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mates. The board asks for the erection of 

 several additional buildings, which the increase 

 of the commitments and the proper care of the 

 boys justify. 



The law regulating the commitment of girls 

 to the Industrial Home at Chillicothe requires 

 that a girl should be convicted of a crime before 

 she can be sent to the home. The number of 

 inmates at present is 9, and there have been only 

 11 altogether since the opening of the home in 

 January, 1889. 



Militia. The militia is maintained without 

 expense to the State, through the appropria- 

 tion of ordnance and quartermaster supplies 

 made by the United States Government, and by 

 the liberal contributions of public-spirited citi- 

 zens. The Federal Government gives to the 

 State annually about $15,000 in clothing, equip- 

 ments, and ordnance stores, on condition that 

 the organization numbers 1,600 enlisted men, or 

 at least 100 for every Representative that Missouri 

 has in the national Congress. There are on the 

 rolls about 1,900 men, 14 new companies having 

 been organized, and 2 companies and 1 troop of 

 cavalry disbanded, during the past two years. 



The cadet corps of the State University, au- 

 thorized by an act of the last Legislature, was 

 organized in September, 1890, and is in the most 

 flourishing condition, numbering 172 members. 



Railroads. The total railroad mileage of the 

 State is 8,977'37. The mileage constructed in 

 1890 was 84-94. 



Political. On June 11, a Democratic State 

 convention met at St. Joseph, and nominated the 

 following candidates for State offices: For Jus- 

 tice of the Supreme Court, James B. Gantt ; 

 for Superintenent of Public Instruction, Lloyd 

 E. Wolfe ; for Railroad Commissioner, Henry 

 W. Hickman. A disposition to seek the favor of 

 the Farmers' Alliance was shown by the nomina- 

 tion of Messrs. Wolfe and Hickman, both of 

 whom were members of that order, the latter be- 

 ing president of its State organization. 



The platform declares : 



We are in favor of the free and unrestricted coinage 

 of silver, and the increase of the volume of currency 

 to meet the legitimate demand of trade. 



The public land, the heritage of the people, should 

 be held for actual settlers only, not another acre to 

 railroads or speculators, and all land now held for 

 speculative purposes should be taxed at its just value. 



The Democracy of Missouri favors the purity of 

 the ballot, the passage and enforcement of all laws 

 which insure honest elections and the amendment of 

 the election law known as the Australian ballot sys- 

 tem passed by the last General Assembly of the State, 

 so that it may apply to all the counties, and permit 

 any political party or any individual to place a ticket 

 in the field without having given a previous expres- 

 sion at the polls. 



We denounce the combinations and trusts by which 

 the price of school books is largely increased above a 

 reasonable cost, and we favor such legislation as will 

 free the people from their grasp, and give the school 



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books to the children of the State a 

 cost. 



reasonable 



The Republican State Convention met at Jef- 

 ferson City on Aug. 28, and placed the following 

 ticket in the field : For Justice of the Supreme 

 Court, Alexander W. Mullins ; for Superin- 

 tendent of Public Instruction, Frank P. Seever ; 

 for Railroad Commissioner, James K. Merrifield. 

 The resolutions include the following : 



We indorse the action of Congress in its liberal ap- 

 propriations for the improvement of the navigable 

 rivers of Missouri, and ask that the same liberal spirit 

 may characterize future legislation, to tbe end that 

 the products of the State may secure the cheapest pos- 

 sible transportation to the markets of the country. 



We denounce the inefficiency of the Democratic 

 State Government in its judicial branch, which with- 

 holds justice from our citizens because of the length 

 of time necessary to have a cause passed upon by the 

 Supreme Court, and we demand that the constitu- 

 tional guarantee that each citizen shall be accorded 

 justice without delay be enforced, and if placed in 

 power, we pledge ourselves to accomplish that result. 



We call the attention of the tax payers of the State 

 to the fact that the officers of the State intrusted with 

 the preservation of the funds in our treasury bave 

 made the credit and funds of the State an instrument 

 with which to retain control of the State Government, 

 until we now have, for the second time since the ad- 

 vent of the Democratic party into power, a defaulter 

 going unpunished, the law violated, and yet tbe tax 

 payers are still asked to subscribe to and vote the 

 Democratic ticket. 



The Prohibitionists met in State convention at 

 Kansas City on Oct. 2, and nominated a party 

 ticket containing the following candidates : 

 Reuben D. Robinson for Justice of the Supreme 

 Court, Julius C. Hughes for Superintendent 

 of Public Instruction, and William S. Crouch 

 for Railroad Commissioner. A platform was 

 adopted. 



The candidates of the Union Labor party 

 were Orville D. Jones for Justice of the Supreme 

 Court, Robert S. Brownlow for Superintendent 

 of Public Instruction, and Samuel F. Boyden for 

 Railroad Commissioner. 



At the election in November the Democratic 

 candidates received large pluralities. The vote 

 for Justice of the Supreme Court was : -Gantt, 

 250,011: Mullins, 188,223; Jones, 25,114; Rob- 

 inson, 988. For Superintendent of Public In- 

 struction the plurality of Wolfe was 61,831, and 

 for Railroad Commissioner the plurality of Hick- 

 man was 64,412. Members of the State Legisla- 

 ture were elected as follow : Senate, Democrats 

 25, Republicans 8, Union Labor 1 ; House, Demo- 

 crats 106, Republicans 23, Union Labor 2, In- 

 dependent 9. The constitutional amendment, 

 increasing the number of members of the State 

 Supreme Court from five to seven and separat- 

 ing the court into two divisions, was adopted by 

 a veto of 168,645 yeas to 149,809 nays. Pursuant 

 to its provisions the Governor appointed John 

 L. Thomas and George B. MacFarlane to be the 

 additional justices, their term beginning Jan. 1, 

 1891. Each of the 14 congressional districts 

 chose a Democratic Representative. 



MONTANA, a Western State, admitted to the 

 Union Nov. 8, 1889 ; area, 146,080 square miles; 

 population, according to the census of 1890, 132,- 

 159. Capital, Helena. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year: Governor, Joseph K. 

 Toole ; Lieutenant-Governor, John E. Rickards ; 

 Secretary of State, Louis Rotwitt; Treasurer, 

 Richard 0. Hickman; Auditor. E. A. Kenney; 

 Attorney-General, Henri J. Haskell ; Superin- 

 tendent of Public Instruction, John Gannon; 

 Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Henry N. 

 Blake ; Associate Justices, William H. DeWitt 

 and E. N. Harwood. These officers are all Re- 

 publicans except the Governor. 



