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VERMONT. 



VIRGINIA. 



Militia. The National Guard of Vermont, as 

 shown by the annual returns for the year ending 

 June 80, 1893, consists of 74 officers and 762 

 enlisted men, organized as a three-battalion 

 regiment of infantry, and a four-gun battery of 

 light artillery. The troops are well armed and 

 uniformed, and are supplied with camp equi- 

 page, except knapsacks or clothing bags. 



Savings Banks. On June 30, 1892, the de- 

 posits in savings banks in the State aggregated 

 $24,674,741.76, an increase of $5,344,176.84 in 

 two years. The number of depositors was 

 80 740, an increase of 14,981 in the same period. 

 Of these, 71,6o5 were residents of the State and 

 had deposits aggregating $20, 888, 05 i ; 9,105 

 were non-residents and had deposits aggregating 

 $3.78t>,687. Of the total deposits the banks had 

 $5,042,373.33 invested in Vermont real estate 

 mortgages, $9,007,792.97 in real estate mort- 

 gages outside of the State, and $6,687, 794.33 in 

 State, municipal, and school bonds. The num- 

 ber of savings banks in the State is 21. 



Political. On April 13 a Republican State 

 convention met at Montpelier and selected dele- 

 gates to the National Convention at Minneapolis, 

 but made no nominations for State officers. The 

 first State ticket in the field was nominated by 

 the Democrats in State convention at Montpelier 

 on May 5, and contained the following names : 

 For Governor, Bradley B. Smalley ; Lieutenant- 

 Go vernor, William B. Viall ; Treasurer, Alex- 

 ander Cochrane ; Secretary of State, John J. 

 Enright ; Auditor, Elisha May. Delegates to 

 the Chicago National Convention and candidates 

 for Presidential electors were selected . 



The platform declares for tariff reform, depre- 

 cates the conversion into money of more silver 

 than is required for circulation, asks for more 

 efficient management of the Pension Department, 

 and hopes that Mr. Cleveland may be again 

 chosen to lead the party. That part of the 

 platform which relates to Vermont affairs is as 

 follows : 



We denounce the Republican party of Vermont 

 for its extravagauce in its management of the St:ite 

 Government by which the expenses have nearly 

 doubled in the past twelve years, for its creation of 

 commissions and offices not called for by our needs, 

 which offices and commissions it has filled with 

 partisans of its own faith, for its unfair treatment 

 of the minority in appointments to offices, for its 

 unjust and unfair method of taxing mortgaged real 

 property, its refusal to revise or alter these methods, 

 its improper if not illegal use and distribution of the 

 Huntington fund of more than $200,000, the income 

 of which fund is now distributed upon the basis 

 that the richer the town the more of such income it 

 should receive, when it was the intent of the donor 

 that the smaller counties should share equally with 

 the larger. We urge appropriate legislation to give 

 each town non-partisan election boards for town, 

 county, and State offices. We oppose and denounce 

 the unjust sumptuary laws of Vermont. We will 

 do all we can to make Labor Day a legal holiday in 

 Vermont. 



The Prohibitionists held a State convention at 

 Rutland, on May 25, at which they selected dele- 

 gates to the national convention of the party, 

 and nominated Presidential electors, and the fol- 

 lowing State ticket : For Governor, Edward L. 

 Allen ; Lieutenant- Governor, Wendell P. Staf- 

 ford ; Treasurer, Mi Ion Davidson ; Secretary of 



State, Ernest T. Griswold ; Auditor, Homer F. 

 Comings. A platform was adopted.. 



A second Republican convention, for the nom- 

 ination of State officers, was held at Burlington 

 on June 22. Levi K. Fuller was nominated for 

 Governor on the first ballot over Lieut. -Gov. 

 Fletcher. F. S. Stranahan was chosen as the 

 candidate for Lieutenant-Governor and Frank B. 

 Hale for Auditor. Secretary of State Brownell 

 and Treasurer Field were renominated. The 

 platform upholds the principles of protection and 

 reciprocity, demands restriction of immigration, 

 favors a law to secure fair elections in the 

 Southern States, and contains the following dec- 

 larations upon local issues : 



In the administration of our State affairs we favor 

 economy, not parsimony ; the careful consideration 

 of our public schools ; and the passage of such laws 

 as will tend, so far as possible, to retain at home 

 the accumulations of our own resources, and the 

 building up of our industries. 



We demand a continuance of the prohibitory law. 

 We believe that law is on the whole more efficient 

 and better enforced to-day than ever before ; and 

 we assert that the attitude of Republicans in the 

 State toward that question is such as to leave the 

 prohibition party of Vermont without an occupa- 

 tion. 



At the September election the entire Republi- 

 can State ticket was elected, but the pluralities 

 were much smaller than those which have been 

 given for the Republican ticket in recent years. 

 The vote for Governor was : Fuller, 38,918 ; 

 Smalley, 19,216 ; Allen, 1,525. Members of the 

 State Legislature were chosen as follows : Senate 

 Republicans, 30 ; House Republicans, 199 ; 

 Democrats, 40; Prohibitionist, 1 ; Independent, 1. 

 At the November election the following vote for 

 Presidential electors was cast : Republican, 37,- 

 992 ; Democratic, 16,325 ; Prohibitionist, 1,415 ; 

 People's party. 42. Two Republican Congress- 

 men were elected. 



VIRGINIA, a Southern State, one of the orig- 

 inal thirteen, ratified the Constitution June 25, 

 1788 ; area, 42,450 square miles. The popula- 

 tion, according to each decennial census, was 

 747.610 in 1790; 880,200 in 1800; 974,600 in 

 1810 ; 1,065,116 in 1820 ; 1,211,405 in 1830 ; 1,- 

 239,797 in 1840 ; 1,421,661 in 1850 ; 1,596,318 in 

 1860; 1,225,163 in 1870 ; 1,512,565 in 1880; and 

 1,655,980 in 1890. Capital, Richmond. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year : Governor, Philip W. 

 McKinney, Democrat ; Lieutenant-Governor, J. 

 Hoge Tyler ; Secretary of State. II. W. Flour- 

 noy ; Auditor, Morton Marye ; Second Auditor, 

 Josiah Ryland ; Treasurer, A. W. Barman ; 

 Attorney-General, R. Taylor Scott ; Adjutant- 

 General, James McDonald ; Superintendent of 

 Public Instruction, John E. Massey ; Commis- 

 sioner of Agriculture, Thomas Whitehead ; Rail- 

 road Commissioner, James C. Hill ; President of 

 the Court of Appeals, L. L. Lewis. 



Legislative Session. The legislature met 

 Dec. 2, 1891, and adjourned on March 4, 181)2, 

 having been in session 93 days. One of its 

 earliest acts was the election of John W. Daniel 

 to the United States Senate. Five circuit court 

 judges were named during the session, and 

 county judges were elected, by the legislature, 

 for each of the one hundred counties in the 

 State. 



