NEW JERSEY. 



577 



election. Sncb rewards, to the amount of 

 $10,000, were offered to whoever should be 

 instrumental in detecting the frauds, and ar- 

 resting the offenders. 



At the election, 91,656 votes were cast for 

 the Republican electors, and 76,456 for the 

 combined Democratic and Liberal parties. The 

 following members of Congress were elected, 

 all of whom, except the representative from 

 the fourth district, are Republicans : 



seen in the defeat and disgrace which have almost 

 everywhere fallen upon that party in the late elec- 

 tions, and that the same ought to convince every 

 Democrat, who has not lost his reason and his love 

 of truth, that it is a crime against his party and his 

 country to continue the already defeated and con- 

 demned alliance with the Greeley-Sumner radicalism 

 another hour. 



3. Resolved, That, as those exalted statesmen 

 0' Conor and Adams are the only Democratic candi- 

 dates now before the people for the office of Presi- 

 dent and Vice-President, they ought to receive the 



support of every honest Democrat, or of every one Districts. Majority. 



who does not consent to the surrender of the name I. John W. Hazleton 6,364 



or the principles of Democracy to the enemy. II. Samuel A. Dobbins 2^405 



4. Resolved, That, inasmuch as there is now no . Amos Clark, Jr 2,176 



Democratic party in K ew Jersey, except that which . Rober^Ilam^or, . . 2,464 



is represented in this convention, we earnestly rec- v \; Marcus! , Ward s'Si 



ommend the immediate and permanent organization vil! Isaac W. Scudder. '.'.'.'.'.'.'.'. '.'. l'269 

 of the party in every county in the State. 



5. Resolved, That no Democratic nominations for The ordinary monetary transactions! of the 

 Congress having been made in the first, fifth, and State are conducted through the State Fund. 

 sixth districts of New Jersey, we recommend to the The securities now comprised in this fund are 

 Democracy of those districts to put candidates in the 00 f^n^, 



field if convenient. as tollows 



. , 2.887 shares of stock of Joint Companies $288,700 00 



Owing to the great importance of the ap- Bonds of United Companies 500,00000 



preaching election, and the prevalence of ru- ^A^SSSSfSSS^KK^. 



mors that the wealthy corporations of the Bonds of the several counties for surplus 



State intended to control the votes of their revenue of the United States 764,67044 



employe's as far as possible, Governor Parker, Total ~$i 587370 44 



on the 21st of October, issued the following _, . . 



proclamation e i^ win g statement shows the income 



Whereas, On 'the thirty-first dav of March, in the * *? State Fund > duri f the ^ fis <^ W 



year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and and tne sources whence it was derived: 



seventy-one, the Legislature of this State passed an RECEIPTS. 



act relative to bribery, whereby it was enacted that, Tax on United Companies-. $298,129 05 



in addition to anv punishment then imposed by Tax on capital stock of railroads 186,16414 



statute or the common law, any person convicted of S^^^^^LS**" M % 



the offences named in said 'act ftonld be deprived of ^SSSSSUSS^ otheY StaVesV ' \ '?'5g SS 



the right of suffrage ; that any corporation, whose Pedlers 1 licenses '.'.'.'.'.'.'.'. ? 988 00 



managers, officers, or agents, with the consent of Civil commissions ".. 69700 



said corporation, should use its money or property Attorneys and counsellors 210 00 



for the unlawful purposes therein specified, shall Fines and forfeited recognizances 2,327 50 



forfeit its charter; and that the party to an act of CommisBioners of deeds for other States.... 715 00 



bribery who first complained of thJ other .party fSTaxel ^Kg" money for ' Library ^ 



should be exempt from the pains and penalties of Fund) 174,025 42 



law ; and Balance in bank to" credit of this fund, Octo- 



Wkereas, On the twenty-sixth day of March, in the ber 31, 1871 116,294 38 



year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and 



seventy-two, a supplement to said act was passed ta $896,447 59 



extending its provisions to the election of the elec- I n hi s message to the Legislature, the Gov- 



States Tnd 3 - 6nt Vice - President of the Umted ernor calls attention to the fact that it will be 



Whereas, The maintenance of the purity of the necessary to devise means of increasing the 



elective franchise is necessary to the preservation of revenue, in order to meet the current expenses 



a republican form of government ; of 1873. 



Therefore, I, Joel Parker, Governor of the State During the year the public schools were 



^ W tfcTato C r n uS"t ^itrin^tS jjetf P . (" JwS -boat nine and a 



the statute relative to bribery at the elections by nail months, which is believed to be more than 



promptly causing the arrest and prosecution of all the average time in any other State. The 



who shall violate the same. total number of children between the ages of 



And I exhort all good citizens to give their influ- fl vp nru i pip-htppn vpnr<* n<a rptnrnprl hv +T,o 



ence and assistence to the public authorities in their , e , g *n i ,1 n' T? 



efforts to maintain the purity of the ballot. school-census, is 2 < 9,149, being an increase m 



The Executive will, by the use of all the legitimate one year of 13,191. Of these about 35,000 



means, cooperate with officers and citizens in bring- attend private schools, and 178,826 are enrolled 



ng to justice all who may incur the penalties pre- i n pu hlic schools. The number of teachers in 



snbed by said laws. JOEL PARKER the * pub]ic schools is g^ bdng ftn increage 



For the purpose of giving effect to this proc- during the year of 144. The value of school 



lamation, the Democratic and Liberal Eepub- property in the State is estimated at about 



lican parties, through their respective State $5,000,000. The total amount expended for 



Central Committees, offered a reward of $200 school purposes, during the year, was $2.263,- 



for every person who should be convicted of 070. The average daily attendance of the State 



fraudulent voting, of procuring fraudulent vot- Normal School was 640. Every county of the 



ing, or of making fraudulent returns of the State was represented among the pupils, and 



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