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perils. On the one hand is a public opinion misled 

 by organized forces of commercialism that have 

 perverted a war intended by the people to be a war 

 of humanity into a war of conquest. On the other 

 is a public opinion swayed by demagogic appeals 

 to factional and class passions, the most fatal 

 of diseases to a republic. We believe that either 

 of these influences, if unchecked, would ultimately 

 compass the downfall of our country, but. we also 

 believe that neither represents the sober convic- 

 tion of our countrymen. Convinced that the ex- 

 tension of the jurisdiction of the United States 

 for the purpose of holding foreign people as colo- 

 nial dependents is an innovation dangerous to our 

 liberties and repugnant to the principles upon 

 which our Government is founded, we pledge our 

 earnest efforts through all constitutional means, 

 first, to procure the renunciation of all imperial 



Sor colonial pretensions with regard to foreign 

 countries claimed to have been acquired through 

 or in consequence of military or naval operations 

 of the last two years. Second, we further pledge 

 our efforts to secure a single gold standard and 

 a sound banking system. Third, to secure a pub- 

 lic service based on merit only. Fourth, to secure 

 the abolition of all corrupting special privileges, 

 whether under the guise of subsidies, bounties, un- 

 deserved pensions or trust-breeding tarill's." 



Senator Caffery and Mr. Howe declined on Sept. 

 21, and on Sept. 26 it was decided to make no 

 other nominations. 



The presidential election took place on Nov. 6. 

 The total popular vote was 13,070,300. McKinley 

 received a majority of 443,054 of all the votes cast. 

 His plurality over Bryan was 832.280. In the 

 electoral colleges his majority was 137. The 

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table above gives the popular vote for the vari- 

 ous candidates Republican, Democratic, Prohibi- 

 tionist, Social-Democrat, Socialist-Labor, Middle- 

 of-the-Road Populist, Union Reform, and United 

 Christian in the several States, the Republican 

 or Democratic plurality in each State and the 

 electoral vote cast in each State for McKinley or 

 Bryan. 



The Alaska Boundary. The modus rircndi 

 arranged with Great Britain on Oct. 20, 1899, 

 called for the marking of certain provisional 

 boundary points for convenience of administra- 

 tion around the head of Lynn Canal. It was 

 stipulated that the citizens or subjects of either 

 poAver found by the arrangement within the tem- 

 porary jurisdiction of the other shall suffer no 

 diminution of the rights or privileges that they 

 have hitherto enjoyed. The Dominion of Canada 

 made rules and regulations to secure to American 

 miners and others transferred to Canadian juris- 

 diction all property and other rights that they 

 possessed under American laws. The demarcation 

 of the temporary boundary was completed by a 

 joint survey in July, 1900. Canada, on the theory 

 that in the conventional boundary 10 marine 

 leagues inland the continental coast line is to be 

 followed, leaping from headland to headland, 

 claimed control of all water access to the Klon- 

 dike gold fields by the Dalton trail, White pass, 

 and Chilkoot pass, control of all the Lynn Canal, 

 and also of Skagway and Dyea. The desire of the 

 Canadian Government was to get a deep-water 

 harbor and port of entry, and it offered to sur- 

 render its claim to Dyea and Skagway if the 

 United States would concede to it Pyramid har- 

 bor. When this was refused Canada proposed 



