NORTH DAKOTA. 



the decision of the United States Supreme Court 

 in the case of Leisy vs. Hardin rendered it inop- 

 erative as applied to liquors sent or brought 

 from another State and sold by the importer in 

 what are called " original packages." (See ORIG- 

 INAL-PACKAGE DECISION, in this volume.) 



Political. On July 29 a Republican State 

 Convention met at Grand Forks and nominated 

 the following ticket for State officers : For Gov- 

 ernor, Andrew H. Burke ; for Lieutenant-Gover- 

 nor, Roger Allin ; for Secretary of State, John 

 Flittie ; for Auditor, John P. Bray ; for Treas- 

 urer, L. E. Booker ; for Attorney-General, C. A. 

 M. Spencer ; for Superintendent of Public In- 

 struction, John Ogden ; for Commissioner of 

 Agriculture, H. T. Helgesen ; for Commissioner 

 of Insurance, A. L. Gary; for Railroad Com- 

 missioners, George W. Harmon, George H. Walsh, 

 and Andrew Slotten ; for Congressman, Martin 

 N. Johnson. Messrs. Flittie, Bray, Booker, Helger 

 sen, and Cary were renominated. The platform 

 demands protection for the wool industry and 

 legislation to protect and encourage agriculture, 

 and further declares as follows : 



TbeKepublican party pledges itself to the endeavor 

 to secure the passage of such laws as will guarantee to 

 the people of the State the free disposition and trans- 

 portation of their productions unimpeded by the vexa- 

 tious action of rings and monopolies and unjust exer- 

 cise of corporate franchises, and especially to secure 

 the reduction of rates on lumber, coal, and grain. 



The people of North Dakota have declared for the 

 complete extermination of the saloon. The Eepub- 

 lican party in this struggle renews its pledges or the 

 past, and joins the friends of the home in insisting 

 upon a fair test and a vigorous enforcement of the 

 present prohibitory law. 



The State Convention of the Democratic party 

 assembled at Grand Forks on Aug. 6 and made 

 the following nominations : For Governor, Will- 

 iam N. Roach ; for Lieutenant-Governor, George 

 P. Garred ; for Secretary of State, Frank A. Wil- 

 son ; for Auditor, C. E. Meech ; for Treasurer, 

 I. P. Baker : for Attorney-General, J. V. Brooke ; 

 for Insurance Commissioner, F. S. Serumgaard ; 

 for Commissioner of Agriculture, J. Harstad ; 

 for Superintendent of Public Instruction, Miss 

 Laura J. Eisenhuth ; for Railroad Commission- 

 ers, L. H. Low, B. B. Stevens, and N. H. Rinde ; 

 for Congressman, John D. Benton. The platform 

 includes the following : 



We favor a free, fair, intelligent, and secret ballot, 

 and urge our legislators to carry out the Constitution 

 on the election franchise. 



We oppose all sumptuary laws which vex the citi- 

 zens and interfere with individual liberty, and we 

 declare in favor of a resubmission to the people of the 

 prohibition amendment. 



> We are in favor of the free unrestricted coinage of 

 silver and an increase of currency, and a volume of 

 money equal to the requirements of the ever-increas- 

 ing business and trade, to facilitate the payments of 

 debts of all debtors. 



The death of candidate Meech late in August 

 and the withdrawal of several other candidates 

 caused vacancies in the ticket which the State 

 Committee filled before the election by making 

 the following nominations : For Treasurer, Knud 

 Nomland; for Auditor, William Braithwaite; 

 for Attorney-General, Burke Corbett ; for Com- 

 missioner of Agriculture, Robert Ewing ; for 

 Commissioner of Insurance, W. H. Makee. 



On Sept. 25 conventions called by the Prohibi- 

 tionists and by the leaders of the Farmers' Alli- 

 ance met at Grand Forks and entered into nego- 

 tiations that resulted in a coalition of a majority 

 of the Prohibitionists with the Alliance dele- 

 gates. A fusion ticket for State officers was 

 agreed upon containing the names of Walter 

 Muir for Governor, H. R. Dickieson for Auditor, 

 Knud Nomland for Treasurer, N. C. Young for 

 Attorney-General, and Ezra Turner for Railroad 

 Commissioner. Candidates Allin, Cary, Slotten, 

 and Johnson upon the Republican ticket, and 

 candidates Wilson, Eisenhuth, and Stevens on 

 the Democratic ticket were adopted as the party 

 candidates for the respective positions to which 

 they had already been nominated. N. C. Young 

 subsequently withdrew from the ticket, and the 

 party supported Burke Corbett, the Democratic 

 candidate. A platform was adopted demanding 

 the free coinage of gold and silver, the repeal of 

 the war tariff, the enforcement of prohibition, 

 government ownership of railroads, telegraph 

 lines, and coal mines, legislation imposing an 

 income tax, the enactment of an Australian 

 ballot law, and that the government should loan 

 money upon real estate and establish subtreas- 

 uries for the storage of grain, on which it should 

 loan money to the farmers at low rates. 



At the November election all the Republican 

 nominees were successful. For Governor, Burke 

 received 19,053 votes, Roach 12,604, and Muir 

 4,821 ; for Lieutenant-Governor, Allin had 23,- 

 989 votes and Garred 12,293 -The plurality of 

 Johnson for member of Congress was 6,535. 

 Members of the Legislature were chosen at the 

 same time as follow: Senate, Republicans 21, 

 Democrats 5, Farmers' Alliance and Independ- 

 ents 5 ; House, Republicans 40, Democrats 16, 

 Farmers' Alliance and Independents 6. 



NOYA SCOTIA. Elections. Parliament 

 was dissolved, and on May 22, 1890, elections 

 were held. The issues were principally confined 

 to charges of extravagance and corruption 

 against the Fielding (Liberal) Government in 

 borrowing large sums of money for the repair 

 and maintenance of roads and bridges through- 

 out the province. The result of the election was 

 the return to power of the Hon. W. S. Fielding 

 and his Cabinet. Every member of his Cabinet 

 was returned, and of the 18 counties, 10 were 

 carried by the Government, 5 were divided, and 

 3 carried by the Opposition (Conservative), so 

 that the House stands~28 Government, 10 Opposi- 

 tion. The leader of the Opposition, Dr. William 

 McKay, was defeated, and his place has been 

 taken by one of the new members, Charles H. 

 Cahan, editor of the Halifax " Evening Mail." 

 Mr. Cahan is a native of Yarmouth County and 

 represents Shelburne County in the House of 

 Assembly. Although not yet thirty years of age, 

 he has taken an active part on the platform in 

 two or three election campaigns, proved a ready 

 debater and forcible speaker, and is looked upon 

 by his party as a great strength to them in the 

 Legislature. In 1886, on the Repeal issue, the 

 Fielding Government carried the province by a 

 majority of 5,298 of the popular vote, having a 

 majority of 22 in the House. In 1890, while 

 there was an increase in the total vote of nearly 

 8,000, the Government carried the province by a 

 majority of 3,279 of the popular vote, giving 



