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its decisions against discriminations in railroad 

 rates." On the currency it said : " We recog- 

 nize as an economic fact the increase of standard 

 money arising from the vast increased production 

 of gold from our own and foreign mines, and the 

 prodigious influx of foreign gold into this coun- 

 try, as a result of an exceptional demand for our 

 products arising from foreign wars and other 

 causes, and we point to the results consequent 

 upon this increase of the circulating medium as a 

 demonstration of the truth of the quantitative 

 theory of money." 



On State affairs the following declarations were 

 made: 



" We oppose granting to corporations of any 

 other State or States the power to acquire any 

 railroad organized and operating under the laws 

 of this State. 



" We are in favor of restoring to citizens of the 

 State the right to appeal to the Supreme and 

 Appellate Courts in any civil case within juris- 

 diction of a justice of the peace, where the amount 

 in controversy, exclusive of interest and costs, ex- 

 ceeds $50. 



" We condemn the Republican Governor of 

 Indiana for his violation of the Constitutions 

 and laws of the United States and the State of 

 Indiana in his refusal to honor the requisition of 

 the Governor of Kentucky upon regularly re- 

 turned indictments for murder against fugitives 

 from justice, and denounce this flagrant violation 

 of his oath to support the Constitution of the 

 United States and the State of Indiana as a spe- 

 cies of official lawlessness, vicious in itself and 

 subversive of that comity among the States which 

 is an essential element of the Union of the 

 States." 



In convention, April 16, the Prohibitionists 

 named the following candidates: For Secretary 

 of State, James M. Dungan ; Auditor of State, Dr. 

 J. Levi Lord; Treasurer of State, Preston Rider; 

 Attorney-General, Sumner W. Haynes; Clerk of 

 Supreme Court, Charles F. Holler; Superintendent 

 of Public Instruction, Andrew F. Mitchell; State 

 Geologist, Earl Stinespring; State Statistician, 

 J. Lewis Speicher. 



The People's party made nominations as fol- 

 low in convention at Indianapolis, June 4: For 

 Secretary of State, William B. Gill; Auditor, Jo- 

 seph B. Cline; Treasurer, Henry Brocksmith; At- 

 torney-General, David F. Boger; Clerk Supreme 

 Court, Parker T. Brown; Superintendent Public 

 Instruction, Louis Patterson ; State Statistician, 

 E. S. Pope; State Geologist, Albert Shook. 



Extracts from the platform follow : 



" We declare in favor of municipal ownership 

 of street-cars, water, light and heating plants in 

 Indiana, and against the granting of further 

 franchises to private corporations for such pur- 

 poses. 



" We favor the election of county school super- 

 intendents by a direct vote of the people. 



" We condemn the practise of farming out on 

 contract the men confined in our State prisons as 

 vicious. 



" We adhere most positively to our former posi- 

 tion on the finance question, which has been, is, 



id will be the paramount question in American 



slitics. 



" We condemn in unmeasured terms the bill 

 low before Congress, known as the Fowler bill, 

 riiich seeks to give banks and corporations the 



ower to issue -currency on cash assets." 



In State convention at Terre Haute, July 5, the 

 Socialists placed in nomination a State ticket as 

 follows: For Secretary of State, E. H. Meyer; 

 Auditor, James Hutchinson; Treasurer, Samuel 



D. Straw; Attorney-General, William McGregor; 

 Statistician, George B. Strum ; Geologist, John H. 

 Adams; Judges of Appellate Court, William 

 Raugh, F. J. Macomber, David Young, William 

 J. Crake, H. B. Keppler; Superintendent of Pub- 

 lic Instruction, Miss Martha Biegler. 



The Republican ticket was successful at the 

 polls, having a larger plurality than in the last 

 presidential year. Following are the official fig- 

 ures of the vote for Secretary of State: Storms, 

 Republican, 298,819; Schoonover, Democrat, 263,- 

 555; Dungan, Prohibition, 17,765; Gill, People's, 

 1,350; Meyer, Socialist, 7,111; Dreyer, Social La- 

 bor, 1,756. 



IOWA, a Western State, admitted to the 

 Union Dec. 28, 1846; area, 56,025 square miles. 

 The population, according to each decennial cen- 

 sus since admission, was 192,214 in 1850; 674,193 

 in 1860; 1,194,020 in 1870; 1,624,615 in 1880; 

 1,911,896 in 1890; and 2,251,829 in 1900. Capital, 

 Des Moines. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers in 1902: Governor, Albert B. Cummins; 

 Lieutenant-Governor, John Herriott; Secretary of 

 State, William B. Martin; Treasurer, Gilbert S. 

 Gilbertson; Auditor, Frank F. Merriam; Attor- 

 ney-General, Charles W. Mullan; Superintendent 

 of Instruction, Richard C. Barrett; Adjutant-Gen- 

 eral, Melvin H. Byers ; Labor Commissioner, C. F. 

 Wennerstrum, succeeded April 1 by E. D.Brigham; 

 Dairy Commissioner, B. P. Norton, succeeded 

 April 1 by H. R. Wright; Custodian, J. D. McGar- 

 raugh, succeeded April 1 by T. P. McCurdy; 

 Veterinarian, J. I. Gibson, succeeded by P. O. 

 Koto; Railroad Commissioners, E. A. Dawson, 

 D. J. Palmer, Edward C. Brown; Geologist, Sam- 

 uel Calvin; Fish and Game Commissioner, George 

 A. Lincoln; Librarian, Johnson Brigham; Secre- 

 tary of the Board of Health, J. F. Kennedy; Sec- 

 retary of the Board of Agriculture, G. H. Van 

 Houten; Secretary of the Executive Council, 

 A. H. Davidson; Mine Inspectors, John Verner, 

 J. W. Miller, E Sweeney; Chief Justice of the 

 Supreme Court, Scott M. Ladd; Associate Jus- 

 tices, Emlin McClain, H. E. Deemer, J. C. Sher- 

 win, and C. M. Waterman, resigned, and succeeded 

 July 1 by Charles A. Bishop; Clerk, C. T. Jones. 

 All are Republicans. 



A State election is held every November, but 

 the term of State officers is two years, the Gov- 

 ernor, Lieutenant-Governor, Superintendent of In- 

 struction, one Justice of the Supreme Court, and 

 one Railroad Commissioner being chosen in the 

 odd-numbered years, and the Secretary, Auditor, 

 Treasurer, Attorney-General, a Justice, and a 

 Railroad Commissioner in the alternate years. 

 The Legislature meets in January of the even- 

 numbered years. 



Finances. A summary of the financial report 

 of the biennium 1900-'01, made to the Legisla- 

 ture this year, was given in the Annual Cyclo- 

 paedia for 1901. 



The collections made by the so-called " tax- 

 ferrets " in 1901 amounted to $993.699, about 10 

 ' per cent, of which was due to the State. 



The railroad assessment was raised this year 

 to $51.112,814, an increase of $4,041,556 over that 

 of 1901. The aggregate taxable valuation of the 

 express companies in Iowa for 1902 is $366,273; 

 last year it was $261.587. The increase in the 

 actual valuation would be four times the in- 

 crease in the taxable valuation, or $418,784. 



The actual valuation of the telegraph and tele- 

 phone property of the State is placed at $6,512,- 

 496. The taxable valuation is $1,628,124, or one- 

 fourth the actual valuation. 



Last year the telephone and telegraph com- 



