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TERRY, ALFRED HOWE. 



136 at Coal Creek. The number in confinement 

 on Dec. 1, 1888, was 1,363, the increase for the 

 two years being 105. Late in October nearly all 

 the workshops and several cottages connected 

 with the prison buildings at Nashville were de- 

 stroyed by fire, involving a loss of about $45,000, 

 which was covered by insurance. 



Political. A Governor for the term of two 

 years, and a justice of the Supreme Court to suc- 

 ceed Justice Folkes, deceased, were to be chosen 

 on a general State ticket this year. For the 

 gubernatorial office the Prohibitionists in State 

 convention at Nashville, on June 4, nominated 

 David C. Kelly, on a platform that included the 

 following: 



The fact that more than 100,000 voters in the State 

 are illiterate shows that the State school system is not 

 meeting the demands of safe government. 



We arraign the Democracy, the dominant party 

 in the State, for the non-enforcement of law against 

 gambling, and the sale of liquor to minors, drunk- 

 ards, and on the Sabbath day. 



Our immigration laws should be so amended and 

 enforced as to prevent the introduction into our coun- 

 try of contract labor, convicts, inmates of dependent 

 institutions, and others physically incapacitated for 

 self-support. 



No person should be allowed to vote who has not 

 been a resident of the United States ten years, and can 

 read the Constitution of the United States in English. 



The Democratic State Convention, which met 

 at Nashville on July 17, nominated John P. Bu- 

 chanan for Governor on the twenty-sixth ballot. 

 He was a leader of the State Farmer's Alliance, 

 and the candidate of that organization. For the 

 judicial office the convention nominated Benja- 

 min J. Lea. The following is a portion of the 

 platform : 



We demand a currency of gold and silver, and also 

 of paper, convertible into coin at the option of the 

 holder, and we demand the free coinage of silver on 

 the basis originally fixed by law, and that it and the 

 gold dollar shall be equally a unit of value. 



Good public roads we regard as a necessity to the 

 rapid and steady development of our State, and we 

 favor such legislation as will tend to their establish- 

 ment. 



The Republican State Convention at Nashville, 

 on July 30, nominated Lewis T. Baxter for Gov- 

 ernor, and adopted a platform containing the fol- 

 lowing : 



We denounce the administration of the Democrats 

 of this State as weak, short-sighted, non-progressive 

 and unpatriotic. It has failed during peace and pros- 

 perity among the people to lessen the burdens of taxa- 

 tion ; it has permitted our State debt to be increased ; 

 it has injured our public credit abroad ; it has forced 

 upon the people and is maintaining the infamous peni- 

 tentiary lease monstrosity, which is a disgrace upon 

 our civilization and a blight upon the prosperity of 

 every community wherever operated. It has, by a 

 system of mean and oppressive election laws discrim- 

 inated in every instance against the poor and illiter- 

 ate citizen of ths State. They force the poor man to 

 pay his poll tax before he exercises the right to cast 

 his vote, but say nothing about the rich man's prop- 

 erty tax. 



It has by an unjust system of double taxation crip- 

 pled and destroyed the business of hundreds of citi- 

 zens, driven capital from our State, and retarded the 

 growth of business enterprises all over the State. 



Believing that the small property owners bear an 

 unjust proportion of the burden oi' taxation, we are 

 in favor of an amendment to the Constitution which 



will exempt from taxation $1,000 on valuation, whether 

 real or personal. 



We favor the passage of a law which will require 

 the several counties to keep up the public roads by 

 the labor of all convicts in this State convicted of 

 minor felonies, thereby reducing to that extent the 

 burdens of taxation from the people, and at the same 

 time preventing convict labor from competing with 

 the honest labor of the country. 



For Justice of the Supreme Court the Repub- 

 lican nominee was VV. M. Smith. The election 

 for this office occurred on Aug. 7, and resulted 

 in the choice of B. J. Lea, the Democratic can- 

 didate, by a large majority. At the November 

 election Buchanan was elected Governor by a 

 vote of 113,549 to 76,081 for Baxter, and 11,082 

 for Kelly. Members of the State Legislature 

 were chosen at this election as follow : Senate, 

 Democrats 25, Republicans 8 ; House, Democrats 

 79, Republicans 20. 



In the congressional districts 2 Republican 

 and 8 Democratic Congressmen were elected, a 

 gain of 1 seat by the Democrats. 



TERRY, ALFRED HOWE, military officer, 

 born in Hartford, Conn., Nov. 10, 1827; died in 

 New Haven, Conn., Dec. 16, 1890. He removed 

 at an early age to New Haven, where he was ed- 

 ucated in the public schools and in the Yale 



ALFRED HOWE TERRY. 



Law School, and was admitted to the bar in 

 1849. About the time he began practicing he 

 became deeply interested in the State militia, 

 and in 1854, when he was chosen clerk of the 

 Superior Court of Connecticut, he was appointed 

 colonel of the Second Regiment. He held the 

 office of clerk in the Superior and Supreme 

 Courts till 1860. In 1858, while on a vacation, 

 he spent much time inspecting and studying the 

 defenses and battle fields of the Crimea, the im- 

 portant fortifications of England and France, and 

 the military systems of Europe. In response to 

 President Lincoln's first call for three-months' 

 volunteers, he tendered the services of himself 

 and his regiment, was mustered into the service 

 May 7, 1861, and commanded the regiment in the 

 first Battle of Bull Run. He was mustered out 

 of service on Aug. 7, organized the Seventh Con- 

 necticut Infantry, and re-entered the service as 

 its colonel, Sept. 17. In the volunteer army he 

 was promoted brigadier-general. April 25, 1862 ; 

 brevetted major-general Aug. 26, 1864 ; appoint- 

 ed major-general provisionally Jan. 15, 1865: 

 commissioned in full rank April 20, following; 

 and was mustered out of service Sept. 1, 1866. 

 In the regular army he was appointed brigadier- 



