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the principles of justice and equity unite in requir- 

 ing the taxation of every species of property accord- 

 ing to its real value, without exemption or discrimi- 

 nation. 



8. That we heartily bid God-speed to the Keform 

 Clubs in their efforts to reclaim our fallen citizens 

 by appeals to their hearts and consciences, and as 

 friends of the temperance reform we condemn that 

 provision of the existing law whereby disreputable 

 men have coined money as spies and informers, to 

 the generating of hypocrisy, the disgust of true tem- 

 perance men, the degradation of the temperance 

 cause, and the prostitution of the machinery of jus- 

 tice in our State. 



9. That the late Eepublican Legislature, in extend- 

 ing its already enormously protracted session for 

 days and weeks for the sole purpose of carrying 

 through unjust, partisan, and unconstitutional mea- 

 sures at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars to the 

 tax-burdened people of the State, basely betrayed 

 its trust and has justly subjected the Republican par- 

 ty to the emphatic condemnation of the people. 



10. That we congratulate our fellow citizens of the 

 South upon their restoration to their rights of local 

 self-government and their relief from carpet-bag 

 plundering and outrage. We extend to them our 

 warmest sympathy and condolence in their present 

 affliction, and earnestly pray they may speedily be 

 spared the ravages of the terrible disease to which 

 they are now subject. ' 



11. That we heartily approve the nominations this 

 day made, and pledge ourselves to an earnest and 

 efficient campaign in the interest of economy, equal 

 taxation, and reform. 



The Democratic nominations for State Coun- 

 cilors and Congressmen were as follows : For 

 Councilors District No. 1, Moses H. Good- 

 rich; No. 2, Joseph 0. Moore; No. 3, John 

 M. Chandler; No. 4, Elisha A. Huntley; No. 

 5, Joseph Burrows. For Congressmen Dis- 

 trict No. 1, Herbert F. Norris ; No. 2, Alvah 

 W. Sulloway; No. 3, Henry O. Kent. 



The Liquor Prohibition party nominated the 

 following State ticket: For Governor, Asa S. 

 Kendall ; for Railroad Commissioners, David 

 Heald, Josiah M. Fletcher, and Ira Sweatt. 



At the election on November 5, 1878, the 

 Republican nominees were generally elected, 

 by greater majorities than at the election of 

 March preceding. The total number of votes 

 polled for Governor was 75,939, distributed 

 among the four candidates as follows : For Mr. 

 Head, 38,175 ; for Mr. McKean, 31,135 ; for 

 Mr. Brown, 6,507; for Mr. Kendall, 91 ; scat- 

 tering, 51. The three Railroad Commissioners 

 and the three Congressmen elected are all Re- 

 publicans. For State Councilors the election 

 in November proved the same as in the pre- 

 vious March four Republicans, one Democrat. 

 As to members of the legislative body, whose 

 number by the new Constitution has been in- 

 creased from 12 to 24 in the Senate, and some- 

 what diminished in the House of Representa- 

 tives, the proportions returned were as fol- 

 lows: For the Senate Republicans, 16; Demo- 

 crats, 4. In four districts there was no choice. 

 For the House of Representatives Republi- 

 cans, 166; Democrats, 104; Greenbackers, 9. 

 ^ NEW JERSEY. The Legislature of this 

 btate commenced its session in Trenton on 

 January 12th. The acts which were passed 



relate almost entirely to local interests. The 

 rate of interest on future contracts was reduced 

 from 7 to 6 per cent. An act was passed re- 

 districting the State for members of the Legis- 

 lature. The State tax was reduced from one 

 mill to a half mill. An act was passed to pre- 

 vent and punish bribery and the attempt to 

 bribe delegates to political conventions. It is 

 as follows : 



Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly 

 of the State of New Jersey, That if any person shall 

 directly or indirectly give, offer, or promise to give 

 any sum or sums of money or other valuable thing, 

 or procure, confer, or give any valuable thing in ac- 

 tion, victuals, drink, or preferment, or other con- 

 siderations, by way of fee, reward, gift, gratuity, or 

 other valuable present or reward, to obtain, procure, 

 or influence the opinion, behavior, vote, or abstain- 

 ing from voting of any delegate to any convention 

 of any political party of this State, to nominate any 

 candidate or candidates for member of the Legisla- 

 ture of this State, for member of Congress of the 

 United States, for Electors for President and Vice- 

 President of the United States, for Governor of this 

 State, or for any candidate for any office in any coun- 

 ty, city, town or township, or borough in this State 

 and if any person, being a delegate to any political 

 convention to nominate candidates for any of the 

 offices named in the first section of this act, shall 

 directly or indirectly ask for, accept, receive of any 

 sum or sums of money or other valuable considera- 

 tion by way of fee, reward, gift, or gratuity, or other 

 valuable consideration, on the promise of giving or 

 refusing to give his vote at any such convention, 

 such person shall be deemed and taken to be guilty 

 of a high misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, 

 shall be punished by a fine or imprisonment, or both, 

 at the discretion of the Court, said fine not to exceed 

 one thousand dollars, nor such imprisonment one 

 year, and such person so convicted shall also be dis- 

 qualified to hold any office of honor, trust, or profit 

 under this State. 



Another act was passed to regulate primary 

 meetings and caucuses of political parties for 

 the nomination of persons to be voted for at 

 any election in the State. It was as follows : 



1. Be it enacted, etc., That no person who is not at 

 the time being entitled to vote, by the laws of this 

 StatCj at the special, general, and local elections held 

 in this State, shall vote at any primary meeting or 

 caucus called or held by any political organization 

 of this State for the nomination or selection of per- 

 sons to be voted for at any such elections, and unless 

 such person is a legal resident of the ward, township, 

 or aldermanic district in which such primary meeting 

 or caucus is held. 



2. And be it enacted, That if any person or persons 

 aforesaid shall vote or offer to vote at any of the 

 aforesaid elections, knowing or having reason to 

 believe himself not entitled to vote as aforesaid, or 

 if any person or persons shall counsel or procure any 

 one to vote as aforesaid, knowing or having reason 

 to believe such voter not entitled so to vote, such 

 person or persons shall be deemed to be guilty of 

 misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall for 

 each offense be punished by imprisonment at hard 

 labor for not over a term of three months, or by a 

 fine of not over one hundred dollars, or both, at the 

 option of the Court. 



The following resolutions relative to the ma- 

 turing obligations of the United States were 

 adopted : 



Be it resolved, etc., That our Senators be, and they 

 are hereby, instructed, and that our ^Representatives 



