MARYLAND. 



MASSACHUSETTS. 



477 



Republican party which passed the Federal law 

 against trusts, and which is enforcing it so far 

 as State's rights permit. 



" In this State the Republican party has re- 

 deemed every pledge made by it at Cambridge. 

 Under its rule elections have for the first time 

 in a generation been fair and free. It equal i/ed 

 the burdens of taxation by reassessing the taxable 

 property of the State. It placed on the tax books 

 $00,000,000 of stocks and bonds never before* as- 

 sessed. It gave free schoolbooks to the children 

 of the people. Ignoring partisan considerations, 

 it conferred upon Baltimore city a new charter. 



" All the party promised for the better man- 

 agement of State finances has been accomplished. 

 Under the able direction of the Republican State 

 Comptroller and Treasurer the State finances 

 have been put in better condition than ever be- 

 fore. The public debt has been consolidated and 

 refunded at a lower rate of interest, with the 

 result that thousands of dollars will be saved 

 to the taxpayers annually; nonproductive assets 

 have been disposed of and the proceeds applied 

 to the reduction of the State debt. If we are 

 continued in power we promise to wipe out the 

 entire State debt during the ensuing four years 

 and to reduce the tax rate from 17| cents on the 

 $100 of assessable property to 16 cents, this being 

 a reduction of 10 per cent. 



" We favor a nonpartisan administration of our 

 schools, with minority representation on the 

 school boards of the State, and point to the 

 record of our chief executive in his retention and 

 reappointment of competent men of different po- 

 litical faith on the boards of educational and elee- 

 mosynary institutions, never before done in this 

 State. 



" We declare our belief in the wisdom and jus- 

 tice of a reasonable increase in the salaries of 

 the school teachers of this State, which is here- 

 by recommended to the favorable consideration 

 of the Legislature and to the proper State and 

 county authorities. 



" The oyster and crab industry gives employ- 

 ment and support to a large part of the popula- 

 tion of Maryland, therefore we declare our oppo- 

 sition to all efforts to deprive the people of their 

 independent and ancient rights to a full and 

 unabridged use of the oyster and crab bottoms 

 in the tide waters of this State. 



" We pledge our party to a nonpartisan reor- 

 ganization of the police department of Baltimore 

 city, by passing a law embodying the essential 

 features of the two bills prepared by the same 

 organization which prepared the election and 

 registration laws passed by the Republican Legis- 

 lature in 1896." 



The Democratic ticket was successful at the 

 polls in November, the official announcement of 

 the vote being as follows: For Governor Smith, 

 Democrat, 128,409; Lowndes, Republican, 116,- 

 286; Swann, Prohibitionist, 5,275; Jones, Social 

 Democrat, 432; Rugemer, Social Labor, 420; Hill, 

 Union Reform, 367. For Comptroller Hering, 

 Democrat, 127,604; Goldsborough, Republican, 

 116,043; Ball, Prohibitionist, 5,302; Fowler, Social 

 Democrat, 452 ; George, -Union Reform, 368. For 

 Attorney-General Rayner, Democrat, 126,593; 

 Findlay, Republican, 116,273; Hendrickson, Pro- 

 hibitionist, 5,649; Bachman, Social Democrat, 

 496 ; Walling, Union Reform, 454. 



The proposed amendment to the Constitution 

 was defeated by a vote of 42,927 against 12,630. 



By the result of this election the State Senate 

 is composed of 11 Republicans and 15 Democrats, 

 and the House of Delegates of 25 Republicans and 

 66 Democrats. 



MASSACHUSETTS, a Now England State, 

 one of the original thirteen; ratified the Consti- 

 tution Feb. 6, 1788; area, 8,315 square miles. The 

 population, according to each decennial census 

 was 378,787 in 1790; 422,845 in 1800; 472040 iri 

 1810; 523,159 in 1820; 610,408 in 1830; 737,<;)9 

 in 1840; 994,514 in 1850; 1,231, ()(}(> in I860; 1 457 - 

 351 in 1870; 1,783,085 in 1880; and 2,238,943 in 

 1890. By the State census of 1895 it was 2,500 - 

 183. Capital, Boston. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers in 1899: Governor, Roger Wolcott; Lieu- 

 tenant Governor, William M. Crane; Secretary 

 of State, William 

 M. Olin ; Treasurer, 

 EdVard P. Shaw; 

 Auditor, John W. 

 Kimball ; Attorney- 

 General, Hosea M. 

 Knowlton ; Secre- 

 tary of the Board 

 of Education, Frank 

 A. Hill; Adjutant 

 General, Samuel 

 Dalton ; Secretary 

 of the Board of 

 Agriculture, J. W. 

 Stockwell ; Insur- 

 ance Commission- 

 er, F. L. Catting 

 all Republicans; 

 Chief Justice of 



the Supreme Court, Copyright> by Elmer ch ]m 



Walbridge A Field, w . MURRAy CRANE , 



who died July 15 GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS. 

 and was succeeded 



by Oliver W. Holmes ; Associate Justices, Marcus 

 P. Knowlton, James M. Morton, John Lathrop, 

 James M. Barker, John W. Hammond, and Wil- 

 liam C. Loring. 



Finances. The net debt of the State at the 

 beginning of the year was $13,598,964, an increase 

 of $1,136,585 in 1898. In four years the net debt 

 has increased more than threefold. 



Of the $500,000 placed by the Legislature at 

 the disposal of the Executive for war purposes, 

 $326,071.43 was spent in 1898. Under the act 

 granting $7 a month from the State to volun- 

 teers in the Spanish war $161,103.53 was ex- 

 pended in that year. The Volunteer Aid Asso- 

 ciation, with the Ladies' Relief, received $215,000 

 in gifts from citizens. 



Banks. In September, 1898, the national 

 banks in the State carried loans and discounts 

 amounting to about $272,000,000. The deposits 

 in savings banks were $474,000,000. 



In November Lewis Warner, who wrecked the 

 Hampshire County National Bank and the Hamp- 

 shire Savings Bank by embezzling $500,000, was 

 sentenced to a term in State Prison of not more 

 than twelve nor less than nine years. 



The Broadway National Bank of Boston failed 

 on Dec. 16, and on Dec. 21 the Globe National 

 Bank of Boston closed its doors. Ex-President 

 Cole was arrested, charged with having embezzled 

 $900,000 in the course of a period covering many 

 years. 



Railroads. Boston has now the largest rail- 

 way station in the world. This is the new South- 

 ern Union Station on Summer Street, at its junc- 

 tion with Federal Street and Atlantic Avenue, 

 on the west bank of Fort Point channel. The 

 land included has an area of 1,524,600 square 

 feet, and the buildings cover 566,280. The total 

 length of tracks is about 15 miles, and the num- 

 ber of tracks entering the station 32. The whole 

 number of trains to use the station when it is 



