A history of Missouri and Missourians; a text book for "class A" elementary grade, freshman high school, and junior high school .. . a native of Kentucky. Duringthe war he had fought for theUnion, and after the war, likeBlair and Phelps, he had become astrong Democrat. Under his ad-ministration Missouri enjoyed greatprosperity. The thrift and savingof the people during the hardtimes of the seventies now beganto bear fruit. Fortunately theState government, instead of usingthis prosperity to incur debt, pro-ceeded to reduce the old building increased, bringing capital to Missouri,w
A history of Missouri and Missourians; a text book for "class A" elementary grade, freshman high school, and junior high school .. . a native of Kentucky. Duringthe war he had fought for theUnion, and after the war, likeBlair and Phelps, he had become astrong Democrat. Under his ad-ministration Missouri enjoyed greatprosperity. The thrift and savingof the people during the hardtimes of the seventies now beganto bear fruit. Fortunately theState government, instead of usingthis prosperity to incur debt, pro-ceeded to reduce the old building increased, bringing capital to Missouri,work for her people, and better transportation for country and city. The State created abureau of mines and mine inspec-tion in 1881 which indicates thatMissouri was rapidly advancing inthe mining industry. In the 1884 election the Demo-crats for the last time had a CivilWar veteran as iheir candidate forgovernor, John S. Marmaduke,son of Governor M. M. Marma-duke. But this time the can-didate and the majority of officers were ex-Confeder-ates, while Governor Phelps wasJOHN s. MARMADUKE an cx-Union man and so were the. I^o History of Missouri and Missourians majority of the State officers. Governor Marmaduke waselected by only 11,000 plurality, and his majority was lessthan a thousand. It is significant that the Democrat voteshowed an increase of only 5% over 1880 while the Republi-can vote increased 35%. The third party in this election wasthe Prohibition party but its vote was small. However, theeffect of prohibition sentiment was seen in the Legislaturewhen it passed a local option law in 1887 under which alarge part of Missouri eventually went dry. Governor Marmaduke was a native of Missouri, havingbeen born in Saline county. He had received a fine educa-tion and was a man of business ability. Before his electionhe had lived in St. Louis. He died while in office in 1887 and Lieutenant Governor Albert , of Nodaway county,served the remainder of the term.
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