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OHIO. 



OKLAHOMA. 



the free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold 

 at the ratio of 16 to 1 independent of any and all 

 other nations. 



"2. We are proud of the patriotic conduct in 

 peace and war of that brave leader of Democracy, 

 William J. Bryan, and we favor his renomination 

 as the Democratic candidate of the people for Presi- 

 dent of the United States in 1900. 



" 3. The Democratic, Populist, and Silver Repub- 

 lican Senators and Representatives in Congress de- 

 serve the thanks of the country for their vigorous 

 and united efforts to secure a just distribution of 

 the burdens of the war taxation equally upon the 

 wealth and corporations of the country as well as 

 upon its labor. 



"4. We are in favor of an income tax so that 

 the burden of taxation be equally and impartially 

 laid to the end that wealth may bear its due propor- 

 tion of the expenses of the Government ; and in 

 view of the recent decision of the Supreme Court 

 of the United States declaring an income tax law 

 passed by Congress unconstitutional, we are in favor 

 of an amendment to the Constitution making a rea- 

 sonable and just tax constitutional. 



" 5. We recognize the eternal truth that life, lib- 

 erty, and the pursuit of happiness is the natural and 

 inalienable heritage of all mankind, and since the 

 hand of despotism has been lifted from the island 

 of Cuba, dominated by Spain, we should afford its 

 inhabitants an untrammeled opportunity to estab- 

 lish a free and independent constitutional govern- 

 ment deriving its powers from the consent of the 

 governed ; and we remind the country that Congress 

 in the resolutions which declared war resolved 'that 

 the United States hereby disclaims any disposition 

 or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or 

 control over said island, except for the pacification 

 thereof, and asserts its determination when that is 

 accomplished to leave the government and control 

 of the island to its people,' and we believe that until 

 the people of the islands of Cuba and the Philip- 

 pines, redeemed from Spanish domination, declare 

 otherwise, we should keep the faith upon which the 

 war was begun and prosecuted. 



" 6. We are in favor of the United States build- 

 ing, owning, and controlling the Nicaragua Canal. 



"7. As citizens of Ohio we point with shame to 

 Marcus A. Hanna occupying a seat in the United 

 States Senate as a Senator from Ohio, when he has 

 been accused by the Senate of his own State in a 

 memorial to the Senate of the United States of the 

 base crime of securing the office by bold and shame- 

 less bribery ; and we demand that the Senator from 

 Ohio whose right to his seat is not questioned, Jo- 

 seph B. Foraker, obey the will of the people of Ohio 

 and protect the dignity of the United States Senate 

 by insisting on a prompt, thorough, and fearless in- 

 vestigation of these criminal charges ; and we de- 

 nounce the shameful conduct of the Republican 

 congressmen who abandoned their duties in Wash- 

 ington to come to Ohio as petty bosses and subserv- 

 ient tools of Marcus A. Hanna, to threaten, brow- 

 beat, and intimidate members of the Ohio Legisla- 

 ture into voting for Marcus A. Hanna for United 

 States Senator. 



"8. As this is a Government of the people, by 

 the people, and for the people, we favor a reference 

 of all laws to the people themselves, so far as prac- 

 ticable, under the mode first devised and success- 

 fully practiced by the enlightened Republic of Swit- 

 zerland, known as the initiative and referendum." 



The election was held Nov. 8 and resulted in the 

 success of the entire Republican ticket. The votes 

 on Secretary of State were as follows: Charles Kin- 

 ney( Republican). 408,218; Upton K.Guthery (Dem- 

 ocrat), 347.074; Thomas Brown (Prohibition), 7.IIS!): 

 James A. Graft (Union Reform), 10,911 ; James B. 



Flynn (Socialist-Labor), 5,874. Kinney's plurality, 

 61,139. The pluralities for the other Republican 

 candidates were as follows: Judge of Supreme 

 Court, William T. Spear, 63,026 ; Clerk of Supreme 

 Court, Josiah B. Allen, 61,441 ; Dairy and Food 

 Commissioner, Joseph E. Blackburn, 26,411 ; Mem- 

 ber of the Board of Public Works, Washington G. 

 Johnson, 61,866. 



Elections for Representatives in Congress resulted 

 in the election of 15 Republicans and 6 Democrats. 



OKLAHOMA, a Territory of the United States, 

 organized in 1890 ; area, about 40,000 square miles. 

 The population by the census of 1890 was 61,834 ; 

 by the Auditor's census of 1894 it was 212,635 ; the 

 Governor's report gave it as 275,587 in 1896, and 

 311,400 in 1898. The number of Indians is 13,033. 



Government. The following were the Terri- 

 torial officers in 1898 : Governor, Cassius M. Barnes, 

 Republican ; Sec- 

 retary of the Terri- 

 tory and ex officio 

 Lieutenant Gov- 

 ernor, W. M. Jen- 

 kins ; Attorney- 

 General, Harper 

 S. Cunningham ; 

 Treasurer, Frank 

 M. Thompson; Su- 

 perintendent of 

 Public Instruction 

 and ex officio Audi- 

 tor, S. N. Hopkins; 

 Secretary School 

 Land Department 



CASSIUS M. BARNES. 

 GOVERNOR OF OKLAHOMA. 



Land Commission- 

 er, Charles H. Fil- 

 son ; Oil Inspector, 

 Amos A. Ewing ; 

 Bank Examiner, 

 John M. Pugh ; Librarian, George H. Dodson ; Ad- 

 jutant General, Philip C. Rosenbauin, resigned and 

 succeeded by Bert C. Orner, acting ; Superintendent 

 of Public Health, L. H. Buxton : Chief J ustice of 

 the Supreme Court, J. H. Burford ; Associate Jus- 

 tices, J. C. Tarsney, B. F. Burwell, B. T. Hainer, 

 and John L. McAtee ; Clerk, B. F. Hegler. 



Finances. The expenses of the Territorial gov- 

 ernment have been greater every year than the 

 revenue ; the warrant indebtedness of the general 

 fund now amounts to $253.752.74. The deficits in 

 the Library, Normal School, and Deaf-Mute School 

 funds and interest bring the amount to about 

 $348,501 ; there is also due contractors for build- 

 ing the Northwestern Normal School at Aha $85,- 

 000, making a total Territorial indebtedness of 

 $435,501. The bonded debt, 6-per-cent. school 

 bonds, is $48,000, which is included in the above 

 amount. 



The property valuation of the Territory is $38,- 

 213,784, as equalized by the Territorial board, ex- 

 clusive of railroad property, which is valued at 

 $2,677,163. This is an increase in a year of ovei 

 $8,000,000. 



The tax rate is 4& mills for all Territorial pur- 

 poses, of which 3 mills is for the general fund. 



Education. The school population is 101,417. 

 In 1897 an apportionment of $118,177.55 was dis- 

 tributed to the counties, and in 1898 one of $108.- 

 052. There are 1,87!) districts, and the value oi 

 school property is $457.575. 



The School' Land Board has control of about 

 10,800 quarter sections, of which about s.:>oo an 

 leaded. The records show names of about li.iMH' 

 lessees; the office has 11,086 notes for detVnvr 

 payments. The cash receipts of the office for tin 

 fiscal year were $186,789.49. 



