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NEW YOKE (STATE). 



forms have been wrought ; useless offices have been 

 abolished ; the civil service has been freed from the 

 debasing and injurious influences of partisan manipu- 

 lation ; the freedom and purity of primaries have been 

 secured ; political assessments have been abolished ; 

 receivership abuses have been corrected ; the princi- 

 ple of local self-government has been adhered to ; the 

 efficiency of the National Guard has been increased ; 

 taxation for the support of Government has been re- 

 duced ; a State Bureau of Labor Statistics has been 

 established ; the rights ot the working-man have been 

 further protected, and the injurious competition of 

 convict-labor has been curtailed. Business methods 

 have been the rule in the management of State affairs. 

 On the record thus made, and to which it will stead- 

 fastly adhere, the Democratic party asks a renewed 

 award of the confidence of the people. We invite with 

 reason all friends of improved State administration, 

 irrespective of party, to join with the Democracy in 

 preserving and perfecting the reforms in progress and 

 in extending them to all oranches of the State service. 

 We heartily indorse Gov. Cleveland's administration. 

 It justifies the great vote which elected him. He has 

 deservedly won the affection of the people by his in- 

 dustry, firmness, intelligence^ and aggressive honesty. 

 The results make his administration one of the best 

 the State ever had. 



The nominations were as follow : For Sec- 

 retary of State, Isaac H. Maynard, of Delaware 

 county; Comptroller, Alfred 0. Chapin, of 

 Kings county ; Treasurer, Robert A. Maxwell, 

 of Genesee county ; Attorney-General, Dennis 

 O'Brien, of Jefferson county; Engineer and 

 Surveyor, Elnathan Sweet, of Albany county. 



The Prohibition party held a convention at 

 Syracuse on the 26th of September, and nomi- 

 nated : For Secretary of State, Frederick Gates, 

 of Herkimer county; Comptroller, Stephen Mer- 

 ritt, of Rockland county; State Treasurer, James 

 Baldwin, of Steuben county; State Engineer, 

 George A. Dudley, of Ulster county; Attor- 

 ney-General, Virgil A. Willard, of Allegany 

 county. 



The platform declared the well-known prin- 

 ciples of the party, and favored an amendment 

 of the State Constitution prohibiting the manu- 

 facture and sale of intoxicating liquors. 



The Election. The election occurred on the 

 6th of November. The total vote for Secre- 

 tary of State was 898,850, of which Carr, Re- 

 publican, received 446,088 ; Maynard, Demo- 

 crat, 427,491 ; Beecher, Greenback, 7,066 ; and 

 Gates, Prohibition, 18,205 ; making Carr's plu- 

 rality over Maynard, 18,597. For Comptroller, 

 Davenport, Republican, received 429,873, and 

 Chapin, Democrat, 445,974, giving the latter a 

 plurality of 16,101. Maxwell, for Treasurer, 

 had a plurality of 17,695 ; O'Brien, for At- 

 torney-General, 13,766 ; and Sweet, for State 

 Engineer and Surveyor, 18,871. To the Senate, 

 19 Republicans and 13 Democrats were elected, 

 and to the Assembly, 72 Republicans and 56 

 Democrats. In the city of New York the vote 

 for Secretary of State was Carr, 68,267 ; May- 

 nard, 92,050 : for Comptroller, Davenport, 59,- 

 282 ; Chapin, 100,303. John Reilly, the Demo- 

 cratic candidate for Register, received 78,510 

 votes; Jacob Hess, Republican, 64,736; and 

 James O'Brien, Independent, 18,797. All the 

 Democratic candidates for judges were elected. 



Of the seven Senators elected in the city, one was 

 Republican, two Tammany Democrats, three 

 Anti-Tammany Democrats, and one Union 

 Democrat. Of the twenty- four Assemblymen, 

 nine were Republicans, eight Tammany Demo- 

 crats, and seven Anti-Tammany Democrats. 

 Of the twenty-four members of the city Board 

 of Aldermen, eight were chosen by the Repub- 

 licans, eight by the Tammany organization, 

 seven by the County Democracy, and one by 

 an Independent Democratic association. Low 

 was re-elected Mayor of Brooklyn by a vote of 

 49,934 to 48,091 for Hendrix, Democrat, and 

 349 for Leigh, Prohibitionist. 



On the proposition to abolish contract labor 

 from the prisons of the State, 677,779 votes 

 were cast, of which 408,402 were in favor of 

 the proposition and 269,377 against it. In the 

 city of New York the vote stood 118,777 for 

 the proposition to 14,301 against it. In the 

 larger cities it was generally favored, and in 

 the country districts opposed. 



Finances. The financial condition of the State 

 is favorable and promising. During the fiscal 

 year ending September 30th, $635,200 of the 

 canal debt was paid, leaving the aggregate in- 

 debtedness of the State $8,473,854.87, against 

 which stood a sinking fund of $2,495,553.06. 

 Hence the debt unprovided for was only $5,- 

 978,301.81. With the exception of an un- 

 claimed balance of $3,000 of the old bounty 

 debt, and $122,694.87, the interest of which is 

 devoted to the payment of annuities to Indians, 

 this entire debt consists of " stock " issued for 

 canal construction, bearing 6 per cent, inter- 

 est, and redeemable in 1887, 1891, 1892, and 

 1893. The expenditures of the fiscal year, and 

 the condition of the treasury on the first of 

 October, are shown in the following table : 



The total cash balance in the State treasury, 

 Oct. 1, 1883, was $2,387,254.44. 



The assessed value of property in the State 

 for the year was $2,557,218,240 for real es- 

 tate and $315,039,085 for personal property, 

 which shows an increase of $124,556,861 in 

 the former and a decrease of $35,982,104 in 

 the latter. The disparity of these figures for 

 real and personal property, the actual values 

 of which are approximately equal, reveals the 

 inequality of assessment under the existing 

 laws. The rate of taxation fixed by the last 



