New England with Winthrop's company in 



