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that UK nomination In- maile, ami that we uive him 

 our hearty support. 



'I'lif !! publicans mot in convention May 4, 

 ami nominated George W. Winstead for Gov- 

 ernor. The resolutions commended the policy 

 of tin- national Republican administration, and 

 in reference to State affairs, denounced the in- 

 competency of the State government, " which 

 has ooen unable to cope with any of the great 

 questions of state policy that have come up from 

 time to time during the long and uninterrupted 

 Democratic rule ; which has expended large sums 

 of money and has conferred no benefits on the 

 people of the State ; which has tampered with 

 and destroyed the militia system of the State so 

 that its inefficiency is now a by-word : which has, 

 by tampering with the convict lease system, dis- 

 graced the State, so that, as a culmination of the 

 outrageous management, to-day the public work 

 of the capital city of the State is performed by 

 penitentiary convicts, and convicts are now em- 

 ployed on the public streets of the capital city, 

 in full view of the State capitol, to the great det- 

 riment and injury of honest laborers, who, with 

 their families, are dependent on such work, and 

 are forced to seek employment elsewhere." 



They demanded the abolition of the convict 

 lease system, the repeal of the poll-tax provision 

 in the election laws, and an amendment of the 

 laws so that illiterate voters may have assistance 

 in casting their votes ; denounced all intimida- 

 tion and other frauds for depriving voters of their 

 rights under the Constitution. They declared in 

 favor of measures for the punishment of petty 

 offenses without the intervention of grand juries, 

 condemned the refusal of the legislature to secure 

 to the State representation at th'e World's Fair, 

 and demanded a just and equitable system of 

 assessment and taxation, to the end that all 

 property of the State may be taxed uniformly, 

 and that neither the industrial interests of the 

 State nor the landed property and homes be 

 required to bear unnecessary and unequal 

 burthens. 



The State Convention of Prohibitionsts met on 

 June 2, and nominated for Governor Judge 

 Edward II. East. 



The total vote polled for presidential electors 

 was 267,503 much smaller than in 1888, when it 

 was 303,736. This was in part due to the reduc- 

 tion of the negro vote. There are about 75,000 

 negro voters in the State, but a large part of them 

 were practically disfranchised by the operation 

 of the poll-tax law, which went 4nto effect in 

 1890, and the Australian ballot system, which 

 has been adopted in some counties, including 

 those containing the larger cities. The official 

 returns were as follows : For Cleveland, 138,874 : 

 for Harrison, 100,331 ; for Weaver, 23,447 ; for 

 Hidwell, 4,851 ; for Turney, 127,247 ; for Win- 

 stead, 100,629 ; for Buchanan, 81,515 ; for East, 

 ."i, I JT. For members of Congress, 8 Democrats 

 and 2 Republicans were elected. The State 

 legislature is constituted as follows : Senate 

 Democrats, 26 ; Republicans, 6 ; People's or In- 

 dependent, 1 ; House Democrats, 68 ; Repub- 

 licans, 26 ; People's or Independent, 5. Demo- 

 cratic majority on joint ballot. r,r,. 



Judge Turney did not resign his judgeship till 

 after he became Governor, when he appointed 

 Judge Lortou his successor. 



TENNYSON, ALFRED, Lord, an English 

 poet, born in Somersby, Lincolnshire, Aug. 6, 

 1809 ; died at Aldworth House, near Haslemere, 

 Surrey, Oct. 0, 1892. His father, the Rev. 

 George Clayton Tennyson, was rector of Som- 

 ersby and Enderby, and vicar of Great Grirashy. 

 He was highly educated, and accomplished in 

 painting, music, and languages, as well as in the 

 art in which his son so far transcended him. 

 He had also a great fondness for nature, and the 

 charms of out-of-door living were early revealed 

 by him to his children, who accompanied him in 

 his rambles and drives. 



Mr. Tennyson belonged to the family of 

 D'Eyncourt, Norman Plantagenets, which, at the 

 time of Alfred's birth, was represented in Parlia- 

 ment by the eldest member, Rt. Hon. Charles 

 Tennyson D'Eyncourt. The poet's mother was 

 a daughter of the Rev. Stephen Fytche. Alfred 

 had three brothers Frederick, Charles, and Sep- 

 timus. Frederick Tennyson took the prize at 

 Trinity College, Cambridge, for a Greek poem, 

 and afterward published a volume of poems, en- 

 titled "Days and Hours." Charles Tennyson, 

 who also was graduated at Cambridge, took 

 orders, became vicar of Grasby, and assumed 

 the family name of his father's mother Turner 

 on inheriting from her an estate in Lincoln- 

 shire. 



Like his brothers, Alfred entered Trinity Col- 

 lege, Cambridge, and, like them, wrote poetry 

 while there. He gained the Chancellor's medal, 

 offered for an English poem, the prize being 

 awarded to his "Timbuctoo." He left college 

 before graduation. Because of his constant ef- 

 forts to maintain strict privacy, and his resent- 

 ment of anything like personal publicity, little 

 more can be said of Alfred Tennyson's life than 

 the bare statement of the facts that he received 

 a pension of $1,000 a year, and lived in and 

 about London till he was forty years of age, 

 when he married Emily Sellwood, and went to 

 live at Twickenham ; that on the death of Words- 

 worth in 1850 he succeeded him as Poet-Laure- 

 ate ; that soon afterward he removed to the Isle 

 of Wight, where he lived for many years at 

 Faringford, Freshwater ; that about 1869 he pur- 

 chased a place at Petersfield, Hampshire, and 

 years afterward Aldworth House, near Hasle- 

 mere, where he died : and that in December, 

 1883, he was raised to the peerage as Baron 

 Tennyson of D'Eyncourt. Tennyson once wrote 

 to Sir Henry Taylor that he " thanked God Al- 

 mighty with his whole heart and soul that he 

 knew nothing and that the world knew nothing 

 of Shakespeare but his writings, and that he 

 knew nothing of Jane Austen, and that there 

 were no letters preserved either of Shakespeare 

 or of Jane Austen " ; that they, in fact, had not 

 been " ripped open like pigs.'' Years before, in 

 his lines " After Reading a Life and Letters," he 

 had expressed the same sentiment poetically: 



You have iniss'd the irreverent doom 

 Of those that wear the Poet's crown; 

 Hereafter, neither knave nor clown 



Shall hold tlicir orsries at your tomb. 



For now the poet cannot die 

 Nor leave his music as of old. 

 But round him ere he scarce be cold 



Hc-rius the M-andal and the cry : 



