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ernor, and candidates for presidential electors. 

 Among the resolutions adopted were the fol- 

 lowing : 



Resolved, That this convention request the coming 

 Kepublicau National Convention to provide that in all 

 future national conventions representation shall be 

 proportionate to the Kepublian votes cast for Presi- 

 dent in the last preceding presidential election. 



We reaffirm our approval of the policy of prohibit- 

 ing the dram-shop, and our sympathy with every 

 judicious movement looking to the amelioration of the 

 evils of intemperance. 



The Democratic State Convention met in 

 Bangor June 17, and took similar action. Its 

 nominee for Governor was John F. Redman. 

 The platform included the following : 



Resolved, That we are in favor of some system of 

 reform in the civil service by which appointments to 

 office may be separated from the domain of party poli- 

 tics, and not be either a reward to partisans or used to 

 secure further advancements of those in whom the pow- 

 er of appointments resides. 



The straight Greenback State Convention 

 was held in Augusta on the 30th of April. W. 

 F. Eaton was nominated for Governor. On the 

 following day the Prohibition Home Protec- 

 tion party nominated "William T. Eustis for 

 Governor. In October the " People's " party 

 held a convention in Portland, adopted a plat- 

 form, and nominated presidential 

 electors favorable to Benjamin F. 

 Butler. At the election on the 8th 

 of September the Republicans were 

 successful. Four Republican Con- 

 gressmen and 31 Republican Sena- 

 tors were elected, unanimous delega- 

 tions. Of the members 01 the House 

 of Representatives, 115 are Repub- 

 licans, 33 Democrats, 2 Greenback- 

 ers, and one an Independent. The 

 vote for Governor gave Robie 78,- 

 318; Redman, 58,503; Eaton, 3,017; 

 Eustis, 1,151. 



The following was the vote for 

 Presidential Electors on November 

 4: Blaine, 72,209; Cleveland, 52,- 

 140 ; Butler, 3,952 ; St. John, 2,160 ; 

 Elaine's plurality, 20,069. 



MAKART, HANS, an Austrian paint- 

 er, born in Salzburg, in 1840; died 

 in Vienna, Oct. 3, 1884. He entered 

 the Vienna Art School after com- 

 pleting his studies in the gymnasium 

 in 1858. In a few months he was 

 dismissed for lack of talent. A 

 painter, who knew the talent of the 

 silent, dreamy youth, and the rare 

 aesthetic sensibility that he inherited 

 from his mother, took him into his 

 atelier in Munich, where he assisted 

 in arranging collections of art. In 

 1861 Piloty received him in the list 

 of his pupils, of whom he soon became the 

 most famous. His first painting was "La- 

 voisier in Prison," painted in 1862. The "Af- 

 ternoon Entertainment of Noble Venetians," 

 produced the following year, showed his tal- 



ent for brilliant and harmonious coloring. He 

 readily found purchasers, and with the price 

 of the two pictures made art- journeys to Paris, 

 London, and afterward to Italy. His next 

 works were "Falstaff in the Wash-basket" 

 "The Knight and the Water-Fairies," a "Leda," 

 and a landscape with Roman ruins. These 

 lesser productions were followed by his fa- 

 mous series of paintings, " The Plague in Flor- 

 ence," which established his reputation, and 

 created an excitement throughout Germany. 

 The admiration of his brilliant coloristic treat- 

 ment, wonderful carnation, and powerful com- 

 position, was offset by the indignation of those 

 who were shocked at the daring realism with 

 which he depicted the orgies of the despairing. 

 The painter's fame as a colorist was extended 

 by the " Modern Amorettes," painted in 1868. 

 In 1869 he accepted the invitation of the Em- 

 peror Francis Joseph to settle in Vienna. The 

 large studio given him was furnished so splen- 

 didly and fantastically that it became one of 

 the sights of Vienna. Here he painted his two 

 allegorical pictures called " Abundance," repre- 

 senting the gifts of the earth and of the sea. 

 Finding his rooms too small, he built a new 

 atelier, which he decorated in like manner, in 

 1872. In 1873 he completed the colossal can- 



HANS MAKART. 



vas of " Catherine Cornaro." His design for 

 the curtain of the Stadttheater and the sensu- 

 ous "Cleopatra" had more of the dramatic 

 power of his first great work. The winters of 

 1875 and 1876 he spent, under his doctor's ad- 



