UNITED STATES OP AMERICA. 





nett; Treasurer, Walter A. Reed; Attorney-Gen- eminent, $2.'i.< 

 eral, C. F. Stearns. 



The platform pledged loyalty to the principles 

 of the Republican party as enunciated by the na- 

 tional convention of 1900; pledged support to 

 President Roosevelt; condemned the attempts in 

 several States to disfranchise negroes; called upon 

 Congress to readjust representation in the elect- 

 oral college upon the basis of actual voting popu- 

 lation, and declared that " anarchy should be 

 -dealt with by both State and Federal legislation 

 and the passage of laws providing adequate pun- 

 ishment for an attempt on the life of the Presi- 

 dent." Lynching was condemned. The platform 

 also advocated an isthmian canal and legislation 

 to build up the American merchant marine. 



The Prohibition and Socialist-Labor parties also 

 made nominations. 



At the State election, Nov. 5, all the Republican 

 candidates were elected. The whole number of 

 votes cast for Governor was 47,678. Of this num- 

 ber William Gregory (Republican) received 25,- 

 575; L. F. C. Garvin (Democrat), 19,038; W. E. 

 Brightman (Prohibitionist), 1,945; James P. 

 Reid (Socialist-Labor), 1,120. The count showed 

 many split tickets. 



SOUTH CAROLINA, a Southern State, one 

 of the original thirteen, ratified the Constitution 

 May 23, 1788; area, 30,570 square miles. The 

 population, according to each decennial census, 

 was 249,073 in 1790; 345,591 in 1800; 415,115 in 

 1810; 502,741 in 1820; 581,185 in 1830; 594,398 in 

 1840; 668,507 in 1850; 703,708 in 1860; 705,606 in 

 1870; 995,577 in 1880; 1,151,149 in 1890; and 

 1,340,316 in 1900. Capital, Columbia. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers in 1901: Governor, Miles B. McSweeney; 

 Lieutenant-Governor, J. H. Tillman; Secretary of 

 State, Marion R. Cooper; Treasurer, R. H. Jen- 

 nings; Comptroller, J. P. Derham; Attorney- 

 General, G. Duncan Bellinger; Superintendent of 

 Education, John J. McMahan; Adjutant-General, 

 J. W. Floyd; Geologist, Earle Sloan; Directors 

 of the Dispensary, L. J. Williams, H. H. Evans, 

 A. F. H. Dukes; Railroad Commission, Messrs. 

 Wilborn, Garris, and Wharton; Chief Justice of 

 the Supreme Court, Henry Mclver; Associate 

 Justices, Y. J. Pope, Eugene B. Gary, Ira B. 

 Jones; Clerk, U. R. Brooks. All are Democrats. 



The State officers are elected in November of 

 the even-numbered years, for terms of two years. 

 The Legislature meets annually in January. It 

 consists of 41, Senators and 124 Representatives. 



Census Figures. The bulletin giving the 

 population by sex, nativity, and color shows the 

 following for the State: Males, 664,895; females, 

 675,421; foreign born, 5,528; white, 557,807; col- 

 ored, 782,509. All the colored people in the State 

 are negroes except 67 Chinese and 121 Indians. 



The figures for Charleston are: Males, 24,218 

 natives and 1,374 foreign born; females, 28,997 

 natives and 1,218 foreign born. The total male 

 population of this city is 25,592, of whom 14,010 

 are colored, and the total female population 30,- 

 215, of whom 17,359 are colored. The percentage 

 of urban population in the State is 11.7. 



Finances. The cash balance, Jan. 1, was 

 $626,912.05, and the total receipts, including this, 

 were $4,018,686.92. The larger items of receipt 

 were: General taxes of 1900, $589,368.58; of 1901, 

 $219,213.82; loans, borrowed on notes of the Gov- 

 ernor and Treasurer, $145,000; special school 

 fund from the dispensary, $100,000; fees from the 

 office of the Secretary of State, $40,583.71; priv- 

 ilege-fertilizer tax, $84,073.43; loans returned, 

 $32,546.41; annual and graduated insurance li- 

 cense fees, $26,018.76; Morrill fund, from the Gov- 



. r -| i%SOs: , , . MJ k . 



..... * ''" ...... 



Ihe cash I>;I|;IH I( . h, ;| , ( i - - j-j .*- 

 Among the payme.,1 ,,, ,'|,,. '^'.' t i'- 



u.tions ,, $:ii,.v..-.!i.s; (i, ,;;,: i;;,,;^,. 



Colored College, sj527,.YU.itf x|;,ii ; ".,; 



Legislature, $41,HfiU.(iH; p. -,, ,, n| -""'/-' 



"''' ' 



],, t 



school fund, $100,000; expositio 

 on notes of Governor and Tn-;i-m, 

 State-House contract, $!23,l04.:i7 ; ,,,,, , 

 State-House, $15,000; printing, #l<;,'.i|s.:; () ,.,,, 

 missioners sinking-fund, $41,27.'i.H'.)- !,,,,, of 

 sinking-fund, $102,270; investment, sinkin-nm.l, 

 $90,760.28; monument at Chickamauga, $4,i:i.:i* ;' 

 dispensary, account proper, $2,005 ,297. 4f>; trans- 

 ferred to school fund, $100,000; interest on the 

 public debt, $270,643.79. 



Valuations. The taxable property, as made 

 up for 1901, amounted to $189,333,107, of which 

 $103,258,440 was real estate, $59,030,424 personal 

 property, and $27,044,243 railroad property. The 

 net increase over the valuations of 1900 is $9,018,- 

 577. There were decreases in only three items in 

 the schedule value of credits, value of bonds 

 and stocks, and 50 per cent, penalty amounting 

 in all to $833,075. 



Education. The enrolment of white children 

 in the public schools in 1901 was 127,230, and the 

 average attendance 94,548. There were 157,970 

 negro children enrolled, and their average attend- 

 ance was 113,566. The average length of the 

 schools for whites was 21.17 weeks; of those for 

 negroes, 14.12 weeks. The average annual salary 

 of white teachers was $188.91; of negro teachers, 

 $80.30. The total expenditure for the year for 

 white schools was $726,825.44; for negro schools, 

 $211,287.56. 



At Winthrop College 297 pupils were enrolled 

 in the normal department at the close of the 

 year, an increase of 120 in two years. A new 

 dormitory has been built. The entire appropri- 

 ation from the Legislature this year was $09.072. 



The South Carolina College has just entered 

 upon its second century. Its number of students 

 is increasing; while there were 162 four years ago, 

 there were 227 at the last session of 1901. The 

 Legislature appropriated $42,557 to the college. 



The Colored Normal College received for its 

 support $8,000 from the Legislature. The total 

 disbursements for the year ending in June were 

 $32,350. 



The annual appropriation to the State Military 

 Academy was raised this year to $25,000, with 

 a view of reducing the charges to the cadets from 

 $300 to $250 per annum. This reduction was 

 made by the Board of Visitors. 



For the Agricultural College a new dormitory 

 has been built in order to make room for the 

 increasing number of applicants. The college 

 property was considerably damaged by the break- 

 ing of dikes during the floods of December. 



Charities and Corrections. The Insane Asy- 

 lum received 459 patients in 1901 ; the whole 

 number was L493; the daily average. 1,068; the 

 total cost, $135,316; the per capita, for supper! 

 $103. The institution has just entered the eighti- 

 eth year of its existence. 



The fifty-third annual report of the ln*ti 

 for the Deaf and Blind shows an average attenc 

 ance for the year of 163. The cost of mainte- 

 nance was $21,227.92; the per capita cost, j 

 A building has been completed for the 

 pupils, and a new school-building is in pro 

 of erection; for this the Legislature appropriated 

 $20.000. 



The whole number of convicts in the Pemten- 



