blow struck at the tobacco, cutlery, hatmaking or any one established industry must react upon every other established industry."

IMMIGRATION.-Declares that if necessary existing immigration laws should be amended further to protect American wage-earners against degrading foreign competition. MISCELLANEOUS.-Denounces attempt of Connecticut Democrats to secure partisan gain through distranchisement of over 1,200 legal voers in election of 1890, and deter mination of Democratic Senate to block all public business, and 80 force compliance with its chemes; commends Republican executive officers, Senators and Repre sentatives who resisted this revolutionary attempt, and upholds plan of town representation.

CONNECTICUT DEMOCRATIC, May 10.

TARIFF.-Declares allegiance to Democratic principles, demands a revision of tariff along the line of the Democratic Federal platform of 1888 and the State platform of 1890, especially removal of duties on raw materials, charges prevailing industrial stagnation to McKinleyism, and calls on farmers, manufacturers and workmen alike to intrust the revision of the tariff on sound principles to the Democratic party in the interest of all classes instead of the few.

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CURRENCY.--"We declare for a stable currency, of gold, silver and paper, founded upon coined money of the least obtainable fluctuations in value, and we regard the unlimited coinage of silver dollars worth but 67 cents each, with the legal tender attribute atta hed, as a financial heresy, certain to result in a proportionate reduction wages, the un ettling of contracts and widespread distress. We charge the continued agitation of this question upon the last Republican Congress and the present Administration in passing the Sherman Act of 1890, which involves most of the possible follies in curlency legislation, and has thus far forced upon the Government the purchase of sil ver bullion, upon which the Treasury has already lost more than $11,000,000."

THE ADMINISTRATION.-Accues President Harrison of bestowing Cabinet appointments on little statesmen, rewarding political work with judicial and other appointments, turning to partisan uses the Pension Bureau and the Census Bureau, sacrificing the country in the Behring Sea dispute, throwing the influence of his Administration in favor of the iniquities of the Force bill, for approving the McKinley bill, the Silver bill, and the extravagant appropriations of the last Republican Congress and for his hasty threat toward the weak but friendly republic of Chili.

STATE ISSUES.-Demands return to the fundamental law of the early Common. wealth by which the man receiving the larger number of votes became Governor of the State. The convention condemned the public acts of Morgan G. Bulkeley since Jan. 7, 1891, in not promptly surrend ring the office of Governor of Connecticut to Luzon B. Morris as the choice of 67,658 electors of this State as against 63,975 for his chief competitor, Samuel E. Merwin, and none for himself, and condemned the Republican members of the House of Representatives for attempting to repeat in Connecticut the injustices of an electoral commission, for their delay to declare the election of officers whose election they themselves admitted, and for refusing to make the investigation of the election which they themselves held to be needful, in order that no result might be reached.

MISCELLANEOUS.-Praises Mr. Cleveland and Democratie Representatives in

Congress.

CONNECTICUT DEMOCRATIC, September 13.

GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURES.-Declares that while taxes for the necessary support of the Government, State and National. should be cheerfully paid, the people have good reason for requiring the strictest economy in every department of govern

ment."

TARIFF-Declares that custom-house duties show'd be the chief source of supply for Government revenues, and demands removals of all tariff taxes on the raw materials out of which manufactured goods are made.

LABOR AND CAPITAL.-Declares that in its conflicts labor, the parent of wealth, is entitled to generous consideration by impartial arbitrators, and that commercial and agricultural interests should be favorably considered when necessary legislation is adopted.

CURRENCY.-"We demand a safe currency, redeemable in gold, the standard money of the world, and protest against an issue of bank bills for circulation unless they are as safely secured as are the National bank bills."

BALLOT LAW.-Upholds secret ballot law as a protection to dependent voters, and a bar against corruption.

REPUBLICAN PARTY.-Asserts that Republican party has violated the pledge of 1884 to correct inequalities of tarif and relieve the taxpayer; has added burdens to the taxpayer and industrial interests, encouraged combinations and trusts, sent out of the country more than $100,000,000 in gold, violated the essential principle of Civil Service reform, encouraged waste in public expenditure, attempted to pass a law under which free ballots will be menaced by the bayonet, confined reciprocity to the smallest nations, and withholds it from those with whom our commerce might be greatly enlarged, and embarrases commerce y protection.

MISCELLANEOUS.-Accuses Republican House of Representatives of violating the mandate of the Constitution to secure in office, for two years, their party adherents who had been overwhelmingly defeated at the polls or had not been voted for at all. Ad

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vocates election of County Commissioners by popular vote, and minority representation in each board; election of State officers by a plurality of votes, and enactment of stringent laws to protect dairy interests against impure food products.

DELAWARE REPUBLICAN, May 5.

Indorses President Harrison's Administration, Mr. Blaine's foreign policy, the McKinley bill and its results; favors free coinage only after the establishment by international agreement of the parity of gold and silver; opposes built ships to American registry; favors just and liberal pension laws; Democratic administration of State affairs, and favors the calling of a admission of foreignto revise the State constitution.

DELAWARE DEMOCRATIC, May 18.

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opposes convention

Declares that the principles of the McKinley tariff and its customs laws are fatal to commercial welfare and freedom and the interests of labor, and praises Cleveland's Administration as a blessing to the whole country, which diffused a spirit of restored brotherhood throughout a union of coequal (States and maintained peace with without large and costly outlays.

FLORIDA REPUBLICAN, April 14.

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TARIFF AND ELECTIONS.-"We indorse the McKinley bill and the Reed rules, and sadly deplore the failure of the LIst Congress to enact the Lodge bill or other equally salient election law that would secure to the people their rights under the Constitution and maintain the integrity and dignity of the Nation."

FORCE AND FRAUD.-"We denounce the Democratic rule in Florida as dishonest and tyrannical, bred in prejudice and hatred; nurtured in cowardice and crime, it is an enormity in its construction, with unlimited power for oppression and coercion; it is weak and imbecile in its ability to protect life or Florida election laws are damnable in their conception and flendish in their operation. They are the result of a long studied plan to rob the majority of its liberties, aided punish offenders. The and abetted by an apathy on the part of the Government to maintain the dignity of its Constitution and protect the rights of its people, and enforce the provision of its constitution which guarantees to each State a Republican form of government; and how well they serve the end for which they were designated can be best understood if we quote from the official election returns. Marion, Putnam and Escambia counties in 1884 as against the vote of the same counWe give below the ties in 1890: vote of Leon, Duval,

Leon Duval

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Dem. Rep. Dem. Rep.

S34 2,198

1,206

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.1,889 3,387 ...1,494 2,007

1,805 284

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Escambia

1,416 232

Marion

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"In Orange County the Republican vote in 1888 was 1,515, and in 1890 420. total vote of the State in 1884 was 31,769 Dem. and 28,031 Rep.; in 1890 it was 29,176 Dem. and 4,637 Rep. murder, arson, assassination, are evidences of the patriotism and of the crimes comWhat has recome of the Republican mitted in the interest of Democracy. vote? Robbery, Governor as clerk of the Circuit Court of Osceola County, as a reward for services A Democrat was appointed by rendered the Democratic party in destroying the election returns of Brevard County in a Democratic 1876. Another was rewarded for services rendered in robbing 2,000 Republicans of their votes in Leon County by making him president of the Senate in 1889. U. S. Marshal Saunders went to Gadsden County in March, 1890. for the purpose of serving papers upon Democrats under indictment for election frauds, and was brutally Deputy murdered in broad daylight, while in a buggy with a prominent Democratic leader-the fatal shots being fired at such a close range that his body was badly powder-burned, and no arrests were made or rewards offered. In 1884 was 881; in the election of 1890, six a single Republican vote cast in the county. assassinated in Sumter County the same year, again no arrests were made nor rewards offered. ty in 1884 was 524; in 1890 it was 51."

months after this murder. there was not The Republican vote of Gadsden County while in the discharge of his duties, and Deputy U. S. Marshal L'Estrange was The Republican vote of Sumter Coun

STATE ELECTION LAWS.-"We denounce the Florida election laws as tyrannical in substance, and the methods and manner of carrying them into effect as infamous and equivalent to a total disfrar chisement of the entire Renul lican party of the State, and in the interest of good government and American manhood we demand the repeal

the present election laws entirely, and that just and equal rights be secured to all political parties in all elections." of

CONVICT LABOR.-"We denounce the present system of leasing the State convicts to the highest bidder, and demand that a more humane treatment be secured for them."

FLORIDA DEMOCRATIC, June 3.

Advocates liberal policy in regard to public improvements; denounces McKinley act and Elections bill; urges legislation to prevent dealing in futures, demands unlimited coinage of silver, abolition of National banks and substitution of legal-tender Treasury notes for National bank notes, and that all money issued by the Govern. ment shall be a legal-tender for all debts, public and private. Demands graduated in.

come tax, repeal of State bank tax; that the circulating medium be increased to not less than $50 per capita, and that National and State revenue shall be limited to necessary ex penses of Government. Favors Government control of railroads.

GEORGIA REPUBLICAN, April 15.

CURRENCY.-"Believing gold and silver should form the basis of our circulating medium, we indorse the Sherman amended coinage act of the last Republican Congress." CONVICT LABOR.-"Resolved, That it is the duty of the State to abolish the chain. gangs, as inhuman and barbarous, and as being abhorrent to enlightened the detriment of honest labor, and repugnant to the principles and purposes of human civilization, punishment; that the Penal Code of this State is, in many of its provisions, merciless and cruel, and that the same should be so amended as to conform its punishment to the spirit of this enlightened age."

GEORGIA DEMOCRATIC, May 18.

SILVER AND CURRENCY.-"We demand the free and unlimited coinage of both silver and gold on a parity with each other, to the end that the money of the people shall be of such quantity and quality as was originally contemplated by the Constitution. We desire that a uniform system of banking be provided for by the legislature of Georgia, with a flexible, expansive State bank currency. ther demand that the prohibition in the national bank law against accepting real We furestate as security for loans shall be stricken therefrom. We demand that the amount of circulating medium be speedily increased on a sound basis sufficient to meet the needs of the country." FUTURES.-Demands

futures.

that Congress shall

pass laws to prevent dealing in MISCELLANEOUS.-Demands that national legislation shall be so framed in the future as not to build up one industry at the expense of the other; denounces the present tariff, and demands a removal of the existing heavy tariff tax from the necessities of life that the poor must have; demands a just and equitable system of graduated tax on income; that the money of the country be kept as much as pos sible in the hands of the people, and that all State revenue be limited to the necessary expense of the Governmet economically and honestly administered.

Demands also retrenchment ad reform in the expenditure of national revenue, "and especially a correction of the present pension system, which rests like a mammoth war tax on our section of the Union."

GEORGIA DEMOCRATIC, August 10.

Pledges anew loyalty and devotion to the time-honored principles of democracy as promulgated and practised by the fathers and sages of the party; indorses National platform and nominees, and commends administration of Governor W. J. Northen. and the State House officers "whose most honest and economical management of the affairs of the State has conduced so largely to the progress and prosperity of the people."

IDAHO REPUBLICAN, May 6.

SILVER.-"The Republican party to-day is confronted with the alternative of restoring silver to free and unlimited coinage or losing the results of protection. anti-silver policy of the Government is lowering the prices of all products and wages The and they must eventually be involved in a disastrous decline, protective system." notwithstanding

IDAHO REPUBLICAN, August.

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SILVER-Reiterates position on silver announced at Republican convention at Pocatello, and while favoring pending international conference, unalterably opposes any final settlement of the question on any other basis than that of free and unlimited coinage of silver, either upon the present or some other satisfactory ratio that will give that metal a fixed value at U. S. mints, and prevent its constant depreciation by the stock gamblers of Wall Street; also favors law of Congress creating a department of mines and mining. so that the leading industry in the U. S. may be properly represented and fostered in the councils of the Government.

FAIR ELECTIONS.-Declares that the essence of Republicanism lies in the maintenance of law and order, free and candid discussion of all public questions on their merits, and peaceful appeal to the ballot box for the redress of grievances, and condemns all acts of lawlessnes, by whomsoever committed, and pledges to every person in the State prompt and equal protection of the laws.

LABOR.-Opposes any monopoly of the right of labor, favors organized labor, but suggests that all labor organizations should be conducted in the spirit of American institutions, and administered in subordination to the laws of the land; declares that every person has the right to earn an honest living, free from interference or wrong from any person or organization whatsoever, and that such right should be amply protected by law; that all labor, whether organized or not, hould be protected against the unjust exactions of capital; condemns that system which compels an ploye to patronize store or other business of employer or his managing agent. and pledges the Republican party to the passage of a law establishing Board of Arbitration.

TARIFF Strongly favors protection, and especially commends the plank in the National platform for establishing a certain and definite guide in tariff legislation.

WORLD'S FAIR.-Pledges support of the Republican members of the next Legisla ture of Idaho for a liberal appropriation toward the Idaho display at the World's Fair. IMMIGRATION AND SUFFRAGE.-Demands the immediate amendment of immigration and naturalization laws, and the adoption of an amendment to the Federal Constitution limiting the uffrage of all elections to citizens of the U. S. able to read the Constitution and to write their own names.

MORMONS.-"We congratulate the Mormon Church on the recent declaration abandoning polygamy and on the divorce of church and state in all political concernis; and accepting their declaration as sincere, we pledge the party that with the continuance of the evidence of this sincerity, we will at the next session of the Legis lature restore to its members the full political privileges of citizenship secured to all others."

MISCELLANEOUS.-Calls attention of National administration to unnecessary de lay in allotting the lands of the Nez Perce Indian reservation, favors the immediate passage of a law by Congress by which the postoffices can be used as savings banks of deposit and exchange, and indorses timely and energetic action of Governor Willey in promptly enforcing the State laws.

IDAHO DEMOCRATIC, August 25.

Favors free and unlimited coinage of silver, and denounces the proposed international monetary conference as a scheme of the gold-bugs; also pronounces against trusts; denounces the McKinley bill; favors liberal pensions to veterans of the civil war, and a generous appropriation for the State exhibit at the World's Fair.

ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN, May 5.

Avows devotion to the principles of the Government under Republican auspices, which have achieved such signal triumphs in the public welfare; declares the unexampled prosperity of the Nation to be the most forcible demonstration of the wisdom of Protection as expressed in the McKinley law; pledges unfaltering support to Reciprocity; heartily indorses the "wise, patriotic and thoroughly American Administration" of President Harrison; instructs the delegation to the National Convention to support him for renomination; recognize, tae prudent and brilliant conduct of the State Department by Secretary Blaine, and the vigor and wisdom which characterize the Navy and other Departments of the Government; arraigns the Democratic party for treachery to the cause of honest money; indores the Republican de fence against poliation and degradation of the National currency in the threatened free colpage of silver at a false value; favors an International conference looking to restoration of silver in the monetary system of the world; condemns the suppression of the colored vote of the South; favors legislation, National and State, against trusts and other forms of industrial tyranny; commends the anti-trust legislation of the last Congress, favors Governmental supervision to subordinate all corporations to the public welfare, and to this end urges the proper amendment and rigorous enforcement of the Interstate Commerce act and the establishment of the Government postal telegraph and telephone systems; urges the establishment of a department of labor for promoting the dignity and interests of the American workingmen; demands further legislation to exclude paupers, criminals and contract labor favors further proper pension legislation; indorses the administration of Governor Fifer, and the faithful services of Senator Cullom and the Republican representatives of Illinois in Congress; and pledges the Republican party to the repeal of the present Compulsory School act, and the enactment of a new law which shall not interfere with parochial or pri vate schools.

ILLINOIS DEMOCRATIC, April 27.

TARIFF.-"We demand an immediate revision of the tariff, free raw material, a reduction in the duties on the necessaries of life, and such changes in the shipping and navigation law as shall restore the American merchant marine and the supremacy the American flag upon the high seas."

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MONEY.-Favors the gold and silver coinage provided by the Constitution of the U. S., and a currency convertible into such coinage without loss to the holder, and world recommends an invitation by our Government to the commercial powers of the for an international conference to fix a ratio between the values of gold and silver so that parity may be maintained between the two metals and all mints thrown open to free coinage.

EDUCATION.-Denounces Republican party for enacting a law which tends to bring the cause of popular education into disrepute; demands its unconditional repeal, and pledges party candidates for the Legislature to vote and work to that end.

TRUSTS.-Denounces trusts, and demands from Legislature stringent laws to aid the judicial branch of the State in stamping out such ini quitous devices of monopolists to defraud the people.

LABOR.-Favors the prohibition of child labor, boards of arbitration to adjudicate all controversies between capital and labor, demands the protection of life and property of American citizens at home and abroad, regardless of race, color or previous condition, and favors all laws that can be enacted under the present Constitution that will prohibit the truck system, enforce weekly payment of wages in cash, fair weights and measures wherever used in fixing compensation, or an amendment to the Constitution under which laws can be enacted.

MISCELLANEOUS.-Denounces reckless extravagance of billion-dollar Congresses; insists that the autonomy of the States and the rights of local self-government and home rule should be zealously guarded; that no money should be taken from the people under any pretext for other than public purposes; that the strictest economy should be exercised in all governmental expenditures, and that the legislation should be confined to the legitimate objects of Government, and favors election of U. S. Senators by direct vote.

INDIANA REPUBLICAN, March 10.

FAIR ELECTIONS.-Insists on a pure ballot and fair count.

PROTECTION AND RECIPROCITY.-Demands that manufacturing and labor interests should be protected by duties on Imports, and by excluding the criminal and vicious classes of other countries, and indorses reciprocity.

MONEY. "We are in favor of honest money, of a dollar that, whether it be of gold, or silver, or paper, shall be of like value in the payment of debts."

LIst CONGRESS.-"We indorse the acts of the LIst Congress which, in the main, fixed in the laws of the land the principles advocated by the Republican party in the campaign of 1888, thus fulfilling its promises to the people."

INDIANA DEMOCRATIC, April 20.

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Declares that the powers delegated by the people should be strictly construed; that the autonomy of States and the rights of local self government and home rule should be zealou dy guarded; that no money should be taken from the people under any pretext for other than public purposes; that the strictest economy should be exercised in all Government expenditures, whether local, State or National; that legislation should be confined to the legitimate objects of government; that public office is a solemn public trust. It is uncompromisingly opposed to the enlargement and concentration Federal powers, to the usurpation by the general Government of the functions of the States, to bounties and subsidies in every form, to every species of cla-s legislation and Government partnership with private enterprise, to the whole theory of paternalism. "We believe that in a free country the curtailment of absolute rights of the individual should only be such as is essential to the peace and good order of the community, and we regard all legislation looking to the infringement of liberty of person or conscience, not absolutely necessary to the maintenance of public order, as vicious in principle and demoralizing in practice."

THE ADMINISTRATION.-Arraigns Harrison Administ:ation for its subserviency to the interests of the money power, and indifference to the welfare of the people; its violation of Civil Service pledges, prostitution of public patronage to partisan purposes, contemptuous repudiation of promises to veteran soldiers, its attempt to fasten on the country the un-American Force bill, and its weak and demagogical foreign policy.

TARIFF AND RECIPROCITY.-"We favor such a radical and comprehensive measure of tariff reform as shall relieve the necessities of the people and crude material of our manufactures from Federal taxation. We condemn the so-called reciprocity policy as a transparent attempt to impose upon the American people the shadow of commercial freedom for its substance, in order to perpetuate the existing system of ficensed spoliation for the benefit of trusts and monopolies, which are the chief support of the Republican party."

MONEY. "We believe that there should be kept in constant circulation a full and sufficient volume of money, consisting of gold, silver and legal tender paper currency at par with each other."

MISCELLANEOUS.-Approves passage of school-book law; denounces the "book trust;" praises Australian ballot law; demands liberal pensions; Commissioner Raum's removal; indorses the new tax law; condemns Governor Hovey for recommending an increased tax levy; denounces the conspiracy to create prejudice against the new tax law by local increases of taxation; demands the passage of a law taxing greenbacks like other money, and interstate commerce the same as domestic commerce; approves law for paying State officials by salary instead of fees; eulogizes the public school system, and favors election of U. S. Senators by direct vote.

IOWA REPUBLICAN, March 17.

THE ADMINISTRATION.-Cordially indorses the Administration of President Har. rison as a worthy successor to the series of Republican Administrations begun by Lincoln, and praises the President for keeping every pledge made by his party; maintaining a sound policy at home and the National honor abroad, and surrounding himself by a Cabinet which has in every department deserved well of the party and country, and added new strength and laurels to American statesmanship.

MISCELLANEOUS.-"We appeal to Republicans in all parts of the State to unite. disregarding all local differences, and on the platform of National Republicanism, the maintenance of Protection, the full establishment of Reciprocity as a policy of the Government, which is one of the great achievements of Republican statesmanship, the ele vation and prosperity of labor, the maintenance of a sound currency, every dollar of which shall be the equal of every other dollar, and of securing to all American citizens, white or black, their equal legal rights, the Republicans of Iowa shall re-establish its old political rank and make the State triumphantly Republican in November."