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MORAVIANS. 



meet at Butte, June 20. The Clark men appar- 

 ently were in the majority, but the Daly men 

 were in control ; and after some struggles the 

 Clark men withdrew, and two conventions were 

 held. The Daly faction adopted a platform de- 

 nouncing the action of W. A. Clark, of Butte, 

 in corrupting the late Legislature, in assail- 

 ing the integrity of the Supreme Court, and at- 

 tempting to debauch the people of the entire com- 

 monwealth, as the colossal crime of the century. 



Senator Clark's resignation after the report of 

 t lir Senate committee, and his appointment by the 

 acting Governor was denounced as " a disgrace to 

 the State, a shame to the American nation, and an 

 insult to the Senate." 



The Clark faction adopted a platform calling 

 the Washington investigation of Mr. Clark's elec- 

 tion a persecution, denouncing those who insti- 

 gated it, and approving the State legislators that 

 voted for Mr. Clark. 



The Democratic convention for nominating a 

 State ticket met Sept. 19. There were contesting 

 delegations from Butte and other places; the 

 majority report of the Credentials Committee fa- 

 vored the Clark delegation, and that report was 

 adopted by a vote of 253 to 81, whereupon the 

 Daly contingent withdrew. They organized a new 

 party, the Independent-Democratic, and called a 

 convention to meet in Butte Oct. 2. 



The nominations were: For Governor, Thomas 

 S. Hogan; Lieutenant Governor, Joseph Marion; 

 Secretary of State, George M. Hays; Treasurer, 

 Alex. Livingston; Auditor, E. G. McLean; Attor- 

 ney-General, W. R. C. Stewart; Associate Justice, 

 Robert Lee Word ; Superintendent of Schools, Prof. 

 P. A. Leamy. 



The People's party held a convention in Septem- 

 ber, and adopted a platform that denounced the 

 Gage act and " imperialism," demanded the in- 

 itiative and referendum and abolition of the 

 circle at the head of the ballot, and pledged its 

 representatives to vote for an eight-hour law, for 

 a law prohibiting the employment of Japanese 

 and Chinese labor, for abolition of the company 

 store, for inspection of places of employment, to 

 make blacklisting unlawful, to revise the school 

 laws, and to give women the ballot. It favored 

 the election of United States Senators by direct 

 vote, denounced trusts, denounced Gov. Steunen- 

 berg, of Idaho, and extended sympathy to the 

 Pennsylvania miners. 



The regular Democrats and the People's party 

 united upon the following ticket: For Governor, 

 Joseph K. Toole, Democrat; Lieutenant Governor, 

 Frank Higgins, Democrat; Congressman, Caldwell 

 Edwards, Populist; Secretary of State, George M. 

 Hays, Democrat; Auditor, J. H. Calderhead, 

 Populist; Treasurer, A. H. Barret, Democrat; At- 

 torney-General, James Donovan, Populist; Asso- 

 ciate Justice, G. R. Milburn, Democrat; Superin- 

 tendent of Public Instruction, J. M. Lewis, Popu- 

 list 



The Union-Labor party, at its convention in 

 September, declined to fuse with the Democratic 

 and People's parties, and nominated J. A. Fer- 

 guson for Governor, Otto Sehoenfeld for Lieuten- 

 ant Governor. F. M. Nickerson for Secretary of 

 State, and Robert D. Myles for Treasurer. Later 

 it was decided to fuse, and these candidates re- 

 signed. The name of W. W. Welch, the Union- 

 Labor candidate for Superintendent of Public In- 

 struction, was placed on the fusion ticket. 



The Social-Democratic party held a convention 

 in Mutte, Sept. 18, adopted a platform, and nomi- 

 nated a State ticket. The platform denounced 

 bolli Democratic and Republican parties as being 

 'mil rolled and led by capitalists. Imperialism 



and expansion were declared sham issues. The 

 only real solution for the trust problem was the 

 common ownership by the people of all industries. 

 Independent political action and the trade-union 

 movement were declared to be the chief emancipa- 

 tion factors of the working class. Public owner- 

 ship of mines, reduction of the hours of labor, in- 

 auguration of a system of public works and im- 

 provements for employment of the unemployed, 

 national labor legislation, equal civil and political 

 rights for men and women, adoption of the initia- 

 tive and referendum, and abolition of war and the 

 introduction of international arbitration were de- 

 manded. 



The ticket was: For Governor, J. F. Fox; Lieu- 

 tenant Governor, Henry S. Davis; Secretary of 

 State, John M. Home; State Treasurer, Henry 

 Topic; State Auditor, Joseph G. Hoar; Superin- 

 tendent of Public Instruction, O. M. Partelow. 



The Prohibition State Convention met in April 

 in Bozeman. The platform arraigned the President 

 for permitting canteens in the army and the liquor 

 traffic in the new possessions under military con- 

 trol. 



The fusion ticket was successful at the polls. 

 On the vote for presidential electors the result 

 was: Bryan, 37,146; McKinley, 25,373; Woolley, 

 298; Debs, 708; scattering, 116. 



The vote for Governor stood: J. K. Toole, 31,- 

 419; D. E. Folsom, 22,691; T. S. Hogan, 9,188; J. 

 F. Fox, 505. 



The Legislature will have a large majority of 

 members elected on the fusion ticket. The Re- 

 publicans will have 32 in both houses out of the 

 total membership of 94. This Legislature will 

 have the duty of electing two United States Sen- 

 ators, one to succeed Senator Carter, and one to 

 take the seat to which W. A. Clark was elected by 

 the last Legislature. The investigation by Con- 

 gress of the charges of bribery in connection with 

 that election, the resignation of Mr. Clark, his 

 appointment immediately afterward by Lieut.- 

 Gov. Spriggs, and the subsequent revocation of 

 that appointment and the appointment of Martin 

 Maginnis by the Governor belong to the history 

 of Congress. 



An amendment to the Constitution was carried 

 by a vote of 7,689 to 3,265. It provides that where 

 one or more judges of the Supreme court are by 

 any reason disqualified to sit, the remaining judge 

 may call one or more district judges to sit in tin- 

 case, for which the members of the Supreme bench 

 are disqualified, and a decision given by the court 

 so constituted shall have the same force and 

 effect as other decisions of the court. 



MORAVIANS. The statistical returns of the 

 Northern District of the Moravian Church ii 

 America to Dec. 31, 1899, published early in 1900 

 give it 11,776 communicants, 1,301 noncommuni 

 cant members, and 4,780 children, making a tot at 

 membership of 17,857, and 11,159 members of Sun- 

 day schools. The contributions for the vear wen 1 

 $126,110 for church support, $1,582 for the Retired 

 Ministers' fund, $1.274 for the Bohemian mission. 

 $7.333 for foreign missions, $2,823 for the Alaska 

 mission, $9,976 for home missions, $3,86.') for tli'> 

 Theological Seminary, $1,913 for all other Mora- 

 vian cause-. ;iiid $1,305 for other Christian objects. 

 The figures show practically no gain in member- 

 ship, a fact which was attributed by the Statistical 

 Committee largely to the closing of the home mis- 

 sion work in the Indian Territory, which was ren- 

 dered necessary because of the complications grow- 

 ing out of the passage of the Curtis bill. TherJ 

 had been, however, an increase in liberality no\f 

 extending over two years. The gifts for all mis- 

 sionary and benevolent causes in 1898 had ex- 



