UNITED STATES OP AMERICA. (NORTH CAROLINA.) 



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icrce and enable New York city to hold the first 

 ank both as the exporting and importing center 

 f our country, while better hghways bring the 

 arkets closer to the doors of the farmer. The 

 wo are equally important. The one obstacle to 

 e successful consummation of necessary im- 

 rovements is the constitutional prohibition 

 ;ainst long extensions of the bonded debt of the 

 tate. The alternative is direct yearly taxation 

 >on the people. The Republican party, having 

 ready, through economies and legislation, ren- 

 red a direct tax almost unnecessary, believes 

 at these improvements should not be the cause 

 f again imposing such a tax upon the people, 

 d that without imposing unnecessary burdens 

 pon individuals of other interests there should 

 i an extension of time in which payment of 

 e principal and the money for the payment of 

 e yearly interest should be provided. With 

 r erence to trusts, it declared that, while we 

 ould encourage business enterprises which have 

 'or their object the extension of trade and the 

 upbuilding of our State, we condemn all combina- 

 tions and monopolies, in whatever form, having 

 for their purpose the destruction of competition 

 in legitimate enterprise, the limitation of produc- 

 tion in any field of labor, or the increase of cost 

 to the consumer of the necessaries of life; and 

 we pledge the party to the support of such legis- 

 lation as will suppress and prevent the organ- 

 ization of such illegal combinations. 



The following candidates were then nominated 

 iy acclamation: For Governor, Benjamin B. 

 Odell, Jr.; Lieutenant-Governor, Frank W. Hig- 

 gins; Secretary of State, John F. O'Brien; Treas- 

 urer, John G. Wickser; Attorney-General, Henry 

 B. Coman; Comptroller, Nathan B. Miller; En- 

 gineer, E. A. Bond; Judge of the Court of Ap- 

 peals, W. Edward Werner. 



The Democratic State Convention was held in 

 Saratoga Springs on Sept. 30, and was called 

 to order by John B. Stanchfield, who subsequent- 

 ly yielded the chair to Martin W. Littleton, per- 

 manent chairman. The platform declared a be- 

 lief in the revision of the tariff, and opposition 

 to those corporate combinations, called trusts, 

 that establish monopolies, destroy competition, 

 control raw material, and increase the price of 

 finished product. While the Philippine policy of 

 the present administration was condemned, a rec- 

 ognition was announced of territorial expansion 

 the expansion of Jefferson and of Polk and 

 in the honorable acquisition of desirable terri- 

 tory that can be erected into States in the Union, 

 and whose people are willing and fit or capable 

 of becoming fit for American citizenship. Trade 

 expansion by every peaceful and legitimate means 

 was favored, but opposition to the seizing or pur- 

 chasing of distant lands to be held as colonies 

 was expressed. It advocated the national owner- 

 ship and operation of the anthracite coal-mines 

 by the exercise of the right of eminent domain, 

 with just compensation to owners. It said: 

 " Fuel, like water, being a public necessity, we 

 advocate national ownership and operation of the 

 mines as a solution of the problem which will 

 relieve the country from the sufferings which fol- 

 low differences between labor and capital in the 

 thracite mines." 

 The following-named candidates were then 

 ominated: For Governor, Bird S. Coler; Lieu- 

 mant-Governor, Charles N. Bulger; Secretary of 

 'tate, Frank Mott; Attorney-General, John Cun- 

 een; Comptroller, Charles M. Preston; State 

 Veasurer, George R. Finch; State Engineer and 

 rveyor, Richard P. Sherman; Judge of the 

 ourt of Appeals, J. Clinton Gray. 



The election took place on Nov. 4, when the 

 Republican candidates for Governor, Lieutenant- 

 Governor, Secretary of State, Comptroller, Treas- 

 urer, and State Engineer and Surveyor were 

 chosen by pluralities respectively of 8,803, 10,134, 

 11,890, 13,029, 11,541, and 11,977, while the Demo- 

 cratic candidates for Attorney-General and Asso- 

 ciate Judge of the Court of Appeals were elected 

 by pluralities of 9,465 and 14,821. Thirty-seven 

 Representatives to Congress were elected, of whom 

 20 were Republicans. Of the 17 Democrats 

 chosen, 16 were from New York city and 1 from 

 Buffalo. A new Legislature was chosen, inclu- 

 ding in the Senate 28 Republicans and 22 Demo- 

 crats, and in the Assembly 89 Republicans and 61 

 Democrats, a gain of 7 Democrats in the Senate 

 and 26 Democrats in the Assembly. 



NORTH CAROLINA, a Southern State, one 

 of the original thirteen, ratified the Constitution 

 Nov. 21, 1789; area, 52,250 square miles. The 

 population, according to each decennial census, 

 was 393,751 in 1790; 478,103 in 1800; 555,500 in 

 1810; 638,829 in 1820; 737,987 in 1830; 753.419 in 

 1840; 869,039 in 1850; 992,622 in 1860; 1,071,361 

 in 1870; 1,399,750 in 1880; 1,617,947 in 1890; and 

 1,893,810 in 1900. Capital, Raleigh. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers in 1902: Governor, Charles B. Aycock; 

 Lieutenant-Governor, W. D. Turner; Secretary of 

 State, J. B. Grimes; Treasurer, B. R. Lacy; Audi- 

 tor, B. F. Dixon; Attorney-General, R. D. Gilmer; 

 Superintendent of Education, T. F. Toon, who died 

 in February and was succeeded by James Y. Joy- 

 ner; Commissioner of Agriculture, S. L. Patter- 

 son ; Commissioner of Insurance, James R. Young ; 

 Adjutant-General, B. S. Royster all Democrats; 

 Geologist, Joseph A. Holmes; Librarian, M. O. 

 Sherrill; Commissioner of Labor and Printing, H. 

 B. Varner; Chemist, B. W. Kilgore; Corporation 

 Commission, Franklin McNeill, Samuel L. Rogers, 

 D. H. Abbott ; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, 

 David M. Furches, Republican; Associate Jus- 

 tices, Robert M. Douglas, Republican, Walter 

 Clark, Democrat, W. A. Montgomery, Democrat, 

 Charles A. Cook ; Clerk, Thomas J. Kenan, Demo- 

 crat. 



The State officers are elected for terms of four 

 years, at the time of the presidential elections. 

 The Legislature mets biennially in January of the 

 odd-numbered years. The length of the session is 

 not limited, but legislators are not paid for more 

 than sixty days. 



Finances. The fiscal year ending Nov. 30 be- 

 gan with a balance from the previous year of 

 $18,262.52. From Dec. 1, 1901, to Nov. 30, 1902, 

 there was received into the Treasurer's office 

 $1,907,958.68. This includes the $200,000 loaned 

 by the Park National Bank, of New York city. 

 The disbursements in the fiscal year amounted to 

 $1,863,849.79, leaving a balance in the treasury on 

 Dec. 1, 1902, of $62,371.41. Outstanding warrants 

 brought the actual balance down to $30,213.59. 



Among the larger items of expenditure in 1902 

 were: For interest on bonds, $299,999; State hos- 

 pitals, $317,950; public schools, $180.tit>4: Agricul- 

 tural Department, $66,143; Judicial Department, 

 $69,539; deaf-mute and blind institutions, $115,- 

 911; pensions, $200,046.50; Soldiers' Home, $12,- 

 000: university, $37,500; Normal College, $35,000; 

 orphan asylums, $15,000; experiment station. $15,- 

 000; Agricultural College, Raleigh, $64,511; Col- 

 ored Agricultural College, Greensboro, $23,250; 

 normal schools, $20,250; Corporation Commission, 

 $12,400; printing, $20,568 : Shell-Fish Commission, 

 $18.713. 



Valuations and Taxes. From the figures 

 given out by the Corporation Tax Commission in 



