OHIO. 



OKLAHOMA. 



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The change from specific to ad valorem duties would 

 promote undervaluations, fraudulent invoices, and in- 

 crease importations witli a loss of revenue to the Gov- 

 ernment of many millions, and result in a constantly 

 increasing annual deficiency, which it is proposed to 

 meet by the resort to such war measures as income 

 tax and increased internal duties. 



We denounce the attempt of Congress to destroy 

 the principle of reciprocity. 



We indorse the sentiment of the National Grange, 

 i. e., "that all tariff laws shall protect the products of 

 the farm as well as the product of the factory." 



We demand such protection for sheep husbandry 

 as will secure fair prices for wool. 



We demand the enactment of scli legislation as 

 will prevent the immigration of the vicious and 

 criminal classes; of laborers under contract; of pau- 

 pers and anarchists. 



We favor bimetallism. Silver as well as gold is 

 one of the great products of the United States. 



We denounce the avowed purpose of the Democratic 

 leaders to restore the era of u wild-cat " and kt red- 

 dog " money by repealing the prohibitory 10 per cent, 

 tax on State bank issues. 



The People's party and Labor party effected 

 a fusion at the convention in Columbus, Aug. 17, 

 and nominated : For Secretary of State, Charles 

 R. Marvin ; Judge of Supreme Court, Everett D. 

 Stark ; Member of Board of Public Works, Joel 

 E. Steward ; Commissioner of Common Schools, 

 Michael J. Flannery. The platform adopted de- 

 clared the political purposes of the new move- 

 ment to be identical with those of the Constitu- 

 tion; asserted that "the Government can not 

 be pinned together with bayonets while injus- 

 tice rules the land"; pronounced in favor of 

 collective ownership by the people of all means 

 of production and distribution ; demanded a na- 

 tional currency, safe, sound, and flexible, issued 

 by the Government only and without the use of 

 banking corporations; demanded the free and 

 unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the pres- 

 ent ratio of 16 to 1, and condemned the policy of 

 issuing interest-bearing bonds in time of peace ; 

 demanded the immediate nationalization of the 

 telegraph and telephone, to be followed by the 

 governmental ownership of railroads, mines, 

 street railways, gas, water, and electric-light 

 plants; the public distribution of light, water, 

 heat, and power ; condemned alien ownership of 

 large tracts of land ; demanded free schoolbooks; 

 condemned the present immigration laws, and 

 demanded " further restriction of undesirable 

 immigration"; favored the referendum system 

 of legislation and the abolition of child labor in 

 mines, factories, and workshops; demanded an 

 eight-hour work day, and declared in favor of 

 female suffrage. 



The Democratic Convention was held at Co- 

 lumbus, Sept. 19,when the following nominations 

 were made : For Secretary of State, Milton Tur- 

 ner ; Judge of Supreme Court, James D. Erm- 

 ston ; Member of Board of Public Works, Harry 

 B. Keffer; Commissioner of Common Schools, 

 James A. Leech. The platform heartily com- 

 mended "the efficient, economical, and honest 

 administration of President Cleveland." On the 

 tariff and money questions it said : 



We adhere to the declaration of the Democratic 

 party in its national platform that protection is a 

 fraud, and while we recognize the benefit of the re- 

 duction of duties on imports just made by Congress, 

 we favor such further reduction as can be made, hav- 

 ing in view the revenues necessary to be raised for 



the support of the Government, to the end that the 

 injustice of purely protective duties be abolished. 

 W e congratulate the country upon the repeal of the 

 McKinley tariff and the enactment of a tarilf law in 

 its stead, under the operation of which trade and bus- 

 iness are reviving and the country again becoming 

 prosperous. 



We dissent from the President's views, construction, 

 and treatment of the silver question, and therefore 

 believe that silver should be restored to the position 

 it occupied as money prior to its demonetization by 

 the Republican party, and to that end we favor th'e 

 unlimited free coinage of silver at the legal ratio of 

 10 to 1 and with equal legal tender power. 



The remaining resolutions denounced " the re- 

 cent Republican Legislature of Ohio as the most 

 extravagant, venal, and corrupt known in the 

 history of this State," which "adjourned at a 

 time when some of its members charged their 

 fellow-members with bribery, and when the peo- 

 ple were clamorous for investigation"; de- 

 nounced the administration of Gov. McKinley 

 for being " the most extravagant known in the 

 annals of our State"; denounced the American 

 Protective Association and all organizations that 

 make religious belief a test of political prefer- 

 ment; favored liberal pensions; favored the 

 enactment of a " corrupt practices " law, limiting 

 the amount of money to be expended by the can- 

 didates, requiring the publication after election 

 by all candidates and campaign committees of 

 sworn itemized statements of all money expend- 

 ed, and fixing forfeiture of office and disfran- 

 chisement as the penalty of violating its provi- 

 sions ; favored such legislation as will make it a 

 misdemeanor for any person to accept, or for 

 any railroad corporation or any of its officers or 

 agents to give, a public officer a pass upon any 

 railroad in this State ; and favored the electiofi 

 of United States Senators by direct vote of the 

 people. 



The Prohibitionists put a ticket into the field 

 as follows: For Secretary of State, Mark G. 

 McCaslin; Judge of Supreme Court, John W. 

 Roseborough ; Member of Board of Public Works, 

 Hamilton T. Earles; Commissioner of Common 

 Schools, Frank V. Irish. 



At the November election all the candidates 

 on the Republican State ticket were elected. 

 The vote on Secretary of State was as follows : 

 Samuel M. Taylor, Republican, 413,989 ; Milton 

 Turner, Democrat, 276,902 ; Charles R. Marvin, 

 People's, 49,495; Mark G. McCaslin, Prohibi- 

 tion, 23.237. Republican plurality, 137,087. The 

 other officers elected were: John A. Shauck, Re- 

 publican, Judge of the Supreme Court ; Charles 

 E. Groce. Republican, Member of the Board of 

 Public Works ; Oscar T. Corson, Republican, 

 Commissioner of Common Schools. 



At the same election Representatives in Con- 

 gress were elected 19 Republicans and 2 Demo- 

 crats. 



OKLAHOMA, a Territory of the United 

 States, organized by act of Congress approved 

 May 2, 1890 ; area (including Greer County, 

 claimed by Texas), 38,719 square miles ; popula- 

 tion (including Greer County), according to the 

 census of 1890, 61,834. In 1893 the population 

 was estimated at 212,635, and that of the Chero- 

 kee strip at 100,000. Capital, Guthrie. 



Government. The following were the Terri- 

 torial officers during the year: Governor, Wil- 



