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earnings, $72,990.73 ; passengers carried, 346,- 

 784 ; miles run, 123,732. 



The railroad companies contribute in taxa- 

 tion toward the expenses of the State, $484,- 

 732.42. The insurance companies, including 

 fire and life, foreign and domestic, $342,331.- 

 98, and savings-banks, $252,886.10. 



These three great monetary interests pay in 

 taxation more than five eighths of all the ex- 

 penditures of the State. 



The life and fire insurance companies are 

 among the most prominent corporations of the 

 State some of them the largest and most pros- 

 perous in the world. The last report of the 

 insurance department shows that the fire-com- 

 panies had over $23,000,000 of assets, and the 

 life-companies over $105,000,000. 



The report of the Treasurer shows that the 

 funded debt of the State, reduced by the pay- 

 ment of $10,000 during the year, was, Novem- 

 ber 30, 1882, $4,957,600. 



It has cost for the education of the 121,185 

 children in the public schools for the last year, 

 $1,563,065.16; of this sum the State paid 

 $222,773. 



In addition to the cost of public schools, the 

 State expended for public education $49,500 

 for the Normal School, $5,000 for the Storrs 

 Agricultural School, and $8,388.03 for the 

 Board of Education. 



The largest item in the list of expenditures 

 is for charitable, humane, and reformatory 

 purposes. It amounts to over $276,000. It 

 includes the cost for care of 380 boys in the 

 Reform School ; 183 girls in the Industrial 

 School; 1,079 insane persons in the hospital 

 at Middletown, 28 in the retreat at Hartford, 

 24 in hospitals outside the State ; 57 imbeciles 

 in the school at Lakeville ; 146 sick and wound- 

 ed soldiers in hospitals ; 100 soldiers' children 

 in different towns ; 18 blind persons at Boston ; 

 51 deaf and dumb at Hartford, and 241 pau- 

 pers at Tariffville. 



The population of the State, by counties, in 

 1880 and in 1870, was as follows : 



POLITICAL COTSTVENTIONS. The Republican 

 State Convention met at New Haven on Sep- 

 tember 20th, little less than five hundred dele- 

 gates being in attendance, and nominated the 

 following ticket: 



For Governor, William H. Bulkeley, of 

 Hartford; Lieutenant-Go vernor, John D. Can- 

 dee, of Bridgeport ; Secretary of State, Stiles 

 T. Stanton, of Stonington ; State Treasurer, 

 Julius Converse, of Stafford Springs; State 

 Comptroller, Frank D. Sloat, of New Haven. 



The following is the text of the platform 

 adopted : 



The Kepublican party of Connecticut reaffirms its 

 creed of all rights to all men ; the preservation in- 

 violate of each and every constitutional amendment ; 

 a free and fair ballot and the enactment and enforce- 

 ment of appropriate legislation to preserve this right, 

 upon which the integrity of our institutions rests ; a 

 tariff reduced and revised, not only for revenue, but 

 also for the protection of American labor against the 

 labor of the Old World; the abolition of useless 

 offices ; equal taxation and a rigid economy in all de- 

 partments of the nation and the State ; the protection 

 of the rights and liberty of every American citizen at 

 home and abroad ; education under the fostering care 

 of the General and State governments, which shall 

 bring its advantages to the home of the humblest citi- 

 zens ; the purity of the ballot-box and its protection 

 against intimidation, bribery, and corruption ; appro- 

 priate legislation for the encouragement of commerce, 

 the reduction of the burdens of taxation, State and 

 national, and the limitation of expenditures to the 

 necessities of the Government ; a judicious system of 

 civil-service reform, by which competent officers shall 

 be secured for the public service Federal, State, and 

 municipal and protected from assessment and re- 

 moval except for cause. 



The Eepublican party, as an earnest of its future, 

 refers to the record of its past service, both in war and 

 in peace to the suppression of the rebellion, the abo- 

 lition of slavery, the enfranchisement of a race, the 

 resumption of specie payments, the preservation of 

 the honor of the country, the payments of its debt, 

 the universal prosperity at home and peace with all 

 nations. It reveres the memories of its martyred 

 Presidents Lincoln and Garfield and it cordially 

 indorses and supports the administration of President 

 Arthur, who, by his modesty, his capacity, and his 

 fidelity to the interests of the people, and by the wis- 

 dom and courage of his public acts and utterances, 

 has commended himself to the confidence and ap- 

 proval of his fellow-citizens without distinction of 

 party. It believes that all just government derives 

 its authority from the consent of the governed. It 

 has confidence in the integrity and good sense of the 

 people, and is not afraid to submit to them questions 

 which vitally affect their prosperity and well-being. 

 It therefore declares itselfin favor of submitting to 

 the people, at a special election to be held for the pur- 

 pose, the amendment to the Constitution proposed at 

 the last session of the General Assembly relative to 

 the prohibition of the sale and manufacture of intoxi- 

 cating liquors, and of enforcing by appropriate legisla- 

 tion whatever their will may be upon that question. 



For the purpose of promoting economy and watch- 

 fulness in the expenditures of the State, we believe 

 they should be regulated by a system of annual ap- 

 propriations. 



We declare for the encouragement of State indus- 

 tries ; the support of the public schools ; a limitation 

 upon special and private legislation, and the passage 

 of liberal general laws, under which all the citizens of 

 the State shall have equal rights, and none shall en- 

 joy exclusive privileges. 



We declare that the growing influences of the great 

 corporations of the country ought to be jealously 

 watched ; that the assumption of any undue power on 

 their part should be promptly checked, and that the 

 principle that the people must control the corpora- 

 tions and not the corporations the people should be 

 vigorously maintained. 



The Democrats, represented by nearly four 

 hundred delegates from all sections of the 

 State, convened at Hartford on October 4th, 

 and nominated their candidates for the several 

 public offices, as follows : 



For Governor, Thomas M. Waller, of New 

 London; Lieutenant - Governor, George G. 



