KANSAS. 



KENTUCKY. 



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People's party, in convention at Topeka, renorai- 

 nated Gov. Lewelling. Treasurer Biddle. Auditor 

 Prat her. Attorney-General Little, Superintendent- 

 of-Public-Instruction Gaines, and Congressman- 

 at- Large Harris. For Lieutenant-Governor, D. 

 I. Furbeck was nominated ; for Secretary of 

 State, J. W. Amis; and for Justice of the' Su- 

 preme Court, George W. Clark. The platform 

 adopted approves the State administration, de- 

 mands free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 

 1, denounces national and State banks of issue, 

 favors national and State boards of arbitration 

 for labor differences, demands service pensions 

 for soldiers, and contains the following declara 

 tions on State issues : 



We favor a State irrigation department to investi- 

 gate methods and water supplies, and encourage 

 more extended irrigation. 



We demand a freight-rate law based on the line of 

 the maximum-rate bill passed by the Senate and 

 afterward defeated by the Kepublican House, and 

 quote, in proof of the need of such law, the plank of 

 the Republican platform adopted at their State Con- 

 vention in 1892, which we actor 



this demand, to wit : 



>pt and make a part of 



We insist that the great transportation companies, 

 i-eir corporate existence from Kansa 



which derive then 



laws and their financial existence from Kansas trade 

 and commerce, owe to the people of Kansas fair, equi- 

 table, and honest treatment in the matter of freight 

 rates; and we are opposed to the inequitable and 

 oppressive discrimination in the adjustment of such 

 rates by said corporations, whereby the merchants, 

 shippers, and consumers of other States are enriched 

 at the expense and to the injury of the people of 

 Kansas ; and we demand of the next Legislature the 

 utmost diligence in enacting appropriate legislation, 

 providing therefor to the end that the agricultural, 

 mercantile, and other interests of the State of Kansas 

 shall be placed on a footing of equality, so far as 

 freight rates are concerned, with the like interests of 

 adjoining States ; believing that all power is vested 

 in the people, and that all laws of vital importance 

 should be initiated and approved or disapproved by 

 them. Therefore we indorse the initiative and refer- 

 endum system. 



The Democratic State Convention met at To- 

 peka on July 3. It refused to adopt any of the 

 nominees of the People's party, and placed in 

 the field a ticket of its own bearing the follow- 

 ing names : For Governor, David Overmyer ; for 

 Lieutenant-Governor, Sidney G. Cooke ; for Sec- 

 retary of State, E. J. Herning; for Treasurer, 

 Barney Lantry; for Auditor, W. E. Banks; for 

 Attorney-General, James McKinstry ; for Super- 

 intendent of Public Instruction, M.' H. Wyckoff ; 

 for Justice of the Supreme Court, J. D. Mc- 

 Cleverty ; for Congressman at Large, Joseph G. 

 Lowe. Resolutions were adopted favoring free 

 silver coinage at the ratio of 16 to 1, recommend- 

 ing the establishment of a national commission 

 to examine into pauper immigration and devise 

 a remedy therefor, denouncing the adoption of 

 religious tests as a qualification for office, favor- 

 ing liberal pensions, and demanding legislation 

 that will properly protect the rights of both 

 capital and labor. On State issues the following 

 declarations were made : 



We favor the improvement of public roads and the 

 passage of reasonable laws necessary to accomplish 

 such results. 



_ We demand the repeal of all laws authorizing the 

 issue of bonds for any purpose other than public 



ildmgs and free bridges upon public roads. 



Owing to the vastly changed condition of our peo- 

 ple since the adoption of our State Constitution we 

 are in favor of a constitutional convention. 



The Democracy of Kansas again demand a resub- 

 mission of the prohibitory amendment to the vote of 

 the electors of the Commonwealth, believing that ex- 

 perience from year to year since its adoption has 

 demonstrated that it was the work of folly and fanati- 

 cism ; that it has not in the slightest degree lessened 

 the evils of intemperance, and has been the fruitful 

 parent of fraud, bribery, perjury, and official corrup- 

 tion ; and in lieu thereof we favor a system of high 

 license and local option, and demand the repeal of 

 the iniquitous laws passed for the purpose of carrying 

 into practical eft'ect the purpose and intent of said 

 amendment. 



We oppose woman suffrage, as tending to destroy 

 the home and family the true basis of political safe- 

 ty and express the hope that the helpmeet and 

 guardian of the family sanctuary may not be dragged 

 from the modest purity of self-imposed seclusion to 

 be thrown unwillingly into the unfeminine places of 

 political strife. 



The disgraceful returning-board proceedings of 

 the last election, worthy of the palmiest days of car- 

 petbag corruption, resulting as it did in the unlawful 

 larceny of the lower house of the Legislature, as also 

 the subsequent disgraceful proceedings of both Popu- 

 list and Kepublican parties, deserve the patriotic at- 

 tention and condemnation of the people. 



At the election in November the entire Repub- 

 lican State ticket was elected. Morrill, for Gov- 

 ernor, received 148,697 votes, and was elected ; 

 Lewelling received 118,329; Overmyer, 26,709; 

 Pickering, 5,496. The proposed suffrage amend- 

 ment to the State Constitution was rejected by 

 130,139 votes against it to 95,302 for it. The 

 Populists elected 1 member of Congress: the 

 Republicans elected the other 6 district mem- 

 bers and the Congressman at Large. 



KENTUCKY, a Southern State, admitted to the 

 Union June 1, 1792 ; area, 40,400 square miles ; 

 population in 1890, 1,858,635. Capital, Frank- 

 fort. 



Government. The State officers during the 

 year were : Governor, John Y. Brown, Democrat : 

 Lieutenant-Governor, Mitchell C. Alford ; Sec- 

 retary of State, John W. Headley ; Treasurer, 

 Henry S. Hale ; Auditor, L. C. Norman ; Attor- 

 ney-General, Wm. J. Hendrick ; Superintend- 

 ent of Public Instruction, Edward P. Thompson ; 

 Adjutant-General, A. J. Gross; Commissioner 

 of Agriculture, Nicholas McDowell; Commis- 

 sioner of Insurance, Henry T. Duncan ; Regis- 

 ter of the Land Office, G. B. Swango ; Rail- 

 road Commissioners, C. C. McChord, C. B. Poyntz, 

 and Urey Woodson. 



Caswell Bennett, Chief Justice of the Court of 

 Appeals, died Aug. 9. The other justices during 

 the year were William S. Pry or and Joseph H. 

 Lewis. 



In January, 1895, the new court of 7 judges 

 took their seats: Chief Justice, William S. 

 Pryor; Associate Justices, Joseph H. Lewis, 

 James A. Hazelrigg, John R. Grace, Thomas H. 

 Paynter, Sterling B. Toney, and B. L. D. Guffy. 



Finances. In his message to the General 

 Assembly in January the Governor said : " I am 

 of the opinion that there will be a large balance 

 in the treasury on June 30. The financial con- 

 ditions have been severe for more than a year 

 past. All taxpayers have keenly felt the burden 

 of meeting their obligations. I believe that the 

 tax rate may be safely reduced several cents on 



