UNITED STATES OP AMERICA. (TENNESSEE.) 



801 



on the ballot, denounces the Legislature for the 

 repeal of the law allowing each county commis- 

 sioner district to elect its own members, favors 

 Government control of the railroads and public 

 utilities, and favors the election of United States 

 Senators by direct vote of the people. 



The nominations for the State offices are given 

 below in the same order of parties as above: 



For Governor, Charles N. Herreid; John W. Mar- 

 tin, H. H. Curtis, John C. Crawford. 



Yor Lieutenant-Governor, George W. Snow, Ev- 

 erett Smith, W. J. Edgar, Erik Shakstad. 



For Secretary of State, O. C. Berg, Edward S. 

 Ashley, G. H. Brown, Clarence Brothers. 



For State Auditor, J. F. Halliday, Thomas W. 

 Taubman, A. H. Tasker, G. Frank Walker. 



For State Treasurer, C. B. Collins, Louis Chla- 

 dek, Knute Lewis, A. E. Clark. 



For Commissioner of School and Public Lands, 

 C. J. Bach, W. H. Minahan, D. W. Noble, Weber 

 T. Pierce. 



For Railroad Commissioner, D. H. Smith, Hiram 

 B. Rose, H. W. Reinecke, E. B. Case. 



For Attorney-General and Superintendent of 

 Public Instruction there were no Prohibition can- 

 didates. Those of the other parties were: 



For Attorney-General, Philo Hall, William A. 

 Lynch, S. H. Cranmer. 



For Superintendent of Public Instruction, 

 George W. Nash, N. P. Small, David McClellan. 



The Republican candidates were elected. The 

 vote for Governor stood : Herreid, Republican, 48,- 

 196; Martin, Democrat, 21,396; Curtis, Prohibi- 

 tion, 2,245; Crawford, Socialist, 2,620. 



TENNESSEE, a Southern State, admitted to 

 the Union, June 1, 1796; area, 42,050 square 

 miles. The population, according to each decen- 

 nial census since admission, was 105,602 in 1800; 

 261,727 in 1810; 422,771 in 1820; 681,904 in 1830; 

 829.210 in 1840; 1,002,717 in 1850; 1,109,801 in 

 1860; 1,258,520 in 1870; 1,542.369 in 1880; 1,767,- 

 518 in 1890; and 2,020,616 in 1900. Capital, Nash- 

 ville. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers in 1902: Governor, Benton McMillins Sec- 

 retary of State, John W. Morton; Treasurer, 

 Beau E. Folk; Comptroller, Theodore F. King; 

 Superintendent of Agriculture, Thomas H. Paine; 

 Superintendent of Instruction, Morgan C. Fitz- 

 patrick; Adjutant-General, W. M. Brandon; At- 

 torney-General, George W. Pickle; Commissioner 

 of Labor, Robert A. Shiflett; Live Stock Commis- 

 sioner, W. H. Dunn; Factory Inspector, Martin 

 J. Noonan; Railroad Commissioners, N. W. Bap- 

 tist, J. N. McKenzie, and Thomas L. Williams; 

 Prison Commissioners, W. M. Nixon, W. A. Car- 

 ter, and John S. Denton, who succeeded A. J. 

 McWhirter; Librarian, Jennie Lauderdale; Chief 

 Justice of the Supreme Court, David L. Snod- 

 grass; Associate Justices, W. C. Caldwell, John 

 S. Wilkes, W. K. McAllister, W. D. Beard; Clerk, 

 A. W. McMillin; Justices of the Court of Chan- 

 cery Appeals, M. M. Neil. S. F. Wilson, R. M. 

 Barton, Jr.; Clerk, James Turney. All are Demo- 

 crats. 



State elections are held biennially in November 

 of the even-numbered years. . The Legislature 

 meets biennially in January of the odd-numbered 

 years. 



Education. The condition of education re- 

 ceived more than usual attention in 1902. With 

 a school population of 753,198, the number of 

 pupils enrolled in the State was 488,655, and the 

 average daily attendance, for the average school 

 term of less than five months, was 330,692. The 

 average yearly salary of the country public teach- 

 ers was $133. Both political parties have pro- 

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posed reforms that will put more pupils into the 

 schools, and for eight months in the year. It is 

 proposed to increase the permanent school fund, 

 which is the same now that it was thirty years 

 ago, by increasing the State levy for school pur- 

 poses from 15 to 25 cents on the $100; and by 

 legislation that will permit school districts to 

 levy special school taxes, also by forcing into 

 the schools all children who should attend by 

 some form of a compulsory school law. The 

 need for the special training of primary teachers 

 is felt particularly. The Peabody College for 

 Teachers and the summer institutes and schools 

 are exerting a helpful influence, but the demand 

 is greater than they can meet with their present 

 limited resources. 



Industries. According to the last census re- 

 ports by W. H. Wiley, chief of the bureau of 

 chemistry of the Department of Agriculture, Ten- 

 nessee takes eleventh place in the aggregate value 

 of the flour produced, the number of barrels 

 being 3,512,985, and their value $13,220,609. Ten- 

 nessee has 337 establishments handling 16,546,155 

 bushels of wheat, valued at $11,778,868. Tennes- 

 see takes a higher rank in the excellence of the 

 flour made. In this list its flour is quoted at 

 $3.76, the average value being given at $3.39. 



Tennessee is shown by the last census returns 

 to rank ninth in the lumber industry, its product 

 being larger than that of any Southern State 

 except Arkansas. The value of the product is 

 given as $18,000,000. 



The largest iron blast-furnace in the South was 

 put in blast at La Follette by the La Follette 

 Coal, Iron, and Railway Company in April. It 

 will have a daily capacity of 250 to 400 tons of 

 pig-iron, and is expected to result in a large and 

 rapid growth for that section of East Tennessee. 



The census report on printing and publishing 

 gives Tennessee the highest position among 

 Southern States in this department of industry. 

 The aggregate circulation of the Tennessee pub- 

 lications per issue is 3,131,017. Tennessee out- 

 ranks 40 States by 500,000 to 3,000,000. Only 7 

 States outrank Tennessee. Tennessee had 251 

 newspapers and periodicals, classed as follow: 

 16 daily, 6 semiweekly, 187 weekly, 28 monthly, 

 and 10 quarterly. 



Agriculture. The committee of agricultural 

 experts appointed to make a report to the Nash- 

 ville Chamber of Commerce on a State fair did 

 so on April 18. Its description of the agricultural 

 situation was startling and pessimistic. It com- 

 pared the yield of grain in bushels in 1870, 1890, 

 and 1900, showing that in these years respect- 

 ively the yield of com was 41,343,614, 63,635.350, 

 and 59,997,760; that of wheat, 6,188,916, 8,300,- 

 789, 8,292,727; of oats, 4,513.315, 8,775,814, 

 5,326,244; of barley, 75,068, 63,868, 19,539. For 

 the same decades the yield in the number of 

 horses was 247,254, 331.842, 308,073; of mules, 

 102,983, 203,639, 139.163; of cattle, 643.696, 

 965,339, 526,325; of hogs, 1,828,690. 1.922.'. Mi'. 

 1,570,154; of sheep, 826,783, 54,996, 251,735. The 

 report shows also that since 1900 there ha been 

 a loss on every item, and a material loss on all 

 except horses. It says : " The growing of small 

 fruits and truck-farming have been successfully 

 developed, and certain localities and individuals 

 here and there have increased the yield of their 

 fields and maintained the high standard of their 

 studs, herds, and flocks; but, on the whole, Ten- 

 nessee, from an agricultiiral standpoint, has made 

 no substantial progress since 1875." 



Another fact brought out is that for the decade 

 1890-1900 the increase in the population of the 

 State outside of the cities and incorporated 





