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KENTUCKY. 



has ever bf>en for championing the rights of all the 

 people, and its management of affairs has been in- 

 .spired by statesmanship so great as to command the 

 admiration of all. 



We arraign the party managers in this State as dis- 

 loyal to the principles' and unfaithful to the interests 

 of the Kepublican party, and charge that they have 

 put the party in Kansas out of harmony with the 

 national Kepublican party, and thereby absolve them 

 from all obligations to longer acknowledging their 

 leadership. 



These thirgs impel us as the only method which 

 promises success to sink party preferences in State 

 politics for the time, and unite with such of our fellow- 

 citizens of the State as share our convictions. 



Before the close of the canvass the Republi- 

 cans became thoroughly alarmed at the defec- 

 tions from their ranks, and, in their endeavors to 

 hold the party together went so far as to assail 

 the character of the gubernatorial candidate of 

 the People's party. The charges against him 

 were based upon the official records of the county 

 court, and it is probable that the publication of 

 these records saved the Republicans from defeat. 

 They elected their entire ticket, with one excep- 

 tion, but their plurality of nearly 80,000 in 1888 

 was reduced to barely one tenth of those figures. 

 The official vote for Governor was as follows : 

 Humphrey, 115,025; Willits, 106,972 ; Robinson, 

 71,357; Richardson, 1,230. The other Republi- 

 can candidates, except the Attorney-General, were 

 elected by pluralities varying from 4,915 in case 

 of Lieutenant-Governor to 8,443 in case of Au- 

 ditor. For Attorney-General the vote was 122,- 

 752 for Kellogg to' 170,665 for Ives, the latter 

 being the candidate of both the People's party 

 and the Democratic-Resubrnission party. Mern- 

 bers of the Lower House of the Legislature were 

 elected at the same time as follow : Alliance, 

 90; Republicans, 27 ; Democrats, 8. Of the 90 

 Alliance members, 62 had been Republicans. 



Two amendments to the State Constitution 

 were voted upon at the same time. The amend- 

 ment increasing the members of the Supreme 

 Court from three to seven was defeated by a 

 vote of 66,601 in its favor, to 121,636 against* it. 

 The amendment changing the time for the reg- 

 ular meeting of the Legislature to the first Tues- 

 day of December and lengthening the session to 

 ninety days was also defeated, the vote standing 

 53,463 for and 140,041 against, 



Of the 7 Congressmen chosen at this time, the 

 Republicans elected only 2, the People's party 

 1, and 4 were elected on a fusion ticket, sup'- 

 ported by the Democrats, the People's party, and 

 the Resubmissionists. 



KENTUCKY, a Southern State, admitted to 

 the Union June 1, 1792 ; area, 40,400 square 

 miles. The population, according to each decen- 

 nial census since admission, was 220,955 in 1800- 

 40(5,51 1 in 1810 ; 564,135 in 1820 ; 687,917 in 1830 ; 

 779,828 in 1840 ; 982,405 in 1850; 1,155.684 in 

 1860; 1,321,011 in 1870; 1.648,690 in 1880 : and 

 1,858,635 in 1890. Capital, Frankfort. 



(xovernment. The following were the State 

 officers during the year : Governor, Simon B. 

 Buckner, Democrat; Lieutenant-Governor, James 

 \V. Bryan ; Secretary of State, George M. Adams; 

 Auditor, L. C. Norman ; Treasurer, Stephen G. 

 Sharp, who resigned on Feb. 20, and was suc- 

 ceeded by Henry Hale ; Attorney-General, P. W. 

 Hardin -/Superintendent of Public Instruction, 



Joseph D. Pickett ; Insurance Commissioner, 

 Henry T. Duncan ; Register of the Land Office, 

 Thomas II. Corbett ; Commissioner of Agricult- 

 ure, C. Y. Wilson; Railroad Commissioners, 

 I. A. Spaulding, J. F. Hagar, W. B. Fleming; 

 Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals, William 

 H. Holt; Associate Justices, William S. Pryor, 

 Joseph H. Lewis, and Caswell Bennett. 



Population. The following table shows the' 

 population of the State by counties, as ascer- 

 tained by the national census of this year, com- 

 pared with similar returns for 1880 : 



