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tinued for a considerable part of 1884, ceased 

 in the spring by the surrender of the men to 

 the terms prescribed by their employers. A 

 disagreement late in the year, as to rate of 

 wages, was referred to arbitration. 



The Legislature. The adjourned session of 

 the Sixty-sixth General Assembly began Jan. 

 6, and closed on May 4. A large number of 

 bills were passed, but none of them were of 

 marked interest. 



Political Conventions. The Republican State 

 Convention was held at Springfield, Jan. 11, 

 and the following ticket was nominated : For 

 'Governor, J. B. Foraker; Lieutenant - Gov- 

 ernor, R. P. Kennedy ; State Treasurer, John 

 0. Brown ; Attorney-General, J. A. Kohler ; 

 Supreme Judge, G. W. Mcllvaine ; member of 

 Board of Public Works, Wells S. Jones. The 

 death of Judges Mcllvaine and Okey before 

 the election necessitated the placing on the 

 ticket, by the State Committee, of two new 

 candidates Thaddeus A. Menthall for the full 

 term, and William T. Spear for the vacancy. 



The Democratic State Convention met at 

 Columbus, Aug. 20, and continued two days. 

 All the State officers were renominated except 

 for Board of Public Works, Henry Weible be- 

 ing chosen for that place. 



WTull State tickets were also placed in the 

 d by the Prohibition and Greenback-Labor 

 parties. 



The Election. The platforms of the several 

 parties contained no distinctive State issues 

 that entered into the contest, except the liquor 

 .question. The Republicans declared for regu- 

 lation of the liquor-traffic by taxation, the 

 Democrats favored regulation by license and 

 the submission of a constitutional amendment 

 for that purpose. The Prohibitionists want- 

 ad absolute prohibition. Other issues were 

 brought in by the speakers, but it was general- 

 ly conceded that the liquor controversy was 

 :he paramount question. The result was the 

 election of all the Republican candidates. The 

 following was the vote on Governor and Lieu- 

 ten ant -Governor : 



GOVERNOR, 

 J. B. Foraker (Republican') 



George Hoadly (Democrat) 841,830 



A. B. Leonard (Prohibition) 28,081 



J. Northrop (Greenback) 2,001 



LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR. 



Robert B. Kennedy (Republican) 860,720 



John G. Warwick (Democrat) 841,809 



William G. Frost (Prohibition) 27,048 



Milton B. Cooley (Greenback) 2,057 



Constitutional Amendments. At the same elec- 

 :ion were submitted several constitutional 

 .imendments. One providing that township 

 officers shall be elected for a term not exceed- 

 ng three years, as may be fixed by law, but 

 ;*hall hold their offices until their successors 

 ure elected and qualified, was ratified by yeas, 

 538,558; nays, 53,177. A group of three 

 imendments had for their object the change 

 of the elections from October to November, to 

 ,ionform to the United States law regulating 

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presidential and congressional elections. The 

 first of the group provided for the biennial 

 election, on the first Tuesday after the first 

 Monday in November, of Senators and Repre- 

 sentatives, the term of office to begin Jan. 1 

 thereafter. This was ratified by 536,273 yeas 

 to 53,223 nays. The second provided for the 

 election of the Governor, Lieutenant-Govera- 

 or, Secretary of State, Auditor, Treasurer, and 

 Attorney-General, on the same day in Novem- 

 ber, which was ratified by 534,669 yeas to 

 53,629 nays. The third provided for the elec- 

 tion of county officers on the same day, for 

 such term, not exceeding three years, as may 

 be provided by law. This was ratified by 

 460,113 yeas to 59,929 nays. 



Election of the Legislature. Great interest at- 

 tached to the election of the Legislature for 

 1886-'87, as it would have the choice of a 

 United States Senator to succeed Hon. John 

 Sherman. The result on the face of the re- 

 turns was as follows: 



Before this result was reached, a controversy 

 arose in Hamilton County, which affected the 

 whole question seriously. During the canvass 

 of the votes in Cincinnati, charges were made 

 of gross frauds at the polls, in the count, and 

 in making up the returns. It was claimed 

 that forgery had been resorted to in order to 

 give the Democrats the whole legislative dele- 

 gation from Hamilton County. County-Clerk 

 Dalton insisted that he must take the returns 

 as they came to him, leaving each branch of 

 the Legislature to decide for itself the right of 

 the members to their places. The courts were 

 appealed to, and an order was obtained forbid- 

 ding him to issue certificates to the Democratic 

 candidates, and directing the manner in which 

 he should canvass the votes. The matter was 

 carried to the Supreme Court, which reversed 

 the action of the court below, and the certifi- 

 cates were given to the four Senators and ten 

 Representatives that were claimed by the 

 Democrats to have been elected from Hamil- 

 ton County, leaving each house to deal with 

 the cases when the Legislature organized. 



ONTARIO* Government. The Lieutenant- 

 Governor is John Beverley Robinson. Execu- 

 tive Council : Attorney-General and Premier, 

 Oliver Mo watt ; Minister of Education, George 

 "W. Ross; Commissioner of Public Works, 0. 

 F. Eraser ; Commissioner of Crown Lands, T. 

 B. Pardee ; Secretary and Provincial Registrar, 

 A. S. Hardy ; Commissioner of Agriculture and 

 Provincial Treasurer, A. M. Ross. 



Immigration. The total number of Immi- 

 grants arriving in the province in 1884 was 

 87,360, of whom 22,855 came by way of the 

 St. Lawrence and Halifax, and 64,505 via the 

 United States. There was a decrease of 10,- 

 165 on the immigration of 1883. There re- 



