NORTH CAROLINA. 



NOVA SCOTIA. 



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this year at Raleigh, August 21. It brought 

 together over one hundred delegates, represent- 

 ing nearly all the Southern States. Resolu- 

 tions denouncing " trusts," asking for a repeal 

 of the tariff on jute, and bespeaking encour- 

 agement for sheep-raising, were discussed and 

 Bed. 



Political. The Republican State Convention 

 met at Raleigh on May 23, and nominated a 

 complete State ticket as follows : For Gov- 

 ernor, Oliver H. Dockery ; Lieutenant-Gov- 

 ernor, J. C. Pritchard; Secretary of State, 

 George W. Staunton; Treasurer, G. A. Bing- 

 ham ; Auditor, C. F. McKesson : Attorney- 

 General, Thomas P. Deveretix; Superintend- 

 ent of Public Instruction, James D. Mason; 

 Judges of the Supreme Court, D. L. Russell, to 

 succeed to the vacancy caused by the death of 

 Judge Ashe, and Ralph B. Buxton and David 

 M. Porches as the two Associate Judges pro- 

 vided for by the proposed -constitutional 

 amendment to be submitted to the people at 

 the November election. The following reso- 

 lutions, among others, were adopted: 



We look upon the purity of the ballot-box as the 

 best possible security against threatening evils, and 

 we demand such reasonable State legislation as will 

 fully protect the elector in the exercise of the elective 

 franchise. Any denial of the free and just exercise of 

 the elective franchise by fraud or violence poisons the 

 springs of power. 



As the means of preventingr any further accumula- 

 tion [of surplus in the United ?tates Treasury] we de- 

 mand the repeal of the internal-revenue system of 

 taxation, and the passage of the Blair educational bill, 

 as the best method of public education and of distrib- 

 uting the already accumulated surplus in the Treasury. 



We are opposed to the present system of county 

 government, and we demand the election of all county 

 and township officers by the people. 



W, oppose the present system of hiring out convicts 

 by the State, so as to bring other labor in competition 

 with free labor. 



The Democratic State Convention convened 

 at Raleigh on May 30. There were three prin- 

 cipal candidates for the gubernatorial nomina- 

 tion, Lieut.-Gov. Stedman, Daniel G. Fowle, 

 and S. B. Alexander, each of whom received 

 on the first ballot the following vote : Fowle, 

 374: Stedman, 331; Alexander. 245. Fowle 

 was nominated on the twenty-third ballot by a 

 vote of .V23 to 4-35 for Stednrm. The conven- 

 tion thereupon nominated Alexander for Lieu- 

 tenant-Governor, but, upon his declining to ac- 

 cept the nomination, chose Thomas M. Holt. 

 Secretary of State Saunders, Treasurer Bain, 

 Attorney-General Davidson, and Superintend- 

 ent of Public Instruction Finger were renomi- 

 nated. For Auditor, George W. Sanderlin 

 was nominated : for Judge of the Supreme 

 Court, to succeed Judge Ashe, Joseph J. Davis, 

 and as additional judges, in case the constitu- 

 tional amendment should be adopted, James 

 E. Shepherd and Alphonso C. Avery. The 

 platform approves the administration of Gov. 

 Scales and President Cleveland, favors a tariff 

 for revenue only, and contains the following: 



That we, as heretofore, favor, and will never cease 

 to demand, the unconditional abolition of the whole 



internal-revenue system as a war tax not to be justi- 

 fied in times of peace, as a grievous burden to our 

 people and a source of annoy;. ; Tactical oi>- 



erations. We call the attention of the people of the 

 .State to the hypocritical pretensions of the Republican 

 party in their platforms that they are in favor of the 

 repeal of this onerous .-ystt-ni of taxation enacted by 

 their party while the "Republicans in Congr. 

 taxinir their energies to obstruct all legislation inau- 

 gurated by the representatives of tbe Democratic 

 party to relieve the people of all or a part of this odi- 

 ous sy>tem. 



That to meet an existing evil we will accept for 

 educational purposes from the Federal Government 

 our pro^rata share of the surplus in its Treasury ; 

 Provided, that it be disbursed through State agents 

 and the bill for the distribution be free from objec- 

 tionable features. 



That it is due to the people of our eastern counties, 

 who have so cheerfully borne their share of our com- 

 mon burdens, that the present or some equallv effect- 

 ive system of county government shall be maintained. 



The Prohibition party also nominated a 

 State ticket, with William T. Walker for Gov- 

 ernor, Moses Hammond for Secretary of State, 

 Hugh W. Dixon for Treasurer, James W. Win- 

 stead for Auditor, John W. Moody for Attorney- 

 General, and Robert T. Bonner for Superin- 

 tendent of Public Instruction. Before the 

 election the name of W. A. Guthrie was sub- 

 stituted on the Republican ticket for that of 

 D. L. Russell, the latter having declined the 

 nomination. The November election resulted 

 in the usual Democratic victory for both State 

 and national tickets. For Governor, Fowle 

 received 147.925 votes; Dockery, 133.475: 

 and Walker, 3.116. Members of the Legislat- 

 ure of 1889 were elected as follow : Senate 

 Democrats, 37; Republicans, 13. House 

 Democrats, 83; Republicans, 35; Independ- 

 ents. 2. Democratic Congressmen were, elected 

 in the First, Third, Fourth, Sixth, Seventh, 

 and Eighth Districts, and Republicans in the 

 Second, Fifth, and Ninth, a gain of one seat 

 by the Republicans. At the same election the 

 constitutional amendment increasing the num- 

 ber of judges of the Supreme Court from three 

 to five was adopted by 121,961 to 29,393. 



XOVA SCOTIA. There were no changes in the 

 Executive Government of the Province of 

 Nova Scotia during 1888. 



Legislation. The session of the Provincial 

 Legislature in 1888 was characterized by the 

 _e of several statutes of great local im- 

 portance. The Towns Incorporation act is a 

 measure to provide for the local government of 

 all towns already incorporated within the prov- 

 ince, and for the incorporation of other towns, 

 without necessity for special legislation. Its 

 principal provisions are as follows: 'When 

 fifty of the rate-payers of any unincorpo- 

 rated district desire incorporation, they may 

 hand to the sheriff of the county a requisition 

 for an election to test the sentiment of the dis- 

 trict. On receipt of thi~. the sheriff shall pro- 

 ceed to define the boundaries of the proposed 

 town ; but on the application often rate-payers 

 in the district the sheriff's conclusions in this 

 regard will be reviewed by the Lieutenant- 



