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MONTANA. 



MORAVIANS. 



purpose of nominating a Congressman and an 

 associate justice of the Supreme Court. The 

 first that convened was that of the Populist 

 party. It gathered at Deer Lodge on June 28, 

 and named Robert B. Smith as its candidate for 

 Congress, and G. W. Reeves for Associate Justice. 

 The following extracts are from its platform : 



We believe that the Government mints should be 

 airain open to the free and unlimited coinage of silver, 

 at the ratio of 16 to 1. 



We denounce the issuance by the Government of 

 interest-bearing gold bonds. 



We believe that it is the duty of the Government 

 to issue its own money. 



We demand that postal savings banks be estab- 

 lished by the Government. 



The telegraph and telephone, like the post-office 

 system, being a necessity for the transmission of news, 

 should be owned and operated by the Government in 

 the interest of the people. We believe that the time 

 has come when the people must either rule railroad 

 corporations or be ruled by them. The present inter- 

 state law is a failure. 



We demand that theper capita circulation of money 

 be speedily increased to not less than $50. 



We demand that the importation of pauper labor, 

 whether from Asia or Europe, be prohibited. 



We demand that the Constitution be amended so 

 that the President, Vice-President, and United States 

 Senators be elected by direct vote of the people. 



The Republican Convention was held in Helena 

 on Sept. 6. It nominated Charles S. Hartman 

 for Congress, and named W. H. Hunt for the 

 Supreme Court. Its platform contained the fol- 

 lowing : 



We especially denounce the hostile attitude of the 

 Democratic party toward the wool interest of the 

 United States, whereby one of the principal indus- 

 tries of Montana has been ruined and those engaged 

 in it bankrupted by the depreciation in the value of 

 all their property and products to the extent of more 

 than one half, and the consequent loss to the State of 

 millions of dollars. 



We demand the free and unlimited coinage of silver 

 at a ratio of 16 to 1, and the making of silver as well 

 as gold a legal tender in payment of all debts. We 

 further demand that this policy shall be established 

 forthwith by the independent action of our Govern- 

 ment regardless of what any other country may or 

 may not do. We welcome the Eepublic of Hawaii to 

 the sisterhood of nations ; and we declare our convic- 

 tion that the action of the present Democratic Ad- 

 ministration in seeking to restore to power over the 

 people of those islands a despotic and semibarbarous 

 dynasty was repulsive to every truly American senti- 

 ment. We recommend the further elimination of 

 Indian reservations from the map of this State. 



The Democratic State Convention was held in 

 Helena on Sept. 25. It named Hal. S. Corbett 

 as its candidate for Congress, and J. A. Luce for 

 the Supreme Court. Its platform contained the 

 following resolutions : 



We denounce the McKinley bill; hail the revival 

 of industry that has followed the repeal of this bill; 

 congratulate the Democratic party on the tariff bill; 

 indorse Congress in the passage of the income tax and 

 the repeal of the Federal election law ; denounce the 

 declaration of the Republican State Convention on the 

 silver question; favor the unlimited coinage of silver 

 at a ratio of 16 to 1 ; favor the election of United 

 States Senators by a direct vote of the people ; favor 

 the establishment of a tribunal of arbitration ; recom- 

 mend the donation by the United States Government 

 to this State of all arid lands. 



At the election held on Nov. 0, the Republican 

 candidate for Congress, Charles S. Hartman, re- 



ceived a plurality of 7,900 votes; William H. 

 Hunt received a plurality of 6,598 votes for the 

 associate justiceship ; and Helena received 27,- 

 024 votes, against 25,118 for Anaconda. The 

 Legislature as elected consists as follows : Senate 

 Republicans, 13 ; Democrats, 6 ; Populists, 2. 

 Assembly Republicans, 44; Democrats, 2; Pop- 

 ulists, 13. An election for local officers was held 

 in Helena on April 4, when the Republican can- 

 didate was elected for mayor, thus overturning 

 the result of the last local election when the 

 Democratic candidate was successful. The Demo- 

 cratic vote was less than that given to the Popu- 

 list candidates. 



MORAVIANS. The statistics of the Mora- 

 vian Church in the United States for 1894 give 

 it 115 ministers, 96 churches, and 12,595 com- 

 municants. The Mission Board of the whole 

 Church, represented by the Unity's Elders' Con- 

 ference, had in its care in the mission fields on 

 July 1, 1894, 93,246 souls, showing a net increase 

 for the year of 1,402. The returns from 6 fields 

 were incomplete, so that the actual number of 

 souls is probably larger than that given. Three 

 hundred and thirty-seven foreign agents and 59 

 native missionaries were employed at the 122 

 stations and 26 out stations, with 1,839 recog- 

 nized native assistants of various kinds. The 

 total cost of supporting these missions, with ex- 

 penditures for the pensioning of retired mission- 

 aries, the education of missionaries' children, 

 special donations, and the outlay for administra- 

 tion, is about $397,392. The American Province 

 was credited with contributing $22.031, including 

 the support of the missions in Alaska, an increase 

 for the province of $693 over the contributions of 

 the previous year. An excess of expenditures over 

 receipts of $6,739 had been occasioned especially 

 by the founding of new stations and the im- 

 provement of the equipment of previously exist- 

 ing posts. The mission in the West Indies had 

 paid a large proportion of its own expenses, and 

 the Australian mission had been chiefly sup- 

 ported by the Presbyterian Missionary Associa- 

 tions of that quarter 



The sessions of the provincial synods of the 

 Moravian Church in the United States were held 

 in 1893 that of the Northern District at Beth- 

 lehem, Pa., in May, and that of the Southern 

 District at Salem, N. C., in November. The sta- 

 tistical reports of the Northern Synod showed 

 that the number of communicants had increased 

 from 9,319 in 1888, when the last previous synodal 

 meeting had been held, to 10,160 in 1893. Four- 

 teen churches and chapels had been dedicated 

 since the last synod (in 1888). The report on 

 missions mentioned especially the transfer of the 

 mission among the Cherokees from the care of 

 the Southern to that of the Northern board in 

 January, 1893, and the beginning of thetrainii 

 of medical missionaries. The claims on the Siif 

 tentation fund had been fully met. The receipt 

 had increased from $9,410 in 1888 to $10,0(>r, in 

 1893, and the expenditures for sustentation sti- 

 pends from $7,318 in 1888 to $9,783 in IS!)::, the 

 latter being the largest amount ever required for 

 this item. The total receipts for provincial ex- 

 penses during the past five years had been l ; !.- 

 172, and the expenditures on the same account 

 $12,281. Gifts and legacies to the permanent 

 fund during the intersynodal period of five 



