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NEW HAMPSHIKE. 



Whereas, The past political year has been one of 

 unusual indications and marked changes, we are 

 grateful for the evidence that right principles have 

 gained many advantages in the convictions of think- 

 ing millions, and in the more distinct defining of the 

 position of parties and policies, and we see encourage- 

 ment for continued labor for the right : therefore 

 Resolved, That we offer our unalterable opposition 

 to the manufacture, importation, and sale of intoxi- 

 cating liquors, to be used as a beverage. 



Resolved, That all history demonstrates that licens- 

 ing the sale of intoxicating liquors is not only wrong 

 in principle, but as a means of suppressing' intem- 

 perance has failed. 



Resolved^ That the traffic in intoxicating drinks is 

 a wrong of such magnitude that its suppression is 

 imperatively demanded by both national and State 

 legislation, enforced by a vigilant Executive. 



Resolved, That the liquor interests of this country 

 being fully organized politically, supporting no man 

 in any election who is in any way disposed toward 

 the total-abstinence cause, all temperance men should 

 politically unite in opposing them, remembering that 

 in the present attitude of the temperance question 

 there can be no neutral ground. "He that is not 

 with us is against us." 



Resolved, That the gigantic swindles and corrup- 

 tion with both the Democratic and Republican par- 

 ties are but the natural consequences of the course 

 pursued by both of those parties in shameless office- 

 seeking, and in the use of bribery and other forms 

 of corruption in carrying elections, and appointing 

 men to office because they are office-seekers and sub- 

 servient tools of party. 



Resolved, That we extend our hearty thanks to 

 those members in our last Legislature who sustained 

 the principles of prohibition, and especially to those 

 Democrats who, standing on their manhood, refused 

 to obey the mandates of party drill. 



Resolved, That we favor a speedy return to specie 

 payments, and that we insist on an honest and eco- 

 nomical administration of the Government, a large 

 reduction both in the number and salaries of officials, 

 a just and equal system of taxation, the most liberal 

 educational system for the masses, and every possible 

 encouragement to labor. 



Resolved, That, believing in independept action as 

 a political organization, we urge upon the friends of 

 prohibition to avoid alliance or coalition with either 

 of the old political parties. 



m Resolved, That we heartily honor the noble Chris- 

 tian women who have made a crusade against the 

 terrible trade which was carrying constant grief and 

 shame to their households. 



Resolved, That we hereby indorse, as an exponent 

 and supporter of our principles and objects, the Pro- 

 hrtifoon Herald, as having dope and as still doing a 

 go d work; that we pledge for it our patronage as 

 an efficient organ in our mission, by subscription, 

 contribution, and efforts to increase its circulation 

 through the State. 



Nathaniel White, of Concord, who received 

 seventy-one of the ninety votes cast, was de- 

 clared nominated for Governor, and his nomi- 

 nation made unanimous. 



For the office of Railroad Commissioner, 

 David Heald, of Milford, was nominated by ac- 

 clamation. 



The election held on March 9, 1875, resulted 

 m no choice of either Governor or Eailroad 

 Commissioner. The whole number of votes 

 cast in the State was unusually large, having 

 amounted to 79,205. Of these the Democratic 



candidate received 39,121, the Republican ! 

 292, the Prohibition party's nominee 773 or 

 little more than one-third of the number cast 



for the Temperance candidate in 1874, when it 

 was 2,097. The votes given to the candidates 

 for the office of Railroad Commissioner were 

 in about the same proportions. 



Concerning the members of the State Legis- 

 lature, the result of the election was as fol- 

 lows: For the House of Representatives, Dem- 

 ocrats, 180 ; Republicans, 192. For the twelve 

 seats in the Senate, Democrats, five; Repub- 

 licans, five. In the Second and Fourth Sena- 

 torial Districts, the official returns showed that 

 neither of the candidates had received a suffi- 

 cient number of votes for election. 



The Governor and Council, whose duty it is 

 to inspect the official returns of elections, and 

 announce the result, on canvassing the returns 

 from the Second and Fourth Senatorial Dis- 

 tricts, threw out of the count, in the second 

 district, all the votes given to the Republican 

 candidate, because his name, in the ballots 

 cast for him, was written " Natt," instead of 

 " Nathaniel ; " and in the fourth the votes 

 cast for one among the candidates, because the 

 time of his residence in the State fell short of 

 the seven years required to make him eligible 

 as a Senator. The rejection of these votes 

 from the returns left the number of votes cast 

 for the Democratic candidates in the respec- 

 tive districts more than sufficient for their 

 election, and these the Governor declared to 

 he elected. 



This mode of proceeding on the part of the 

 Governor and Council caused a very great and 

 general excitement in the State. The Repub- 

 licans loudly denounced it as not only arbitrary 

 and unwarranted, hut manifestly contrary to 

 both the spirit and letter of the State constitu- 

 tion, by the express provisions of which they 

 averred that in the Second and Fourth Sena- 

 torial Districts there was no election by the 

 people on March 9, 1875 ; and that the fill- 

 ing of those two vacant seats belonged exclu- 

 sively to the Senate, assisted by the House of 

 Representatives. It was also the cause of con- 

 siderable disturbance in the organization of 

 the Legislature, as well as of legislative and 

 judicial action. 



The members of the legislative body con- 

 vened at Concord for the June session of 1875, 

 on the the 2d day of the month. The House 

 of Representatives was promptly organized by 

 the election of its officers. Charles P. Sanborn, 

 of Concord, Republican, was elected Speaker. 

 The whole number of votes cast was 369, of 

 which Mr. Sanborn received 190 ; his compe- 

 titor, Albert R. Hatch, of Portsmouth, Demo- 

 crat, 179. 



As to the Senate, the five Republicans who 

 had been unquestionably elected signed the 

 following document, and caused it, before the 

 meeting of that body, to be served upon Gov- 

 ernor Weston and his Council : 



The undersigned, Senators-elect for Districts Nos. 

 1, 6, 7, 9, and 10, protest against the oath of office 

 being administered before the Governor and Council 

 to Mr. James Priest and Mr. John Proctor, as Sena- 



