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party, lost all county officers, caused it to be beaten 

 in the State at the last election by 135,000, and which 

 refuses to fight for principles, instanced in their aban- 

 donment of the Second Congressional District. 



A resolution was adopted commending the 

 policy of the national Administration, and pledg- 

 ing support to the cause of tariff reform. Ef- 

 forts were made to reconcile the two factions, 

 and the leaders of the Pennsylvania Democracy 

 announced the withdrawal of Mr. Markley, their 

 candidate. But the leaders on the other side 

 repudiated the compromise, and both candidates 

 remained in the field. 



The Prohibitionists named Henry F. Morrow 

 as their candidate, and the People's party, Vic- 

 tor A. Lozier. 



Returns of the election gave Grow 485,804; 

 Hancock, 297,900; Morrow, 11,180; Markley, 

 2,828 ; and Lozier. 5.327. 



State officers and Representatives at Large in 

 Congress were chosen at the November election. 



The Republican convention, held May 23, at 

 Harrisburg, nominated the following: For Gov- 

 ernor, Daniel H. Hastings ; Lieutenant-Govern- 

 or, Walter Lyon : Auditor General, Amos H. 

 Mylin; Secretary of Internal Affairs. James W. 

 Latta; Congressmen at Large, Galusha A. Grow 

 and George F. Huff. The resolutions made the 

 usual declaration in favor of a protective tariff, 

 denounced the selection of a Southern Demo- 

 crat for Secretary of the Interior, and the na- 

 tional Administration in general, and favored 

 the expansion of the currency till it should reach 

 an amount equal to $40 per capita ; also favored 

 bimetallism, " with such restrictions and under 

 such provisions, to be determined by legislation, 

 as will secure and maintain the parity of values 

 of the two metals, so that the purchasing and 

 debt-paying power of a dollar, whether of silver, 

 gold, or paper, shall be at all times equal " ; and 

 further the issue of national bank notes to the 

 par value of the bonds deposited to secure cir- 

 culation. 



The Democrats, in convention at Harrisburg, 

 June 27, nominated : For Governor, William M. 

 Singerly; Lieutenant-Governor, John S. Rilling; 

 Auditor General, David F. Magee ; Secretary of 

 Internal Affairs, Walter W. Greenland; Con- 

 gressmen at Large, Hannibal K. Sloan and 

 Joseph C. Bucher. The platform declared alle- 

 giance to the principles of the party, opposed 

 inflation of the currency, commended the ad- 

 ministration of Gov. Pattison, and denounced 

 the course of the Republican majority in the 

 State Legislature. 



Judge Bucher declined the nomination, and 

 Mr. Sloan died Aug. 11. Another convention 

 was called for Sept. 11, and Henry Meyer and 

 Thomas Collins were placed upon the ticket for 

 Representatives at Large. 



The Prohibitionists met at Williamsport, June 

 6. and nominated the following : For Governor, 

 Charles L. Hawley; Lieutenant-Governor. Ho- 

 mer L. Castle : Auditor General, Charles Palmer; 

 Secretary of Internal Affairs. L. R. Gleason ; Con- 

 gressmen at Large. E. K. Kane and Rev. L. G. 

 Jordan. The platform, besides declaring for 

 prohibition, favored a qualification of intelli- 

 gence in voters and increased facilities in the 

 public schools for higher education ; decried 

 sectarianism in the schools ; denounced indis- 



criminate immigration as a menace to the sta- 

 bility of our Government, and asked that the 

 naturalization laws be amended ; opposed trusts 

 and combinations that interfere with industrial 

 and business interests ; favored the election of 

 the President, Vice- President, and Senators by 

 direct vote of the people ; declared for the princi- 

 ple of proportionate representation of all in legis- 

 lative bodies, and in favor of State supervision of 

 public roads ; and that the tariff should be ad- 

 justed through a nonpartisan commission, and 

 partisan demagogy on the tariff and other public 

 questions ended. 



The People's party, in convention May 1, 

 nominated for Governor J. T. Ailman ; Lieu- 

 tenant-Governor Jerome B. Akin ; Secretary of 

 Internal Affairs, Abrain Louder; Auditor Gen- 

 eral, W. M. Desher; Congressmen at Large, Vic- 

 tor A. Lozier and B. F. Green man. The plat- 

 form demanded a system of submitting impor- 

 tant national and State legislation to a vote of 

 the people, and that the President, Vice-Presi- 

 dent, United States Senators, and postmasters be 

 elected by a direct vole ; favored a graduated in- 

 come and inheritance tax: urged that the State 

 schoolbook law be amended so that the State 

 shall publish a uniform system of text-books 

 free to the schoolchildren of the Commonwealth ; 

 demanded that all property of the State now 

 taxable be assessed at its cash value for State, 

 county, and municipal purposes, and to pay an 

 equal millage ; favored State ownership and op- 

 eration of coal mines, and indorsed the resolu- 

 tions of the miners' convention at Columbus. 



The Independent Republicans and the Social- 

 istic Labor Party made nominations for State 

 offices, and there were tickets in some of the dis- 

 tricts by the Citizens' party and Independent 

 Democrats. 



A colored voters' convention was held at New 

 Castle, Aug. 8 and 9. The lynching of colored 

 people in the South was denounced, and the 

 Government was condemned for sending soldiers 

 to Chicago in the case of the railroad riots, when 

 it refused to do the same to suppress mobs of 

 lynchers in the South. A resolution was carried 

 adopting the Republican ticket. 



The Republican nominees on the State ticket 

 were all elected. For Governor, Hastings, Re- 

 publican, had 574.801 votes ; Singerly, Demo- 

 crat, 333,404; Hawley. Prohibitionist, 23,443: 

 Ailman, Populist, 19,484. All Representatives 

 in Congress are Republicans except those of the 

 Eighth and Ninth Districts, who are Democrats. 

 The State Legislature has on joint ballot 167 

 Republicans and 87 Democrats. 



PERSIA, an empire in central Asia. The 

 reigning Emperor, called the Shah-in-Shah, or 

 King of Kings, is Nasreddin. born July 18, 1831, 

 who succeeded his father, Mohammed, in 1848. 

 The Valiahd or heir apparent is Muzaffereddin, 

 born March 25, 1853. 



The area is estimated at 628,000 square miles. 

 The population is about 9,000,000, including 

 2.500,000 nomads. Teheran, the capital, has a 

 population of 210.000: Tauris or Tabriz has 

 180,000. The revenue for 1894 was estimated at 

 68,420,000 krans (10 krans= $1). The army is 

 stated by the Minister of War to consist of 

 105,500 men. Of these not more than 60,OOC 

 are effective. There are in the arsenals 50,000 



