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 license law. They also proposed a non-partisan Board of Control for the government of the State institutions.

A Convention of the People’s party was held at Des Moines on the 11th of August at which the following nominations were made: Secretary of State, E. H. Gillette; Auditor, A. J. Blakeley; Treasurer, Justin Wells; Attorney-General, C. McKenzie; Railway Commissioner, J. H. Barnett. The resolutions indorsed the policy on State and National issues as declared in former conventions.

The Convention of the Prohibition party was held at Des Moines on the 17th of June at which the following ticket was placed in nomination: Secretary of State, S. H. Taft; Auditor, F. E. Whitmore; Treasurer, R. M. Dihel; Attorney-General, William Orr; Railway Commissioner, Malcom Smith. The resolutions reiterated former declarations of the party.

The National Conventions of the various parties made the following nominations: Republicans, Benjamin Harrison, for reëlection, and Whitelaw Reid for Vice-President. The Democrats for the third time nominated Grover Cleveland for President and Adlai Stevenson for Vice-President. The People’s party nominated Gen. James B. Weaver of Iowa for President and J. G. Field, Vice-President; the Prohibitionists nominated John Bidwell for President and J. B. Cranfill, Vice-President.

The result of the election in Iowa was as follows:

Plurality for Harrison, 23,428.

The average plurality for the Republican candidates for State officers was about the same as that for Harrison, all being elected.

Governor Boies was a candidate for President before