

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. (DELAWARE.) 



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that they can be accomplished by the regular proc- 

 ess of constitutional amendment." 



The Democrats met in convention in New Ha- 

 ven Sept. 25 and nominated the following: For 

 Governor, Melbert B. Cary; -Lieutenant-Governor, 

 E. Kent Hubbard, Jr.; Secretary, Arthur B. Cal- 

 kins; Treasurer, Philip Hugo; Comptroller, Ed- 

 ward G. Kilduff; Attorney-General, Noble E. 

 Pierce; Representative at Large, Homer S. Cum- 

 mings. The platform as reported was in part 

 as follows: 



" We have no sympathy with the Republican 

 policy of fostering and protecting monopolies by 

 legislation and at the expense of the people. We 

 believe that the prices of beef, coal, and other ne- 

 cessities of life have been raised through illegal 

 combinations and by means of special privileges 

 conceded to monopoly by the party in power, and 

 we therefore demand the immediate repeal of all 

 tariffs on trust-produced articles so as to prevent 

 monopoly under the plea of protection. We also 

 demand the most stringent enforcement of all leg- 

 islative laws against trusts and the passage of 

 such new laws as are required to supplant and 

 give potency to existing statutes. We demand 

 publicity as to the affairs of corporations engaged 

 in interstate commerce and the enactment of 

 laws requiring all such corporations, before doing 

 business outside of the State of their origin, to 

 show that they have no water in their stock and 

 that they are not designed to monopolize any 

 branch of business or the production of any arti- 

 cles of merchandise." 



Reciprocity with Cuba was favored and an im- 

 mediate reduction of the tariff on Cuban imports 

 urged. Other planks protested against the grant- 

 ing of ship subsidies, favored the election of 

 United States Senators by popular vote and de- 

 manded legislation to prevent " government by 

 injunction." 



The State Prohibition Convention opened Sept. 

 9 in New Britain. Nominations were made as fol- 

 low: For Governor, Robert N. Stanley; Lieuten- 

 ant-Governor, Myrton T. Smith; Secretary, Leon 

 M. Barnes ; Treasurer, Oliver G. Beard ; AttoTney- 

 General, John J. Copp; Comptroller, William In- 

 galls; Congressman at Large, Frederick G. Platt. 



By the result of the election the Republicans 

 were continued in control of the State government. 



The summary of the vote for Governor was: 

 Chamberlain, Republican, 85,338; Gary, Democrat, 

 69,330; Stanley, Prohibition, 1,436; Wheeler, So- 

 cialist, 2,804; Oatley, Social Labor, 777. 



The Socialist vote was considerably larger than 

 in former elections. 



On joint ballot the Republicans will have 205 

 in the Legislature and the Democrats 74. 



Water-ways. Congress at the last session ap- 

 propriated the following sums for improving the 

 waters of the State: New London harbor, $25,- 

 000; New Haven harbor breakwater, $44,000; Mil- 

 ford harbor, $15,000; certain harbors between the 

 Housatonic and the New York line, $44,000; 

 Branford harbor, $5,000; Pawcatuck river, $9,000; 

 Thames river, $15,000; Housatonic river, $10,000; 

 Connecticut river, below Hartford, $30,000. 



DELAWARE, a Middle Atlantic State, one 

 of the original thirteen, ratified the Constitution 

 Dec. 7, 1787; area, 2,120 square miles. The popu- 

 lation, according to each decennial census, was 

 50,096 in 1790; 64,273 in 1800; 72,674 in 1810; 

 72,749 in 1820; 76,748 in 1830; 78,085 in 1840; 

 91,532 in 1850; 112.216 in 1860; 125,015 in 1870; 

 146.608 in 1880; 168,493 in 1890; and 184,735 in 

 " 900. Capital, Dover. 



Government. The following were the State 



~icers in 1902: Governor, John Hunn; Lieuten- 



ant-Governor, Philip L. Cannon; Secretary of 

 State, Caleb R. Layton; Treasurer, Martin B. 

 Burns; Auditor, Purnal B. Norman; Attorney- 

 General, Herbert H. Ward; Insurance Commis- 

 sioner, George W. Marshall; Adjutant-General, 

 I. P. Wickersham; Chemist, T. R. Wol'f; Presi- 

 dent Board of Pilot Commissioners, Alfred D. 

 Poole all Republicans; Chancellor, John R. 

 Nicholson, Democrat; Chief Justice, Charles B. 

 Lore, Democrat; Associate Justices, Ignatius C. 

 Grubb and William H. Boyce, Democrats, and 

 W. C. Spruance and James Pennewill, Repub- 

 licans; Clerk, William Virdin, Democrat. 



The term of the State officers is four years. 

 They are elected at the time of the presidential 

 elections. The Legislature meets biennially in 

 January of the odd-numbered years; the session 

 is limited to sixty days. 



Finances. The Auditor's estimates of receipts 

 and expenditures in 1901 were respectively $482,- 

 558 and $341,005. The assets of the State were 

 given as $1,118,509, and the liabilities as $769,750. 



Education. By the census of 1900 it is shown 

 that there are 17,531 illiterates in the State. The 

 percentage of persons from ten to fourteen years 

 of age able to read and write was 95.49 in 1900; 

 it was 90.96 in 1890. 



The State College, at Newark, which had 114 

 students in May, graduated a class of 15 in June. 

 As a result of the suspension of 6 students in 

 May for participation in hazing a freshman, about 

 100 students went out on strike. 



The average monthly salaries paid to teachers 

 in 1900 were, for men $36.60, and for women 

 $34.08. 



Waterways. The following sums were appro- 

 priated by Congress for improvements to the wa- 

 ters of the State: For Delaware river New Jer- 

 sey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware $600,000; for 

 Appoquinimink, Murderkill, and Mispillion rivers, 

 $15,000; for Smyrna river, $15,000; for Wilming- 

 ton harbor, $50,000, not more than $25,000 to 

 be used until arrangements have been made to 

 dispose of the sewage of the city so as to pre- 

 vent the filling of the channel. 



Products and Industries. Statistics of man- 

 ufactures of all kinds were given in the Annual 

 Cyclopaedia for 1901. Others for special branches 

 of manufacture have been published since. The 

 capital invested in cotton manufactures, exclu- 

 sive of cottonsmall wares, in 1901 was $484,858; 

 the number of looms was 738; the value of 

 products, $372,089. 



Delaware ranked ninth in the list of leather- 

 producing States in 1890, and sixth in 1900. 

 Delaware has 5 establishments for the making 

 of butter and cheese, with a capital of $19,085 

 in 1890, and 22 (21 creameries and 1 cheese fac- 

 tory), with a capital of $85,155, in 1900. The 

 value of the products was $124,780 in 1890 and 

 $252,890 in 1900. 



The statistics of the ship-building industries are: 

 Establishments, 11 in 1890 and a similar number 

 in 1900; capital, $1,745,213 in 1890 and $2,226.811 

 in 1900; salaried officials, clerks, etc., 43 in 1890 

 and 97 in 1900; salaries of officials, clerks, etc., 

 $98,174 in 1890and $124,010 in 1900; average num- 

 ber of wage-earners, 1,759 in 1890 and 2,031 in 

 1900; wages, $800,977 in 1890 and $992,449 in 

 1900; miscellaneous expenses, $69,819 in 1890 and 

 $122,267 in 1900; cost of materials used, $836,979 

 in 1890 and $1,594,918 in 1900; value of products, 

 including repairing, $2,044,313 in 1890 and $3,004,- 

 366 in 1900. 



Delaware has 2 iron and steel ship-building 

 establishments. In 1900 they built 13 iron and 

 steel vessels, valued at $1,908,399. 



