MISSOURI. 



the effort to commit the party to a policy which can 

 only i' nd in disa- 



But at the State convention April 15, at Serial ia. 

 the free-coinage Democrats were in control, and a 

 platform was adopted which demanded free coin- 

 f silver, and declared we arc opposed to the 

 issuing of interest-bearing bonds of the United 

 States in time of p< lally are we opposed 



to placing the Treasury of the Government under 

 the control of any syndicate of bankers and the 

 issuance of bonds 'to be sold by them at an enor- 

 mous profit for the purpose of supplying the Fed- 

 eral Treasury with gold for maintaining the policy 

 of gold monometallism." 



The delegates to the national convention were 

 instructed to vote as a unit. The convention de- 

 clared for K. P. Bland as candidate for the presi- 

 dency. 



The second Democratic convention was held Aug. 

 5 at Jefferson City. The State ticket follows : For 

 Governor, Lon V. Stephens ; Lieutenant Governor, 

 A. II. Bolte; Secretary of State, A. A. Lesueur ; 

 Auditor. James M. Seibert ; Treasurer, Frank Pitts : 

 Attorney-General, E. C. Crow : Justice of the Su- 

 preme Court. Theodore Brace ; Railroad and Ware- 

 house Commissioner, Timothy J. Hennessey. 



The Prohibitionists, at their State convention in 

 Sedalia, May 8, refused to incorporate in the plat- 

 form a plank favoring the free coinage of silver at 

 a ratio of 16 to 1, and tabled a resolution recom- 

 mending that the national convention change the 

 name of the Prohibition party to National party. 

 The resolutions favored an income tax, Govern- 

 ment ownership of railroads, restricted immigra- 

 tion, and just pensions, and opposed appropriation 

 of public money to sectarian institutions. The cur- 

 rency resolution read : " The money of the country, 

 whether gold, silver, or paper, should be issued by 

 the General Government only, and in sufficient 

 quantity to meet the demands of business, and no 

 individual or corporations should be allowed to 

 make any profit through its issue : all money should 

 be legal tender of all debts, public and private." 



Following is the ticket : For Governor. H. P. 

 Faris ; Lieutenant Governor. J. M. Ritchey ; Secre- 

 tary of State. E. E. McClellan : Auditor. J. 0. 

 Rolfe; Treasurer, Rev. I. T. Hull; Attorney-Gen- 

 eral. J. C. Hughes ; Judge Supreme Court. Lewis 

 Adams: Railroad Commissioner, W. E. Sullivan. 



The first State convention of Republicans was 

 held in St. Joseph, May 12. and there was a lively 

 contest between two factions. It was not until 

 after 11 o'clock at night that the Committee on 

 Credentials was ready to report and the convention 

 was finally called to order. The committee sub- 

 mitted two reports, the majority favoring the Filley 

 delegations and the minority favoring the seating 

 of all the contesting delegations and dividing the 

 vote between the two factions. The majority re- 

 port was adopted without debate. 



The convention did not adjourn until 4:30 in 

 the morning. The resolutions declared for protec- 

 tion, reciprocity, and the gold standard, and in- 

 structed the delegates to vote for McKinley. Mr. 

 Filley was elected chairman of the Stale Central 

 Committee and one of the delegates at large to the 

 national convention. 



The Republicans met again in convention in 

 Springfield. July 22, but the first day passed before 

 they were able to effect a permanent organization. 

 The second day the report of the Committee on 

 Credentials was ready and was accepted, and the 

 business of the convention was completed. The 

 resolutions, besides approving the action of the 

 national convention, denounced the employment of 

 convicts in competition with free labor, opposed 

 appropriations of public money to sectarian insti- 



tutions, declared for fair play in the* apportionment 



of the congressional, senatorial, and judicial 

 tricts, and deplored the "communistic tend. 

 of the Democratic party as enunciated in the Chi- 

 platform." 



Robert E. Lewis was nominated for Governor 

 on the sixth ballot. The other candid. 

 Lieutenant Governor. A bra ('. IVttijohn; JuiL r - 

 Supreme Court. Rudolph Ilirzel; Secret iu . 

 State, William P. Freeman: Treasurer. .!. F. Gme- 

 lich; Auditor. John G. Bishop: Attorney-General, 

 John Kennish : Railroad Commissioner, Geonre X. 

 Stale. 



The convention of the People's party met in Se- 

 dalia, July 30. About 600 delegates were present. 

 The resolutions approved the national platform, 

 declared belief " in a national issue of Government 

 money direct to the people, without the interven- 

 tion of banks, sufficient to do the business of the 

 country on a cash basis, and made receivable in 

 payment of all debts, dues, and demands, public 

 and private," and declared for " the free and un- 

 limited coinage of gold and silver at a ratio of 16 

 to 1 and their application to the payment of the 

 national debt." They opposed issues of bonds, de- 

 manded the ''enactment of a statute providing that 

 all evidences of debt, not in judgment, shall be pre- 

 sented the. assessor, and assessed, and have his 

 stamp upon them, to be collectible by law"; de- 

 manded also that mortgaged property be assessed 

 to both mortgagor and mortgagee, and taxes collect- 

 ed from them in proposition to their interest. They 

 called for reductions in salaries, exclusion of aliens 

 from ownership of land, some form of initiative 

 and referendum, restricted immigration, and re- 

 vision of the Federal Constitution. 



Various resolutions were offered on the subject 

 of fusion with the Democratic party of the State, 

 and the matter was finally left to the State Com- 

 mittee. The ticket chosen was: For Governor, 

 0. D. Jones ; Lieutenant Governor, James H. Hil- 

 lis : Secretary of State, Thomas Day ; Auditor, 

 Sheridan Webster; Treasurer, Oscar Wood : Attor- 

 ney-General, Frank E. Richey : Railroad Commis- 

 sioner. E. F. Cowan ; Justice of the Supreme Court, 

 John M. Voris. 



An arrangement was made in September by 

 which the Democrats and the Populists united on 

 an electoral ticket, four places being given to the 

 Populists. In October Mr. Jones withdrew from 

 the State ticket, and the place was not filled. 



The Socialist-Labor party chose a ticket, as did 

 also the Silver party ; but the court decided that 

 the latter ticket could not be printed on the official 

 ballot, many of the signet's of the petition having 

 participated" in other conventions. 



The Gold-standard Democrats assembled in con- 

 vention in St. Louis, Aug. 26. The resolutions re- 

 affirmed the Democratic platform of 1892, ap- 

 proved President Cleveland's action in sending 

 troops to Chicago, declared for the use of both 

 gold and silver as standard money, for coining both 

 gold and silver into money of equal intrinsic and 

 changeable values, such equality to be secured by 

 international agreement or by such safeguards of 

 legislation as will insure the maintenance of the 

 parity and equal power of every dollar at all times. 



Delegates to the national convention at Indi- 

 anapolis and presidential electors were chosen. 

 The State ticket follows: For Governor, John McD. 

 Trimble: Lieutenant Governor. Albert F. Oster- 

 man: Secretary of State. Daniel Mclntyre : Treas- 

 urer, William Mcllrath ; Auditor, Edward R. Por- 

 ter: Attorney-General, Nicholas D. Thurmond; 

 Railroad and' Warehouse Commissioner. II. A. lv -- 

 ter: Justice of the Supreme Court, Theodore Brace. 



The vote for presidential electors stood, as offi- 



