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IDAHO. 



ILLINOIS. 



teachings and practices of Mormonism from this Ter- 

 ritory. We make no distinction between those who 

 openly practice the crime of polygamy and those who 

 counsel and assist them, and who are all guilty alike 

 of treasonable practices and teachings against our Gov- 

 ernment, and who are but willing slaves of criminal 

 masters. 



We are unalterably opposed to the setting apart of 

 so vast a portion of the public domain for the purpose 

 of Indian reservations. 



The principle or public regulation of railway corpo- 

 rations is a wise and salutary one for the protection 

 of all classes of people; and we favor legislation that 

 shall prevent unjust discrimination and excessive 

 charges for transportation, and that shall secure to the 

 people and the railways alike equal protection of the 

 laws. 



The Kepublican party, having its birth in a hatred 

 of slave-labor, and a desire that all men may be truly 

 free and equal, is unalterably opposed to placing our 

 workingmen in competition with any form of servile 

 labor. In this spirit we denounce the importation of 

 Chinese contract-labor as an offense against the spirit 

 of American institutions ; and we pledge ourselves to 

 oppose Chinese immigration, to push forward for such 

 further legislation as is necessary to eradicate, from 

 our system, all forms of contract -labor, whether it be 

 prison-labor, or imported contract-labor from Europe 

 or Asia. 



We demand equal pay for equal work for both sexes. 

 We demand the enactment of laws providing for arbit- 

 rament between employers and employed, and to en- 

 force the decision of the arbitrators. 



The Democratic Territorial Convention met 

 at Bellevue on September 10, and renomi- 

 nated John Hailey for delegate to Congress. 

 The following are extracts from the plat- 

 form : 



Resolved, That this convention proudly invites at- 

 tention to the fact that the last Democratic House of 

 Representatives passed bills forfeiting and restoring 

 to the public domain railway land-grants amounting to 

 over 75,000,000 acres, and also the further fact that in 

 the Forty-eighth Congress the Democratic lower house 

 passed the Keagan Interstate Commerce bill, which 

 failed of passage in the Republican Senate ; also that 

 in the last session of Congress the Reagan bill was 

 again passed by the Democratic lower house. 



Resolved, That we denounce the infamous practice 

 of bigamy, polygamy, and unlawful cohabitation ; and 

 that we pledge our party to a rigid enforcement of 'the 

 laws against such crimes, and as proof of our sincerity 

 we point with pride to the record of convictions had 

 by a Democratic United States Attorney before a 

 Democratic judge, during the past year of a Demo- 

 cratic national Administration, which speaks louder 

 than the windy professions unaccompanied by any 

 performances of past Republican officers in Idaho. 



Resolved, That we are unalterably opposed to any 

 dictation in State or political affairs by church domi- 

 nation, as heretofore exercised by the Mormon 

 Church. 



Resolved, That we are unalterably opposed to Chi- 

 nese immigration, and demand the abrogation of the 

 Burlingame-Swift treaty, a legacy of the Republican 

 party, through whose' loop-holes slave-labor creeps 

 upon our shores. 



Resolved, That the rapid increase of the white popu- 

 lation of the United States demands that Congress 

 take speedy and effective steps to have all the Indians 

 in the United States select lands in severally, in quan- 

 tities not to exceed eighty aero* per capita, within the 

 limits of their respective Indian reservations, and 

 that the remainder of the lands on such Indian reser- 

 vations should be restored to the public domain, sub- 

 ject to homestead entry by actual settlers. 



Resolved, That this convention is in favor of the 

 passage of an act of Congress providing for the free 



coinage of both silver and gold, by the terms of which 

 act all gold and silver bullion offered at the several 

 mints and assay-offices of the United States shall be 

 received in exchange tor gold or silver coin, or certifi- 

 cates at the rate now fixed by law for standard dollars 

 of gold and silver, which certificates shall be receiva- 

 ble for all public purposes, and interchangeable for 

 gold or silver, as the case may be, and that there be 

 no discrimination by United States Treasury officials 

 in the use of gold and silver for any purpose what- 

 ever, consistent with existing laws, including the pay- 

 ment of the interest-bearing debt. 



On November 2 the Republican candidate 

 was elected by a vote of 7,842 against 7,416 for 

 his opponent. In the Legislature there are six 

 Republicans, four Democrats, and two Inde- 

 pendents in the Council, and fourteen Repub- 

 licans to ten Democrats in the House. This 

 body met on December 13, and was in session 

 at the close of the year. 



ILLINOIS. State Government. The following 

 were the State officers during the year : Gov- 

 ernor, Richard J. Oglesby, Republican ; Lieu- 

 tenant-Governor, John C. Smith ; Secretary of 

 State, Henry D. Dement; Auditor, Charles 

 P. Swigert; Treasurer, Jacob Gross; Attor- 

 ney-General, George Hunt; Superintendent 

 of Public Instruction, Henry Raab ; Rail- 

 road and Warehouse Commissioners, John J. 

 Rinaker, B. F. Marsh, and W. T. Johnson. 

 Supreme Court : Chief-Justice, John H. Mul- 

 key : Associate Justices, Alfred M. Craig, Ben- 

 jamin R. Sheldon, Simeon P. Shope, Benjamin 

 D. Magruder, John M. Scholfield, and John M. 

 Scott. 



Political. On November 2 an election was 

 held for State Treasurer, Superintendent of 

 Public Instruction, Congressmen, and mem- 

 bers of the Legislature. The Republican can- 

 didate for State Treasurer was John R. Tanner, 

 and the Democratic, II. F. J. Ricker. The 

 Republicans nominated Richard Edwards for 

 Superintendent of Public Instruction ; the 

 Democratic nominee was Franklin J. Olds. 

 The Republican candidates were elected. The 

 vote for State Treasurer was as follows : R( 

 publican, 276,680 ; Democratic, 240,864 ; 

 bor, 34.832 (25,084 cast in Cook county); 

 Prohibition, 19,766; scattering, 1,039. The 

 Legislature consists of 32 Republicans, 17 Dem- 

 ocrats, and 2 others in the Senate; and of 78 

 Republicans, 64 Democrats, and 11 others in 

 the House. Six Democrats (Second, Twelfth, 

 Thirteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Nine- 

 teenth Districts) and 14 Republicans were 

 elected to Corgress. The following amend- 

 ment to the Constitution was adopted by a 

 majority of 19,525 : 



That hereafter it shall be unlawful for the commis- 

 sioners of any penitentiary or other reformatory insti- 

 tution in the State of Illinois to let by contract to any 

 person or persons or corporations the labor of any con- 

 vict confined within said institution. 



Disturbances of the Peace. The Governor, in 



his message to the Legislature of 1887, says- 

 "In April, 1885, the strike of the quarrymen 

 of Will and Cook Counties grew to such di- 

 mensions and assumed such character, that 



