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and all debts, except where an agreement has^ been 

 made to pay in coin ; said currency to be inter- 

 changeable into 3.65 registered bonds at the option 

 of the holder. 



Resolved, That the national-bank system is one of 

 the greatest swindles ever perpetrated on a patient 

 people, practically allowing aggregated capital to 

 purchase Government securities at ninety per cent, 

 discount from their face. We are in favor of the 

 immediate retirement of the national-bank currency, 

 with suitable provision for banks of discount and 

 deposit. 



Whereas, "We recognize in the present depressed 

 condition of industry, in the rapid growth of great 

 monopolies, in the increasing disparity of classes, 

 in the corruption of government, national, State, 

 and municipal, and in the general demoralization of 

 public opinion, the existence of some great funda- 

 mental evil that lies at the basis of our social and 

 industrial system, which no merely remedial meas- 

 ures are able to reach : 



Resolved, That we hereby invite the delegates of 

 all labor organizations throughout the land to meet 

 us at Philadelphia on the 3d day of July, 1876, to 

 confer together on the state of the nation, especially 

 in relation to the national industry, ana to devise 

 such means as are adequate for securing justice to 

 all classes of our citizens ; and 



Whereas, All the political parties and candidates 

 now asking for public support are more or less in 

 the interest of privileged classes, and inimical to 

 the best interests of workiugmen : 



Resolved, That we advise all workingmen to ab- 

 stain from voting for such candidates and from in- 

 dorsing their platforms. 



Resolved, That we recommend the adoption of a 

 political platform to suit the just demands of la- 

 bor, and the nomination of candidates who shall 

 be selected solely and wholly in the interest of 

 labor, and to give them unanimous confidence and 

 support. 



The election, which occurred on the 2d of 

 November, resulted in the choice of the Re- 

 publican candidates. The total vote for Gov- 



ernor was 172,909, of which Rice received 

 83,639, Gaston 78,333, Baker 9,124, Adams 

 1,497, and Phillips 316, with 276 scattering. 

 Rice's plurality over Gaston was 5,306. The 

 largest Republican vote was 97, 902 for Charjes 

 Endicott for Treasurer, giving him a majority 

 of 23,136 over Weston Howland, the Demo- 

 cratic candidate. The Legislature of 1876, 

 elected at the same time, consists of 30 Repub- 

 licans and 9 Democrats in the Senate, and 182 

 Republicans and 58 Democrats in the House ; 

 Republican majority, 21 in the Senate, 124 in 

 the House, and 145 on a joint ballot. 



ALEXANDER HAMILTON RICE, Governor of 

 Massachusetts, was born in Newton Lower 

 Falls, August 30, 1818, his father being Thomas 

 Rice, a paper manufacturer. He was educated 

 at Union College, Schenectady, N". Y., and after 

 graduating in 1844 went into business as a paper- 

 dealer in Boston. In 1856 he was elected to the 

 Common Council, and in 1857 held the office of 

 president of that body ; he became mayor of 

 the city in 1857, and held that office until 1859. 

 During his term of office as mayor, he was 

 active in promoting the best interests of the 

 city, and several important enterprises were 

 successfully carried out by his personal influ- 

 ence and exertions. He was a member of the 

 Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses, and 

 held the position of chairman of the Committee 

 on Naval Affairs during the civil war. Mr. 

 Rice has continued in active business, being 

 still a member of the firm which he entered 

 over thirty years ago. 



A State census of Massachusetts was made 

 this year. The following table shows the sta- 

 tistics of population by counties : 



The population of the cities of the State is 

 as follows: Boston, 341,919; Lowell, 49,677; 

 Worcester, 49,265; Cambridge, 47,838; Fall 

 River, 45,340; Lawrence, 34,907; Lynn, 32, 600; 

 Springfield, 31,053 ; Salem, 25,955 ; Few Bed- 

 ford, 25,876; Somerville, 21,868; Chelsea, 20,- 



695; Taunton, 20,429; Gloucester, 16,754; Hoi- 

 yoke, 16,260 ; Newton, 16,105 ; Haverhill, 14,- 

 628; Newburyport, 13,323; Fitchburg, 12,289. 

 At the beginning of the year the funded debt 

 of Massachusetts was $29,465,204, to which 

 the following additions were made : 



