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MINNESOTA. 



MISSIONS, FOREIGN. 



and Mechanic Arts, 197 men and 12 women; 

 School of Mines, 77 men; School of Chemistry, 5 

 men; Department of Agriculture, 423 men and 80 

 women; College of Law, 520 men and 8 women; 

 Department of Medicine, 524 men and 32 women; 

 University Section of Summer School, 127 men 

 and 262 women. 



There are 28 buildings, and the professors and 

 instructors number 245. The library contains 

 75,000 volumes. The annual resources for cur- 

 rent expenses are $330,000; invested funds, $1,250,- 

 000; value of land, buildings, and equipments, 

 $1,400,000. Tuition is free to all except in law 

 and medicine, and coeducation has existed from 

 the start, in 18r.lt. 



Labor. The work of the State Bureau of 

 Labor revealed both improvement of method and 

 increased beneficence of result. It inspected 

 3,338 factories and other industrial establish- 

 ments, covering 83,237 employees 70,951 men, 

 11.517 women, 565 boys, and 204 girls. These 

 represented 69 separate industries. The enforce- 

 ment of the law regulating child labor was more 

 thorough than ever. 



Direct Primaries. Perhaps the most notable 

 event of organic political importance in Minnesota 

 was the first test of the direct primary election 

 law in Minneapolis, to which city the Legislature 

 had restricted the operation of the law after unsuc- 

 cessful attempts to include St. Paul and Duluth. 

 Under this law, all nominations for elective officers 

 are made'at primaries, under the Australian ballot 

 law, instead of at party conventions. The results 

 of this first practical test of the statute appeared 

 to justify the contention of its author (Oscar F. G. 

 Day) and champions that it would be instrumental 

 in weeding out the objectionable element among 

 office seekers and placing a better class of men in 

 public station. Some of these results were sur- 

 prising, but wholesome. Officeholders who had 

 long thrived at the public " crib " by reason of 

 their skill in manipulating conventions were hope- 

 lessly defeated, as were others most eager for nom- 

 ination; while many good citizens who for years 

 had held aloof from "public affairs were now placed 

 in nomination by large majorities and triumphant- 

 ly elected in November. So delighted were the 

 people with the outcome of this significant reform 

 experiment that a determined movement was at 

 once begun to extend the direct primary election 

 law over the entire State; and the Minneapolis 

 object lesson, furthermore, strengthened the hands 

 of those who are laboring for the enactment of a 

 similar law in other States. 



Political. The Republican State Convention 

 was held in St. Paul, Sept. 5. The following 

 ticket was nominated: For Governor, Samuel R. 

 Van Sant; Lieutenant Governor, Lyndon A. Smith, 

 Secretary of State, Peter E. Hanson; Treasurer, 

 Julius H. Block; Attorney-General, Wallace B. 

 Douglas; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, 

 Charles M. Start; Associate Justice, Loren W. 

 Collins; Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners 

 four years, Ira B. Mills, Joseph G. Miller; two 

 years, Charles F. Staples. The platform favored 

 an amendment to the Federal Constitution to 

 regulate trusts and prohibit monopolies; de- 

 nounced the illegal manufacture and sale of oleo- 

 margarine; favored the election of United States 

 Senators by direct vote of the people; declared 

 for fair and equal taxation ; and commended the 

 gross earnings system of taxation of railroads. 



The Democratic State Convention, held in St. 

 Paul, Sept. 5, nominated this State ticket: For 

 Governor, John Lind; Lieutenant Governor, Thom- 

 as J. Meighen; Secretary of State, Michael E. 

 Neary; Treasurer, H. C. Koerner; Attorney-Gen- 



eral, R. C. Saunders; (candidates for the Supremo 

 Court the same that were on the Republican 

 ticket) ; Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners 

 four years, P. M. Ringdal, T. J. Knox; two 

 years, S. M. Owen. The platform expressed the 

 belief that " the Constitution follows the Hag." 

 and therefore denounced the Porto Rican tariff 

 bill; extended sympathy to the Boers; condemned 

 the Dingley protective tariff law; condemned 

 trusts; favored the endeavor to reduce the number 

 of hours of a legal working day; accused the Re- 

 publicans of gerrymandering the legislative dis- 

 tricts; favored tax reform; and demanded that the 

 gross earnings tax of railroads be increased to 4 

 per cent. 



The People's party convention was held in Min- 

 neapolis Sept. 5. The Democratic State ticket was 

 accepted through fusion. The platform was large- 

 ly an argument for free silver. It also favored a 

 graduated income and inheritance tax, postal sav- 

 ings banks, and Government ownership of rail- 

 roads; condemned trusts, and as a means to kill 

 them off asked for direct legislation giving the 

 people the lawmaking and veto power under the 

 initiative and referendum; denounced the Govern- 

 ment's efforts to suppress the Philippine rebel- 

 lion; extended sympathy to the Boers; called for 

 repression of illegal importation of foreign labor- 

 ers; advocated municipal ownership of public utili- 

 ties; denounced the issuing of injunctions in dis- 

 putes between labor and capital ; favored election 

 of United States Senators by popular vote; called 

 for " a full, free, and fair ballot and an honest 

 count " in all the States ; favored home rule in the 

 Territories and their early admission to statehood: 

 and denounced the management of the Pension 

 Bureau. 



The following partial State tickets were also 

 placed in the field: 



Middle-of-the-Road Populist: For Governor, Syl- 

 vester M. Fairchild; Lieutenant Governor, Erick 

 G. Wallinder; Treasurer, Stephen W. Powell; Rail- 

 road and Warehouse Commissioners four years, 

 M. R. Parks, M. P. Moran; two years, John -I. 

 Hibbard. 



Prohibition: For Governor, Berndt B. Haugan: 

 Lieutenant Governor, C. B. Wilkinson; Secretary 

 of State, Frank W. Carlisle; Treasurer, Charles AY. 

 Dorsett. 



Social-Democrat: For Governor, Thomas H. 

 Lucas. 



Social-Labor: For Governor, Edward Kriz. 



All the above-named parties nominated presi 

 dential electors. 



The entire Republican State ticket was elected 

 by pluralities ranging from 2,254 for Governor to 

 56,645 for Attorney-General. The vote for pioi 

 dential electors stood: McKinley (Republican) . 

 190,461; Bryan (Democrat), 112,901: \Yoollev 

 (Prohibition), 8,555; Debs (Social-Democrat i. 

 3,065. 



A proposition to amend the Constitution so a* 

 to provide for loaning the permanent school and 

 imiversity funds to, or the purchase of bonds <>t. 

 cities, villages, towns, counties, and school dis- 

 tricts was defeated. 



MISSIONS, FOREIGN, ECUMENICAL 

 CONFERENCE ON. The Ecumenical Confer- 

 ence on Foreign Missions which assembled in thi> 

 city of New York in April, 1900. was the third 

 meeting of the kind that has been held. The first 

 conference, which was small in numbers and \\a* 

 chiefly composed of returned missionaries, met in 

 London in 1878; the second was held in London 

 in 1888, when the one hundredth year of the in-ti- 

 tution of the missionary movement was celebrated, 

 and was attended by 1,759 delegates. In prepare- 



