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i.ir. I. <>. Pickering; for Lioutcnant- 



pnor, II. !'. Douthart ; 1'or Secret ar\ nf 



II. U. Stunt-: lor Auditor, (ialiricl Bur- 



. tor Treasurer, JoeJ .Miller; for Attorney- 



ii. I;. II. Nichols; for Superintendent of 



Public Instruction, Miss Ida Hodgdou ; for As- 



te Justice of the Supreme Court, ('. P. 



Stevens; for Congresstuan-at-Large, Kt-v. .1. M. 



Monroe. Before election, the names of C. N. 



llowlett for Auditor, Robert L. Davidson for 



Attorney-General, and Alice M. Henderson for 



Superintendent of Public Instruction, were sub- 



stituted for the first nominees. 



The platform accuses the Republicans of act- 

 ing in bad faith in regard to prohibition, and 

 includes the following: 



\\ ( - ili-plon- the number of pardons granted to per- 

 Min.- Convicted of violating the prohibitory law, both 

 I iv tin- present and past administrations, and declare 

 that the absolute power to grant pardons is as dan- 

 in :i ri-pulilieaii government as is absolute- 

 power to etinileiiui and punish, and should not exist. 

 All power nf the executive to pardon should be lim- 

 ited and regulated by law. 



\Ve are opposed to the calling of a State constitu- 

 tional convention as unnecessary expense, and an at- 

 tempt to sugar-coat resubmission and force it unwit- 

 tingly upon the people. 



<>ur interstate commerce law should he amended 

 so as to prohibit the introduction of intoxicants into 

 prohibition territory. 



No citizen should be denied the right to vote on 

 ai-i-iiiuit of sex, and \vt denounce the double dealing 

 of the Republican party on this question, as shown by 

 their legislative record. 



To the action of the Democratic Convention 

 in surrendering itself to the People's party ex- 

 ception was taken by a large number of Demo- 

 crat s, who refused to be bound by the judgment 

 of the convention, and called a new State con- 

 vent ion. At this convention, held in Topeka on 

 Oct. 7, more than 500 delegates, representing 

 about 50 counties, were present. It was deemed 

 inadvisable to nominate candidates for State 

 ollicers so late in the canvass, but an address to 

 the democracy of the State was issued, advising 

 the voters to defeat the ticket of the People's 

 party, and a platform was adopted, of which the 

 following is a portion : 



The action of the State convention of July 6 in at- 

 tempting to bind Democrats to the support of the so- 

 called IVoplc's party State ticket was a crime without 

 a parallel in the political history of our country. 



We are opposed to legislation which will unneces- 

 sarily disturb the harmonious relations now existing 

 bet wren employer and employee, or which will deprive 

 faithful and honest labor of its just reward. 



We are in favor of a convention to revise our State 

 Constitution. 



We are opposed to the subtreasury and land-loan 

 schemes, ana to the governmental ownership of rail- 

 roads. 



The People's party ticket secured a plurality 

 of t he votes cast at the November election. For 

 Governor, Lewelling received 163,507 votes : 

 Smith, 158,075 ; and Pickering, 4,178. All the 

 ft her People's party candidates, including Con- 

 ROBsman-at-Large, were elected by small plurali- 

 ties. The vote for presidential electors was as 

 follows : People's party, 163,195 ; Republican, 

 r>:.-'H; Prohibitionist, 4,553. Of the 7 con- 

 gressional districts, the Republicans carried ' 

 and the People's party 5. 



In the State Senate of IHM the People's party 

 have a large majority; but in the House, 64 

 Kepiililic;ins, 5H People's party men, li I>emocrats, 

 and 1 Independent Ki -publican wen* elected. 

 Several seats in each House are contested. 



The proposition to call a convention for the 

 purpose of revising the State ( 'oust it ution, which 

 was submitted to the people at this election, was 

 defeated by a vote of 118,41)1 in favor of, and 

 11H,U57 against it. 



KENTUCKY, a Southern State, admitted to 

 the Union June 1, 1792; area, 40,400 square 

 miles; population in 1890, 1,858,635. Capital, 

 Frankfort. 



(jovernnient. The following were the State 

 officers during the year : Governor, John Young 

 Brown, Democrat ; Lieutenant-Governor, Mit- 

 chell C. Alford; Secretary of State, John W. 

 Headley ; Auditor, L. C. Norman ; Treasurer, 

 Henry S. Hale; Attorney-General, William J. 

 I lendrick ; Superintendent of Public Instruction, 

 Kdward P. Thompson ; Insurance Commissioner, 

 Henry T. Duncan ; Register of the Land Office, 

 G. B. Swango ; Commissioner of Agriculture, C. 

 Y. Wilson ; Railroad Commissioners, C. C. Mc- 

 Chord, C. B. Poyntz, and Urey Woodson ; Chief 

 Justice of the 'Court of Appeals, William II. 

 Holt ; Associate Justices, William S. Pryor, Jo- 

 seph H. Lewis, and Caswell Bennett ; Clerk of 

 the Court of Appeals, Abram Addams. 



Finances. Ihe Treasurer suspended pay- 

 ment of claims against the State June 30, the 

 end of the fiscal year, in order to recuperate the 

 funds to pay the $700,000 due the school fund 

 on Oct. 1. There was $218,000 in the treasury, 

 but a deficit of $300,000 in the general ex- 

 penditure fund. The depletion- of the treasury 

 was due to the reduction of taxation by the last 

 Legislature, followed by the long session of the 

 Constitutional Convention and this year's ses- 

 sion of the Legislature. It was expected that 

 the suspension would last till Octouer or No- 

 vember. 



The deficit reported by the Auditor, May 17, 

 was $79,891.77, and he estimated that it would 

 be $200,000 at the close of the fiscal year. 



The direct tax paid from the treasury to de- 

 fray the expenses of the Government during the 

 year was refunded in February. It amounted 

 to $600,000. It was decided last year to have 

 the sum placed to the credit of the common- 

 school fund. It was turned in to meet the gen- 

 eral expenses of the State, and the school fund 

 will be paid 6 per cent, per annum on the 

 amount. 



Education. The report of the Superinten- 

 dent of Public Instruction for the year ending 

 June 30, 1891, was issued in April. The num- 

 ber of white children of school age was 584,078 ; 

 the aggregate of the school fund apportioned to 

 them was $1,314,164.25, and the per capita al- 

 lowance was $2.25. The number of colored 

 school children was 114,139, the amount appor- 

 tioned for distribution was $256,792.50, and the 

 per capita allowance was $2.25. 



The number of white children enrolled was 

 339,550; the highest number in attendance was 

 285,891, and the lowest number 90,814. The 

 number of colored children enrolled was 47,998; 

 the highest number in attendance was 88,994. 

 and the lowest number 12,2-17. 



