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VICTORIA. 



The platform contained no definite declarations 

 on State issues. 



The Democratic convention met in Montpelier 

 June 14, elected delegates to the national conven- 

 tion, and made nominations for State officers and 

 presidential electors. The resolutions contained 

 the following declarations: 



" We demand a tariff for revenue only, to take 

 the place of the present Dingley tariff ; denounce 

 the creation of corporate trusts; demand the ur- 

 gent enforcement of all antitrust laws: reiterate 

 our faith in the larger benefits to be derived from 

 bimetallism as compared with monometallism ; 

 (ii-mand the restoration of silver to its original 

 and natural place as a redemption currency, and 

 indorse the principles of the Chicago platform of 

 1898. 



" We favor home rule for the Filipinos under 

 the protection of the United States; we demand 

 absolute tree trade between Porto Rico and all 

 parts of the United States; the independence of 

 Cuba; no subject peoples; no colonial depend- 

 encies. 



" We express our cordial sympathy with the 

 cause of the Boers; we favor an income tax; the 

 election of United States Senators by direct vote 

 of the people; the immediate construction of the 

 Nicaragua Canal under the control and protection 

 of the United States." 



The ticket follows: For Governor, John H. 

 Senter: Lieutenant Governor, E. S. Harris; Secre- 

 tary of State, H. O. Cu minings; State Treasurer, 

 Klisha May; Auditor, C. A. Fitzpatrick. 



The Prohibition ticket was: For Governor, 

 Jinny (.'. Ha rues; Lieutenant Governor, Charles 

 H. Wilson: Treasurer, Lucien C. Kimball; Secre- 

 tary of State, Fenimore H. Shepard; Auditor, 

 Frederick A. Collins. 



The Social Democratic party made the follow- 

 ing nominations: For Governor, James Pirie; 

 Lieutenant Governor, C. H. Barber; Secretary of 

 State, John McMillan. 



The Republican candidates were elected, the 

 vote standing: Stickney, 48,441; Senter, 17,129; 

 Barnes. !).'>() ; Pirie, 507. There are 30 Republicans 

 in the Senate and lUli in the House; 48 Democrats 

 and 1 Independent in the House. The election 

 \\;ts a Heeled to some extent by the question that 

 was to come before the Legislature of substitut- 

 ing local option for the prohibition law. There 

 were but 4:2 Democrats in the preceding Legisla- 

 ture. At the November election the presidential 

 vote was: McKinley, 42,5(58; Bryan, 12,849; Wool- 

 ley. :?C.H: Barker, 307 ; scattering. <>4. 



'VICTORIA, Queen of Great Britain and Em- 

 press of India, born in the palace of Kensington, 

 May 24, 1S10; died in Osborne House, Isle of 

 Wight, Jan. 22, 1901. Her father was Edward, 

 Duke of Kent, fourth son of George 111, and her 

 mother was Princess Victoria Maria Louisa of 

 Sa \e-Coburg-Gotha, whose first husband was 

 Prince Charles of Leiningen. At the time of the 

 birth of the Princess Victoria two sons of George 

 III, older than the Duke of Kent, were still liv- 

 ing the Duke of York, then Prince Regent and 

 afterward George IV, and the Duke of Clarence, 

 who became William IV. William had two 

 daughters, both of whom died in infancy, so that 

 Victoria's father, had he lived, would have suc- 

 ceeded to the throne at the death of William IV. 

 The princess was christened Alexandria Victoria 

 at Kensington Palace, June 24, and in January 

 of the following year the Duke of Kent died. 



The princess \\as educated under the supervision 

 of the Duchess of Kent and Baroness I.eh/en, who 

 liad gone to England as governess to Princess Feo- 

 dore of Leiningen, half-sister of Victoria, and who 



became private governess to the Princess Victoria 

 when the latter was five years of age. Up to her 

 ninth year all the princess's education was in 

 German, but at ten years of age she was placed 

 under English masters; Rev. George Davys, whom 

 she made Bishop of Peterborough after her acces- 

 sion, taught her Latin; her master in music was 

 Mr. J. B. Sale; in history, Mr. Westall; in penman- 

 ship. Mr. Thomas Seward, writing master of 

 West minster School. When King George IV died. 

 in 1830, and was succeeded by his brother Wil- 

 liam, Duke of Clarence, whose wife was Princess 

 Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, the Princess Victoria 

 was recognized as heir to the throne. During his 

 reign there was great bitterness of feeling between 

 the King and the Duchess of Kent, the chief cause 

 of which was the refusal of the latter to allow 

 her daughter to pass a part of the year at court. 

 In May, 1837, when the Princess Victoria became 

 of age, the King determined to settle upon her 

 an allowance of 10,000 a year, of which she 

 should have absolute control, although the Duchess 

 of Kent desired to be appointed her daughter's 

 trustee. The King, however, did not live to make 

 the settlement, as he died on May 20. 



Immediately on the death of the King, the 

 Archbishop of Canterbury, the Marquis of Coiiyng- 

 ham, and Dr. Howley set out for Kensington. 

 which they reached at 5 A. M., and announced 

 to the Princess Victoria the death of the King. 

 The Privy Council assembled at Kensington at 

 1 1 o'clock, and the usual oaths were administered 

 to the Queen by Lord Chancellor Cottenham, after 

 which all present did homage. By the death of 

 William IV his brother, the Duke of Cumberland, 

 became King of Hanover, a throne to which 

 Victoria could not succeed because in that state 

 the Salic law prevailed. The public proclamation 

 of the Queen took place on the 21st, at St. James's 

 Palace. The Queen opened her first Parliament 

 in person, and before the close of the year a civil 

 Irst bill was passed settling 385,000 a year on her 

 Majesty. There was also passed a bill to increase 

 by 30,000 the income of the Duchess of Kent. 



The coronation of the Queen took place June 2S, 

 1838, in Westminster Abbey, and Parliament 

 voted 70,000 to be spent for the ceremonial. It 

 was arranged that the sovereign's procession to the 

 Abbey through the streets should be made a finer 

 show than on previous occasions; and it drew to 

 London 400,000 country visitors an enormous 

 number, considering how few were the railways 

 and how scanty was the hotel accommodation 

 which the capital had to offer. On the night 

 of June 27 more than 40,000 people bivouacked 

 in the streets, and long before daybreak a vast 

 multitude thronged Whitehall and all the streets 

 leading to the Abbey; but order was so well 

 kept that no uninvited person forced his way 

 into the building. The Queen made the passage 

 from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey 

 in the state coach. After her entrance there tlie 

 Archbishop of Canterbury made the presentation 

 of the Queen to her subjects; after prayers and a 

 sermon by the Bishop of London, her Majesty 

 stood by the altar, and with her hand on the 

 Bible took the oath, afterward kissing the book: 

 then, seated in the coronation chair above the 

 mystic' stone of Scone, she was anointed with holy 

 oil. presented with swords and spurs, invested in 

 the imperial robe, and handed the scepter, the orb. 

 and the royal ring: then the Archbishop of Can- 

 terbury took the crown from the altar and placed 

 it on her head, and as he did so all the peers and 

 peeresses donned their coronets, and a deafening 

 acclamation of " God save the Queen " arose, to lie- 

 repeated again and again, while the organ pealed 



