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mission to the electors of a constitutional 

 amendment prohibiting the manufacture and 

 sale of intoxicating liquors of whatever name. 

 The election resulted as follows : 



FOR GOVERNOR. 



David H. Jerome, Republican 149,697 



Josiah W. Begole, Union 154,268 4,571 



David P. Sagendorph, Prohibitionist 5,854 



Waldo May, Greenbacker 2,006 



FOR LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR. 



Moreau S. Crosby, Republican 157,615 8,172 



Eugene Pringle, Union 149,443 



William G. Brown, Prohibitionist 4,440 



FOR SECRETARY OF STATE. 



Harry A. Conant, Republican 157,609 8,487 



William Shakespeare, Union 149,122 



Martin V. Rork, Prohibitionist 4,666 



FOR STATE TREASURER. 



Edward H. Butler, Republican 158,348 9,280 



Lucien 8. Coman, Union 149,068 



Emory L. Brewer, Prohibitionist 4,684 



FOR AUDITOR-GENERAL. 



William C. 8tevens, Republican. . . . . 157,954 8,617 



James Blair, Union 149,337 



John H. Osborn , Prohibitionist 4,404 



FOR COMMISSIONER OF STATE LAND-OFFICE. 



Minor 8. Newell, Republican 158,424 10,714 



John F. Vandevanter, Union 147,710 



Edward C. Newell, Prohibitionist 4,490 



FOR ATTORNEY-GENERAL. 



Jacob J. Van Riper, Republican 157,269 7,933 



Timothy E. Tarsney, Union 149,836 



John H. Tatem, Prohibitionist 4,243 



FOR SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. 



Varnum B. Cochran, Republican 162,594 14,084 



David Parsons, Union 148,560 



FOR MEMBER OF STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION. 



Bela W. Jenks, Republican 157,750 9,252 



Clark B. Hale, Union 148,493 



Isaac W. McKee ver, Prohibitionist 4,352 



The vote for the straight Greenback candi- 

 dates, not named, varied from 1,005 to 2,141. 

 In the above table (copied from the " Michigan 

 Almanac") the " defective" votes are given to 

 the candidates for whom they were intended, 

 while " scattering " votes are omitted. 



The vote polled was not a full one, falling 

 about 40,000 short of the vote on presidential 

 electors in 1880. 



In the congressional districts the vote was 

 as follows : 



FIRST DISTRICT. 



William C. Maybury, Democrat 16,147 4,939 



Henry W. Lord, Republican 11.208 



William G. Brownlee, Free-Trader 773 



SECOND DISTRICT. 



Nathaniel B. Eldredge, Democrat 15,251 542 



John K. Boies, Republican 14,709 



Albert J. Baker, Green backer 1 ,265 



Albert F. Dewey, Prohibitionist 360 



THIRD DISTRICT. 

 Henry C. Hod-e, Union ... . . 16,239 



Edward 8. Lacey. Republican 18,023 1,784 



George Landon, Prohibitionist 268 



FOURTH DISTRICT. 



George Taple, Union 16,328 255 



Julius C. Burrows, Republican 16,073 



FIFTH DISTRICT. 

 Julius Houseman, Union. ... . . 16,725 116 



William O. Webster, Republican. ... . . 16,609 



William H. Taylor, Greenbacker 429 



SIXTH DISTRICT. 



Edwin B. Winans, Union 18,516 82 



Oliver L. Spaulding, Republican 18,484 



Brewer, Prohibitionist 148 



SEVENTH DISTRICT. 



Ezra C. Carleton, Union 11,540 289 



John T. Rich, Republican 11,251 



EIGHTH DISTRICT. 



Charles J. Willetts, Union 13,918 



Roswell G. Horr, Republican 14,872 954 



Benjamin Colvin, Greenbacker 538 



NINTH DISTRICT. 



Stephen Bronson, Union 10,897 



Byron M. Cutcheon, Republican 13,129 2,232 



TENTH DISTRICT. 

 Andrew C. Maxwell, Democrat. 



Herschell H. Hotch, Republican 11,298 8,489 



Jesse Miller, Greenbacker 2,441 



ELEVENTH DISTRICT. 



Peter White, Democrat 4,840 



Edward 8. Breitung, Republican 11,298 6,558 



John Russell, Prohibitionist 881 



In the Forty-seventh Congress the delega- 

 tion was solidly Republican. In the Forty- 

 eighth Congress it will be divided : Democrats 

 or Union, 6 ; Republicans, 5. The members 

 of the Legislature elected are classified : 



Republican majority on joint ballot, 30. 

 Republican majority in the Legislature of 1881, 100. 



Two constitutional amendments were voted 

 upon : 1. Increasing the salaries of circuit 

 judges from $1,500 a year to $2,500. This 

 was adopted by a vote of: Yes, 85,765; No, 

 55,641. 2. Providing for a Board of County 

 Auditors in each county, conditioned on the 

 order of the Board of Supervisors (now the 

 Auditing Board) of any given county. Re- 

 jected by a vote of: Yes, 23,892; No, 38,065. 



The question of a general revision of the 

 Constitution, which the Legislature is required 

 to submit to the electors every sixteen years, 

 was negatived by the following vote: For a 

 revision, 20,937; against a revision, 35,123. 

 The present Constitution was adopted in 1850. 

 In 1866 a revision was voted for and carried. 

 The convention which followed submitted a 

 Constitution differing in many important fea- 

 tures, but their work was rejected by the 

 electors. The Legislature of 1873 provided 

 for a commission to revise the organic law, 

 and an extra session held in 1874 amended 

 the commission's revision, and in November, 

 1874, it was defeated by the electors. The 

 meager vote polled on the question at the 

 last election, as given above, indicates that the 

 mass of the electors care very little whether 

 the Constitution of the State is revised or its 

 outgrown features are perpetuated. 



MINNESOTA. STATE OFFICERS. The Gov- 

 ernor of the State is Lucius F. Hubbard, 

 elected in 1881 ; Lieutenant Governor, Charles 

 A. Gilman ; Auditor, W. W. Bradin ; Secre- 



