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OKLAHOMA. 



by the. McKinley law, and that on behalf of Ameri- 

 can agriculture we demand of Congress an immediate 

 modification of our tariff law such as will secure the 

 admission of these agricultural products into the 

 markets of those countries free from duty. 



The hypocrisy of the Eepublican party in the de- 

 mand in the recent national convention for the right 

 of every citizen of the United States to cast one tree 

 and unrestricted ballot and to have it counted, is 

 made most manifest by its almost uniform opposition 

 to the Australian method of voting recently adopted 

 in Ohio and most of the Northern States ; and on the 

 other hand its advocacy, as an administrative meas- 

 ure, of the infamous Force bill, designed to suppress 

 by violence the elective franchise in nearly one half 

 of the country. 



We favor liberal and just pensions to deserving and 

 disabled soldiers and sailors who fought for the 

 maintenance of the Government, and like pensions to 

 their widows and orphan children. 



The People's Party Convention was held at 

 Massillon, Aug. 17. The following ticket was 

 nominated : For Secretary of State, S. C. Thayer ; 

 Judges of the Supreme Court, E. D. Stark and 

 J. D. Payne; Clerk of Supreme Court, W. E. 

 Beeles; Member of Board of Public Works, 

 James Houser. The platform demanded the 

 manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors by 

 the General Government ; that the right of 

 suffrage shall depend upon qualified citizenship ; 

 proportional representation in all legislative 

 bodies ; absolute power for all municipal govern- 

 ments to regulate their own affairs; opposed 

 convict labor; demanded 2 cents a mile for 

 passenger fares on railroads ; that all taxes 

 on mortgages shall properly be paid by the 

 mortgagee, and to the extent of his interest in 

 the country and township where the property is 

 located ; that all property be listed at its true 

 value ; a reduction of all fees and salaries of 

 public officers to correspond with the shrinkage 

 in the value of property : the abolition of capital 

 punishment ; that the General Government create 

 and issue $500,000,000 of Treasury notes, making 

 them a full legal tender for all debts both public 

 and private, for the improvement of our public 

 roads, apportioned to each State and Territory 

 pro rata with the number of miles of roads in 

 each State and Territory at the rate of $20,000,- 

 000 a month. 



Congressional tickets were placed in the field 

 by the four parties. The election resulted in 

 the success of the Republican State ticket. The 

 vote for Secretary of State being : Samuel H. 

 Taylor (Republican), 402,540 ; William A. Taylor 

 (Democratic), 401,451 ; George L. Case (Prohibi- 

 tion), 25,885 ; Solon C. Thayer (People's), 14,494. 

 The average vote on the other offices was 402,- 

 85(5 Republican and 400,951 Democratic, the 

 variations in the Prohibition and People's can- 

 didates being trifling. The Democrats elected 

 11 congressmen and the Republicans 10. The 

 election for presidental electors held at the same 

 time resulted in the choice of 22 Republicans 

 and 1 Democrat, it being the first time since 

 1852 that a Democratic presidential elector had 

 been chosen in Ohio. The vote for the Repub- 

 lican electoral ticket was 405,187; for the Demo- 

 cratic, 404.115. 



OK LAHOM A, a Territory of the United States, 

 organized by act of Congress approved May 2, 

 1390; area (including the Cherokee country and 

 No Man's Land), 39,030 square miles ; population 



(including Greer County, claimed by Texas), 

 according to the census of 1890, 61,834. Capital, 

 Guthrie. 



Government. The following were the Terri- 

 torial officers during the year : Governor, Abra- 

 ham J. Seay, Republican, appointed in January; 

 Secretary and acting Governor until the appoint- 

 ment of Gov. Seay, Robert Martin ; Treasurer, 

 W. T. Higgie; Auditor and Superintendent of 

 Public Instruction, J. H. Lawhead ; Attorney- 

 General, Charles Brown ; Chief Justice of the 

 Supreme Court, Edward B. Green ; Associate 

 Justices, John G. Clark and John H. Burford. 

 The latter was appointed early in the year to fill 

 the vacancy caused by the appointment of Judge 

 Seay to be Governor. 



Population. On this subject the Governor, 

 in his report for this year, says : 



No official and reliable census of the inhabitants of 

 the Territory having been taken since 1890, the pop- 

 ulation on June 30 of this year can only be approxi- 

 mated, but the commission appointed by Congress to 

 make an enumeration visited all the counties and 

 exercised great care in arriving at the approximate re- 

 sults, and I am of the opinion that the ngures given 

 are nearly correct. 



Total increase, 72,684. 



The foregoing ngures dp not include the Indians, 

 who still maintain their tribal relations. 



The population of Oklahoma, as herein enumerated, 

 is approximated as follows : Eighty-five per cent, 

 white, 10 per cent, colored, and 5 per cent. Indians. 

 About 5 per cent, of the whites are foreign born. 

 Nearly every State and Territory in the Union is rep- 

 resented in Oklahoma, but the great majority of our 

 white population is from the adjoining States. 



Valuations. The taxable property of the 

 Territory, as a whole, can not be given, for the 

 reason that no assessment was made for taxes in 

 counties C, D, E, F, G, and H, embracing the 

 Cheyenne and Arapahce country. None of these 

 lands nor the persons residing in those counties 

 are subject to taxation for the year 1892. The 

 taxable property of the Territory, exclusive of 

 the last-named counties, as shown by the assess- 

 or's returns, is $11,485,162.45. the taxable 

 property of the Territory being assessed, on an 

 average, at about two thirds of its actual value, 

 its true value is about $17,150,000. This in- 

 cludes town lots, valued at $3,848,500, and only 

 85,400 acres of land subject to taxation. Its 

 average assessed value is $6.65 an acre, aggre- 

 gating $571,000. There are 21,865 homesteads, 

 or 3,500,000 acres, in these last-mentioned counties 



