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UNITED STATES OP AMERICA. (OKLAHOMA.) 



stances execution of judgment was suspended that 

 the Legislature might have time to act. 



The Municipal Code. The new municipal 

 ode provides for the government of cities and vil- 

 lages. All municipalities of 5,000 and over are 

 cities. All others are villages. The organization 

 of a city includes a mayor, president of council, 

 or vice-mayor, treasurer, solicitor, and auditor. 

 The last-named official is elected for a three-year 

 term. The others are elected for two-year terms. 

 Part of the council are to be elected on a general 

 ticket and the greater number from wards of a 

 specified population. Councilmen are elected for 

 two-year terms, but half of them are retired each 

 year. The real government of the city is prac- 

 tically vested in two boards, the board of public 

 service and the board of public safety. The lat- 

 ter has charge of the police and fire departments, 

 and the former of all the other departments of 

 public service. The board of public safety is to 

 be bipartizan and composed of 2 or 4 members, 

 as the council may determine. The appointment 

 is vested in the mayor, subject to confirmation 

 by two-thirds of the council. If not so confirmed, 

 the Governor appoints. The board of public 

 service, of 3 or 5 members, as the council may pro- 

 vide, is elected by the people on a general ticket 

 for two-year terms. This body is given unchecked 

 control, the power of the council being, with the 

 exception of confirming the board of public safe- 

 ty, exclusively legislative. Civil service is ex- 

 pressly limited to the fire and police departments. 

 In addition there is a board of health of 5 mem- 

 bers appointed by the mayor, who is president of 

 this board, and a bipartizan sinking-fund and tax 

 commission of 4 members, also appointed by the 

 mayor. 



Political. The Republican State Convention 

 was held in Cleveland, May 28. The following 

 ticket was nominated after a sharp contest: For 

 Secretary of State, Lewis C. Laylin ; Judge of Su- 

 preme Court, William B. Crew ; Member of Board 

 of Public Works, William Kirtley, Jr. ; Dairy and 

 Food Commissioner, Horace Ankeney. The plat- 

 form adopted was of great length, but was almost 

 wholly devoted to national affairs. 



The Democratic State Convention was held at 

 Cedar Point, near Sandusky, Sept. 3. The candi- 

 dates, with 1 exception, were nominated by accla- 

 mation, there being 1 ballot for the office of Dairy 

 and Food Commissioner. The nominations were: 

 For Secretary of State, Herbert S. Bigelow; Judge 

 of Supreme Court, Michael Donnelly; Member of 

 Board of Public Works, Joseph J. Pater; Dairy 

 and Food Commissioner, Philip H. Bruck. The 

 platform after a preamble in which " continued 

 allegiance to the Democratic party of the na- 

 tion " was declared, and " the principles laid down 

 in the last national platform adopted at Kansas 

 City, and faithfully and ably represented in the 

 presidential campaign of 1900 by William Jen- 

 nings Bryan," were reaffirmed and approved 

 dealt exclusively with State affairs, the several 

 resolutions setting forth the principles of "home 

 rule and just taxation," and pledging the party 

 to the accomplishment of these purposes in mu- 

 nicipal and State affairs. 



The Socialist party held its State convention in 

 Columbus, May 30, and nominated a full State 

 ticket as follows: For Secretary of State, Max S. 

 Hayes; Judge of Supreme Court, George P. Max- 

 well ; Member of Board of Public Works, William 

 C. Edwards; Dairy and Food Commissioner, 

 George Flummerfelt. The platform called for 

 municipal ownership, reduction of hours and in- 

 crease of wages, governmental insurance of work- 

 ing people against sickness or accident, compul- 



sory education, woman suffrage, and the initiative 

 and referendum. 



The Socialist-Labor party held its State con- 

 vention in Cleveland, May 30, and nominated a 

 ticket as follows : For Secretary of State, Theodore 

 Adams ; Judge of Supreme Court, Samuel Borton ; 

 Member of Board of Public Works, John R. Fra- 

 ser; Dairy and Food Commissioner, William Gar- 

 rity. The platform called for the recognition of 

 no class but the laboring class, and denounced the 

 present methods of capital. It said no good can 

 come from a political party to the laboring classes 

 except it be a revolutionary party. 



The Prohibitionists put the following ticket in 

 nomination: For Secretary of State, Andrew L. 

 White; Judge of Supreme Court, Albert L. Tal- 

 cott; Member of Board of Public Works, Samuel 

 W. Dunlap; Dairy and Food Commissioner, 

 George W. Mace. 



The contest between the 2 leading parties was 

 of unusual interest and had some novel spectacu- 

 lar features. It was regarded as a trial of 

 strength between Mayor Tom L. Johnson, of 

 Cleveland, who had dominated the Democratic 

 Convention and directed the campaign, and Uni- 

 ted States Senator Marcus A. Hanna, of Cleveland, 

 who held the same position toward the Repub 

 lican Convention and campaign. Mayor Johnson 

 visited all parts of the State with an immense cir- 

 cus tent and a red automobile, making addresses 

 in which he confined himself to State issues and 

 almost wholly to the subject of unequal taxa 

 tion and the under-assessment of quasi-public cor 

 porations. The peculiar feature of these addresses 

 was the severity with which he scored Democratic 

 as well as Republican officials for what he declared 

 to be unfaithfulness to the public interests. Sen- 

 ator Hanna followed him over part of the route, 

 scoring him for what the Senator asserted to be 

 gross misrepresentations of the facts. The result 

 of the campaign was the election of all the Repub- 

 lican candidates, Laylin's plurality being 90,465; 

 Crew's, 93,939; Kirtley's, 95,209; Ankeney's, 86,- 

 135. For the head of the ticket the Republican 

 vote was 436,171; the Democratic, 345,706; the 

 Prohibition, 12,336; the Socialist, 14,270; the So- 

 cialist-Labor, 2,983. 



OKLAHOMA, a Territory of the United 

 States, organized in 1890; area, 38,715 square' 

 miles. The population in 1890 was 61,834; in 

 1900 it was 398.331. In 1902 it was estimated at 

 600,000. Capital, Guthrie, 



Government. The following were the Terri- 

 torial officers during 1902: Governor, Thompson 

 B. Ferguson (from Dec. 9, 1901); Secretary, Wil- 

 liam Grimes (from May 14, 1901); Treasurer, 

 Cassius W. Rambo (from Oct. 1, 1901); Auditor 

 and Superintendent of Public Instruction, L. W. 

 Baxter; Bank Commissioner, Paul F. Cooper; 

 Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John H. Bur- 

 ford; Associate Justices, B. F. Burwell, Clinton 

 F. Irwin, Bayard T. Hainer, Frank Gillette, 

 James K. Beauchamp, and J. L. Pancoast; Uni- 

 ted States Marshal, William D. Fossett; Delegate 

 to Congress, Dennis T. Flynn ; his successor, B. S. 

 M'Guire, was elected Nov. 4. All are Republican-. 



The chief executive officers of the Territory are 

 appointed by the President. A Territorial clc<- 

 tion is held in November of the even-mrmlx'n <! 

 years, when the voters elect a Delegate to Con- 

 gress and members of the Legislature, which 

 holds biennial sessions, beginning in January of 

 odd-numbered years. 



Finances. The report of the Territorial Treas- 

 urer, on Nov. 30, showed a balance on hand of 

 $648,440.15; the total receipts during the year, 

 $1,426,900.19; total expenditures, $778,460; tho 



