UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. (Mi< HM.AX.) 



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towns over that if the town appropriates an 

 equal amount over and above its average road 

 expenditure. 



Appropriating $25,000 annually for ten years 

 for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 



Forbidding manufacture or sale of cloth or 

 paper containing arsenic. 



The Legislature was prorogued June 19, to 

 meet again Nov. 13, for the purpose of consid- 

 ering such revision of the statutes as should be 

 suggested by a special committee of 50. 



At the special session the report of the com- 

 mittee was accepted, and provision was made for 

 printing 7,500 copies of the Revised Statutes. 



Resolutions expressing sorrow at the death of 

 President McKinley were adopted unanimously 

 by rising vote, Nov. 20. 



Political. The State election took place Nov. 

 5. Tickets were nominated by the Republican, 

 Democratic, Democratic-Social, Socialist-Labor, 

 and Prohibition parties. 



The Democratic convention met in Boston Oct. 

 3, and nominated Josiah Quincy for Governor. 

 The other nominations were: For Lieutenant- 

 Go vernor, John W. Coughlin; Secretary of State, 

 Willmore B. Stone; Treasurer, Joseph I. Chali- 

 foux; Auditor, James F. Dean; Attorney-General, 

 A. A. Putnam. 



The opening sentences of the platform ex- 

 pressed sorrow for the death of the President, 

 and denounced anarchy. A declaration favoring 

 election of United States Senators by direct vote 

 of the people was made, and the following: 



" We are not only absolutely opposed to colo- 

 nial imperialism abroad and to the commercial- 

 ism reckless of everything but its own profit 

 which supports it, but to every manifestation of 

 the same reactionary and antidemocratic spirit 

 at home. 



" We demand that the efforts of our Govern- 

 ment shall be directed toward preparing the peo- 

 ple of the Philippines for the speediest and largest 

 measure of self-government and for ultimate in- 

 dependence, under the protection of this country. 



" We heartily indorse the broad statesmanship 

 of President McKinley's speech at Buffalo. The 

 people of Cuba, for whose welfare we have made 

 ourselves trustees, are plainly entitled to the most 

 liberal commercial arrangement with this coun- 

 try. 



"All tariff duties upon articles produced by 

 trusts which stifle competition at home or which 

 favor the foreign at the expense of the American 

 consumer, should be abolished. 



" We urge, among other things, the admission 

 into this country free of duty of all articles enter- 

 ing into the construction and repairs of ships." 



The Republican convention, at Boston, Oct. 4, 

 renominated Gov. Crane and most of the other 

 State officers. The ticket was: For Governor, 

 Winthrop Murray Crane; Lieutenant-Governor, 

 John L. Bates; Secretary of the Commonwealth, 

 William L. Olin; Treasurer and Receiver-General, 

 Edward S. Bradford; Auditor, Henry E. Turner; 

 Attorney-General, Herbert Parker. 



The platform expresses sorrow for the death of 

 President McKinley and pledges " loyal and un- 

 faltering support" to his successor; declares that 

 the operation of mob law, which is the most 

 flagrant form of anarchism, should be suppressed; 

 that special penalties should be provided for those 

 who shall murder, assault, or threaten the life of 

 the President or the Vice-President ; that the regu- 

 lation of the hours of labor should be a national 

 affair and in the hands of Congress. It reasserts 

 the principle of protection of American labor by 

 a protective tariff, and declares that " reciprocity 



of trade with foreign foun1ries is 710! innonaistent 

 with an adequate measure of protect ive duties 

 to American interest.-,.' On home jillaiii the 

 platform calls for the improvement, of Boston 

 harbor; suggests that,, in the use ol hi-jlivvays by 

 corporations, either an initial. |>.i vim-nt. or a con- 

 tinuing tax should be required; ;i n 1 r< 'omim:n<U 

 the "careful consideration of a pro m of 



initiative and referendum in question-, of local 

 interest." 



The candidates of the Prohibition party wore: 

 For Governor, John B. Lewis; Lieutenant (iov- 

 ernor, William H. Partridge; Secretary, Fre.leriek 

 W. Clark; Treasurer, George E. Batchdder; Audi- 

 tor, John H. Smith; Attorney-General. Allen 

 Coffin. 



The Democratic-Socialist party made the fol- 

 lowing nominations: For Governor, George H. 

 Wrenn; Lieutenant-Governor, Charles W. White; 

 Secretary, Alonzo H. Dennett ; Treasurer, Wendell 

 P. Bosworth; Auditor, Frank Thompson; Attor- 

 ney-General, Clarence E. Spelman. 



The Socialist-Labor party named for Governor, 

 M. T. Berry; Lieutenant-Governor, Alfred E. 

 Jones; Secretary, Jeremiah O'Fihelly; Treasurer, 

 Frederick A. Nagler; Auditor, Frank Keefe; At- 

 torney-General, John T. Hargraves. 



The Republican candidates were elected. For 

 Governor the vote stood: Crane, Republican, 

 185,809; Quincy, Democrat, 114,362; Lewis, Pro- 

 hibitionist, 4,780; Wrenn, Democratic-Socialist, 

 10,671; Berry, Socialist-Labor, 8,898; scatter- 

 ing, 6. 



The executive councilors elected were all Re- 

 publicans except Jeremiah J. McNamara, Demo- 

 crat, elected in the Fourth District, in Boston, by 

 a plurality of 10,586. The Republicans elected 

 were David F. Slade, Arthur A. Maxwell, Henry 

 D. Yerxa, David I. Robinson, S. Herbert Howe, 

 Lucius Field, Julius H. Appleton. 



At the city elections in December, Boston 

 elected a Democratic mayor, Patrick A. Collins. 

 Other cities that chose Democratic mayors were 

 Cambridge, Lowell, Woburn, Pittsfield, and Law- 

 rence. Independents were elected in Fitchburg, 

 Quincy, Beverly, and Newburyport. No mayor 

 was elected in Medford, and in the remaining 21 

 cities Republican candidates were successful. 

 Nineteen of the cities voted for license. 



MICHIGAN, a Western State, admitted to 

 the Union Jan. 26, 1837; area, 58,915 square 

 miles. The population, according to each decen- 

 nial census since admission, was 212,267 in 1840; 

 397,654 in 1850; 749,113 in 1860; l,184,059un 1870; 

 1,636,937 in 1880; 2,093,889 in 1890; and 2,420,982 

 in 1900. Capital, Lansing. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers in 1901: Governor, Aaron T. Bliss; Lieu- 

 tenant-Govefnor, Orrin W. Robinson; Secretary 

 of State, Fred. M. Warner; Treasurer, Daniel 

 McCoy; Auditor, Perry F. Powers; Attorney- 

 General, Horace M. Oren; Superintendent of Pub- 

 lic Instruction, Delos Fall ; Commissioner of State 

 Land Office, E. A. Wildey; Adjutant-General, 

 George H. Brown; Labor Commissioner, Scott 

 Griswold; Bank Commissioner, George L. Maltz; 

 Insurance Commissioner, James V. Barry; Rail- 

 road Commissioner, Chase S. Osborne; Food Com- 

 missioner, W. E. Snow; Salt Inspector, F. P. 

 Dunwell; Commissioner of Mineral Statistics, 

 T. A. Hanna; President State Board of Health, 

 Frank A. Wells; Tax Commission, James C. Mc- 

 Laughlin, A. F. Freeman, William T. Dust, Ira 

 T. Sayre, Graham Pope; Coal-Mine Inspector, 

 Charles Atwood; Game Warden, Grant M. Morse; 

 Secretary Board of Charities. L. C. Storrs; Chief 

 Justice of the Supreme Court, Robert M. Mont- 



