MICHIGAN. 



The ticket was: For Governor, John YV. 



:\ Lieutenant-Governor, George II. Sher- 



Sertvtary i-f Stair, l-'r;ink M. Vandercook ; 



Tivu.Miivr. .li.x-ph W. Weltoii ; Auditor- 



(irm-ral. ' 'arrollton IVck : Attorney-General. A. 



A. Kills; Superintendent of I'uNic Instruction, 



i> .M. <;r;i\v< ; Ciiiiiiiiiioiier State Land Office, 



William lj. Harden. 



'I'ln- Stati- 1 'emocratic Convention, which met 

 at Muske^on in May, declared tariff reform to 

 IT tlic great issue of the coming campaign, made 

 a deinnnu on the Government for a clear water 

 i-om the Great Lakes to the ocean, and in- 

 structed t he delegates chosen to go to Chicago 

 to \<>te for the nomination of Air. Cleveland. 

 The State ticket was nominated in convention at 

 ( i rand Rapids, Aug. 17. The most significant 

 resolution was the one on silver coinage: 



Retained, That we condemn the Republican party 

 tor demonetizing and degrading silver, and thus 

 bringing upon the country the train of evils result- 

 ing therefrom: and \ve would commend to our repre- 

 M'Htatives in ( 'ongros the fact that a large majority 

 of the people of this State are in favor of restoring 

 silver to its time-honored and rightful place as the 

 coin of the nation, coequal with gold. We demand 

 that henceforth tin; issuing of all circulating medium 

 !>c made under acts <>f Congress through the National 

 Treasury in such amounts" as the business wants of 

 the country require. 



Following is the ticket: For Governor, Allen 

 I'. Morse; Lieutenant-Governor, James P. Ed- 

 wards: Secretary of State, Charles F. Marskey; 

 Treasurer. Frederick Marvin; Auditor General, 

 'i Vannier; Attorney-General, Adolphus 

 A. Kills: Commissioner of State Land Office, 

 George F. Shaffer; Superintendent of Public 

 Instruction, Ferris S. Fitch. 



Later in the year, William Newton was made 

 the nominee for the office of Justice of the Su- 

 preme Court by both the Democratic and Peo- 

 ple's parties. 



The Republican convention met at Saginaw 

 on July 20. The resolutions approved the plat- 

 form and nominees of the national convention, 

 and condemned long sessions of the Legislature, 

 as follow : 



Long sessions of the Legislature are an unnecessary 

 expcH-e t" the public, and we condemn the practice, 

 and pledge the people that if the Republican partv 

 has control of the next Legislature the business will 

 be done with fidelity and promptness. 



That the next Legislature should submit to the 

 people a constitutional amendment providing that all 

 compensation ;,, legislators should cease at the expira- 

 tion of one hundred days from the date such I.'i r i- 

 hit urc shall convene. 



That we condemn the practice of railroad com- 

 panies in giving passes to, and the same bcin^ a< - 

 eepted by, le<rislators and other public oltiei:i' 

 demand that such laws shall be enacted as will effec- 

 tually put a stop to this evil. 



On the subject of the existing Democratic 

 administration the resolutions read as follow: 



We condemn the present State Democratic adminis- 

 tration for its subserviency to the exactions of polit- 

 ical dcinaL'oirues who have forced upon the intelligent 

 people of Michigan the nefarious Miner law, a 

 ure which every fair-minded citi/en condemns, and 

 which Demcveratic leaders favor only in States where 

 there is a Republican majority. As illustrating the 

 methods and practices of the Democratic party, we call 



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attention to the brazen theft of the Senate of the State 

 during iU last session, by unlawfully and corruptly 

 scatini,' two usurpers in that body by the action of 

 less than a constitutional <|in>nii n't hereof, nuking it 

 possible to enact the infamous Miner law; the un- 

 scrupulous gerrymander of the eougrcfMonai. 

 torial, and representative district*, and much other 

 legislation which is a di>gra<-e to any civili/ed ; 

 prominent .aiming which is the law loweril 

 illuminating oils at the dictation of the Standard oil 

 Company. 



While pretending to reform the executive and other 

 departments, it has been an example of inciipaeitv and 

 nepotism, and has so mismanaged State institutions 

 in securing parties in control of them, and subse- 

 quent inetticicnt management, as to seriously impair 

 their usefulnc.-s and imperil their future. 



Michigan Republicans, briefly recalling a few of the 

 more salient features <>f Democrat rule in this State, 

 refer to the whole record, and ask the co-operation of 

 all good citizens in redeeming the State from such 

 misrule, in order to restore it to its former proud place 

 as one of the best and most economically governed 

 States of the Union. 



Following is the ticket : For Governor, John 

 T. Rich; Lieutenant-Governor, J. Wight Gid- 

 dings ; Secretary of State, John W. Jochim ; 

 State Treasurer, Joseph F. Hambitzer: Auditor- 

 General, Stanley W. Turner ; Commissioner of 

 Land Office, John G. Berry ; Attorney-General, 

 Gerritt J. Diekema: Superintendent of Public 

 Instruction, Henry R. Pattengill. 



Frank E. Hooker was nominated, in Septem- 

 ber, for Justice of the Supreme Court. 



The municipal elections in April were gen- 

 erally favorable to the Republicans. In the No- 

 vember election the whole State Republican 

 ticket was successful, excepting, in the office of 

 Attorney-General. A. A. Ellis, whose name was 

 on the tickets of both the Democratic and the 

 People's parties, receiving 223.741 votes to his 

 opponent's 222,149. The vote for Governor 

 stood: 'John T. Rich, 221,228; A. B. Morse, 

 205,138: J. W. Ewing, 21,417; John Russell, 

 20,777 ; errors, 76 ; total, 468.637. 



The vote on a proposed convention for the re- 

 vision of the Constitution gave: Yeas, 16,948; 

 navs, Ki.'J to. 



The result of the State canvass on presidential 

 electors gave Mr. Harrison a plurality of 20,412 

 on a total vote of 465,355. distributed as follows : 

 Harrison. 222,708 ; Cleveland, 201,296; Weaver, 

 19.782 ; Bidwell, 20,596. 



The State Legislature will have 88 Repub- 

 licans and 44 Democrats. 



MINNESOTA, a Western State, admitted to 

 the Union May 11, 1858; area, 83,365 square 

 miles. The population, according to each decen- 

 nial census since admission, was 172.0'.?:$ in isr.ii; 

 439,706 in 1870: 780,773 in 1880; and l.:S01,g26 

 in 1890. Capital, St. Paul. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year: Governor, William R. 

 Mcrriam. Republican : Lieutenant -Governor, 

 Gideon S. Ives; Secretary of State. V. P. Brown; 

 Auditor, Adolph Bierman ; Treasurer. Joseph 

 Bobleter; Attorney-General. M-e- K. < lapn: 

 Superintendent of Public Instruct ion. I>. L. 

 Kichle: Insurance Commissioner. ('. P. Bailey; 

 Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners, John 

 1'. Williams, John L. Gebbs, George L. Becker; 

 Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. James Gil- 

 fillan ; Associate Justices, Loren W. Collins, 



