MICHIGAN. 



The resolution that attracted most attention 

 was that on silver: 



We declare in favor of the free, unlimited coinage 

 of silver at a ratio that will permit the dehtors to pay 

 their debts upon the same basis in which they were 

 contracted. 



Further, it favored the nomination of can- 

 didates for. Senator by the representatives of the 

 people in State convention ; called for laws to 

 prevent fraudulent election returns; favored the 

 per diem pension bill ; and denounced religious 

 tests in politics. 



The ticket follows: For Senator, full term, Ed- 

 win F. Uhl; Senator, short term, John Strong; 

 Go vernor, Spencer 0. Fisher; Lieutenant-Govern- 

 or, Milton F. Jordan : Secretary of State, Lewis 

 E. Ireland ; Treasurer, Otto 0. Karste ; Audi- 

 tor, Frank H. Gill ; Attorney-General, James 

 O'Hara ; Commissioner of Land Office, Peter 

 Mulvaney : Superintendent of Public Instruc- 

 tion, Albert J. Jennings ; Member State Board 

 of Education, Michael Devereaux. 



The People's party met in State convention, 

 July 5. After affirming allegiance to the prin- 

 ciples of the Populist party as set forth in the 

 Omaha platform, the convention adopted resolu- 

 tions favoring the graduated income tax, free 

 silver coinage, the establishment of postal sav- 

 ings banks, Government ownership of railroads, 

 a graduated tax on unoccupied lands, the prin- 

 ciple of the initiative and referendum with the 

 imperative mandate, female suffrage in the State 

 Constitution ; demanding the limitation and reg- 

 ulation of foreign immigration ; condemning 

 the issue of Government bonds; demanding the 

 election of United States Senators and judges by 

 the people; favoring incorporation of cities and 

 villages under a general statute, compulsory 

 education, an eight-hour day, sanitary inspec- 

 tion of factories, municipal ownership of street 

 railroads, gas and electric-light plants, and lib- 

 eral pensions for soldiers ; against the watering 

 of stocks: in favor of requiring foreign corpora- 

 tions to maintain Michigan offices ; recommend- 

 ing the taxation of railroad property for munici- 

 pal purposes : and against the contract system 

 and convict contract labor system. 



The silver plank is as follows : 



We regard the demonetization of silver as a crime 

 against civilization and humanity, which in the ex- 

 tent of the evil it has caused is without a parallel in 

 the history of the present century. We therefore de- 

 mand the full restoration of silver as monetary metal 

 with all the necessary rights, powers, and functions 

 now accorded to gold, and its full, free, and unlimited 

 coinage at the ratio of 16 to 1. 



The ticket nominated follows : For Governor, 

 A. W. Nichols; Lieutenant-Governor, Perry 

 Mayo : Secretary of State, Elisha Pangborn ; 

 State Treasurer, Edward Brown ; Auditor, Rob- 

 ert McDougall ; Attorney-General. J. E. Mc- 

 Bride; Commissioner of Land Office, Addison 

 0. Kelly ; Superintendent of Public Instruction, 

 M. O. Graves ; United States Senator, long term, 

 E. H. Belden; United States Senator, short 

 term, Henry I. Allen. 



The Republican State Convention was held, 

 July 81, at Grand Rapids. Besides reiterating 

 the principles of the party, the resolutions favored 

 arbitration in labor matters through the estab- 

 lishment of courts of conciliation, and restricted 



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immigration ; denounced the action of the Demo- 

 cratic party in the repeal of the election laws- 

 congratulated the new Republic of Hawaii ; and 

 said on the silver question : 



We believe in the use of gold and silver as money 

 metals to be maintained in circulation on a perfect 

 equality and interconvertibility. We recognize the 

 so-called silver question as one of the paramount 

 issues of the day, and believe that the people of this 

 State and country can and do look to the Kepublican 

 party, the party of ability and progress, as the only 

 party that can give a wise and adequate solution of 

 this problem. We therefore pledge the Kepublican 

 party of Michigan to use every effort in its power to 

 restore silver to its historic position in the United 

 States as a money metal. We pledge this in the be- 

 lief that permanent prosperity will not be assured or 

 justice done until silver takes its place side by side 

 with gold as one of the two great money metals of 

 the world. 



The following candidates for State offices were 

 nominated : For Governor, John T. Rich : Lieu- 

 tenant-Governor, Alfred Milnes; Secretary of 

 State, Washington Gardner; Treasurer, James 

 M. Wilkinson ; Auditor, Stanley W. Turner; At- 

 torney-General, Fred. A. Maynard ; Commission- 

 er of the State Land Office. William A. French ; 

 Superintendent of Public Instruction, Henry R. 

 Pattengill ; Member of the State Board of Edu- 

 cation, Perry F. Powers. 



The Prohibitionists also had a ticket. 



All the candidates of the Republican party 

 were elected by large majorities. The vote for 

 Governor stood: Rich. Republican, 237,215; 

 Fisher, Democrat, 130.823 ; Nichols. Populist, 

 30,012; Todd, Prohibitionist, 18, 788. The Legis- 

 lature is entirely Republican, with the exception 

 of one member of the Lower House, who is a 

 Democrat. The Republicans will have 99 on 

 joint ballot. 



Two constitutional amendments were passed 

 one relative to inmates of soldiers' homes, by 

 a, vote of 127,758 to 29,607 ; the other on quali- 

 fications of electors, by 117,088 to 31,537. 



Senator Stockbridg'e died April 80. and John 

 Patton, Jr., was appointed to act until the elec- 

 tion of a successor by the Legislature of 1895. 



MINNESOTA, a Western State, admitted to 

 the Union May 11, 1858: area, 83,365 square 

 miles. The population in 1890 was 1,301,826. 

 Capital, St. Paul. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year : Governor, Knute Nel- 

 son ; Lieutenant-Governor, David M. Clough ; 

 Secretary of State, Fred. P. Brown ; Treas- 

 urer, Joseph Bobleter; Auditor, Adolph Bier- 

 mann; Attorney-General. H. W. Childs ; Adju- 

 tant General, H. Muehlberg: Superintendent of 

 Public Instruction, W. W. Pendergast ; State 

 Inspector of High Schools, George B. Aiton ; 

 State Commissioner of Labor, L. G. Powers; 

 Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. James Gil- 

 fillan; Associate Justices. William Mitchell, 

 Daniel Buck, Thomas Canty, and Loren W. Col- 

 lins Judge Gilfillan died Dec. 16. He had 

 served as Chief Justice since 18C9. All the State 

 officers are Republicans. 



Finances. On Nov. 30, 1894, the Treasury 

 had to the credit of the several funds herein- 

 after described, the following sums: Revenue 

 fund, $844,944.53 ; soldier's relief fund, $9,072.81 ; 

 forestry fund, $85,336.92 ; redemption fund, $5,- 



