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CONNECTICUT. 



measures that are calculated to elevate, educate, and 

 improve his condition, and we hereby indorse the po- 

 sition taken by its representatives in the last Legisla- 

 ture who upheld the ten-hour law, weekly payments, 

 the restriction of child-labor, and an absolutely secret 

 ballot. To the passage of these measures the Demo- 

 cratic party stands committed. And we believe in 

 giving to the true friends of labor the enforcement of 

 all measures designed to benefit the wage- earners. 



The Republican State Convention met in 

 Hartford three weeks previously, and made 

 the following nominations: For Governor, 

 Phineas C. Lounsbury; Lieutenant-Governor, 

 James L. Howard; Secretary of State, L. 

 M. Hubbard; Treasurer, Alexander Warner; 

 Comptroller, Thomas Clark. The platform 

 favors a protective tariff, protests against the 

 removal from office of worthy and disabled 

 Union soldiers to make places for partisan 

 civilians and ex-Confederates, and demands 

 that the surplus in the Treasury be steadily 

 applied to the reduction of the national debt. 

 The following are among the other planks : 



The Eepublican party has always been the firm 

 friend of labor against all who would oppress or en- 

 slave it, and every measure in State or nation which 

 will tend to protect the workingman from dangerous 

 foreign competition or from home degradation, or im- 

 prove or dignify his condition, will meet with our un- 

 qualified approval. It declares its hostility to the im- 

 portation of the cheap labor of foreign countries, 

 under contract; to the employment of convict-labor 

 in such manner as to come into injurious competition 

 with free labor ; to the granting of any more land to 

 railroad or other corporations, and to the selling of 

 the Government lands to land syndicates or to aliens. 

 We favor the incorporation of organizations of work- 

 ingmen for the improvement of their members and 

 the protection of their interests, and we pledge our- 

 selves to such legislation as will tend to restore that 

 harmony which should always exist between the em- 

 ployer and the employed. In furtherance of these 

 declarations, and in order that they may be carried 

 into execution (on a proper basis), we believe that 

 the fullest intelligence is requisite for the preserva- 

 tion of a just equilibrium between the great industries 

 of the country. To this end we favor the establish- 

 ment of a national department of industries and labor, 

 to gather such necessary information as will give a 

 correct starting-point for future legislation. We de- 

 nounce the attempt of the Democratic party at the 

 last session of Congress to change the tariff laws, as 

 an attack upon American labor, and calculated to re- 

 duce the wages of the laboring-man and degrade his 

 condition. 



The traffic in intoxicating liquors is justly charge- 

 able with being a great cause of poverty, ignorance, 

 and crime. Our existing local-option laws are in 

 accord with the State's ancient theories of local gov- 

 ernment, and the ^Republican party is ready, as it 

 always has been, for the enactment of such laws, 

 tending to eradicate the evils of intemperance, as may 

 be demanded by public sentiment. 



We demand an honest and thorough enforcement 

 of the civil-service law, and, as far as practicable, 

 we favor the extension of its principles to municipal 

 and State administrations. 



The sacredness of the ballot is the safeguard of 

 the republic, and we renew our declarations against 

 fraud, violence, and intimidation wherever and how- 

 ever practiced, whereby the right of any citizen, white 

 or black, in any part of this country, to cast one ballot 

 and have that ballot fairly counted and returned, is de- 

 nied, abridged, or imperiled. 



We believe the Territory of Dakota, by past pre- 

 cedents and by the letter and spirit of the Constitu- 



COREA. 



tion, is manifestly entitled to a place among the sis- 

 terhood of States, and we condemn the Democracy in 

 Congress for refusing its admission to the Union. 



S. B. Forbes was the Prohibition candidate 

 and H. C. Baker the Labor candidate for Gov- 

 ernor. The following was the result of the 

 vote for Governor on the 2d of November: 

 Democratic, 58,818; Republican, 56,920; Pro- 

 hibition, 4,699 ; Labor, 2,792; scattering, 15; 

 total, 123,244. As a majority is necessary to 

 elect, there was no choice of State officers by 

 the people, and the Republican candidates 

 were elected in 1887 by the Legislature, which 

 is Republican, having 14 Republicans and 10 

 Democrats in the Senate, and in the House 138 

 Republicans, 109 Democrats, and 2 Labor men. 

 Democrats were elected to Congress from the 

 first, second, and fourth districts, and a Re- 

 publican from the third district. 



COREA, a kingdom of Eastern Asia, called by 

 the natives Cho-sen (" Morning Calm "), bound- 

 ed by the possessions of China and Russia and 

 by the Sea of Japan. 



Political Divisions. Corea is divided into eight 

 do or provinces (see map in " Annual Cyclopae- 

 dia " for 1885), which, in the main, have natu- 

 ral boundaries of mountain or river, and are 

 the basins of the streams that drain them. They 

 are subdivided into three hundred and sixty 

 prefectures, which include the vast number of 

 outlying islands but not the thirty districts, 

 relics of mediaeval feudalism, which are inde- 

 pendent of the provincial jurisdictions within 

 which they lie. The natives of Ham-kiung 

 province are the best people of the peninsula 

 morally, intellectually, and physically ; those 

 of Kiung-sang, standing next, have dark skins 

 and luxuriant beards, "resembling," as a na- 

 tive says, " the Arabians," who once traded 

 with them. The people of Ping-an rank third. 

 Those of Whang-hai most nearly resemble the 

 Chinese, and are ranked, in the view of most 

 Coreans, the poorest and lowest of all. The 

 Kang-wen people, slight in physique, are strong 

 mentally. In the home province, or Kiung- 

 kai, there is an unusual proportion of the offi- 

 cial class, as well as of traders and adventurers. 



Government. The King, Ni-Hiong, is thirty- 

 five years old, and has two sons. The Ni dy- 

 nasty was founded in 1392. The Queen is of 

 the Ming family, and a woman of great ability. 

 Below the King, with the triple premiership 

 and Royal Council, rank the governors of the 

 provinces. The senior premier nominates to 

 the sovereign three men for each do or circuit. 

 From these the King chooses one. The gov- 

 ernor holds office for thirty months, but may 

 be renominated. He has the power of life and 

 death, and freely uses it. His retinue consists 

 of 1,000 persons, that of the King being 3,000. 

 Over each prefecture is a magistrate nominated 

 by one of the royal ministers. 



Cities and Ports. Seoul (capital), or Han-yang 

 (the royal residence on the Han river), is a city 

 situated about twenty miles from the mouth of 

 the Han or chief river of the peninsula (lati- 



