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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. (KANSAS.) 



Permitting savings-banks to take deposits to 

 twenty times their capital stock, instead ol ten 

 times, as at present. 



Validating conveyances of real estate in which 

 the husband or wife conveyed the inchoate right 

 of dower of the other spouse. 



Providing that the inheritance between parent 

 and child by adoption shall be the same as be- 

 tween parent and children born in lawful wed- 

 lock. 



Relieving the State Game and Fish Warden of 

 liability for destroying illegal fishing and gaming 

 apparatus; promoting catfish to be game-fish, 

 placing pickerel in the class of game-fish with 

 reference to the closed season; prohibiting the 

 killing of fish by drugs or dynamite, etc. ; making 

 the open season for squirrels to begin with Sep- 

 tember instead of June; making rail, plover, and 

 sandpiper and marsh birds game. 



Authorizing the organization of naval militia. 



Political. For the offices to be filled at the 

 November election the Republican State Conven- 

 tion, at Des Moines, July 30, named the following 

 candidates: For Secretary of State, W. R. Mar- 

 tin; Auditor of State, B. F. Carroll; Treasurer of 

 State, Gilbert S. Gilbertson; Attorney-General, 

 C. W. Mullan ; Judge of Supreme Court, Scott M. 

 Ladd; Judge of Supreme Court, Charles A. Bish- 

 op; Clerk of Supreme Court, John C. Crockett; 

 Supreme Court Reporter, W. W. Cornwall; Rail- 

 road Commissioner, E. A. Dawson. 



The more significant declarations of the plat- 

 form w r ere those relating to tariff revision and 

 control of trusts, and there was some controversy 

 over these, which was settled in the Committee 

 on Resolutions in favor of a reiteration of last 

 year's utterances, with an addition to the trust 

 plank, congratulating President Roosevelt on the 

 inauguration of judicial proceedings to enforce 

 the antitrust laws. 



Last year's platform, which is reaffirmed, con- 

 tained the following paragraph concerning the 

 tariff : " We favor any modification of the tariff 

 schedules that may be required to prevent their 

 affording shelter to monopoly." 



" We assert the sovereignty of the people over 

 all corporations and aggregations of capital and 

 the right residing in the people to enforce such 

 regulations, restrictions, or prohibitions upon cor- 

 porate management as will protect the individual 

 and society from abuse of the power which great 

 combinations of capital wield." 



Attention was drawn all over the country to 

 these declarations of the platform by the action 

 of Hon. D. B. Henderson, Speaker of the House - 

 of Representatives, who declined to be a candi- 

 date for reelection in the Third District because he 

 was not in accord with his constituents, not be- 

 lieving that the evil of trusts could be effected 

 by revision of the tariff in the direction of free 

 trade. 



The Democratic Convention, at Des Moines, 

 Sept. 3, made nominations as follow: For Secre- 

 tary of State, Richard Burke; Auditor of State, 

 J. S. McLuin ; Treasurer of State, Dr. R. U. Chap- 

 man; Attorney-General, John D. Denison; Judge 

 of Supreme Court (long term), Thomas Staple- 

 ton; Judge of Supreme Court (short term), J. H. 

 Quick; Railroad Commissioner, Thomas Benson; 

 Supreme Court Clerk, Jesse Tripp ; Supreme Court 

 Reporter, John Dalton. 



Besides condemning the policy of the adminis- 

 tration in regard to the Philippines, the permit- 

 ting of shipments of war supplies from our ports 

 for the use of the British in the Boer War, de- 

 nouncing the pending Fowler banking bill, and 

 demanding election of United States Senators by 



direct vote of the people, the platform made the 

 following declarations : 



" The tariff policy, originally adopted for the 

 avowed purpose of raising revenue to meet the 

 enormous burdens of the civil war, has been 

 turned to the use of individual and class interests 

 until it has become the creator of countless un- 

 earned fortunes and the shelter of huge combi- 

 nations of capital, organized in the form of trusts, 

 which are strangling competition in many of our 

 industries, destroying individual effort, crushing 

 ambition largely in every line of industry, and 

 already acquiring a power which enables them to 

 dictate in their own interest the prices of labor 

 and raw material and the cost of transportation 

 of finished products. 



" We charge that discrimination in freights by 

 common carriers is the handmaid of an exorbi- 

 tant protective tariff in fostering the gigantic 

 trusts that have become a menace to the welfare 

 of the masses, and we demand such changes in 

 our interstate commerce act as may be necessary 

 to secure the speedy punishment by imprisonment 

 of any officer or agent of a corporation engaged 

 in interstate commerce, who is guilty of such dis- 

 crimination, and the enactment of further provi- 

 sions that shall make such discrimination a 

 ground for prohibiting the offending corporation 

 from transacting the business of a common car- 

 rier in the business of interstate commerce." 



A minority report from the Committee on 

 Resolutions proposed a reaffirmation of the Kan- 

 sas City platform in regard to silver coinage, but 

 it was rejected by a vote of 344 to 384. 



The ticket of the Prohibition party, whose con- 

 vention was held at Waterloo, Aug. 21, was: For 

 Secretary of State, W. W. Howard; Auditor of 

 State, John W. Leedy; Treasurer of. State, F. P. 

 Fetter; Railroad Commissioner, E. H. Albright; 

 Attorney-General, J. B. Ferguson; Judge of Su- 

 preme Court, J. A. Harvey; Clerk of Supreme 

 Court, E. A. Graves; Reporter of Supreme Court, 

 W. P. Briggs. 



The platform declared that the convention " rev- 

 erentially acknowledged God as the author of 

 civil government and Jesus Christ as the ruler 

 of the nations of the earth, and that his law 

 is the mafjna ctiarta of human liberty, to which 

 all legislation should conform." 



The Socialistic party met in State convention 

 at Davenport, Sept. 2, and adopted a platform 

 which declared the purpose of the party to ac- 

 quire for society the control of Government and 

 the ownership of capital represented by mines, 

 machinery, and all means of production and dis- 

 tribution. The following State ticket was nom- 

 inated: Secretary of State, W. A. Jacobs; Audi- 

 tor of State, T. J. Grant; Treasurer of State, 

 S. R. McDowell; Attorney-General, I. S. McCrel- 

 lis; Judge of Supreme Court, A. D. Pugh; Clerk 

 of the Supreme Court, A. M. Larson; Railroad 

 Commissioner, James Lorimer. 



The Republican candidates were elected by a 

 plurality of 79,214. 



Republicans were elected to Congress in all the 

 districts except the second, where M. J. Wade, 

 Democrat, was elected by 1,158 plurality. 



Louisiana Purchase Flag-Day. Dec. 20 was 

 set apart, by proclamation of the Governor, as 

 Louisiana Purchase Flag-Day. This day was the 

 ninety-ninth anniversary of the acquisition of 

 the territory of Louisiana by the United States, 

 and it was proposed to observe it by a display of 

 the flag on public buildings and business houses 

 and dwellings if practicable. 



KANSAS, a Western State, admitted to the 

 Union Jan. 29, 1861; area, 82,080 square miles. 



