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In 1864, William Spriggs was reelected State Treasurer, and Isaac T. Goodnow Superintendent of Public Instruction.
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Thomas Carney, elected Governor in 1862, was elected United States Senator by the Legislature of 1864. but he abdicated all of his claims thereto in April of that year. He was an unsuccessful candi- date against Senator Edmund G. Ross in 1867, who had been appointed as Lane's successor by Governor Samuel .J. Crawford.
Thomas .1. Osborn, elected Lieutenant Governor in 1862, was elected Governor in 1872 and in 1874, and failed to be elected United States Senator in 1877. He was afterwards United States Minister to Chili, and later, to Brazil, and is now a resident of Topeka.
Warren W. Guthrie, elected Attorney General in 1862, has been in the State Senate from Atchison county, and was a supporter of Preston B. Plumb for the United States Senate in 1877, and of Albert II. Horton in 1879.
John J. Ingalls, beaten at the polls for Lieutenant Governor. in 1862, and again in 1864, was Pomeroy's successor in the United States Senate, having been elected to that position in 1873, 1879 and in 1885.
Asa Hairgrove, elected State Auditor in 1862, was beaten at the polls in 1864 by John R. Swallow, and Mr. Swallow was reelected in 1866.
J. D. Brumbaugh, elected Attorney General in 1864, was defeated for renomination in the Republican convention of 1866, by George II. Hoyt.
R. A. Barker, elected Secretary of State in 1864, was reelected in 1866.
Sidney Clarke defeated A. C. Wilder for a renomination for Mem- ber of Congress in 1864, and Mr. Wilder defeated Martin F. Conway in the Republican convention of 1862. Mr. Clarke was elected in 1864, 1866 and in 1868, and was defeated in the Republican conven- tion of 1870 by David P. Lowe. He was chosen Speaker of the Kan- sas House of Representatives of 1879, and he is now interested in Oklahoma.
Samuel J. Crawford, elected Governor in 1864, was again chosen in 1866. Hle was a candidate for United States Senator in 1871, and was nominated for Congressman-at-Large in 1878, where no real or prospective vacancy existed. He is now agent of the State of Kansas at Washington, D. C.
Lieutenant Governor Nehemiah Green served the last two months of Crawford's term as Governor.
Peter McVicar, now president of Washburn College, elected Su- perintendent of Public Instruction, was reelected in 1868.
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Martin Anderson, elected State Treasurer in 1866, was beaten for renomination in the State convention of 1868 by George Graham.
James M. Harvey, elected Governor in 1868 and in 1870, was chosen by the Legislature of 1874 to fill out the unexpired term of Alexander Caldwell, who was elected by the Legislature of 1871 to succeed Senator Ross, who is now the Governor of the Territory of New Mexico.
Preston B. Plumb, who succeeded Senator Harvey in 1877. was re- elected in 1883, and the next complete Legislature, to be elected in 1888, may elect him for a third term to the United States Senate.
Alois Thoman, elected State Auditor in 1868, was reelected in 1870; Thomas Moonlight, elected Treasurer of State in 1868, was beaten in the convention of 1870 by W. H. Smallwood: and George Graham, elected Treasurer in 1868, was beaten by Josiah E. Hayes in the Re- publican State convention of 1870.
Thomas Moonlight was appointed Territorial Governor of Wyo- ming by President Cleveland in January, 1887.
In 1872 David P. Lowe was reelected Representative to Congress; William A. Phillips was also chosen, and again in 1874 and in 1876, and in 1878 was beaten in convention by John A. Anderson, who was elected in the First District in 1878, 1880 and 1882, and in the Fifth district in 1884. Failing in securing a renomination in the conven- tion of 1886, he ran as an independent candidate and defeated the regular nominees of both parties.
Stephen A. Cobb, elected one of the three Congressmen in 1872, was beaten at the polls by John R. Goodin in 1874.
In 1870 David J. Brewer defeated Jacob Safford in the Republican convention for Associate Justice, and was elected in 1870, 1876 and 1882, and in 1884 was appointed United States Circuit Court Judge by President Arthur. George W. Glick appointed Theodore A. Hurd as JJudge Brewer's successor, and Attorney General William A. Johns- ton was elected to fill the vacancy at the election of 1884.
W. II. Smallwood was reelected Secretary of State in 1872, and was beaten in the convention of 1874, for Governor, by the incumbent. Governor Osborn. A. L. Williams, chosen in 1870 Attorney General, was reelected in 1872, and Hugh D. McCarty was reelected Superin- tendent of Public Instruction.
Josiah E. Haves, reelected State Treasurer in 1872, resigned in the last year of his second term, John Francis having been appointed by Governor Osborn.
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In 1874 Samuel Lappin was elected to succeed Mr. Francis, but having resigned in 1875 Governor Osborn again appointed Mr. Francis, who was elected in 1876, 1878 and 1880, and was beaten in the Republican convention of 1882 by Samuel T. Howe, who was reelected in 1884, but was defeated for a third term in 1886 by J. W. Hamilton.
D. W. Wilder was reelected State Auditor in 1874, and was defeated in 1876 by P. I. Bonebrake in the Republican State conven- tion, and Mr. Bonebrake was chosen in the years of 1876, 1878 and 1880, and was succeeded by E. P. MeCabe, of Graham county, who was elected in 1882 and 1884, and was defeated for a third term nomination in 1886 by Tim. McCarthy, of Pawnee county.
In 1876 John Fraser, elected State Superintendent of Public In- struction in 1874, was defeated for renomination by Allen B. Lem- mon, who was reelected in 1878, and was succeeded by Henry C. Speer, who was chosen in 1880 and in 1882, and was beaten in the Re- publican convention of 1884 by James II. Lawhead, who was again elected in 1886.
A. M. F. Randolph, elected Attorney General in 1874, was beaten for a renomination in 1876 by Willard Davis, who was again elected . in 1878, and was succeeded by William A. Johnston in 1880, and who, after his election as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, in 1884, was directly succeeded by G. P. Smith, who was appointed by Governor Glick.
Simeon B. Bradford was elected in 1884, and reflected in 1886.
Mr. Randolph was in the Kansas House of Representatives of 1879, he was a supporter of Judge Horton for the United States Senate, and is now the Reporter of the Supreme Court of the State.
Thomas H. Cavanaugh was renominated for Secretary of State in 1876; he was beaten in the Republican convention of 1878 by James Smith, who was elected in 1878, 1880 and in 1882, and was succeeded by Dr. E. B. Allen, of Sedgwick county, who was elected in 1884. and again in 1886.
Mr. Smith is the private secretary of Governor Martin.
M. J. Salter, reelected Lieutenant Governor in 1876; resigned in 1877, and Lyman U. Humphrey was chosen in November, 1877, and for a full term in 1878. He was succeeded by D. W. Finney, who was elected in 1880 and in 1882, and his successor is A. P. Riddle, elected in 1884, and the present incumbent, having been reelected in 1886.
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Albert HI. Horton, appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in January. 1877, by Governor Osborn, was elected, in 1877, for the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Judge Kingman, and for full terms in 1878 and 1884. He was defeated in 1879, as an anti-Ingalls candidate for the United States Senate. In 1876, Thomas Ryan de- feated. in convention. Congressman W. R. Brown, and beat Samuel J. Crawford-now claim agent for Kansas at Washington-at the polls. Mr. Ryan was again elected for the Third District in 1878, 1880 and in 1882, and in 1884 was elected from the new Fourth Dis- trict, which again returned him in 1886.
Dudley C. Haskell beat John R. Goodin at the polls in 1877, and he was elected for the Second District thereafter in 1878, 1880 and in 1882, and died at Washington in December, 1883, and was succeeded by Edward II. Funston, in March, 1884, who was again elected in November, 1884, and at the last election, in 1886.
In 1878, Governor Geo. T. Anthony was beaten in the convention by John P. St. John-Jolm A. Martin primarily having been first, Governor Anthony second, and Governor St. John third in the race. Governor St. John was reelected in 1880, and in 1882 was beaten at the polls by George W. Glick, who was beaten at the polls in 1884 by John A. Martin, the present Chief Executive of the State, reelected in 1886.
In 1882, Edmund N. Morrill, Bishop W. Perkins, Lewis Hanback and Samuel R. Peters were elected Members of Congress at Large, but in 1884 Congressman Morrill was elected from the First District, Perkins from the Third, Hanback from the Sixth and Peters from the Seventh District. These gentlemen were all reelected in 1886 excepting Lewis Hanback, who was defeated in the convention by E. J. Turner.
In glancing over the results of thirteen elections that have occurred in Kansas that relate to her statehood, a summary of the instances in which public men have been continued in positions is narrated. as follows: John J. Ingalls has, with his present senatorial term. filled out eighteen years of service: Preston B. Plumb, twelve years: Samuel C. Pomeroy had twelve years of senatorial service: Congress- man Ryan is now provided for twelve years' service, not to mention the approaching years of important service yet in store for this valued Representative; Anderson for eight; Haskell had entered upon an eight years' congressional service; Phillips had six years.
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Judge Valentine has twenty-four years of service when his present term ends; Judges Kingman and Brewer had each fourteen years, and JJudge Horton is provided with the same.
Secretary of State Smith had a six years' service in that office, and has been Governor Martin's private secretary since.
Auditor Bonebrake had over six years' service in the office of Auditor, and Treasurer Francis had nearly eight years' service in the office of Treasurer.
GOVERNORS.
CHARLES ROBINSON 1859 to 1863.
THOMAS CARNEY . 1863 to 1865.
SAMUEL J. CRAWFORD. 1865 to 1869.
N. GREEN, 1869, three months, to fill vacancy.
JAMES M. HARVEY 1869 to 1873.
THOMAS A. OSBORN
1873 to 1877.
GEORGE T. ANTHONY
JOHN P. ST. JOHN 1877 to 1879.
1879 to 1883.
GEORGE W. GLICK 1883 to 1885.
JOHN A. MARTIN 1885 to 1887.
At the general election November, 1886, HIon. John A. Martin was reelected and is now serving a second term.
EXECUTIVE AND DEPARTMENT OFFICERS.
GOVERNOR-John A. Martin, Atchison: salary, $3,000.
GOVERNOR'S PRIVATE SECRETARY -James Smith.
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR - A. P. Riddle, Girard; salary. $6.00 per day during all sessions of the Legislature.
SECRETARY OF STATE-E. B. Allen. Wichita: salary, $2,000 and fees. ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE-W. T. Cavanaugh.
STATE TREASURER-J. W. Hamilton. Wellington: salary, $2,500.
ASSISTANT STATE TREASURER - R. R. Moore.
STATE AUDITOR -Tim. McCarthy. Larned; salary, $2,000.
ASSISTANT STATE AUDITOR-S. S. McFadden.
SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION-J. H. Lawhead, Fort Scott; salary, $2,000.
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ATTORNEY GENERAL-S. B. Bradford, Carbondale: salary, $1,500. ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL - E. A. Austin.
STATE PRINTER -C. C. Baker, Topeka: legal rates.
STATE LIBRARIAN - HI. J. Dennis, Topeka; salary, $1,500.
ADJUTANT GENERAL-A. B. Campbell, Topeka; salary, $2,000.
SUPERINTENDENT OF INSURANCE-D. W. Wilder, Hiawatha; salary, $2,500.
ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT OF INSURANCE-R. HI. C. Scarle.
SECRETARY STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE-Win. Sims, Topeka; salary, $2,000.
SECRETARY STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY-F. G. Adams, Topeka; salary, $2,000.
SECRETARY STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY-G. C. Brackett, Lawrence. SECRETARY ACADEMY OF SCIENCE-E. A. Popenoe, Manhattan.
VETERINARY SURGEON -A. A. Holcombe, Topeka.
FISH COMMISSIONER -S. Fce, Wamego.
MINE INSPECTOR - George W. Findlay, Topeka.
COMMISSIONER OF LABOR STATISTICS - Frank H. Betton, Wyandotte. COMMISSIONER OF FORESTRY-Silas C. Robb, Wa-Keeney.
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL: Governor, Secretary of State, State Auditor,
State Treasurer, Attorney General, Superintendent of Public In- struction.
SCHOOL FUND COMMISSIONERS: Secretary of State, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Attorney General.
STATE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION: Secretary of State, State Auditor and State Treasurer.
STATE BOARD OF CANVASSERS: Governor, Secretary of State, State Auditor, State Treasurer and Attorney General.
FISCAL AGENCY: Fiscal Agency for the State of Kansas in the city of New York, First National Bank.
AGENT FOR THE SALE OF KANSAS STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE LANDS: Jolm B. Gifford: residence, Manhattan, Kansas.
STATE LAND OFFICE: T. McCarthy, State Auditor, cr-officio Register. SINKING FUND COMMISSIONERS : Governor, Secretary of State and Auditor of State.
BOARD OF RAILROAD ASSESSORS: Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Treasurer of State, Auditor of State and Attorney General.
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JUDICIARY.
SUPREME COURT.
CHIEF JUSTICE- Albert H. Horton, Topeka; salary, $3,000.
ASSOCIATE JUSTICE- D. M. Valentine, Topeka: salary, $3,000.
ASSOCIATE JUSTICE-W. A. Johnston, Minneapolis; salary, $3.000. COMMISSIONER -Benj. F. Simpson, Topeka; salary, $3,000.
COMMISSIONER -Joel Holt, Beloit; salary, $3,000.
COMMISSIONER -J. B. Clogston, Eureka; salary, $3,000.
CLERK -C. J. Brown, Topeka.
REPORTER -A. M. F. Randolph, Burlington.
DELEGATION IN CONGRESS.
Senators are elected at large for a term of six years, by joint ballot of the Legislature. The first ballot is taken by both houses on the second Tuesday after the convening of the Legislature, and the joint ballots are taken on every successive day until an election is made.
Congressmen are elected for a term of two years, by direct vote of the people in their respective Congressional Districts.
SENATORS.
John J. Ingalls, Atchison, term expires 1891; salary, $6,000. Preston B. Plumb, Emporia, term expires 1889; salary, $6,000.
CONGRESSMEN.
District No. 1-E. N. Morrill, Hiawatha, Brown county: salary, $5,000.
District No. 2-E. H. Funston, Carlyle, Allen county: salary, $5,000. District No. 3-Thomas Ryan. Topeka, Shawnee county; salary. $5,000. District No. 4-B. W. Perkins, Oswego, Labette county. salary, $5,000.
District No. 5-John A. Anderson, Manhattan, Riley county; salary, $5,000.
District No. 6-E. J. Turner, Hoxie, Sheridan county; salary, $5,000. District No. 7-Sam'l R. Peters, Newton, Harvey county; salary, $5,000.
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STATE INSTITUTIONS AND COMMISSIONS.
University of Kansas, Lawrence. Board of Regents: A. G. Otis, Atchison: Chas. S. Gleed, . Topeka: C. R. Mitchell, Gouda Springs: Frank A. Fitzpatrick, Leavenworth; C. W. Smith, Stockton: M. P. Simpson, McPherson.
Kansas State Agricultural College, Manhattan. Board of Regents: Geo. T. Fairchild, president and exofficio secretary, Man- hattan: A. P. Forsythe, Liberty: Allen B. Lennon. Newton; T. P. Moore, Holton: Thomas Henshall, Troy; E. N. Smith, Eldorado; John E. HTessin, Manhattan.
State Normal School, Emporia. Board of Regents: William M. Rice, Fort Scott; Milton Stewart, Wichita: E. W. Warner, Kirwin: J. II. Franklin, Russell; H. D. Dickson, Neosho Falls; W. II. Cald- well, Beloit: A. R. Taylor, A. M., president of school.
Penitentiary, Leavenworth. John HI. Smith, warden, Colum- bus: Endsley Jones, clerk, Lawrence. Directors: H. E. Richter, Council Grove; O. S. Hiatt, Leavenworth: Arch. Shaw, Olathe.
State Board of Agriculture. Officers: President, Joshua Wheeler, Nortonville; vice president, J. W. Johnson, Hamilton: secretary, Wm. Sims, Topeka; treasurer, John Francis, Topeka.
State Claim Agent for Kansas at Washington, D. C. Samuel J. Crawford, Topeka.
State Board of Pardons. John C. Caldwell, Topeka; R. B. Stephenson, Paola; A. J. Felt, Seneca.
State Board of Health. Charles H. Guibor, Beloit; D. Surber, Perry: J. W. Jenney, Salina; J. Milton Welch, LaCygne; J. II. T. Johnson, Atchison; D. W. Stormont, Topeka; H. S. Roberts, Man- hattan: W. S. Schenck, Osage City; T. F. Lewis. Howard.
Trustees State Charitable Institutions. A. T. Sharpe, Ottawa: Jacob Stotler, Emporia; Chas. E. Faulkner, Salina; W. S. Crump, Clyde: L. K. Kirk, Garnett.
State Board of Pharmacy. James I. Taylor, Atchison; George B. Crandall, Jewell City; R. F. Bryant, Lincoln; C. J. Burton, Fredonia; -, Wyandotte.
State Board of Dentistry. L. C. Wasson, Ottawa; A. M. Cal- laham, Topeka: W. M. Shirley, Hiawatha; J. Young, Emporia. -14
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Railroad Commissioners. James Humphrey, Junction City; Almerin Gillett, Emporia: A. R. Greene, Cedarvale.
State House Commissioners. N. A. Adams, Manhattan; II. II. Williams, Osawatomie: Alexander Love, Lawrence: architect, Ken- neth McDonald.
Live Stock Sanitary Commission. Harrison Kelly, Ottumwa: John P. White, Ada: Chas. Collins, Hutchinson.
Silk Commissioners. Chas. Williamson, Washington; J. S. Codding, Westmoreland: J. II. Morse, Peabody.
Commission to Locate and Erect State Industrial Reform- atory. John Severance, Axtell: J. E. Bonebrake, Abilene: Ed. R. Smith, Mound City.
STATE CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS.
State Insane Asylum, Osawatomie: superintendent, A. H. Knapp.
Topeka Insane Asylum, Topeka: superintendent, B. D. East- man.
Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb, Olathe; superintendent, S. A. Walker.
Institution for the Education of the Blind, Wyandotte; su- perintendent, George H. Miller. -
Reform School, Topeka; superintendent, J. F. Buck.
Kansas State Asylum for Idiotic and Imbecile Youth, Win- field; superintendent, H. M. Greene.
Soldiers' Orphans' Home, Atchison; superintendent, John Pierson.
State Industrial Reformatory, Hutchinson; (unfinished.)
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CONTINENTAL CONGRESS.
First Continental Congress formed while the thirteen colonies were yet under British dominion, exerted no political influence and had no part in the government of the United States, for it dissolved before the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It met in Carpenter's Hall, Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 5th, 1774, and adjourned October 26th, the same year.
Second Congress assembled at the Pennsylvania State House, Philadelphia, May 19, 1775, and on July 4, 1776, adopted the Decla- ration of Independence.
Third Congress was held at Baltimore, Md., beginning December 20th, 1776.
Fourth Congress opened at Philadelphia, Pa., Marth 4th, 1777.
Fifth Congress began its session at Lancaster, Pa., September 27th, 1777.
Sixth Congress met at York, Pa., September 30th, 1777.
Seventh Congress gathered at Philadelphia, July 2d, 1878.
Eighth Congress was held at Princeton, N. J., July 30th, 1783.
Ninth Congress opened at Annapolis, Md., November 26th, 1783, and here, December 23d, 1783, Washington resigned his office of Commander-in-Chief of the army.
Tenth Congress began at Trenton, N. J., November 1st, 1784.
Eleventh Congress assembled at the City Hall in New York, January 11th, 1785, where the new government was organized, and Washington, the first President. was inaugurated in 1789. The Federal capital remained in New York until 1790.
Congress met again at Philadelphia, December 6th, 1790, and the seat of government remained here until 1800, at which time the Federal capital was permanently established at Washington, D. C. Congress first assembled in that city November 17th, 1800.
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DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
[ Unanimously Passed by the Congress of the Thirteen United States of America, July 4, 1776.]
(1) WHEN, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separa- tion.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal: they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights: that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed: and that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to insti- tute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly, all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are acenstomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations. pur- suing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future scenrity. Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies, and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present king of Great
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Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having, in direct object, the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
HIe has refused his assent to laws the most wholesome and neces- essary for the public good.
ITe has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other laws for the accom- modation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature,-a right inestimable to them, and formidable to tyrants only.
IIe has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncom- fortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
IIe has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
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