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of an executive who has governed not in the interest that the fourteenth and fifteenth amend- 



of any party or .clique, but with an eye single to the me nts do not affect the question of female 



paramount good of the whole people. suffrage; that "history and common-sense" 



A conference committee of nineteen mem- refute the notion that women have under these 



bers from each convention was appointed to amendments acquired any rights they did not 



agree upon a State ticket. The following was previously possess ; that there is no such thing 



reported to both bodies, and adopted without as a " natural right " to the suffrage, that 



opposition : For Governor, Gustavus Koer- right being wholly artificial, and bestowed or 



ner ; Lieutenant-Governor, John C. Black ; withheld by that portion of the community 



Secretary of State, Edward Hummel; Auditor, which possesses the power to bestow or with- 



Daniel 6'Hara; Treasurer, Charles H. Lan- hold it. On the general question of the policy 



phear; Attorney-General, Lawrence Weldon. of amending the laws so as to permit women 



Delegates to the Baltimore Convention were to vote, Judge Jameson said "he saw no 



appointed by the Democratic Convention, and ground for refusing it whenever a general 



the duty of nominating presidential electors demand for the suffrage was made by women 



was referred to the State Central Committees themselves." But he added that "if they 



of the two parties in joint session. wish to enter the capitol as legislators, they 



There was a convention of "straight-out " ought to wait till they can effect their entrance 



Democrats on the 25th of August, at which there legally and directly by the door, and not 



the duty of nominating State officers and seek to climb thither some other way through 



adopting a platform was left to the State Gen- passages intended for different purposes." 



tral Committee. The ticket agreed upon by The financial condition of the State is most 



them was as follows: For Governor, Sidney satisfactory. The total receipts of the Treasury, 



Breese ; for Lieutenant-Governor, D. S. Starrs ; for the two years ending November 30th, were 



for Secretary of State, Eth. Sutton ; for Audi- $15,252,055.52, made up of the following items : 



tor of Public Accounts, C. H. Wisterman ; for Balance on hand December 1, 1870 $4,502,970 88 



m-nfa TrAoanrAT TT^nrv Wpt frr AttnrriPv Reserve Fund 3,445,38686 



btate Ireasurer, -Henry \v est , lor Attorney- gtate Deht Fund 1,105 401 so 



General, George A. Meech. The name of interest Fund 6,72047 



BenimainG. Wright was afterward substituted School Fund.. 1,809,108 50 



for that of Sidney Breese, for Governor. The ttSSSERStt:^""." liff 



Committee also called upon Democrats in Unknown and Minor Heirs' Fund 74229 



different parts of the State to keep up their Local Bond Interest Fund 1,864,666 77 



independent organization and make " straight- Total receipts $15,252,055 42 



out "Democratic nominations for the Legis- The di8bursementB for the same period 



ature and for local offices It was also resolved amounted to $ i 3 , 20 l,275.14, drawn from the 



That we have no sympathy with traitors and varioug funds * ^ fo i lowin ' g proportions : 



will not vote for any man who does not sup- R Fund * 4 312 g^ ^ 



port true Democratic principles, as enunciated stTt^Debt'Fund.. .'.'.."............'....'..... 2,587,982 83 



at Louisville, or who is willing to renounce the Interest Fund 310,912 33 



party which formed this government and se- Sa^taiiu^Pd;V;;;.V:.V:: tJmS & 



cured its infant prosperity, or who IS Willing Canal Redemption Fund 1,128,307 68 



to see it overthrown by a party which attained SSKdlntStFund"' Fu " d 1 334 342 u 



power in the midst of prosperity, and has since ] d _^,334,342j8 



discarded every principle advocated and sus- Total disbursements $13,201,279 14 



tained by its founders." The principal items of expense during the 



At the election on the 5th of November, the two years were as follows : 



total vote cast for presidential electors was Legislative $693,06292 



429,076 ; of this, those in favor of Grant and Executive 180.158 74 



Wilson for President and Vice-President re- ^S Lai .' .' .' ! '. '. '. \ '. '. \ \ '. '. '. \ \ \ '. \ \ '. '. '. '. W&m 1 



ceived 241,248 ; those for Greeley and Brown, Educational and charitable 205,316 73 



184,770 ; those for O'Conor and Adams 3,058 ; ^li^^;;;;^v; $ g 



majority in favor of Grant and Wilson, 56,478. Agriculture 39,00703 



The entire Republican State ticket was chosen. ?P mm . er P e 1 :; : A 5IMi & 



The whole vote for Governor was 437,043, of ^fflaS^rrr^r.V::. SS 81 



which Oglesby received 257,774; Koerner, Local Bond Funds..: 1,334,34276 



197,084 ; and Wright, 2,185 ; majority for The balance remaining in the Treasury, on 



Oglesby, 40,690. the 1st of December, was $2,050,776.28. 



The right of women to vote was denied by The total bonded debt of the State, on the 



Judge Jameson, of the Supreme Court, in the 30th of November, 1870, was $4,890,937.30, 



early part of the year, in a case brought by and since that date, under an act approved 



two women against the inspectors of election October 20, 1871, revenue deficit bonds have 



for refusing to register them as voters. The been issued amounting to $250,000, which in- 



court took the ground that citizenship does creased the debt to $5,140,937^30. Payments 



not involve the right to vote ; that women are were made on this principal during the two 



citizens as minors are, and may be made voters years, amounting, in the aggregate, to $3,080,- 



if the people please, but are not now voters; 786.67, which left the debt, on the 1st of De- 



