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ILLINOIS. 



INDIA. 



Constitution to be amended at one time. John P. 

 Altgeld was renominated for Governor; for Lieu- 

 tenant Governor Monroe C. Crawford was selected, 

 and the ticket was completed as follows : For Secre- 

 tary of State, Finis E. Downing ; for Auditor, W. F. 

 Beck ; for Treasurer, Edward C. Pace ; for Attorney- 

 General, George A. Trude ; for University Trustees, 

 Julia Holmes Smith, R. P. Morgan, M. W. Graham. 

 On Sept. 15 (the People's party having agreed to 

 support the Democratic ticket if allowed to nominate 

 the Auditor and three presidential electors on that 

 ticket) W. P. Beck and three electors who had been 

 selected by the Democrats in June resigned, and A. 

 L. Marshall was nominated by the Populists for 

 Auditor. 



On Aug. 12, at Springfield, representatives of the 

 People's party met and adopted a platform which 

 approved that adopted by the National Populist 

 Convention, demanded a more equitable system of 

 taxation, and favored local option in taxation to 

 that end ; an amendment to the Constitution giv- 

 ing the Legislature power to enact laws regulating 

 contracts between corporations and their employees ; 

 the proposed amendment to the Constitution which 

 provides that the Legislature may submit three 

 amendments to be voted upon at a general elec- 

 tion : the prevention of competition between the 

 products of convict and free labor ; the adoption of 

 a system of direct legislation in dealing with State 

 and local affairs; and declared that the adminis- 

 tration of Gov. Altgeld deserved unstinted praise. 



The Gold-standard Democrats met in State con- 

 vention at Chicago Aug. 25. The platform had but 

 little to say regarding silver, but was uncompromis- 

 ing in its declaration for the gold standard. It de- 

 manded " the retirement of the United States from 

 the banking business and the gradual redemption 

 and cancellation of the United States and Treasury 

 notes " ; denounced the Republican convention at 

 St. Louis as being in the control of " intriguing at- 

 torneys of favored interests " ; declared the Chicago 

 convention to have been dominated by " agitators, 

 sectionalists, and demagogues," and denounced 

 "the shameful demand fora debased dollar" of the 

 latter convention ; extolled President Cleveland ; 

 and declared in favor of the constitutional inde- 

 pendence of the United States Supreme Court. The 

 convention selected delegates to the Indianapolis con- 

 vention and chose presidential electors at large and 

 nominated the following ticket : For Governor, 

 John C. Black; for Lieutenant Governor, Chester 

 A. Babcock ; for Secretary of State, Charles S. 

 Wiley ; for Auditor, F. E. Brink ; for Treasurer, 

 Edward Ridgeley ; for Attorney-General, William 

 S. Forman ; for University Trustees, S. II. Busey, 

 C. E. Babcock, August Niehaus. On Sept 9 Gen. 

 Black notified the committee that he could not ac- 

 cept the nomination for Governor, and William S. 

 Forman was nominated for that office, and the 

 nomination for Attorney-General, thus made va- 

 cant, was given to Daniel V. Samuels. 



At Chicago, on Sept. 15, the Middle-of-the-Road 

 section of the People's party met and adopted the 

 following resolution : li We do most heartily in- 

 dorse the wisdom of the national convention in 

 the nomination of Thomas E. Watson for Vice- 

 President of the United States, and most emphat- 

 ically denounce any action which prevents the 

 Populists of any State from using the privilege of 

 casting their ballots for him." Electors at large 

 were selected, and a State ticket, excepting the 

 Governor, was nominated. Following is the ticket : 

 For Lieutenant Governor, Henry D. Lloyd ; for 

 Secretary of State, L. A. Quelmalz : for Auditor, 

 Grant Dunbar; for Treasurer, Joseph Schwerzen ; 

 for Attorney-General, E. I. Burdick ; for University 

 Trustee, Mrs. Fanny Kavanaugh. 



In October a nominating petition bearing 1,525 

 names was filed with the Secretary of State by the 

 National party. A full electoral' and State ticket 

 was named, with Isaac W. Higgs for Governor. The 

 National party represents the broad-gauge wing of 

 the original Prohibition party. 



At the election in November there were 13 tickets, 

 on the ballot, as follows : Democrat, Republican, 

 Prohibition, Peoples' party, Socialist Labor party, 

 National party, Middle-of-the-Road party, Inde- 

 pendent Gold-standard Democracy, Independent 

 party, Independent Democratic party, Independent 

 Silver party, Independent Republican party, and 

 National Silver party. 



At the election in November the Republican 

 ticket was successful. For Governor, Tanner re- 

 ceived 587.587 votes; Altgeld, 474,270; Gere, 14,- 

 582 ; Forman, 8,100 ; Bastain, 985. The vote for 

 presidential electors was : Republican, 607,130 ; 

 Democratic. 464,523; Prohibition, 9,796; Gold 

 Democrat, 6,390; Social Labor, 1,147; Middle-of- 

 the-Road People's, 1,090 ; National, 793. The con- 

 stitutional amendment was adopted by a vote of 

 163,057. The Legislature of 1897 will be divided 

 politically as follows : Senate Republicans 39, 

 Democrats 11, Populist 1 ; House Republicans 87, 

 Democrats 64, Populists 2. 



INDIA, an empire in southern Asia, subject to 

 Great Britain, and governed under general acts of 

 the British Parliament by a Governor General under 

 instructions from the Secretary of State for India, 

 a member of the British Cabinet. The Earl of 

 Elgin and Kincardine has been Governor General 

 since October, 1893. The ordinary members of the 

 Governor General's Council in the beginning of 

 1896 were Sir A. E. Miller, Sir Charles B. Pritchard, 

 Lieut.-Gen. Sir H. Brackenbury, Sir James West- 

 land, Sir Charles H. T. Crossthwaite, and J. Wood- 

 burn. The ordinary members are nominated by 

 the Crown. The commander in chief of the forces- 

 and the governor or lieutenant governor of the 

 province where the Council sits act as extraordi- 

 nary members. The ordinary members of the Coun- 

 cil are re-enforced by 10 to 16 additional mem- 

 bers nominated by the Governor General, 5 of 

 them on the recommendation of the provincial 

 councils and the Calcutta Chamber of Commerce, 

 to form the Legislative Council, which frames regu- 

 lations to be submitted to the Governor General and 

 drafts of law that he forwards to the Government in 

 London to lay before Parliament. The Secretary 

 of State for India in the Cabinet of Lord Salisbury 

 is Lord George Hamilton. 



Area and Population. The Indian Empire, 

 including the protected states and territories in 

 Asia and Africa placed under the control of the 

 Indian Government, has a total area of 1.987,427 

 square miles, with a population of 291,381,000. The 

 area directly administered by the Governor General 

 is 965,005 square miles, having a population in 1891 

 of 221,172.952, divided into 112,542,739 males and 

 108,630,213 females. The average density of popu- 

 lation in British India was 229 per square mile. The 

 Bengal Presidency, including Bengal, Behar, Chota 

 "Nairpur, and Orissa, had 471 inhabitants to the square 

 mile, the total population being 71,346.987. In the 

 Northwest Provinces and Oudh, with a population 

 of 46,905,085, the density was 436 to the square mile ; 

 Bombay, with a total population of 15,985,270, had 

 207; Madras, with 35.630.440 inhabitants, had 252 ; 

 the Punjab, with 20,866,847 population, had 189; 

 Assam, with 5,476,833, had 112; Berar, with 2,897,- 

 491, had 164 ; the Central Provinces, with 10,784,- 

 294, had 125; Sinde, with 2,871,774. had 60; and 

 Upper and Lower Burmah, with 7,605,560, had 44 to 

 the square mile. The Berars are only provisionally 

 placed under British administration. The native 



