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Late in June he addressed an open letter to 1 

 Governor, asking the tatter to join with him in 

 publicly advising the county officials in all eaaes 

 to appoint two inspectors favorable to the Gov- 

 ernor and one favorable to Kolb. The Governor 

 declined to do this, alleging that the eownty offi- 

 cials knew the terms of the law. and it must be 

 presumed that they would obey it. until there 

 should be some evidence to the contrary. The 

 Kolb executive committee then issued elaborate 

 instructions to his followers to assist them in 

 preventing or detecting fraud. The election 

 took place on Aug. Landonthefaceofthere- 

 turns resulted in the election of Jones by a ma- 

 jority of about 11,000, and of the remainder of 

 his ticket by larger majorities. An analysis of 

 the vote showed that Kolb had carried a ma jority 

 of the so-called -white' 1 counties that is, conn- 

 ties where the whiles outnumbered the negroes, 

 and that he had a majority of the total vote in 

 those counties. To overcome this majority, it 

 appeared that Jones had received large majori- 

 ties in the - black ~ counties, where the negroes 

 largely outnumbered the whites. It was churned 

 that the negroes had voted there almost as a 

 body for Jones. On the other hand, Kolb claimed 

 that in those counties he had been denied in- 

 spectors at the polk to protect his interests: that 

 it was notorious that the negroes had not voted 

 in such large numbers as the returns indicated : 

 that the Jones managers, who were in complete 

 control of the election HIM him ry in those coun- 

 ties, had altered the returns to suit themselves, 

 and had defrauded him out of the election. His 

 charges were fortified by speeifie facts and fig- 

 ures, making a strong 'pumrn facie case. He 

 claimed to have carried the State by over 4X1000 

 majority, and announced that he should contest 

 the election before the incoming Legislature in 

 her. Unfortunately, there existed no 

 State law providing ta what manner such a con- 

 test should be conducted: Kolb therefore pub- 

 licly requested Gov. Jones to call a special legis- 

 lative session to frame such a law. in order that 

 the Legislature in November might act at once 

 under it. but the Governor refused. 

 The followers of Kolb styled themteUes Jefier- 



snnian Democrats, but refused to support G rover 

 Cleveland for President, on account of his ex- 

 pressed friendliness toward the Jones faction. 

 Their State committee accordingly issued a call 

 j. 16 for a convention at Birmingham on 

 Sept. 15 to nominate independent candidates for 

 " itial electors, and ako candidates for 

 favorable to the Kolb organization. A 

 convention of the People's party, which 

 was organised in the State at Birmingham, on 

 May 90 of this rear, was called to meet at the 

 same time and* place. A coalition was there 

 formed, and an electoral and congressional ticket 

 was nominated containing representatives of 

 each organization. Resolutions were passed de- 

 nouncing Mr. Cleveland, and condemning the 

 frauds practiced at the August election. The 

 platform contained the following demands : 



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rjees and the candidates of the regular or Cleve- 

 land Democracy. The same alleged dimenMy of 



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 board of inspectors of eteetjon in many of the 



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regular fy "* ticket. In their cluiiifc to 

 secure their rights they caused the arrest of the 

 probate jadge and the clerk of BnOoek Coanty. 

 on Ciet. ia who were brought before the Federal 

 court at Montgomery to answer the charge of 

 violating the law by apppmtint; only Cleveland 

 1ms in certain ihxuon dihtiieta. 

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Confirmation*.-!: appears by the 

 port on confirmation statistics given in the 

 -Ecclesiastical Chronicle" that 214.531 candi- 

 dates were confirmed in 1891: that the annual 

 for the triennial period, -IcW-^l was: 

 ~ aw! Wales, 212JS5: for the prov- 

 _ ofCanterbarr.15S.C69; for the province of 

 York, 39,S, Comparing this triennial period 

 with the previous six years, there was a sSght m- 

 crease,but not amounting to 1 per cent, lor the 

 aunthcrn utoimte; an increase of 2$ per cent, for 

 the northern province; and, ensnaring the 

 perk*- with IgRB-'VL. 10 per cent, for 



Wales. The southern ptuimxe during 1869-*! 

 presented 9 candidates per UBCO popdatina. the 

 northern province 7, and Wales C. The six dk- 

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proportion to popalatioa were: Oxford. 14: Chi- 

 ehester, 13: aaJSansbary, Hereford, WmLhuli . 

 and Canterbarv, each 12 per !,, 



CMToration of CanterWry. The two 

 houses of the Convocation of Canterbury met. 

 Feb. 16. for the dispatch of business. Suitable 

 notice was taken of the death of the Duke of 

 Clarence and Avondale. The upper house, con- 

 curring in a resolution of the tower hoase, ap- 



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pointed a committee on the subject of 

 license from the Crown to amend the 

 the matter of discipline of the 

 Bishop of London spoke of the 

 proceeding in seh matters by < 

 cause of the complication of property 

 which could not be dealt with without the con- 

 sent of Parliament. There were two side? to the 

 question, the ecclesiastical and the temporalade, 

 and it was well that in adjusting them the au- 

 thorities of the Church and the authorities of 

 the state should proceed nan MUM. At the 



