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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. (FLORIDA.) 



Following are the figures on the manufacture 

 of flour: Establishments, 56, with a capital of 

 $1,127,592, in 1890, and 83, with a cap' Jil of 

 $1,017,508, in 1900. 



The value of the products was $1,675,040 in 

 1890 and $1,165,800 in 1900. 



The reports of the shipments of fruit over the 

 railroads in the summer of 1902 showed estimates 

 of 2,351,460 baskets of peaches and 362,345 bas- 

 kets of pears. 



Political. The factional contest in the Repub- 

 lican party in the State continued through the 

 year, notwithstanding attempts that were made 

 to bring about a compromise. The regular Re- 

 publicans proposed to the Union Republicans, the 

 supporters of J. E. Addicks, that each faction 

 should submit to the other the names of 10 men, 

 any one of whom they would be willing to sup- 

 port, the other faction to make their choice, and 

 thus secure 2 Republican Senators. The regulars 

 submitted a list of 10 men of Kent and Sussex 

 Counties, agreeing to support any one of them 

 who should be the choice of the Union Repub- 

 licans, provided the latter would submit a similar 

 list of men of New Castle County, and agree to 

 support that one of them who should be pre- 

 ferred by the regulars. This proposition was re- 

 jected by the Union Republican State Committee, 

 which suggested a caucus of the Republican mem- 

 bers of the General Assembly, to be participated 

 in by members of both factions and the selection 

 by each of a candidate of its choice, to be voted 

 for by all the members in open session. It was 

 desired to have a special session of the Legisla- 

 ture called. This proposal was rejected. The one 

 faction was determined on " Addicks or nobody," 

 the other on " nobody rather than Addicks." 

 They held separate State conventions, each naming 

 a candidate for member of Congress, but uniting 

 on the candidates for Treasurer and Auditor, thus 

 causing the election of the Democratic candidate 

 for Congress. William M. Byrne, District Attor- 

 ney for the State, resigned that office to become 

 the candidate of the Union Republicans for Con- 

 gress, and after his defeat he was reappointed 

 to the federal office by the President. 



The Regular Republican Convention met in 

 Dover, Aug. 19, and selected the following ticket: 

 For Representative in Congress, Dr. L. Heisler 

 Ball; Treasurer, Martin B. Burris; Auditor, Pur- 

 nal B. Norman. The greater part of the plat- 

 form was in approval of the national policy of 

 the party. On State affairs the following decla- 

 rations were made: "We demand State legisla- 

 tion looking to a complete and comprehensive 

 system of auditing the accounts of all State, 

 county, and hundred officials, to the wise and 

 systematic improvement of the public highways 

 under county road engineers, and to identical 

 methods of conducting elections in all the coun- 

 ties. 



" We favor a free and untrammeled ballot, and 

 we pledge ourselves to the repeal of the clause 

 of the State Constitution requiring the payment 

 by the voter of any money as a qualification for 

 exercising the right of an elector. 



" We Favor legislation providing salaries for 

 all State officers. We also favor better facilities 

 and higher efficiency in our schools, and we desire 

 that colored children should enjoy greater edu- 

 cational opportunities." 



The ticket of the Union Republicans, whose 

 convention was held in Dover, Sept. 2, was: For 

 Representative in Congress, William Michael 

 Byrne; Treasurer, Martin B. Burris; Auditor, 

 Purnal B. Norman. On State affairs the plat- 

 form expressed satisfaction with the present ad- 



ministration; demanded legislation for good 

 roads, and for protection of workmen operating 

 complicated machinery; declared in favor of per- 

 manent registry of voters, and salaries for county 

 officials ; and said further : " That the interstate 

 commerce law ought to be rigidly and impartial- 

 ly enforced, so that shippers of goods over a 

 shorter haul should not be discriminated against 

 in favor of a shipper of goods over a longer haul. 

 We demand that the anthracite coal-mines of the 

 country, which are at present closed, shall be 

 opened and operated and coal supplied to the 

 people at a fair and reasonable price therefor, 

 and we believe that the owners of said mines, 

 having devoted them to a public use, have grant- 

 ed to the public an interest in such use, and 

 must, to the extent of the use, submit to be con- 

 trolled by the public for the common good; that 

 this public interest in said mines demands that 

 they be immediately opened and operated; and 

 that this interest is one that should be protected 

 and conserved by the courts of the country." 



The Democratic Convention, which was held in 

 Dover, Sept. 17, nominated the following ticket: 

 For Representative in Congress, Henry A. Hous- 

 ton ; Treasurer, Joseph H. Hossinger ; Auditor, J. 

 Thomas Lowe. An unsuccessful effort was mad.} 

 to include in the resolutions one reaffirming th>3 

 principles of the Kansas City platform. Follow- 

 ing is a part of those adopted: 



" We favor the earliest possible completion of 

 the inland waterway, liberality to our schools, 

 the creation of good roads, the encouragement 

 of competing lines of transportation by legisla- 

 tion favorable to electric railways and steamer 

 lines, and believing the time has come when the 

 condition of our State treasury under the opera- 

 tion of laws enacted by Democrats while in con- 

 trol of our Legislature warrants it, we favor 

 abolishing all State taxes on merchants, manufac- 

 turers, and similar licenses. 



" We favor a permanent system of registration 

 and abolishing the registration fee of $1 as a pre- 

 requisite to voting." 



The Prohibitionists, in convention in May, 

 named George W. Todd for Representative in 

 Congress, John H. H. Kelly for Treasurer, and 

 H. B. Hitch for Auditor. 



The Republican candidates for Treasurer and 

 Auditor were elected. The vote for Treasurer 

 was 20,705 for Burris to 16,652 for Hossinger. 

 The Democratic candidate, Houston, was elect- 

 ed to Congress by 16,396 against 8,028 for Ball, 

 Regular Republican, and 12,998 for Byrne, Union 

 Republican. The Prohibition candidate had 56!) 

 votes, and the Social -Labor 216. 



The Legislature will have 30 Republicans oil 

 joint ballot to 21 Democrats. 



FLORIDA, a Southern State, admitted to th* 

 Union, March 3, 1845; area, 58,680 square mile-. 

 The population, according to each decennial cen- 

 sus since admission, was 87,445 in 1850; 140,421 

 in 1860; 187,748 in 1870; 269,493 in 1880; 391.422 

 in 1890; and 528,542 in 1900. Capital, Tallahassee. 



Government. The following were the StatJ 

 officers during the year: Governor, William f^. 

 Jennings ; Secretary "of State, H. Clay Crawford ; 

 Treasurer, James B. Whitfield; Comptroller Alon- 

 zo C. Croom; Attorney-General, William B. La- 

 mar; Superintendent of Public Instruction, Wil- 

 liam N. Sheats; Adjutant-General, J. Clifford H. 

 Foster; Commissioner of Agriculture, Benjamin 

 E. McLin; State Chemist, R. E. Rose; State Audi- 

 tor, W. V. Knott; Railroad Commissioners, H. E. 

 Day (resigned; R. Hudson Burr appointed), J. 

 L. Morgan, J. M. Bryan; State Health Officer, Di. 

 Joseph Y. Porter; Board of Health, E. M. Hen- 



