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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. (MISSOURI.) 



ployed was 80,610; females, 101,433; an increase 

 of 27,890 over the previous year. The amount of 

 money paid out in wages was $46,809,729, an in- 

 c-iva.-e over the preceding year of $13,748,198. 



Militia. The National Guard of Missouri con- 

 sists of 1 brigade, comprising 4 regiments of in- 

 fantry and 1 battery. The numerical strength is 

 as follows: Commissioned officers, 198; non-com- 

 missioned officers, 337; musicians, 158, including 

 4 regimental bands and trumpet corps; hospital 

 and ambulance corps, 64; farriers and black- 

 smiths, 7; privates, 1,918; total, 2,682. 



Political. The State election took place Nov. 

 5. Tickets were nominated by the Democratic 

 and Republican parties, and the following parties 

 nominated tickets by petition: Independent, Al- 

 lied, Prohibition, Socialist, and Socialist-Labor. 



The Democratic State Convention met in St. 

 Joseph, July 22, and nominated the following: 

 For Superintendent of Public Schools, William 

 T. Carrington; Railroad and Warehouse Commis- 

 sioner (long term), John A. Knott; Railroad 

 and Warehouse Commissioner (short term), Joe 

 P. Rice. 



The opening sentence of the platform " in- 

 dorsed and affirmed the Democratic national 

 platform adopted at Kansas City in 1900." Con- 

 tinuing, the platform said: 



" We condemn the dishonest paltering with the 

 trust evil by the present Republican administra- 

 tion, and we especially condemn the subserviency 

 to the trusts of our ' strenuous ' President, who, 

 only a few days before Mr. McKinley's assassina- 

 tion, boldly proclaimed in public speech at Min- 

 neapolis that trusts are an evil which the public 

 safety requires should be promptly and merci- 

 lessly destroyed, but who, since his accession to 

 the presidency, has struck not one effective blow 

 against them, although holding in his hands all 

 the necessary powers of government, and who, 

 instead of executing his threat to exterminate the 

 trusts, talks now only of regulating them. 



" We favor the most stringent national and 

 State legislation for the absolute control and 

 regulation of the trusts, to the end that they will 

 cease to be a menace to our public welfare as 

 well as persecutors of the great army of the la- 

 boring people of our land. To that end we favor 

 a consistent tariff revision which will remove 

 the duty or tariff from all trust-made or 

 trust-controlled products, thereby forcing the 

 trusts into competition with foreign nations, de- 

 priving them of the fraternal support and foster- 

 ing care of the Republican administration, by 

 which they are now enabled to reduce their 

 labor, minimize their output, grind down the 

 working classes, and arbitrarily fix their own 

 prices in this country, to the great detriment and 

 hardship of our people, while at the same time 

 the people of foreign countries reap all the bene- 

 fits of the trust's economy by being able to pur- 

 chase all of our trust products in their own coun- 

 try at fixed reductions varying from 20 to 60 per 

 cent. 



" In the event of such legislation failing in 

 its purpose, then we favor the most drastic legis- 

 lation which can be enacted prohibiting the ex- 

 istence or forming of such trusts, or any other 

 such combinations which will have even a tend- 

 ency to destroy honest competition in any line of 

 business or make it possible to arbitrarily regu- 

 late wages, prices, rates, or charges of any kind. 



" We condemn the alarming waste of the peo- 

 ple's money in extravagant appropriations by Re- 

 publican Congresses, now amounting to more 

 than $1,000,000,000 per year, and we heartily ap- 

 prove of the course of our Democratic representa- 



tives in Congress in sturdily resisting this riotovis 

 profligacy, and in standing steadfastly for econ- 

 omy in public expenditures and for just princi- 

 ples of government. 



" The assassination of the President of the 

 United States by a self-confessed anarchist is 

 deeply deplored. The recent assassination of 

 the Governor of Kentucky by political anarchists, 

 who fled to Indiana, where they are now pro- 

 tected by the Governor of that State, is also 

 deplored. We denounce anarchy in all its forms 

 and declare that it should not be permitted to 

 find an abiding-place in this country. 



" The Democratic party of Missouri offers as 

 the best guarantee of the future its wise and eco- 

 nomical administration of affairs of the State 

 since it came into power in 1873, at which time 

 it found a bonded debt of $21,768,000, the securi- 

 ties for w r hich had been corruptly squandered by 

 the Republicans. This vast debt has been re- 

 duced, through Democratic economy and business 

 methods, until the entire amount, except that 

 held in trust for the public schools, will be paid 

 by the close of the present year. We have con- 

 tinually reduced taxation until the levy for State 

 purposes is now but one-half of what it was 

 when the Republicans were in control of the State, 

 being now only 25 cents on the $100 valuation, 

 and this tax can be still further materially re- 

 duced at the end of the current year." 



The Democratic Judicial Convention met 

 Springfield, July 8, 1902, and nominated the fcl 

 lowing: For Judge of the Supreme Court, Divi- 

 sion No. 1, Leroy B. Valliant; for Judges of the 

 Supreme Court, Division No. 2, Gavon D. Burgess 

 and James D. Fox. 



The Republican State Convention met in Jef- 

 ferson City, June 24. The following nominations 

 were made : For Superintendent of Public Schools, 

 James U. White; Railroad and Warehouse Com- 

 missioner (long term), Walter Silas Crane; Rail- 

 road and Warehouse Commissioner (short term), 

 Barney W. Frauenthal. 



The platform expressed the party's sorrow for 

 the assassination of President McKinley. Pres- 

 ident Roosevelt's administration was approved, 

 and he was favored for the Republican nomina- 

 tion for President in 1904. The convention de- 

 clared itself " unalterably opposed to all trusts 

 or combinations in restraint of trade, or having 

 for their purpose in the remotest degree the sti- 

 fling of competition," and demanded " such leg- 

 islation, State and national, as will effectually 

 protect the public from these evils." The " pol- 

 icy of President Roosevelt respecting our tin le 

 relations with Cuba " was approved. The con- 

 vention favored legislation "enabling the people 

 of our new possessions to enjoy the largest meas- 

 ure of self-government consistent with our sov- 

 ereignty," and for securing an isthmian canal. 



The rest of the platform disctissed State is- 

 sues. It charged that, " after thirty year 

 power in the State, the Democratic party has so 

 administered the affairs of the State, particu- 

 larly its financial matters, that the custodians 

 of the books, records, and funds are unable to 

 account to the people for the proper dislmi (> 

 ment of the funds and for the money taken h in 

 the taxpayers. 



" Democrats holding responsible positions of 

 official trust have become gatherers of campaign 

 funds from corporations whose property vah es 

 were subject to assessment at their hands." It 

 favored local self-government for all cities and 

 towns, and denounced the Democratic party <>t 

 the State for "having for twenty years ma n 

 tained at the State capital an iniquitous lobby." 



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