New York State Party Platforms of 1898.

RESOLUTIONS OF THE DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION.

Adopted at Syracuse September 29, 1898 (extracts).

WHILE in national affairs we adhere with steadfast fidelity to all the principles and policies of Jeffersonian Democracy, we recognize that at the present time the attention of the people of this State is largely engrossed by the consideration of grave scandals and abuses of administration, which during four years of Republican control of State affairs have resulted in great pecuniary loss to the people and a gradual lowering of the standards heretofore obtaining in State government. The recent report of the Canal Investigation Commission has startled the people of the State and produced a profound conviction, irrespective of their views on national questions, that a change of State domination is imperative for the preservation of the canals now seriously imperilled, for the protection of taxpayers, and for the vindication of the honor of the Empire State.

It therefore becomes the part of wisdom to recognize the fact that under existing circumstances State issues in this campaign must necessarily be paramount in the present extraordinary crisis.

We pledge the people an honest and economical administration of the canals of the State, no squandering of the public moneys, no more millions to be stolen, wasted, or needlessly expended, as reported by a Republican investigating commission to have occurred with the nine-million canal improvement fund; all public contracts to be fairly and honestly awarded to the lowest bona-fide bidder; no special privileges to pet surety companies favored by political influence.

We favor a reduction of canal expenditures and are opposed to the intrusting of the work of carrying on further canal improvements to Republican officials responsible for the prodigality, favoritism, and corruption which have characterized the present administration of the canals. Reform in canal management is the supreme issue of the hour.

We promise the taxpayers that, if intrusted with power by the votes of the people, there shall follow a vigorous procedure on all canal officials implicated in the theft, waste, or misuse of the public moneys and the recovery of so much of the diverted funds as it may be possible by diligent effort to procure through legal proceedings.

Democratic rule in excise matters; repeal of the odious legislation known as the Raines Liquor law, and the enactment of a just and reasonable excise law; the restoration to the several localities of local supervision of the liquor traffic; all excise money which may be equitably collected as a license fee or tax to be retained in local treasuries and applied to the relief of the burden of local taxation.

No huge State political liquor machine composed of State officials, all of one party and appointed at the Capitol, with its horde of partisan deputies, attorneys, spies, and informers supported at public expense. Diversification in the administration of the vast powers of excise is the new policy of the State.

Local self-government for cities; the several municipalities to conduct their purely local affairs without legislative interference from Albany; uniform charter provisions and like legislation for Democratic as for Republican cities; no tinkering for partisan purposes.

The repeal of the partisan and unfair legislation imposed at the recent extra session of the Legislature upon the city of New York, and known as the Metropolitan Force bill. Uniform election laws throughout the State, equal rights and equal citizenship for all the electors of the State.

No invasion of the homes of the citizens of Greater New York under the pretence of enforcing election laws by State spies and deputies armed with pistols and bludgeons. No usurpation of the rights of localities through the legislative trick of creating a metropolitan election district, in evasion of the Constitution and in defiance of the protests of the people.

A low tax rate is demanded, such as we had during the administration of Democratic Governors from 1883 to 1895. Opposition to unnecessary special legislation. A materia reduction in the number of our annual laws, and a return to the desirable policy of embodying needed legislation in general laws so far as practicable-a policy which has been to all intents and purposes abandoned for the past four years, to the detriment of the best interests of the State.

A fair and just enforcement of the State civil service laws, according to their letter and spirit. No spurious or starchless' civil service laws evasive of the Constitution, binding only upon Democrats when in power, but capable of being successfully violated at pleasure by our opponents.

Honest civil service laws, incapable of official jugglery, and enforceable alike by and against all parties.

The restoration of the National Guard to the high standard of efficiency which under Democratic Governors it so long enjoyed. No more Tillinghastism," incompetency, or red-tape in the Adjutant-General's office; a capable Adjutant-General and reorganization of the National Guard are imperatively demanded.

We demand just and equal taxation. No tax-dodging. We denounce all attempts to evade the burdens of taxation upon personal property by pretended changes of residence or otherwise. Under the Constitution and laws of our State, eligibility to public office and liability to personal taxation both depend upon long residence. If the affidavits and official statements of the Republican candidate for Governor are true, he is ineligible to the office of Governor; if false, he has committed perjury and is morally disqualified. He cannot escape from his dilemma-there is either legal disqualification or moral unfitness.

We demand an amendment of the Constitution correcting the monstrous partisan injustice involved in Section 4 of Article 3, whereby the Senatorial apportionment of the State is not based upon population, but arbitrarily restricted and abridged in the large and growing Democratic localities. We demand for all electors, wherever they may reside and whatever their political affiliations may be, equal rights, equal privileges, and equal representation.

A legislative apportionment based upon any other theory than according to population is unrepublican in form, evasive of every principle of political fairness, and constitutes the essence of tyranny itself.

We favor the passage by the next Legislature of the pending constitutional amendment providing for biennial legislative sessions.

We favor liberal expenditures for the construction and maintenance of good roads, as necessary for the welfare and comfort of the people of the entire State.

The conservation of the just rights alike of capital and labor. No giving away of valuable public franchises; proper and honest legislation to curtail the growing power of unreasonable combinations and trusts. Freedom of competition and opposition to all monopolies oppressive of the people. A strict enforcement of all labor laws upon the statute books, and especially the eight-hour law and the prevailing-rate-of-wages law, which are now being violated and evaded in different parts of the State. We also favor amendments to the Penal Code, so that its provisions shall pot militate against organized labor.

RESOLUTIONS OF THE REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION.

Adopted at Saratoga September 27, 1898 (extracts).

The Republicans of New York in convention assembled congratulate the country upon the con. clusion of the war with Spain. It was not undertaken for conquest, but for the sacred cause of humanity and for the just protection of American interests. It has resulted in the complete triumph of American arms on land and sea, and we meet with resolute faith all the responsibilities which our victories impose.

We realize that when the necessities of war compelled our nation to destroy Spanish authority in the Antilles and in the Philippines, we assumed solemn duties and obligations alike to the people of the islands we conquered and to the civilized world. We cannot turn these islands back to Spain. We cannot leave them, unarmed for defence and untried in statecraft, to the horrors of domestic strife or to partition among European powers. We have assumed the responsibilities of victory, and wherever our flag has gone there the liberty, the humanity, and the civilization which that flag embodies and represents must remain and abide forever.

The Republican party has been the party of brave conservatism, of wise progress, and of triumphant faith in the nationality of this people, and we know that the President and statesmen and voters of the Republican party will meet these issues of the future as bravely and triumphantly as we have met the issues of the past.

We renew our allegiance to the doctrines of the St. Louis platform. We continue to condemn and resist the Democratic policies declared at Chicago. The organized Democratic party of the nation adheres to these policies of free silver and free trade and denies the right of the courts and of the Government to protect persons and property from violence.

On the coming 8th of November we are to elect not only our State officers but also Representatives in Congress and members of our State Legislature.

That Legislature in its term will elect a United States Senator to succeed the present Democratic Senator from this State. Democratic leaders declare that they will conduct this campaign upon State issues alone. But it is known that if the Democratic party secures the State Legislature it will re-elect to the United States Senate that Democrat who now represents his party there and misrepresents the State. That Senator supported the cause of free silver; supported the nominees of the Chicago Convention in the last Presidential election; gave his vote in the Senate for the heresies of that Chicago platform, and must, if re-elected, continue to support those heresies. Democrats may try to deceive the people by ignoring the anarchistic doctrines of that instrument in their State platform, but their members of Congress and their Senator, if they shall succeed in re-electing him, cannot and will not ignore those doctrines at Washington.

We are ready to meet the Democrats on all State issues, but in a larger sense this campaign is a national campaign, and our people cannot escape its national consequences. The election of Republican members of Congress and of a Republican State Legislature will mean that New York shall stand for the maintenance of the gold standard and for such a revision of the currency laws as will guarantee to the labor of the country that every paper promise to pay a dollar issued under the authority of the United States shall be of absolute and equal value with a gold dollar always and everywhere.

The Republican party is fulfilling the pledges we made at St. Louis. We have enacted a conservative protective tarif so wisely devised that the revenue is amply sufficient to pay the ordinary expenses of the Government in times of peace, while capital is encouraged to seek employment and the wages of labor are maintained at that high standard which experience has proved to be necessary to the welfare of our people. Our exports largely exceed our imports. The gold of the world comes steadily to our shores, and with a continuance of Republican policy and Republican national administration the prosperous future of the nation is assured.

In the interests of American labor and commerce, we believe that American products should be carried in American ships, and we favor the upbuilding of an American merchant marine which will give us our share in the carrying trade of the world in time of peace and constitute an effective naval militia in time of war.

We commend the administration of Governor Black. It has been wise, statesmanlike, careful, and economical, and has resulted in the lowest legitimate tax-rate which the State has had since 1856. We commend the work of the Legislature of 1898 in enacting laws looking to the betterment of the roads of the State through a proper local supervision by Boards of Supervisors; in completing through the direct agency of the Governor the Capitol building at Albany; in adopting for cities of the second class uniform charters; in throttling all attempts to place socialistic taxes upon the fruits of industry and economy; in meeting every demand required by the war; in beginning the abolition of dangerous grade crossings on railroads; in securing for the soldiers and sailors in the Federal service their right to vote; in passing a primary election law to aid in purifying the franchises, to enable all our people to participate in the honest and effective work of the caucus and the primary, and in transacting the public business of the Legislature and adjourning in a shorter period than any other Legislature since 1832.

State taxation of the liquor traffic has steadily grown in popular favor. There have been collected under this law during its brief period of existence more than $33, 000, 000, which have been applied to the reduction of State and local taxation, and have thus relieved the earnings and the savings of all the people of the State.

New York State is foremost of the States in the Union in caring for the interests of labor. Almost every law that has declared, upheld, and proved the rights of labor has been passed by the Republican party. The Republican Legislatures of 1897 and 1898 were occupied largely with such legislation. Factory inspection has been extended. The prevailing rate of wages has been enforced upon all public works. Railroad corporations have been compelled to adopt a ten-hour law. The law securing the weekly payment of wages has been extended to include all joint-stock associations, and its viola tion has been made a crime. The right to use labor labels has been secured to labor organizations. Elaborate provisions have been enacted for the security of employés in factories and stores and for their better treatment.

The Mechanics' Lien law has been amended so as to prefer all labor for daily and weekly wages® before all other claimants, without reference to the time when such laborers file their notices of lien Sub-letting of contracts has been absolutely forbidden without the written consent of the responsible awarders. Qualified engineers are now alone permitted to run stationary engines in New York City. The Republican party of New York has always been the party of honest and economical adminis tration. We pledge the candidates this day nominated to a resolute and thorough continuance of the investigation so fearlessly begun by Governor Black into all alleged mismanagement of the canals. If there are errors in the system and the law we will correct them. If there has been fraud we will detect and punish the wrongdoers.

National Party Platforms of 1896

ON THE QUESTIONS OF THE CURRENCY, THE TARIFF, AND THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE SUPREME COURT.

FROM THE PLATFORM OF THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY. ADOPTED AT INDIANAPOLIS SEPTEMBER 3.

The Currency.-The experience of mankind has shown that by reason of their natural qualities, gold is the necessary money of the large affairs of commerce and business, while silver is conveniently adapted to minor transactions, and the most beneficial use of both together can be insured on it by the adoption of the former as a standard of monetary measure, and the maintenance of silver at a parity with gold by its limited coinage under suitable safeguards of law.

Thus the largest possible enjoyment of both metals is gained with a value universally accepted throughout the world, which constitutes the only practical bimetallic currency, assuring the most stable standard, and especially the best and safest money for all who earn their livelihood by labor or the produce of husbandry. They cannot suffer when paid in the best money known to man, but are the peculiar and most defenceless victims of a debased and fluctuating currency, which offers continual profits to the money changer at their cost.

Realizing the truths demonstrated by long and public inconvenience and loss, the Democratic party, in the interest of the masses and of equal justice to all, practically established by the legislation of 1834 and 1853 the gold standard of monetary measurement and likewise entirely divorced the Government from banking and currency issues.

Gold Must Be the Standard.-To this long-established Democratic policy we adhere, and insist upon the maintenance of the gold standard and of the parity therewith of every dollar issued by the Government, and are firmly opposed to the free and unlimited coinage of silver and to the compulsory purchase of silver bullion.

Government Must Cease the Banking Business.-But we denounce also the further maintenance of the present patchwork system of National paper currency as a constant source of injury and peril. We assert the necessity of such intelligent currency reform as will confine the Government to its legitimate functions, completely separated from the banking business, and afford to all sections of our country a uniform, safe, and elastic bank currency under governmental supervision, measured in volume by the needs of business.

The Tariff Issue. The National Democracy here convened therefore renews its declaration of faith in Democratic principles, especially as applicable to the conditions of the times. Taxation, tariff, excise or direct, is rightfully imposed only for public purposes and not for private gain. Its amount is justly measured by public expenditures, which should be limited by scrupulous economy. The sum derived by the Treasury from tariff and excise levies is affected by the state of trade and volume of consumption. The amount required by the Treasury is determined by the appropriations made by Congress.

The demand of the Republican party for an increase in tariff taxation has its pretext in the deficiency of revenue, which has its causes in the stagnation of trade and reduced consumption, due entirely to the loss of confidence that has followed the Populist threat of free coinage and depreciation of our money and the Republican practice of extravagant appropriations beyond the needs of good government. We arraign and condemn the Populistic Conventions of Chicago and St. Louis for their coöperation with the Republican party in creating these conditions which are pleaded in justification of a heavy increase of the burdens of the people by a further resort to protection.

Integrity of the Supreme Court.-The Supreme Court of the United States was wisely established by the framers of our Constitution as one of the three coordinate branches of the Government. Its independence and authority to interpret the law of the land without fear or favor must be maintained.

We condemn all efforts to degrade that tribunal or impair the confidence and respect which it has deservedly held,

The Maintenance of Public Order.-The Democratic party ever has maintained, and ever will maintain, the supremacy of law, the independence of its judicial administration, the inviolability of contract and the obligations of all good citizens to resist every illegal trust, combination, or attempt against the just rights of property and the good order of society, in which are bound up the peace and happiness of our people.

FROM THE PLATFORM OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. ADOPTED AT CHICAGO, JULY 9.

The Money Question.-Recognizing that the money question is paramount to all others at this time, we invite attention to the fact that the Constitution names silver and gold together as the money metals of the United States, and that the first coinage law passed by Congress under the Constitution made the silver dollar the money unit of value and admitted gold to free coinage at a ratio based upon the silver dollar unit.

Demonetization Act of 1873 Condemned.-We declare that the Act of 1873 demonetizing silver without the knowledge or approval of the American people has resulted in the appreciation of gold and a corresponding fall in the prices of commodities produced by the people; a heavy increase in the burden of taxation and of all debts, public and private; the enrichment of the money-lending class at home and abroad; the prostration of industry and impoverishment of the people.

Opposed to Gold Monometallism.-We are unalterably opposed to monometallism which has locked fast the prosperity of an industrial people in the paralysis of hard times. Gold monometallism is a British policy, and its adoption has brought other nations into financial servitude to London. It is not only un-American, but anti-American, and it can be fastened on the United States only by the stifling of that indomitable spirit and love of liberty which proclaimed our political independence in 1776 and won it in the War of the Revolution.

Free Silver Coinage. We demand the free and unlimited coinage of both silver and gold at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1 without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation. We demand that the standard silver dollar shall be a full legal tender equally with gold for all debts, public and private, and we favor such legislation as will prevent for the future the demonetization of any kind of legal tender money by private contract.

We are opposed to the policy and practice of surrendering to the holders of the obligations of the United States the option reserved by law to the Government of redeeming such obligations in either silver coin or gold coin.

National Bank Currency Opposed.-Congress alone has the power to coin and issue money, and President Jackson declared that this power could not be delegated to corporations or individuals.

We therefore denounce the issuance of notes intended to circulate as money by National banks as in derogation of the Constitution, and we demand that all paper which is made a legal tender for public and private debts, or which is receivable for duties to the United States, shall be issued by the Government of the United States, and shall be redeemable in coin.

The Tariff.-We hold that tariff duties should be levied for purposes of revenue, such duties to be so adjusted as to operate equally throughout the country and not discriminate between class or section, and that taxation should be limited by the needs of the Government, honestly and economically administered. We denounce as disturbing to business the Republican threat to restore the McKinley law, which has twice been condemned by the people in National elections, and which, enacted under the false plea of protection to home industry, proved a prolific breeder of trusts and monopolies, enriched the few at the expense of the many, restricted trade, and deprived the producers of the great American staples of access to their natural markets.

The Supreme Court Criticised. Until the money question is settled we are opposed to any agitation for further changes in our tariff laws, except such as are necessary to meet the deficit in revenue caused by the adverse decision of the Supreme Court on the income tax. But for this decision by the Supreme Court, there would be no deficit in the revenue under the law passed by a Democratic Congress in strict pursuance of the uniform decisions of that court for nearly 100 years, that court having in that decision sustained constitutional objections to its enactment which had previously been overruled by the ablest judges who have ever sat on that bench. We declare that it is the duty of Congress to use all the constitutional power which remains after that decision, or which may come from its reversal by the court as it may hereafter be constituted, so that the burdens of taxation may be equally and impartially laid, to the end that wealth may bear its due proportion of the expenses of the Government.

Federal Intervention in Local Affairs.-We denounce arbitrary interference by Federal authorities in local affairs as a violation of the Constitution of the United States, and a crime against free institutions, and we especially object to government by injunction as a new and highly dangerous form of oppression by which Federal judges, in contempt of the laws of the States and rights of citizens, become at once legislators, judges, and executioners, and we approve the bill passed at the last session of the United States Senate, and now pending in the House of Representatives, relative to contempts in Federal Courts and providing for trials by jury in certain cases of contempt.

FROM THE PLATFORM OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. ADOPTED AT ST. LOUIS, JUNE 18.

The Currency Question.-The Republican party is unreservedly for sound money. It caused the enactment of the law providing for the resumption of specie payments in 1879; since then every dollar has been as good as gold. We are unalterably opposed to every measure calculated to debase our currency or impair the credit of our country. We are therefore opposed to the free coinage of silver except by international agreement with the leading commercial nations of the world, which we pledge ourselves to promote, and until such agreement can be obtained the existing gold standard must be preserved. All our silver and paper currency must be maintained at parity with gold, and we favor all measures designed to maintain inviolably the obligations of the United States, and all our money, whether coin or paper, at the present standard, the standard of the most enlightened nations of the earth.

The Tariff-We renew and emphasize our allegiance to the policy of protection as the bulwark of American industrial independence and the foundation of American development and prosperity. This true American policy taxes foreign products and encourages home industry; it puts the burden of revenue on foreign goods; it secures the American market for the American producer; it upholds the American standard of wages for the American workingman; it puts the factory by the side of the farm and makes the American farmer less dependent on foreign demand and price; it diffuses general thrift and founds the strength of all on the strength of each. In its reasonable application it is just, fair, and impartial, equally opposed to foreign control and domestic monopoly, to sectional discrimination, and individual favoritism.

We denounce the present Democratic tariff as sectional, injurious to the public credit, and destructive to business enterprise. We demand such an equitable tariff on foreign imports which come into competition with American products as will not only furnish adequate revenue for the necessary expenses of the Government, but will protect American labor from degradation to the wage level of other lands. We are not pledged to any particular schedules. The question of rates is a practical question, to be governed by the conditions of the time and of production; the ruling and uncompromising principle is the protection and development of American labor and industry. The country demands a right settlement, and then it wants rest.

FROM THE PLATFORM OF THE PEOPLE'S PARTY. ADOPTED AT ST. LOUIS, JULY 24.

The Finances.-1. We demand a National money, safe and sound, issued by the General Government only, without the intervention of banks of issue, to be a full legal tender for all debts, public and private; a just, equitable, and efficient means of distribution, direct to the people, and through the lawful disbursements of the Government.

2. We demand the free and unrestricted coinage of silver and gold at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1, without waiting for the consent of foreign nations.

3. We demand that the volume of circulating medium be speedily increased to an amount sufficient to meet the demands of the business and population, and to restore the just level of prices of labor and production.

4. We denounce the sale of bonds and the increase of the public interest-bearing debt made by the present Administration as unnecessary and without authority of law, and demand that no more bonds be issued, except by specific act of Congress.

5. We demand such legislation as will prevent the demonetization of the lawful money of the United States by private contract.

6. We demand that the Government, in payment of its obligations, shall use its option as to the kind of lawful money in which they are to be paid, and we denounce the present and preceding Administrations for surrendering this option to the holders of Government obligations.

7. We demand a graduated income tax, to the end that aggregated wealth shall bear its just proportion of taxation, and we regard the recent decision of the Supreme Court relative to the income tax law as a misinterpretation of the Constitution and an invasion of the rightful powers of Congress over the subject of taxation.

Arbitrary Judicial Action.-The arbitrary course of the courts in assuming to imprison citizens for indirect contempt and ruling by injunction should be prevented by proper legislation. [The entire platforms of all the political parties, adopted in 1896, were printed in THE WORLD ALMANAC for 1897.]

People's Party National Committee.

.........

Wilmington. .Washington. .Duncan.

..St. Charles.
..Stillwater.

Chairman. MILTON PARK, Dallas, Tex. Secretary. .......W. S. MORGAN, Hardy, Ark. Ala....R. F. Kolb.........Birmingham. R. H. Seymour..... Livingston..K. S. Woodruff....Anniston, Ariz...W. O. O'Neill...... Prescott..... Dr. A. H. Noon....Oro Blanco..Kean St. Charles..Kingman, Ark....J. R. Sovereign.... Sulphur Spgs A. W. Files..... ..Little Rock..J. O. A. Bush......Prescott. Cal.....John S. Dore...... Fresno..... .E. M. Hamilton....Los Angeles. F. Houghton ...... Corning. Col....John C. Bell.......Montrose....H. S. Tompkins... J. H. Voorhees....Pueblo. Conn..W. W. Wheeler....Meriden Dr. J. Perkins.. .Danielson....H. C. Baldwin.. .Naugatuck. Del.... Benj. L. Kent...... Wilmington.C. Beadenkopf... Wilmington. Geo. L. Norris.. D. of C.J. H. Turner. ......Washington. Rev. A. Kent...... Washington. H. B. Martin... Flor....A. P. Baskin.......Anthony.....F. H. Lytle........Stanton......A. A. Weeks.. Ga.....C. E. McGregor....Warrenton..W. Phillips... ..Marietta....W. B. Hawkins.....Flowery Br. Idaho..J. H. Anderson.... Weiser ...... A. J. Cook... ..Fayette......Ed. Boyce... Wallace. Illinois G. W. Wickline...Belleville....J. D. Hess... ..Pittsfield....Francis R. Call.... Chicago. Ind....J. D. Smith........Monticello...D. Linton... .Sheridan.....Zebulon Cox. .Sheridan. Ind. T..W. H. Watkins....Afton ...G. W. Payne. Whitefield...A. B. Weakley..... Comanche. Iowa...W. H. Robb.. Creston......S. B. Crane.... .Des Moines..J. E. Anderson....Forest City. Kansas J. W. Breidenthal. Topeka ......J. M. Allen... ..Erie......... W. D. Vincent.....Clay Centre. Ky.....A. H. Cardin...... Marion.......John G. Blair......Carlisle......W. B. Bridgeford.. Frankfort. La...... A. A. Gunby....... Monroe......J. T. Howell.......Baton Rouge. E. C. Dillon, Many. Maine.. L. C. Bateman..... Auburn .....L. W. Smith.. ...Vinalhaven. Henry Betts.......Ellsworth. Md....C. M. Kemp........Baltimore...Hiram Vrooman... Baltimore....T. C. Jenkins......Pomonkey. Mass...G. F. Washburn...Boston.......E. Gerry Brown....Brockton....P. J. Gardener....Danvers. Mich..John O. Zabel..... Petersburg... Jas. E. McBride...Gr'nd Rapids Benj. Colvin. Minn...E. A. Twitchell... Minneapolis. I. B. Dukes........Minneapolis. S. W. Powell. Miss....R. K. Pruitt.......Ackerman... Frank Burkitt.....Okolona......N. C. Hathborn....Columbia. Mo.. .P. J. Dixon........ Chillicothe..J. H. Hillis.. ..McFall.. .Dr. De Witt Eskew. Poplar Bluffs Mont...A. E. Spriggs......Townsend....M. L. Stewart.....Mason.......Mrs. E.K. Haskell. Helena. Neb.... Wm. V. Allen..... Madison.....J. H. Edmisten....Lincoln...... D. Clem. Deaver..Omaha. Nev....J. B. McCullough. Reno ...... .C. E. Allen.... ..Eureka ......J. C. Doughty.....Deeth. N. H...D. B. Currier......Hanover..... G. J. Greenlief ...Portsmouth. George D. Epps...Francistown. N.J....E. A. Wallace.....So. Orange...T. B. Richmond... Camden.....F. S. Newcomb....Vineland. N. M...M. P. Stamm.... AlbuquerqueT. B. Mills.... Las Vegas....Thos. F. Kelcher..Albuquerque N. Y...C. R. White.......Miller Crnrs. Lafe Pence.. N. Y. City...L. J. McParlan....Lockport. N. C....Marion Butler..... Raleigh Z. T. Garrett.. Henderson...J. L. Ramsey......Raleigh. N. Dak. Walter Muir....... Hunton......Dr. W. A. Bentley. Bismarck....N. O. Noben.......Grafton. Ohio...John Seitz....... .Tiffin.... ..R. McCannon......Sulphur Spgs. I. H. Frederick...Akron. Okla...J. S. Soule......... Guthrie.. .R. E. Bray.... .Enid...... W. H. French.....Chandler. Oregon.J. W. Marksbury..Gold Hill....John C. Luce......John Day....John W. Jory......Salem. Penna..Jerome B. Aiken. Washington. W. M. Deisher.... Reading .V. A. Lotier. S. Dak. A. J. Plowman.... Deadwood...H. S. Volknar.....Milbank. ..H. P. Smith.. Tenn..J. H. McDowell...Union City..J. P. Buchanan....Wayside.....J. W. James.. Texas .C. S. Granberry.... Austin ..H. L. Bentley. ..Abilene...... Harry Tracy. Utah ..James Hogan......Ogden. Mrs. K.S. Hilliard. Ogden........H. W. Lawrence...Salt Lake Cty Va.....G. W. B. Hale..... Rocky Mount J. H. Hobson......Belona.......J. W. McGavock..Graham Frge Vt.....A. J. Beebe........Swanton..... A. T. Way.. .Burlington..C. S. Louis ........So. Reading. Wash..E. W. Way..... .Seattle A. P. Tugwell ....Chehalis..... C. W. Young......Pullman. W.Va..N. W. Fitzgerald..Terra Alta...W. R. Neale.. .Parkersburg. H. T. Houston.....Alderson. Wis ....Robt, Schilling....Milwaukee ..C. M. Butt...... Viroqua ..... William Munro....W. Superior. Wyo ...L. C. Tidball......Sheridan .... Earl Hoffer........Sundance....Peter Esperson....Cheyenne.

Socialist Labor Party.

..Danville.
..Madison.
Chattanooga
.Dallas.

National Corresponding and Financial Secretary-Henry Kuhn, 184 William Street, New York City. Recording Secretary-L. A. Malkiel. Treasurer-Henry Stahl. National Executive CommitteeThe preceding and Alvan S. Brown, William H. Wherry, John J. Kinneally, Patrick Murphy, and Joseph Sauter.

The party is organized in local organizations known as "sections," such sections existing in thirtytwo States and two Territories. Any ten persons in any city or town of the United States may form a section, providing they acknowledge the platform and constitution of the Socialist Labor Party and do not belong to any other political party. In places where no section exists, or where none can be formed, any person complying with the aforesaid provisions may become a member-at-large upon application to the National Executive Committee. Sections are not permitted to charge initiation fees. All questions of importance arising within the party are decided by general vote. At each meeting of the section a chairman is elected, and the same rule holds good with all standing committees.

འ

National Republican League of the United States.

THE National Republican League of the United States was organized in Chickering Hall, New York City, December 15-17, 1887, by delegates from about 350 Republican clubs of the United States, assembled in national convention, pursuant to a call issued by the Republican Club of New York City. It is composed of the Republícan clubs of the United States, organized by States and united in a national organization. Its purpose is "Organization and Education." It aims to enlist recruits for the Republican party, particularly the younger men and the first voters." National conventions have since been held at Baltimore, Md., February 28, 1889; Nashville, Tenn., March 4, 1890; Cincinnati, O., April 23, 1891; Buffalo, N. Y., September 16, 1892; Louisville, Ky., May 10, 1893; Denver, Col., June 26, 1894; Cleveland, O., June 19, 1895; Milwaukee, Wis., August 25, 1896; Detroit, Mich., July 13, 1897, and Omaha, Neb., July 13, 1898. Officers-President, George N. Stone, San Francisco, Cal.; Treasurer, Milton D. Young, Pennsylvania; Secretary, D. H. Stine, Newport, Ky. Headquarters, Auditorium Hotel, Chicago.