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KANSAS. 



KENTUCKY. 



The action of the convention was not satisfactory 

 to the middle-of-the-road Populists, and they issued 

 a call for a convention at Topeka, Sept. 19, in 

 which it was said : 



"The trafficking office hunters who have secured 

 the control of the People's party organization have 

 entered into a shameless bargain with the Demo- 

 cratic party of Kansas, trading off our principles 

 and our candidate for Vice-President, Thomas E. 

 Watson, nominated upon our St. Louis platform, 

 for the sake of a chance to capture .the State and 

 congressional offices of Kansas. 



" We, your standard bearers in the campaign of 

 1890, believing that the Populists of Kansas will 

 stand by the St. Louis convention of 1890 and its 

 candidate for Vice-President, Thomas E. Watson, 

 in preference to the traitors and office hunters of 

 the State of Kansas who made this trade in the last 

 State convention, and thereby demand that the 

 Populists of Kansas shall vote the Democratic 

 electoral ticket, call this convention." 



The plan for a convention was abandoned, as the 

 managers learned of a movement to pack it and 

 compel the acceptance of the fusion ticket; and 

 they therefore selected Bryan and Watson electors, 

 to be nominated by petition. Mr. Watson ordered 

 his name taken oil from the fusion ticket, on the 

 ground that it was placed there to deceive Populist 

 voters. Each wing of the party entered a protest 

 before the Slate Hoard on Nominations against the 

 admission of the electoral ticket of the other to the 

 official ballot. The board decided against both 

 protests. Later, the chairman of the Central Com- 

 mittee, J. W. Breidenthal, brought mandamus pro- 

 ceedings in the Supreme Court against the Secre- 

 tary of State to compel the insertion of the name of 

 Thomas E. Watson as candidate for Vice-President 

 in the appellation of the People's party ticket on 

 the official ballot, and the court granted the appli- 

 cation. Associate-Justice Johnston dissented from 

 the judgment of the court, for the reason that the 

 alternative writ alleged that this addition to the 

 appellation of the People's party was intended to 

 deceive the voters of the State, and that this fact 

 stood confessed under the pleadings in the case. 



The first Democratic convention was held at 

 Topeka, June 2. In the contest over the basis of 

 representation at the meeting of the Central Com- 

 mittee the silver wing of the party was successful, 

 and in the convention only four votes were opposed 

 to the adoption of the platform, which declared for 

 free coinage at the ratio of 16 to 1 without reference 

 to the action of other nations, and instructed the 

 delegates to Chicago " to demand and insist that 

 said resolution [on coinage], or one that in all re- 

 spects is equivalent thereto, be incorporated in the 

 national platform, and that said delegates be fur- 

 ther instructed to vote for no man for President or 

 Vice-President whose history and past public record 

 do not give full assurance that he is in entire har- 

 mony therewith, and to vote as a unit on all ques- 

 tions arising in said national convention." The 

 sentiment of the convention was in favor of fusion 

 with the Populists. 



The Democratic convention for nominating State 

 officers was held at Hutchinson, Aug. 4. A con- 

 ference committee was sent to meet the Populists, 

 who were holding their convention at Abilene, and 

 at length a plan of fusion was agreed upon. It was 

 agreed that if Watson should get more electoral 

 votes outside of Kansas than Sewall, then the Demo- 

 cratic-Populist electors of Kansas, if chosen, should 

 cast their votes for him ; otherwise they should cast 

 them for Sewall ; and the Democrats were to ratify 

 the State nominations made by the Populists. 



A free-silver convention was. held at Topeka, 

 July 16. Delegates to the national convention at 



St. Louis were chosen, and the delegates were in- 

 structed to vote for Bryan. The platform was con- 

 fined to declarations upon free coinage, and Senator 

 Teller and his associates were commended for leav- 

 ing the National Republican Convention. 



The Prohibition party held a State convention at 

 Topeka, July 17, with 27 delegates. Presidential 

 electors were chosen and the following State ticket : 

 For Governor, Horace Hurley; Lieutenant Gov- 

 ernor, George Hollingberry ; Secretary of State, II. 

 II. Geyer; Treasurer, John Biddison ; Auditor, J. 

 D. Talmadge ; Attorney-General, J. T. Merry ; 

 Superintendent of Public Instruction, Mrs. Virginia 

 Greevar ; Congressman at Large, M. Williams. 



The National party met in convention Aug. 18; 

 and named electors and the following ticket : For 

 Chief Justice, R.S.Silver; Governor, Henry L.Douth- 

 ard ; Lieutenant-Governor, Edward Clark; Secretary 

 of State, T. S. Walker; Auditor, Levi Belknap; 

 Treasurer, J. II. Murray; Attorney-General, Mis. 

 Lucio 0. Case; State Superintendent. C. II. Mc- 

 Clerkin : Congressman at Large. J. D. Botkin. 



The National Democratic party held a conven- 

 tion at Topeka, Aug. 25, and named delegates to the 

 Indianapolis convention, but no State ticket. The 

 resolutions repudiated the Chicago platform as un- 

 Dcmocratic and unpatriotic and the nominees of 

 that convention, and declared the gold-standard 

 Democracy of Kansas to be in favor of the nomina- 

 tion of a third candidate for President and Vice- 

 President. by the convention to be held at Indian- 

 apolis. 



In an effort to unite the temperance voters of 

 the State, a convention was called to nominate 

 independent Prohibition candidates at Topeka, 

 Sept. 30. Rev. J. E. Brant was nominated for Gov- 

 ernor, and promised to accept if the other two 

 Prohibition candidates would withdraw. This they 

 refused to do, and Mr. Brant declined. Rev. A. 10. 

 Kepford was nominated Oct. 14. 



In the November election the Bryan electors re- 

 ceived 171,810 votes ; McKinley, 159,541 ; Palmer, 

 1,209; Levering, 1,921. The Vote for Governor 

 stood : Leedy. Democrat-Populist, 168,041; Morrill, 

 Republican, '160,530; Hurley, Prohibition, 2,347; 

 Kepford, Independent Prohibition, 703 ; Douthard, 

 National Prohibition, 757. The entire fusion ticket 

 was chosen. In 4 congressional districts Popu- 

 lists were elected, Republicans in 2, and a Demo- 

 crat in 1. The Republicans will have 11 votes in 

 the State Senate and 49 in the House; the Popu- 

 lists will have 27 in the Senate and 64 in the House; 

 the Democrats 2 in the Senate and 9 in the House ; 

 and the Free-silver Republicans 3 in the House. 

 The Populists have 5 of the 6 judges of the Appel- 

 late Court. 



KENTUCKY, a Southern State, admitted to the 

 Union June 1, 1792 ; area, 40,400 square miles. The 

 population, according to each decennial census since 

 admission, was 220.955 in 1800; 406,511 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. 



Government. The following were the State offi- 

 cers during the year : Governor, William 0. Brad- 

 ley ; Lieutenant Governor, W. J. Worthington ; Sec- 

 retary of State, Charles Finley ; Treasurer, G. W. 

 Long; Auditor, Samuel II. Stone: Superintendent 

 of Public Instruction. W. J. Davidson ; Attorney- 

 General, W. S. Taylor ; Commissioner of Agricul- 

 ture, Lucas Moore all Republicans; Insurance 

 Commissioner, D. N. Comingore ; Land Register, 

 C. 0. Reynolds; Inspector and Examiner, Colum- 

 bus W. Lester; Inspector of Mines, C. J. Norwood; 

 Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals, William S. 

 Pryor; Associate Justices, Joseph II. Lewis, James 



