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National Administration. The others are silver 

 men. Mr. Bacon was chosen by 93 to 68. 



Political. Early in the year 2 candidates 

 for the Democratic nomination for Governor 

 were put forward Gen. Clement A. Evans and 

 Hon. W. Y. Atkinson. An arrangement was 

 made for 4 joint debates by the two candi- 

 dates in different parts of the State, and it was 

 agreed that the State committee should be re- 

 quested to call for a primary election by ballot 

 in all the counties of the State, and thus avoid 

 the abuses of the mass-meeting method. The 

 committee decided to leave the manner of choos- 

 ing delegates to the judgment of the county 

 committees. In June, Gen. Evans withdrew from 

 the contest in the interest of party unity, leaving 

 Mr. Atkinson as the only prominent candidate 

 for the nomination. At the State convention, 

 Aug. 2, the ticket named was as follows : For 

 Governor, W. Y. Atkinson ; for Secretary of 

 State, A. D. Candler ; for State Treasurer, Robert 

 U. Hardeman ; for Comptroller, Gen. William A. 

 Wright ; for Commissioner of Agriculture, Rob- 

 ert T. Nesbitt ; for Attorney-General, Joseph M. 

 Terrell. 



The Republicans met in State convention, 

 Aug. 29, at Atlanta, but put no State ticket into 

 the field. 



The nominee of the People's Party for Gov- 

 ernor was Judge Hines. 



The total vote cast at the election in October 

 for Governor was the largest in the history of 

 the State, being nearly 218,000, while in the elec- 

 tion of 1892 it was 209,482. The Democratic 

 majority was reduced from about 80,000 in 1892 

 to 24,161 in 1894. 



There were some quarrels between Democrats 

 and Populists at the polls. At a precinct in one 

 district 2 men were killed and 3 wounded. 



The Legislature is made up of 44 Senators and 

 175 Representatives. Some seats are contested, 

 but the probability seems to be that the Populists 

 will have 47 or 48 votes on joint ballot, and the 

 Republicans 4. In the Tenth District both con- 

 gressional candidates agreed that frauds were 

 committed, and on that account Major Black, 

 who was counted in, pledged himself to resign 

 on the 4th of March and give the people another 

 opportunity to choose between Mr. Watson and 

 himself. Both candidates agreed to this, be- 

 lieving that by that time a new law would be in 

 effect, under which a fair election and honest 

 count would be assured. 



The two constitutional amendments that were 

 submitted to vote of the people at the election 

 one changing the time of meeting of the Legis- 

 lature to June, and the other increasing the 

 number of justices of the Supreme Court ffom 

 3 to 5 were defeated. In consequence of the 

 rejection of the measure to increase the number 

 of justices a measure which had once before 

 been submitted to the popular vote and de- 

 featedChief-Justice Bleckley resigned, feeling 

 unwilling to go on with the crowded business of 

 the court, under the conviction that it could not 

 be thoroughly done with the insufficient force of 

 justices. During the October term, 1893-94, the 

 court heard 452 cases. Two hundred cases re- 

 mained over to be decided during the spring term, 

 which opened with 225 more. Associate Justice 

 bimmons was chosen to succeed Justice Bleckley. 



GERMAN EVANGELICAL SYNOD OF 

 NORTH AMERICA. The statistics of this 

 body for 1894 give the following numbers : Of 

 ministers, 766; of congregations, 978; of churches, 

 849 ; of schools, 374 ; of parsonages, 563 ; of com- 

 municants, 175,667; of members confirmed during 

 the year, 10,039 ; of baptisms, 24,319 ; of pupils in 

 Sunday schools, 75,499 ; of pupils in parochial 

 schools, 16,581 ; with 407 ladies' societies having 

 20,779 members, 26 young men's societies, 81 

 young ladies' societies, and 161 young peoples' 

 societies, the last returning 8^203 members. 

 Amount spent during the year for benevolent 

 purposes, $77,398. 



GERMANY, an empire in central Europe, 

 constituted at the close of the Franco-Prussian 

 war, when the states of the North German Con- 

 federation, the Kingdoms of Bavaria and Wiir- 

 temberg, and the Grand Duchies of Hesse and 

 Baden offered the crown and dignity of German 

 Emperor to the King of Prussia. The empire 

 was proclaimed from Versailles on Jan. 18, 1871. 

 The Constitution of April 16, 1871, declares that 

 the states of Germany are joined in a perpetual 

 union for the protection of the realm and the 

 welfare of the people. The German Emperor is 

 the war lord, and can make treaties, conclude 

 peace, and declare war, but not an offensive war. 

 for which he must have the assent of the Bun- 

 desrath, or council of plenipotentiaries of the 

 several states. The Bundesrath, the Reichstag, 

 and the Emperor are the conjoint law-making 

 authorities. The Bundesrath has 58 members, 

 of whom 17 represent Prussia, 6 Bavaria, 4 each 

 Saxony and Wiirtemberg, 3 each Baden and 

 Hesse, 2 each Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Bruns- 

 wick, and 1 Saxe-Weimar, Mecklenburg-Strelitz. 

 Oldenburg, Saxe-Meiningen, Saxe-Altenburg. 

 Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Anhalt, Schwarzburg-Son- 

 dershausen, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Waldeck, 

 Reuss-Schleiz, Reuss-Greiz, Schaumburg-Lippe, 

 Lippe, Liibeck, Bremen, and Hamburg severally. 

 The Reichstag, which is elected for five years, 

 unless sooner dissolved, has 397 members, elected 

 by the secret ballots of all male citizens above 

 the age of twenty-five. The Deputies receive no 

 compensation. 



The reigning Deutscher Kaiser, or German 

 Emperor, is Wilhelm II, born Jan. 27, 1859, the 

 eldest son of the late Emperor Friedrich III. 

 The heir apparent is Friedrich Wilhelm, eldest 

 son of Wilhelm II, born May 6, 1882, The 

 Chancellor of the Empire, who represents the 

 Kaiser before the legislative bodies, and counter- 

 signs his decrees, was in the beginning of 1894 

 Gen. Graf Georg von Caprivi. The other minis- 

 ters were : Minister of Foreign Affairs, Freiherr 

 Marschall von Bieberstein ; Chief of the Imperial 

 Home Office and Representative of the Chancel- 

 lor, Dr. von Botticher ; Imperial Admiralty, Herr 

 Hollmann : Secretary and Admiral of the Navy, 

 Freiherr von der Goltz ; Minister of Justice. 

 Herr Nieberding ; Imperial Treasurer, Graf von 

 Posadowsky-Wehner ; Postmaster-General, Dr. 

 von Stephan ; Minister of Railroads, Dr. Schulz : 

 Chief of the Exchequer, Herr von Wolff : Com- 

 missioner of the Debt, Herr Meinecke. 



Area and Population. The area of the em- 

 pire is 208,738 square miles. The population at 

 the census of 1890 was 49,428.470, showing an 

 annual increase of 1-07 per cent., or 2,573,766 in 



