influence being used against him and for Peter A. Dey one of the Democratic candidates. The Republicans elected ten of the eleven Representatives in Congress. In the Second District the Democratic candidate, Walter I. Hayes, was chosen over P. W. McManus, Republican.
The total receipts of the State Treasurer for the biennial period ending June 30th, 1889, were $3,292,665.19. The total equalized assessment of the property of the State for the year 1889 was $522,567,000. The total amount paid out for school purposes that year was $6,848,128. There were 8,298 miles of railroad in the State, the assessed value of which was $43,271,008 and the net earnings amounted to $9,515,957.71. The farm products for the past year were estimated to be worth $365,179,917.
The Republican State Convention met in Des Moines on the 14th of August, 1889, and nominated J. C. Hutchison for Governor, A. N. Poyneer for Lieutenant-Governor, Josiah Given for Judge of Supreme Court, Henry Sabin for Superintendent of Public Instruction and Spencer Smith for Railroad Commissioner. The platform affirmed the principles and policy of State railway regulation and declared in favor of absolute prevention, by Congress, of rebates and discriminations. The fifth resolution declared:
“That we reaffirm the past utterances of the Republican party of Iowa upon prohibition which has become the settled policy of the State and upon which there should be no backward step.”
The eighth resolution declared in favor of courts of arbitration for the settlement of labor difficulties.
The Democratic State Convention met at Sioux City on the 18th of September and nominated Horace Boies for Governor, S. L. Bestow for Lieutenant-Governor, W. F. Brannan for Judge of Supreme Court, T. M. Irish for Superintendent of Public Instruction and David Morgan for Railway Commissioner. The resolutions declared in
