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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. (KENTUCKY.) 



ting: For Justices of the Supreme Court, bk-year 

 terms, Edwin S. Waterbury and Benjamin F. Mil- 

 ton; four-year term, Frank Doster: Lieutenant- 

 Governor, Fred J. Close; Treasurer, David H. 

 Heflebower; Superintendent of Insurance, Dan 

 Hart; Congressmen at Large, Jeremiah D. Bot- 

 kin. Resolutions were passed in which they re- 

 affirmed the principles of the last national plat- 

 form; demanded initiative and referendum as 

 necessary to secure needed legislation in the in- 

 terests of producer and laborer and to correct 

 abuses; demanded the enactment of a primary 

 election law by means of which fair expression 

 of opinion in selecting candidates might be se- 

 cured; approved the declaration of the Demo- 

 cratic State platform in regard to trusts, taxa- 

 tion of corporations, public ownership, and 

 passes; denounced the Republican party for 

 " subserviency to trusts and combines," and its 

 maintenance of an " unnecessary and burden- 

 some tariff on trust-made goods " ; and for its 

 refusal to give promised relief to Cuba by re- 

 ducing sugar tariff; denounced the ballot law 

 passed by the Republicans; criticized the Repub- 

 licans for failure to provide a railroad com- 

 mission elected by popular vote; denounced the 

 extravagance and partizanship of the last Repub- 

 lican Legislature (1901); demanded that rail- 

 road property be assessed at as high rate as the 

 property of " natural citizens " ; favored gradu- 

 ated taxation, State insurance, and reduction of 

 the extravagant expenditures for public printing 

 by the installation of a plant owned by the 

 State; demanded, on the part of the next Legis- 

 lature, a rigid examination of the methods fol- 

 lowed by the American Book Company in 

 introducing its publications into the schools; 

 deplored the death of President McKinley, and de- 

 manded legislation to stamp out the " whole vi- 

 perous brood of murderous anarchists " in the 

 United States. 



On May 28 the Republicans met in State con- 

 vention in Wichita, and nominated: For Jus- 

 tices, six-year terms, H. F. Mason, J. C. Pollock, 

 A. L. Greene; four- year term, A. H. Ellis (Jus- 

 tice Ellis died on Sept. 25, and his place on the 

 bench was filled by the appointment of R. A. 

 Burch, whose name was also placed on the ticket 

 instead of that of Justice Ellis) ; two-year term, 



E. W. Cunningham; Governor, W. J. Bailey; 

 Lieutenant-Governor, D. J. Hanna; Secretary of 

 State, J. R. Burrow; Treasurer, T. T. Kelly; 

 Auditor, Seth G. Wells; Attorney-General, C. C. 

 Coleman; Superintendent of Instruction, Insley 

 L. Dayhoff ; Superintendent of Insurance, Charles 

 H. Luling; Congressman at Large, Charles F. 

 Scott. The Republicans passed resolutions in 

 which they reaffirmed adherence to the national 

 platform of 1900; mourned the death of President 

 McKinley and demanded early passage of law for 

 protection of Presidents from similar assaults; 

 heartily approved the administration of Pres- 

 ident Roosevelt, and pledged him support for 

 nomination in 1904; declared in favor of liberal 

 pensions for soldiers of the civil war, their wid- 

 ows and orphans; condemned the attacks made 

 on the army in the Philippines; approved the 

 efforts of the administration to enforce the Sher- 

 man antitrust law; reaffirmed faith in a protective 

 tariff, and recommended such reciprocal rela- 

 tions as would open new markets without inter- 

 fering with home industries; approved legisla- 

 tion barring Chinese immigration; approved 

 abrogation of the Clayton-Bui wer treaty; and 

 commended Gov. Stanley's administration. 



The Prohibitionists nominated: For Governor, 



F. W. Emerson ; Lieutenant-Governor, W. Buffing- 



ton; Secretary of State, George Holsinger; Treas- 

 urer, E. A. Kennedy; Auditor, S. P. Gould; At- 

 torney-General, F. M. McHale; Superintendent of 

 Insurance, Sena H. Wallace; Superintendent of 

 Instruction, William L. Coryell; Congressman at 

 Large, W. H. Ransom. 



The Socialists nominated: For Justices of the 

 Supreme Court, six-year terms, F. L. McDermott,. 

 C. R. Mitchell, F. J. Arnold; four-year term, 

 H. H. Benson; two-year term, Charles Gorsuch; 

 Governor, A. S. McAllister; Lieutenant-Governor, 

 John M. Parr; Secretary of State, J. T. Barnes; 

 Treasurer, J. E. Taylor; Auditor, W. J. McMil- 

 lan; Attorney-General, G. C. Clemens; Superin- 

 tendent of Instruction, Luella R. Kraybill; Su- 

 perintendent of Insurance, C. G. Warrington; 

 Congressman at Large, Louis Matignon. 



The Populists nominated: For Justice, six-year 

 term, J. C. Tillotson; two-year term, J. Y. Rob- 

 bins; Governor, James H. Lathrop; Lieutenant- 

 Governor, T. B. Wolfe; Secretary of State, Ed- 

 ward F. Green; Treasurer, P. B. Maxson; Audi- 

 tor, R. C. Bradshaw; Attorney-General, Maxwell 

 Thorp; Superintendent of Public Instruction, 

 W. G. Riste; Superintendent of Insurance, A. E. 

 Munch. This ticket was placed on the ballot by 

 a few of the old-line Populists who objected to thu 

 fusion of their party with Democracy. The head 

 of the ticket received but 635 votes. 



The Republicans elected their entire Stato 

 ticket and all the 8 Congressmen, securing morn 

 than two-thirds of the county officers and 95 of 

 the 125 members of the House of Representatives. 

 The Republicans also have 34 of the 40 members 

 of the Senate, which held over. The vote on 

 the heads of the tickets was: For Governor, W. .1. 

 Bailey, Republican, 159,242; W. H. Craddock, 

 Democrat, 117,148; F. W. Emerson, Prohibition- 

 ist, 6,065; A. S. McAllister, Socialist, 4,078; J. H. 

 Lathrop, Populist, 635. Bailey's plurality, 42.094. 

 Bailey's majority was 31,316, the largest ever 

 given to a candidate for Governor in Kansas. 



Compared with the vote for Governor in 1900, 

 these figures show a decrease in the Republican 

 vote of 22,651; a decrease for the Democrats of 

 47,645; a gain for the Socialists of 2,820; a gain 

 for the Prohibitionists of 3,403. Thousands of 

 ballots were thrown out because of defective 

 markings. 



An amendment in the Constitution providing 

 for an increase in the pay of members of tho 

 Legislature from $3 a day for a fifty-day session 

 to $500 for the session, was voted down. 



An amendment making a change in the method 

 of holding elections was carried. By previous ac- 

 tion the old system of electing half a set ot 

 county officials every autumn was changed, and 

 provision was made for the election of a full se 1 ; 

 once in two years. By the new amendment coun- 

 ty commissioners and township officers are to b< 

 elected at the same time with other officials, so 

 that hereafter Kansas will elect all her officers, 

 from Governor down, in November of the even 

 numbered vears. 



KENTUCKY, a Southern State, admitted to 

 the Union June 1, 1792; area, 44,400 square m 

 The population, according to each decennial cen- 

 sus since admission, was 220,955 in 1800; 401;.:.] 

 in 1810; 564,135 in 1820; 687,917 in 1830; 779,82-S 

 in 1840; 982,405 in 1850; 1,155,684 in 1860; 1,321,- 

 Oil in 1870; 1,648,690 in 1880; 1,858,635 in 1890; 

 and 2,147,174 in 1900. Capital, Frankfort. 



Government. The following were the Stato 

 officers in 1902: Governor, J. C. W. Beckham ; 

 Lieutenant-Governor, L. H. Carter; Secretary of 

 State, C. B. Hill; Treasurer, S. W. Hager; Audi- 

 tor, G. C. Coulter; Adjutant-General, D. R. Mur- 



