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organizations from swindling honest depositors of 

 their surplus earnings; and we also favor a Govern- 

 ment postal telegraph system, which will prevent 

 telegraph monopolies from controlling the tran>- 

 mission of commercial and public thought at ex- 

 tortionate rates." 



The resolutions favored also a law making rail- 

 roads and other corporations liable for injuries to 

 employees resulting frem negligence of their co- 

 employees, a uniform system of text-books for pub- 

 lic schools, and the purchase of supplies of State 

 and county officers from dealers within the State. 



The Populist platform had among its declarations 

 the following : 



" We regard the life-tenure system in our Federal 

 judiciary as subversive of liberty, and we demand 

 the election of members of the United States Su- 

 preme Court for stated terms by direct vote of the 

 people. 



" We recommend that at the State convention of 

 the People's party to be held in 1900 a candidate 

 for United States Senator be nominated, to be 

 voted for by the Legislature elected by the party. 



" We favor the State taking proper steps looking 

 to the publication of all necessary school text-books, 

 the same to be furnished school patrons at cost. 



" We demand an equitable tax upon the franchises 

 and property of railroad and other corporations, and 

 we denounce the majority of the State Board of 

 Equalization for its refusal to assess railroad prop- 

 erty on the same basis as that of the citizens of the 

 State." 



Among the resolutions of the Democratic Con- 

 vention were these : 



" We congratulate the people of this State upon 

 the splendid legislation for the control and regula- 

 tion of freight and passenger tariffs enacted by the 

 fusion forces in the last Legislature, and we com- 

 mend the earnest and persistent efforts of our Board 

 of Railroad Commissioners in upholding said law, 

 and in seeking to enforce it. We arraign and de- 

 nounce the Republican party in the State for its 

 encouragement of the extreme and unreasonable 

 methods resorted to by the railway companies to 

 defeat the successful enforcement of this law. 



" We favor the enactment of laws in behalf of 

 laboring classes, regulating the employment of 

 women and children, limiting the hours and days 

 of labor, regulating labor contracts, providing for 

 compulsory arbitration of labor disputes, the aboli- 

 tion of government by injunction, and compelling 

 employers to take better precautions for the safety, 

 health, and comfort of their employees. We favor 

 the repeal as to railroad corporations of the fellow- 

 servant rule as embodied in the statutes of this 

 State. 



" We are unalterably opposed to the convict labor 

 of the State entering into competition with the paid 

 labor of the State. 



"We favor the enactment of a graded income 

 tax so adjusted as to make those who are best able 

 bear the expenses of government. 



" We favor the establishment of Government sav- 

 ings bank under a properly regulated postal savings 

 system. 



" We favor the publication by the State at its 

 own expense of all the text-books for use in its 

 public schools, and the furnishing of such text-books 

 to the school children free of charge. 



" We heartily indorse the action of the Demo- 

 cratic minority in Congress in its firm stand against 

 the policy of the Republican party in its effort to- 

 ward imperialism through colonial expansion." 



The ticket follows: For Governor, Andrew E. 

 Lee : Lieutenant Governor, F. C. Robinson ; Secre- 

 tary of State, George Sparling; Treasurer, Maris 

 Taylor; Attorney-General, C. S. Palmer; Auditor, 



Hugh Smith ; Superintendent of Public Instruc- 

 tion, L. F. Kintz; Land Commissioner, John Scol- 

 lard ; Railroad Commissioner, W. H. Tompkin ; 

 Representatives in Congress, John E. Kelley, Free- 

 man Knowles. 



The Republican State Convention met at Mitchell, 

 Aug. 24. The platform declared in favor of pro- 

 tection and the gold standard, approved the annex- 

 ation of Hawaii, urged the extension of civil sen-ice 

 reform, declared against corporations and trusts, 

 favored internal revenue to compel corporations to 

 bear their share of taxation, postal savings banks 

 and postal telegraph system, and the Nicaragua 

 Canal, pledged the party's support to the Railroad 

 Commission in carrying out the rate fight, and sug- 

 gested that Republicans study the initiative and 

 referendum. A resolution favoring the purchase of 

 supplies from State institutions was adopted. 



The candidates were : For Governor, Kirk G. 

 Phillips ; Lieutenant Governor, J. T. Kean ; Secre- 

 tary of State, W. H. Roddle; Treasurer, John 

 Schamber ; Superintendent of Schools, E. E. Collins ; 

 Auditor, J. D. Reeves; Land Commissioner, David 

 Eastman ; Attorney-General, John L. Pyle ; Rail- 

 road Commissioner, William G. Smith; Members of 

 Congress, R. J. Gamble and C. H. Burke. 



The candidates of the Prohibition party were : 

 For Governor. K. Lewis ; Lieutenant Governor, F. 

 J. Carlisle ; Secretary of State, G. A. Grant ; Treas- 

 urer, H. H. Curtis ; Auditor, J. R. O'Neil ; Superin- 

 tendent of Public Instruction, Florence Alguire; 

 Commissioner of Schools and Public Lands. Gust. 

 A. Johnson ; Railroad Commissioner, P. H. Olufson ; 

 Representatives in Congress, A. Jamison and M. D. 

 Alexander. 



The official count of the election returns showed 

 that the fusion candidate for Governor, A. E. Lee, 

 had been elected by 37,319, against 36,949 for K. G. 

 Phillips, the Republican candidate, and 891 for 

 Lewis, Prohibition. The remainder of the Repub- 

 lican State ticket had pluralities over the fusion 

 candidates of 4,000 to 5,000. Both Representatives 

 in Congress are Republicans, and the Legislature 

 will stand: Republicans in the Senate 28, in the 

 House 59; Fusionists in the Senate 17, in the 

 House 28. Republican majority on joint ballot, 42. 



Steps were taken toward a contest by the defeated 

 candidate for the office of Governor, but apparently 

 the contest was abandoned. 



Constitutional Amendments. Three proposed 

 amendments to the State Constitution were submit- 

 ted to vote at the election, and two of them were 

 carried. 



The first was to amend the section prescribing 

 qualifications of voters by striking out the word 

 "male," thus giving the ballot to women. It was 

 rejected by 3,285 majority. 



The second was to add an article to the Constitu- 

 tion as follows : 



. "ARTICLE XXVII, SECTION 1. The manufacture 

 and sale of intoxicating liquors shall be under exclu- 

 sive State control, and shall be conducted by duly 

 authorized agents of the State, who shall be paid by 

 salary and not by commissions. All liqnors sold 

 shall'be first examined by a State chemist and the 

 purity thereof established. 



"Skc. 2. The Legislature shall by law precribe 

 regulations for the enforcement of the provisions 

 of this article and provide suitable and adequate 

 penalties for the violation thereof." 



This is the system introduced a few years ago in 

 South Carolina. 



The amendment was carried by a majority of 

 1,643. The question arose whether the adoption of 

 the amendment had the effect of repealing the 

 license law ; the Attorney General gave his opinion 

 that it had not, but that the license law would con- 



