DELAWARE. 



DENMARK. 



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again denounce the conspiracy which, under 



tin name of the Democratic purl \ , coiit iuu.-s to mis- 



n tliis State, which confines to odious officials the 



to deny our citizens tin- equal oi>|H>rtunity to 



qualify to vote, :nil ha-, 1 >\ an art <it unparalleled 



centralization, rivm to the Governor tin- |>ovvcr to ap- 



.\heiv his partisans us registrars; that 



turned out of ottiee in New Castle County the col- 



of taxes appointed according to law, and put 



in tin- hands of one man the power over the payment 



of taxes and the qualification of voters, a>id by an act 



rymandcr endeavored to place the control of 



that OOUnty ill a lev\ e.,iirt to I.e elected by a llli- 



norit.\ and not by a majority of its people. 



U .' eall the attention of the people of the State to 

 the faet that this prolonged and hitherto successful 

 undertaking to control our State government by the 

 disfraiichiscment of its eiti/.cns ha* brought its legiti- 

 mate fruit in a crop of defalcations of officials, and to 

 mi extent hitherto happily without precedent in our 

 hiMorv ; and that the only remedy is to let all public 

 officials know that they hold their offices under a 

 responsibility to the people, untrammeled and free by 

 their votes to pass judgment upon their public serv- 

 ant.-. 



\\ c declare with emphasis all the more forcible be- 

 muse of recent events, that a convention should be 

 promptly called to revise the Constitution of this 

 State, and we believe that the vote lust had should be 

 taken as sufficient for that purpose ; and we denounce 

 the had faith that has characterized every pretended 

 step hitherto taken by the Democratic party in that 

 direction. 



The Congressional Convention was held at 

 Dover, Aug. 18, when a platform substantially 

 the same was adopted. Rev. Jonathan S. Willis 

 was nominated for member of Congress. 



The Democrats met in State Convention May 

 17, chose delegates to the Chicago Convention, 

 declared in favor of Mr. Cleveland, and adopted, 

 among other resolutions, the following : 



That the principle of the McKinlev tariff and its 

 connate laws of customs administration are fatal to 

 commercial welfare and freedom, to the interests of 

 labor in every department, and violate every princi- 

 ple of equality in the law and before the law which 

 our Constitution was intended to secure. 



That the Democracy of Delaware are opposed to 

 any plan which will deprive them of their present 

 standard of value. That the business of the country 

 requires stable money, and no monetary system can 

 be justified that admits a fluctuating measure and 

 substitutes fictitious for real payment. Therefore we 

 insist that every dollar authorized by the Govern- 

 ment shall be intrinsically worth its nominal value, or 

 be convertible at the will of the holder into a dollar 

 capable of sustaining its own full nominal value :m\ - 

 when- in the civilized world. 



The August convention renominated John W. 

 Causey for member of Congress. 



The Prohibition party met in State Conven- 

 tion at Dover, Sept. 22. The platform con- 

 demned all license laws as wrong in principle 

 and powerless for good, recommended an educa- 

 tional qualification for the franchise and I lie rc- 

 ino\al of all restrictions on voting by reason of 

 sex, declared in favor of restricted emigration, u 

 new State Constitution, an elective judiciary, 

 and local representation. Lewis M. Price was 

 made the nominee for member of Congress. 



The People's party held its State Convention 

 at Dover, Oct. 11. The plat form approved that 

 of the National Convention of the party, de- 

 manded the equal taxation of all property, in- 

 cluding bonds and mortgages, the abolition of 



all unnecessary offices, the reduction of all 

 salaries to a basis rorre-pomiing with the re- 

 duced prices of the products of labor, the filling 

 of all oflices by the people at election-, mid the 

 abolition of |>oll tax and license charges; de- 

 clared that the oyster beds of the State should 

 not be mononoli/ed by any corporation, but 

 should be held for the benefit of the whole peo- 

 ple; that the "extortionate charges made by the 

 railroads of the State in comparison snth the 

 charges made from Cape Charles " are in defi- 

 ance of the interstate commerce law: and thnt 

 exist ing political parties are responsible for all 

 the legislation of which we complain, and the 

 very conditions to which they have brought us 

 call a new party into existence to secure us any 

 reforms in behalf of the people." E. P. Har- 

 nish was nominated for member of Congn 



Still another candidate was Henry Hubert, 

 nominated for Congress on the ticket of the In- 

 dependent Colored Republicans. 



At the November election the Cleveland elect- 

 ors received 18,529 votes, and the Harrison elect- 

 ors 17,951 votes, giving Cleveland a plurality of 

 578. Congressman Causey was re-elected by 

 about the same vote. 



DENMARK, a kingdom in northern Europe. 

 The Constitution of June 5, 1849, which was al- 

 tered in 1855. but. restored in its main features 

 on July 28, 1866, vests the executive authority 

 in the King, acting on the advice of responsible 

 ministers, and the law-making power in the 

 Rigsdag, acting in conjunction with the King. 

 The Upper House of the Rigsdag is the Lands- 

 thing, consisting of 66 members, of whom 12 are 

 nominated by the King and 54 are elected under 

 a restricted franchise by an indirect vote. The 

 Folkething, or popular chamber, contains 102 

 members, who are elected for three vears di- 

 rectly by the universal suffrage of male Danes 

 over twenty-nine years old. Members of both 

 houses are paid at the same rate. The Rigsdag 

 meets annually on the first Monday in October. 

 All taxation and appropriation bills must be 

 presented first in the Folkething. 



The reigning sovereign is Christian IX, born 

 April 8. 1818, who succeeded to the throne on 

 the death of Frederik VII, Nov. 15, 1863. The 

 heir-apparent is Prince Frederik, born May 26, 

 1842. The State Council, constituted June 11, 

 1875, consists of the following members : Pre-i- 

 dent of the Council and Minister of Finance, 

 Jacob H. S. Estrup; Minister of the Interior. II. 

 G. Ingerslev, appointed Aug. 7, 1885: Minister 

 of Justice and f >r Iceland. .1. M. V. Nellemann ; 

 Minister of Foreign Affairs, Otto Ditlev, Baron 

 Kosenu-rn-Lclin ; Minister of War, Col. J. J. 

 Bahnsen, appointed Sept. 13, 1884 ; Minister of 

 Marine. Commander N. F. Ravn. appointed Jan. 

 4, 1879; Minister of Public- Instruction and 

 Ecclesiastical Affairs, A. II. Goes, appointed 

 July 11, 1891. 



Baron Roseno?rn-Lehn. Minister of Foreign 

 Affairs, died, and his place was tilled by Baron 

 Ketdtz-thott. who was appointed June Id. 



Finance. The revenue in ISDOwas 57. 

 !Hi kroner, and the expenditure 

 kroner (1 krone equals '21 cents). For 1892-1)3 

 the budget estimate of revenue was 54,688,- 

 1-21 kroner, of which 85,981.000 kroner rep- 

 resent customs, excise, and other indirect taxes. 



