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KANSAS. 



KENTUCKY. 



silver and removal of all restrictions on its coinage, 

 retirement of national-bank notes and substitution 

 of Treasury notus, commonly called greenbacks, m 



f. That \\e favor a tariff for revenue only. 



o! Tli at upon the jealous preservation of the right 

 of Vocal self-jrovernment to State and municipality in 

 nil matters of a local import, free from dictation or 

 interference by Federal authority in any form, po- 

 litical or judicial, depends the perpetuity of our 

 form of government as a democratic republic. 



10. That it is the duty of the State in the protec- 

 tion of society against convicted criminals, and in 

 performing its duty in teaching them useful voca- 

 tions and fitting them for future usefulness, to pro- 

 vide for the protection of mechanical labor against 

 the damaging competition involved in the present 

 system for the employment of convict labor, and to 

 provide that the profits arising from such labor shall 

 inure to the State and not to corporations or associa- 

 tions. 



11. That as a measure essential to the protection 

 of the agricultural and commercial interests of the 

 State, the Legislature should at its next session 

 enact a law regulating the rates of charges for trans- 

 portation and travel on all railroads within the 

 State. 



13. That for the purpose of developing the agri- 

 cultural interests of the West, and insuring to the 

 producer the just reward of his industry, we are in 

 favor of all proper measures for the improvement of 

 our Western rivers. 



15. We demand the repeal of the unjust and op- 

 pressive act of Congress of March 3, 1875, which 

 compels citizens of our State to travel hundreds of 

 miles from their homes, at great expense, to attend 

 cases in the Federal courts, when the same cases 

 could be tried in the State courts, and in the county 

 where the defendant resides. 



16. We do hereby declare the Democracy of Kan- 

 sas to be in favor of liberty of individual conduct, 

 unvexed by sumptuary laws. 



17. The action of the Democratic House of Kepre- 

 sentatives of the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Con- 

 gresses is entitled to the highest commendation for 

 wise and economical legislation, whereby many mil- 

 lions of dollars were saved to the people of the na- 

 tion at large. 



The National candidates were as follows: 



for Governor, Mitchell ; for Lieutenant- 



Governor, Alfred Taylor; for Secretary of 

 State, T. P. Leach; for Auditor, A. B. Cor- 

 nell ; for State Treasurer, A. G. Wolcott ; for 

 Attorney-General, Frank Doster; for School 

 Superintendent, J. P. Foot; for Chief Justice, 

 II. P. Vrooraan. 



The election was held on November 5th, and 

 the result was as follows : Governor St. John, 

 R., 74,020; Godin, D., 37,208; Mitchell, N., 

 27,057. Lieutenant-Governor Humphrey, R., 

 76,242; Ummethum, D., 35,447; Taylor, N., 

 26,735. Secretary of State Smith, R., 77,- 

 734; Barton, D., 34,420; Leach, N., 26,286. 

 Auditor Bonebrake, R., 76,708 ; Shannon, D., 

 34,958 ; Cornell, N., 26,168. Treasurer Fran- 

 cis, R., 76,815; Black, D., 34,991; Wolcott, 

 JS., 25,941. Attorney-General Davis, R., 

 76,482; Cox, D., 53,417; Doster, N., 4,259. 



chool Superintendent Lemmon, R., 76,854; 

 McKein, D., 34,741 ; Foot, N., 26,438. Chief 

 Justice Horton, R., 76,752; Buggies, -D.. 34,- 

 953 ; Vrooman, N., 26,503. 



The vote for members of Congress was as 

 follows: 



The members of the State Legislature are 

 politically divided as follows : 



KENTUCKY. The last session of the Le- 

 gislature of this State commenced on January 

 14th. One of the first acts passed related to the 

 call of a State Constitutional Convention. It 

 provided for the submission of the question to 

 a vote of the people, which was fixed to take 

 place at the general election in August ensuing. 

 This vote is not by ballot, but the statute di- 

 rects that " it shall be the duty of the clerks or 

 judges conducting the said general election to 

 propound distinctly to each voter the following 

 interrogatory : ' Do you vote for calling a con- 

 vention or not ? ' and if he answers in the af- 

 firmative, his name shall be recorded as having 

 voted for calling a convention." 



Another act established six per cent, as the 

 legal rate of interest ; and all contracts at a 

 greater rate than the legal interest shall be void 

 as to the excess over the legal rate. 



Another act forbids the sale by a licensed 

 person of any spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors 

 by the drink or otherwise, or giving knowingly 

 to any person who is an inebriate, or in the 

 habit of becoming intoxicated or drunk by the 

 use of any such liquors, or to suffer or permit 

 any such person to drink any of such liquors, 

 or the mixture of either, in his bar-room, saloon, 

 or in or upon any tenement or premises in his 

 possession or under his control. The penalty is 

 a fine of fifty dollars and a forfeiture of license. 

 In addition the guilty person, with the sureties 

 on his bond, is made liable to a civil action for 

 damages by the wife, or the father, or the 

 mother, or the child of such inebriate, or per- 

 son so in the habit of becoming intoxicated or 

 drunk, in which punitive damages may be as- 

 sessed. To establish this liability, however, 

 there must have been served upon the person 

 a written notice forbidding such sale. 



Another act creates a State Board of Health, 

 which shall consist of six members and a Sec- 

 retary, appointed by the Governor with the 

 consent of the Senate. The Board has the gen- 

 eral supervision of the interests of the health 

 and life of the citizens of the State ; shall study 

 the vital statistics of the State, and endeavor to 

 make intelligent and profitable use of the col- 

 lected records of deaths and sickness among the 

 people. They shall make sanitary investiga- 

 tions and inquiries respecting the causes of dis- 

 ease, and especially of epidemics, the causes of 



