MASSACHUSETTS. 



MELIKOFF, COUNT LORIS. 521 



We demand now, as alwavs, the most liberal treat- 

 ment of Union veterans, and of the widows and fami- 

 lies of those of them who are dead ; and promise pur 

 support to all well-considered laws for the promotion 

 of temperance, and announce our hostility at the same 

 time to prohibitory legislation as violating the cardi- 

 nal democratic doctrine of personal liberty. 



The Republican Convention met in Boston 

 one week later, and renoiuinated the existing 

 State officials, except Treasurer Beard, who 

 had refused to be a candidate for re-election. 

 George A. Marden was nominated as his suc- 

 cessor. 



Resolutions were adopted favoring protec- 

 tion, condemning the system of undervalua- 

 tion and false invoicing of imported goods, and 

 recommending, as a means of checking this 

 evil, the imposition of specific duties wherever 

 practicable, instead of the present ad-valorem 

 duty. Other resolutions were as follow : 



We approve the action of the Legislature, and re- 

 peat the resolution of the Republican Convention of 

 last year, " That, believing that the great question 

 has reached a position where it demands settlement, 

 we favor the submission to the people of an amend- 

 ment to our Constitution prohibiting the manufacture 

 and sale of alcoholic liquors as a beverage." and, in 

 order to accomplish this, we call upon all who are op- 

 posed to the political control of the grog-shop to unite 

 with the Republican party in securing the election of 

 Senators and Representatives who will vote for the 

 submission of this amendment, and further legislation 

 in accord with this declaration of principles. 



We pledge ourselves to such wise expenditures for 

 the public schools as to render them the best places 

 for tne instruction of our youth, and to steady re?i>t- 

 ance to any plan of public aid to sectarian schools. 

 We believe" in the equal rights of all men under the 

 law ; in the same restrictive legislation for monopolies, 

 corporations, and trusts of every description as govern 

 and control the humblest citizen ; in the immediate 

 reform and better enforcement of the immigration and 

 naturalization laws ; in an honest ballot the country 

 over, as the only interpretation of the popular will ; 

 in an impartial suffrage ; in the payment of every 

 honest debt of the Government, wherever contracted ; 

 in an honest, liberal, and just pension law, embodying 

 in statute the generous gratitude of a warm-hearted 

 people to the veteran soldier ; in the exemption of the 

 civil service from partisan spoliation. To the solution 

 of these great questions, in which they will bear so 

 large a part, we welcome the young men of this State 

 to an increasing share in the "honors and responsibili- 

 ties which citizenship ought to confer. 



We thus heartily approve and most cordially com- 

 mend the platform adopted by the national Republi- 

 can party at its national convention in Chicas". in 

 June of this year, and pledge our earnest support to 

 the national candidates of the party. 



The nominees of the Prohibition party, which 

 held its convention at Worcester, on the same 

 date as that of its Republican opponents, were : 

 For Governor, William H. Earle ; Lieutenant- 

 Governor, John Bascom ; Secretary of State, 

 Henry C. Smith ; Treasurer and Receiver-Gen- 

 eral, John M. Fisher; Auditor, Edmund M. 

 Stowe; Attorney-General, Allen Coffin. The 

 most important portion of its platform is as 

 follows : 



It has been found in the experience of our courts 

 that the mingling of civil and criminal business in the 

 hands of district attorneys, and the making of these 

 offices elective, operate to the disadvantage of the com- 

 monwealth. We therefore demand that said officers 



be appointed by the judges of the Supreme Court, and 

 be required on entering upon duty to relinquish all 

 civil business and devote themselves exclusively to 

 the interests of the State. 



We demand the unconditional abandonment of rev- . 

 enue, municipal, State, and national, from the manu- 

 facture and sale of intoxicating drinks, not with refer- 

 ence to the surplus in the Treasury, nor for the relief 

 of the liquor manufacturer, dealer, or drinker, but for 

 the readier suppression of the traffic, and to put an 

 end to the political scandal of deriving a revenue from 

 the poverty, degradation, and vices of the people. 



\\ e demand the preservation of our free public- 

 school system in all its integrity ; reform in the civil 

 service; suppression of polygamy ; the establishment 

 of uniform laws governing marriage and divorce ; a 

 more generous and just distribution of the prod< 

 labor ; arbitration as a means of settling international 

 strife and local business difficulties between employers 

 and employed ; the preservation and defense of one 

 day in seven as a day of worship and spiritual eleva- 

 tion j the improvement and better enforcement of our 

 immigration laws ; just and liberal provision for our 

 surviving soldiers and families ; the penalty of dis- 

 franehisement for buying or selling votes ; tli e reser- 

 vation of the public lands for actual settlers ; the 

 sacred fulfillment of our treaty stipulations with the 

 Indian races ; equal wag^es to men and women for 

 equal service ; the prohibition of trusts and combina- 

 tions of capital to enhance prices on articles of popular 

 consumption; and more than all, and above all, the 

 utter destruction of the saloon, by which the laborer 

 is robbed of his earnings, and is morally, physically, 

 and socially burdened. 



There was also a Labor ticket, with Charles 

 E. Mark*, the candidate of last year, at its 

 head. At the election in November Ames 

 received for Governor 180,849 votes; Russell, 

 1.V2.780; Earle, 9,374; Marks and others. 111. 

 Russell ran about 3.000 votes ahead of his 

 ticket. There were 33 Republicans and 7 

 Democrats elected to the State Senate, and 181 

 Republicans, 58 Democrats, and 1 Independent 

 to the House. Ten Republican and 2 Demo- 

 cratic Congressmen were chosen. 



Municipal Elettions. Nineteen of the twenty- 

 five cities of the State held their annual elec- 

 tion on Tuesday, December 4. Party lines were 

 not strictly drawn in most cases, the license 

 question being of paramount interest. Twelve 

 cities voted in favor of license, and seven 

 against it. In 1887 ten voted for license and 

 nine against it. One week later Boston and 

 the five remaining cities held their election, all 

 of them voting for license, as in 1887. In 

 Boston, Thomas X. Hart, the nominee of the 

 Republicans, was elected over Mayor O'Brien 

 by a majority of 1,876, in a total vote of 63,548. 

 The majority for license was 17.915. 



MELIKOFF, Count LORIS, a Russian general 

 born in 1826 ; died in Nice, France, Dec. 24, 

 1888. He was one of the numerous Armeni- 

 ans that joined Gen. Paskievich's army in the 

 Caucasus, obtaining his first commission in 

 1843. He participated in several expeditions 

 against the mountain tribes, and gained his first 

 decoration for gallantry in 1848. He rose rap- 

 idly, served under Gen. Mouravieff in the Cri- 

 mean war, and attained the rank of major- 

 general on being appointed Russian Governor 

 of Ears, having taken part in the capture of 

 that stronghold. In 1865, when the pacifica- 



