WISCONSIN. 



875 



The non-productive trust funds aggregate 

 $1,676,013.73, against $1,531,556.06 in 1880. 

 The sum total of the funds, productive and 

 non-productive, is counting school lands at 

 $1.10 per acre, University lands at $2.50, 

 Agricultural College lands at $1.25, Normal 

 School lands at $1.25, and drainage lands at 90 

 cents $5,741,224.63. 



In Wisconsin there are 7,649 Indians, di- 

 vided as follows : 



Oneidas 1,470 



Monomonees 1,460 



Stockbridges 155 



Chippewas of Red Cliff. 726 



Cbippewas of Bad Kiver 786 



Chippewas at Lac Court de Oreilles 1,033 



Cbippewas at Lac du Flambeau 512 



Chippewas at Fond du Lac 404 



Chippewas at Grand Portage 211 



Chippewas at Boise Forte 7D7 



Wiunebagoes 930 



Pottawatouiies (Prairie Band) 280 



The Republican State Convention was held 

 in Madison on the 21st of September. The 

 following nominations were made: For Gov- 

 ernor, Jeremiah M. Rusk ; for Lieutenant- 

 Governor, Samuel S. Fitield ; for Secretary of 

 State, Ernst G. Timme; for State Treasurer, 

 Edward C. McFetridge; for Attorney-General, 

 Lsander F. Frisby ; for State Superintendent, 

 Robert Graham ; for Railroad Commissioner, 

 Nils P. Haugen ; for Insurance Commissioner, 

 Philip L. Spooner, Jr. The more important 

 resolutions of the platform were as follows: 



Rxolved, That to President Chester A. Arthur, 

 called upon as ho is, under the most delicate and try- 

 in? circumstances, to assume the responsible duties of 

 Chief Mi.jistr.ite of our country, we express our cor- 

 dial good- will and earnest desire for the successor his 

 administration. With confidence in his judgment, 

 integrity, and patriotism, we look to him for a pure, 

 honest/and efficient discharge of official duty, and a 

 wise and dignified conduct of the national govern- 

 ment. 



Jlesolvti, That we reaffirm our belief of and attach- 

 ment to all the great principles upon which the Re- 

 publican party was founded, and for which it has dur- 

 ing its past history contended. We reaffirm the prin- 

 ciples laid down in the Chicago platform of 1880. 

 We declare that the Constitution of the United States 

 is the supremo law, and not a contract between the 

 States. We reaffirm the principles that the duties 

 levied for the purpose of revenue should so discrimi- 

 nate as to protect American labor : that further grunts 

 of the public domain should not be made to any rail- 

 way or other corporation ; that polygamy must die ; 

 that everywhere the protection accorded to a citizen 

 of American birth must be secured to the citizens of 

 American adoption ; that wo esteem it the duty of 

 Congress to develop our water-courses and harbors, 

 but insist that further subsidies to private persons or 

 corporations shall cease ; that our gratitude to the 

 men who preserved the integrity of the republic on 

 the dav or battle is undiminished by lapse of time ; 

 that the financial system under which the present 

 hi,'h state of prosperity enjoyed by the country has 

 been reached, must not be disturbed. 



liesolvel, That in the continued growth of the 

 country in population, wealth, and enterprise, we 

 recognize the necessity for ever increasing ch:ui:_'i's 

 and improvements in legislation, both State and na- 

 tional. We would mention, as among the subjects 

 demanding immediate and earnest legislative atten- 

 tion, those of corporate ami interstate commerce ; a 

 better regulation of our national civil-service system ; 

 definite rules for determining the result of presiden- 



tial elections, and specific laws defining the constitu- 

 tional term " inability of the President." 



Kesolved, That our present civil-service system, 

 planned in the infancy of the republic, is poorly 

 adapted to the needs of a nation of over tiny millions 

 of people, and such legal regulations aa will adapt it 

 to the wants of the increased population and general 

 growth of the country, and as will comport with the 

 dignity of the Government and best protect the rights 

 of both public officers and the people, are imperatively 

 demanded by the highest interests of all classes and 

 parties. 



The Democratic State Convention met in 

 Milwaukee on the 28th of September, and 

 nominated the following ticket : For Governor, 

 N. D. Fratt ; for Lieutenant-Governor, W. A. 

 Anderson; for Secretary of State. Michael 

 Johnson; for State Treasurer, William H. 

 Jacobs ; for Attorney-General, M. J. Briggs ; 

 for State Superintendent, Robert Graham (Re- 

 publican, indorsed); for Railroad Commis- 

 sioner, Ambrose Hoffman ; for Commissioner 

 of Insurance, Rudolf Kemper. 



In their platform they denounced " the com- 

 bination of capital and corporate influence for 

 the purpose of dictating the election of Sen- 

 ators and Representatives in Congress and 

 members of the State Legislatures, and for the 

 purpose of fostering monopoly and controlling 

 legislation." 



They denounced the use of money in politics, 

 and cordially pledged their " aid to insure both 

 moral and legal condemnation of candidates to 

 public offices by means of direct or indirect 

 bribery, or the equally reprehensible barter of 

 personal or official influence." 



The convention avowed itself opposed to 

 temperance legislation "as an encroachment 

 upon personal liberty, and an invasion of the 

 inherent rights of man." 



The Prohibitionists nominated Theodore D. 

 Kanouse for Governor ; Harvey S. Clapp for 

 Lieutenant-Governor ; Edmund Bartlett for 

 Secretary of State ; ratified Robert Graham, 

 the regular Republican nominee, for State 

 Superintendent; John Nader for Railroad 

 Commissioner ; Thomas Bracken for Insur- 

 ance Commissioner; John Sutton for Treas- 

 urer ; and E. G. Comstock for Attorney-Gen- 

 eral. 



Their convention met in Madison on the 

 29th of September, and was called because, in 

 the language of the committee, " the Republi- 

 can Convention, after full consideration, de- 

 liberately refused to grant the request of the 

 temperance people ' to submit all great ques- 

 tions of public policy, such as liquor prohibi- 

 tion, and any other questions upon which the 

 people are divided, and for the submission of 

 which a respectable number of citizens may 

 petition the Legislature, to the popular vote, 

 in order that such questions may be separated 

 from all party strife, and u verdict of the peo- 

 ple be rendered upon their merits in a non- 

 partisan manner.'" 



At the election in November tho la-publican 

 ticket was successful. The following is tho 

 vote for Governor : 



