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ITALY. 



country early relief, having in view a permanent, 

 stable, honest, and equitable revenue system." 

 It denounced the McKinley tariff and the Sher- 

 man act, demanding the immediate repeal of the 

 silver-purchasing clause, declared in favor of 

 both gold and silver as the standard money of 

 the country, and 



The coinage of both gold and silver without discrim- 

 inating against either metal or charge for mintage, but 

 the dollar unit of coinage of both metals must be of 

 equal intrinsic and exchangeable value, or be adjusted 

 through international agreement, or by such safe- 

 guards of legislation as shall insure the maintenance 

 of the parity of the two metals and the equal power 

 of every dollar at all times in the markets and in pay- 

 ment of debts, and we demand that all paper currency 

 shall be kept at par with and redeemable in such coin. 



It commended the administration of President 

 Cleveland, and expressed faith in his intentions 

 and his policy. 



On pensions and prohibition the platform de- 

 clared as follows : 



We favor just and liberal pensions to deserving vet- 

 erans, and in their interest we urge that the names of 

 all fraudulent and illegal pensioners be eliminated 

 from the rolls, but the pension of no worthy soldier 

 should be disturbed. 



We demand, in the interest of true temperance, the 

 passage of a carefully guarded license-tax law, which 

 shall provide for the issuance of license in towns, 

 townships, and municipal corporations of the State 

 by a vote of the people of such corporations and 

 which shall provide that for each license an annual 

 tax of $500 be paid into the county treasury, and such 

 further tax as the town, township, or municipal cor- 

 poration shall provide. 



The nominations were : For Governor, Horace 

 Boies ; for Lieutenant-Governor, Samuel L. Bes- 

 tow ; for Railroad Commissioner, Thomas Bow- 

 man ; for Superintendent of Public Instruction, 

 ,1. B. Knoepfler ; for Judge of the Supreme Court, 

 John Claggett. 



The People's party held its convention Sept. 

 5. The platform declared that there are two 

 parties only the People's party, and the Gold 

 party. It approved the South Carolina method 

 of liquor control, and declared in favor of wom- 

 an suffrage ; favored the election of President 

 and Vice-President by direct vote of the people, 

 and demanded taxation of mortgages. The 

 principal emphasis was placed on the silver 

 question : 



The one overshadowing, all -absorbing issue before 

 the American people to-day is the question whether 

 the debtors of the United States shall be allowed to 

 pay their debts in the money of the Constitution, or 

 whether their homes and property shall be confis- 

 cated for the benefit of pirates. The only party that 

 votes as a unit against the tricks of the millionaires is 

 the People's party. 



The nominees of the convention were: For 

 Governor, J. M. Joseph ; for Lieutenant-Govern- 

 or, E. A. Ott ; for Railroad Commissioner, John 

 Idle : for Superintendent of Public Instruction, 

 Mrs. E. J. Woodrow ; for Judge of the Supreme 

 Court, A. W. C. Weeks. 



The Prohibition party held a convention May 

 31, and adopted resolutions declaring 



That the paramount issue in State and national 

 politics at this time is the annihilation of the traffic 

 in intoxicating drinks. 



That the prohibitory law of Iowa should be main- 

 tained and strengthened by provisions for enforce- 

 ment by State power in localities where it is per- 

 sistently nullified or criminally neglected. 



It further censured the pharmacy law as 

 amended, and called for a law making 2 cents a 

 mile the maximum for passenger rates on rail- 

 roads, favored woman suffrage, tariff for revenue 

 only, suppression of trusts, unrestricted immi- 

 gration, the abrogation of the extradition treaty 

 with Russia, an antioption law, and free coin- 

 age, the silver dollar being made to contain a 

 dollar's worth of metal. The nominations were : 

 For Governor, B. 0. Aylesworth ; for Lieutenant- 

 Governor, J. C. Reed ; for Railway Commissioner, 

 D. PI. Gillet; for Superintendent of Public 

 Instruction, Belle H. Mix ; lor Judge of the 

 Supreme Court, J. A. Harvey. 



Dr. Aylesworth is President of Drake Univer- 

 sity, and withdrew from the canvass, on the 

 ground that the university needed all his time. 

 Bennett Mitchell was then made the nominee 

 for Governor. 



The Citizens' State Temperance Convention, 

 opposed to the Republicans on the prohibition 

 issue, put L. S. Coffin in nomination for Govern- 

 or, but made no other nominations. Mr. Coffin 

 withdrew, and the name of Bennett Mitchell was 

 substituted. The Secretary of State refused to 

 print this nomination and the Republican nomi- 

 nations for other offices on a ticket to be called 

 the " Citizens' Republican Prohibition Ticket," 

 on the decision of the election board that it was 

 against the law. 



The election resulted in a victory for the en- 

 tire Republican ticket. Jackson, for Governor, 

 received a total of 207,159 votes ; Boies. 174,793 ; 

 Joseph, 23,511 : and Mitchell, 10,107. 



A large number of votes were thrown out on 

 account of being defective, under the Australian- 

 ballot system, 271 voters in Polk County alone 

 losing their votes in this way. 



ITALY, a constitutional monarchy in south- 

 ern Europe. The Chamber of Deputies consists 

 of 508 members, elected, in the proportion of 1 

 to 57,000 inhabitants, by male citizens twenty- 

 one years of age who can read and write and pay 

 19-80 lire or francs in direct taxes, or have served 

 in the army two years, or possess certain special 

 educational or other qualifications. Soldiers in 

 active service do not vote. Government officials, 

 except certain high functionaries and officers of 

 the army and navy, not to exceed 40 altogether, 

 are not eligible, nor are ordained priests. The 

 second Chamber, called the Senatus, is composed 

 of men who have attained distinction in some 

 pursuit, or occupy high offices, or pay 3,000 lire 

 of taxes. Senators are nominated for life by the 

 King. They must be at least forty, and Deputies 

 thirty years of age. The King exercises the ex- 

 ecutive powers through his responsible ministers. 

 The reigning King is Umberto I, born March 

 14, 1844, who succeeded his father, Vittorio 

 Ernanuele, Jan. 9, 1878. The heir apparent is 

 Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, born Nov. 

 11, 1869. The Cabinet in the beginning of 1893 

 consisted of the following ministers : President 

 of the Council and Minister of the Interior, Gio- 

 vanni Giolitti; Minister of Foreign Affairs, 

 Benedetto Brin; Minister of the Treasury anil 

 Minister of Finance ad interim, Bernardino Gri- 



