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within the jurisdiction of a court of chancery. Nor 

 has the court of chancery jurisdiction to interfere with 

 the public duties of any department of the Govern- 

 ment, except under special circumstances and where 

 ary for the protection of rights of property. 



Miners' Strike. The latter part of May 

 found a large number of coal mines in the State 

 either closed or running with few men, on ac- 

 count of a widespread strike of mine workers. 

 These strikers, being largely foreigners and in a 

 needy condition, were soon led on to acts of vio- 

 lence. At Spring Valley, on May 23, a company 

 of about 200 visited the mines, attacked the 

 miners with clubs and stones, drove them from 

 the works, banked the fires, and closed up the 

 entrance to the mines. When their leaders were 

 arrested by the sheriff and his deputies and jailed, 

 they attacked the jail and rescued them. On the 

 following day similar scenes were enacted at La 

 Salle. The city was in the possession of a mob. 

 When the local sheriff with his deputies sought 

 to restrain their actions, the strikers turned upon 

 him and seriously injured him and 3 of his 

 deputies. When, later in the day, 3 of their 

 leaders were jailed, the strikers rushed to the jail 

 and set them free. On the morning of the same 

 day Centralia was visited by a mob of strikers 

 from the Duquoin and St. John's mines. The 

 Pitenger and Davis mine at that place was at- 

 tacked and its buildings demolished. About the 

 same time similar acts of violence were com- 

 mitted by strikers at Pana and at Minonk. The 

 local authorities found themselves unable to stop 

 these outbreaks, and appeals for aid were made 

 to the Governor from all these places. In re- 

 sponse, Gov. Altgeld ordered the militia to La 

 Salle arid Centralia on May 25, to Pana on May 

 26, and to Minonk on May 27. Six companies 

 were on duty at La Salle, 4 at Centralia, 4 at 

 Pana, and 3 at Minonk. Their presence checked 

 further violence, and in a few days matters had 

 so quieted that the necessity for their services 

 ceased. They were all withdrawn before June 1. 

 A few days later trouble was reported at Carter- 

 ville between strikers and miners, and on June 5, 

 in response to requests, the Governor ordered 

 3 companies of militia to that place. The 

 strikers were suppressed and their leaders were 

 arrested. On June 7 the troops were withdrawn. 

 On June 6 bloody contests occurred between 

 strikers and miners at the mines near Pekin and 

 at the Peoria mines, and in each contest several 

 persons were seriously wounded. As a result a 

 company of militia was ordered by the Governor 

 to Peoria on June 7, where it remained five days. 

 On June 8 another company was ordered to 

 Edinburgh to suppress similar disorders there. 

 On June 9 the first regiment was ordered to Pana 

 &s a mob of 300 men were approaching the city 

 from Edinburgh, where they had been engaged 

 in the violence there enacted. The troops re- 

 mained here three days. On June 17 3 companies 

 were ordered to Pekin, and on June 18 8 com- 

 panies were sent to Mount Olive, where serious 

 disturbances had occurred. But the strike, which 

 had been the cause of all these disorders, was 

 now at an end. A compromise had been agreed 

 upon between representatives of the miners and 

 the operators, and under its provisions work was 

 resumed and quiet was restored in the mining 

 centers. 



On June 26 the Democrats met in State Con- 

 vention at Springfield, and nominated Bernard 

 J. Claggett for Treasurer, Henry Raab for Siijier- 

 intendent of Public Instruction, and T. C. Clcn- 

 denin, C. L. Pleasants, and Julia H. Smith for 

 Trustees. Franklin MacVeagh, of Chica-. 

 accepted as the party candidate for United S 

 Senator. A platform was adopted demanding 

 tariff reform, denouncing trusts, approving the 

 State and National Administrations, favoring t la- 

 election of United States Senators by direct 

 of the people, and embracing also the following 

 declarations : 



The Democracy of Illinois denounce as cowardly, 

 unpatriotic, and dangerous to the peace and happiness 

 of this country the American Protective Association, 

 which seeks to proscribe men on account of tin-, 

 ligion or birthplace. 



They again declare their loyalty to that time-hon- 

 ored principle of the Democratic party which t 

 honest money, the gold and silver coinage pro'. 

 by the Constitution of the United States, and a cur- 

 rency convertible in such coinage without loss to the 

 holder. 



The Republican State Convention assembled 

 at Springfield on July 25, and nominated Henry 

 Wulff for Treasurer, S. M. Inglis for Superin- 

 tendent of Public Instruction, and Alexander 

 McLean, S. A. Bullard, and Mrs. J. M. Flower 

 for Trustees. ' The platform includes the follow- 

 ing declarations : 



We favor bimetallism, and believe in the use of 

 gold and silver as money metals upon a parn 

 values, with complete interconvertibility, under such 

 legislative provisions as shall make the purchasing 

 or debt-paying power of any dollar coined or issue, 1 

 by the United States the absolute equivalent of any 

 other dollar so coined or issued. 



We believe in the purity of the ballot and the free- 

 dom of elections, and we hold that true freedom of 

 elections is obtained and secured only by and i 

 the law. 



The Republicans of Illinois are in favor of the largest 

 personal liberty consistent with law and order. 



We favor the payment of liberal pensions to the 

 soldiers and sailors of the Union and to their surviv- 

 ing dependents, as a sacred obligation due from the, 

 entire people ; and we insist that in the allotment and 

 distribution of pension funds technical and burden- 

 some restrictions should not be imposed. 



We condemn in emphatic terms the course pursued 

 by the present National Administration toward the 

 people of Hawaii in attempting to overthrow a friend- 

 ly government, re-establish a corrupt monarchy, and 

 force upon them a barbarous Queen. 



We arraign the present Democratic Governor of 

 Illinois as the most conspicuous case of misfit in high 

 official life. From the day on which he began t< 

 base the penal, reformatory, and charitable institutions 

 and public parks of the State into infirmaries an< i 

 lums for politicians to the present time, he lias shown 

 such wonderful aptitude in doing the wron^ thii 

 all times, that the people of the State, irrespeet' 

 party, await with undisguised impatience the expira- 

 tion of his term of office. 



At the November election the State was car- 

 ried by the Republicans. Unofficial returns 

 show that 463,264 votes were cast for WnlfT f<r 

 Treasurer, 317,611 for Claggett, and 5S.:!:!0 for 

 Randolph, and large majorities were obtained by 

 all the other candidates on the Republican t iek< i t. 

 Members of the Legislature for 1895 were chosen 

 as follow: Senate Republicans 33, Demm-nits 

 18; House Republicans 86, Democrats (Hi, Peo- 

 ples party 1. A proposed constitutional amend- 



