MISSOURI. 



MOHAMMEDANISM. 



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sities of the State, together with the most exacting ac- 

 countability on the part of those intrusted with the 

 custody and disbursement of the public revenue. 



6. That we recommend the reduction of the rate of 

 interest on the State debt so soon as it can honorably 

 and legally be done. 



7. That this Convention, speaking for the people of 

 Missouri, bear cheerful testimony to the eminent pub- 

 lic services of John S. Phelps, Chief Magistrate of this 

 State; that by his matured statesmanship, wise and 

 efficient administration of our laws, full protection to 

 life, liberty, and property has been guaranteed to eve- 

 ry citizen of our State. 



The Republican State Convention met in St. 

 Louis, September 15th, and made the following 

 nominations : For Governor, D. P. Dyer ; Lieu- 

 tenant- Governor, Milo Blair; Secretary of 

 State, J. 0. Broad well ; Auditor, L. A. Thomp- 

 son ; Treasurer, W. Q. Dollmeyer ; Supreme 

 Court Judge, J. V. C. Carnes; Railroad Com- 

 missioner, Howard Barnes. The platform con- 

 tained the following resolutions relating to 

 State affairs : 



We arraign the Democracy of Missouri for their 

 infamous legislation during their administration of 

 the affairs ot state their cotton bill, which strikes at 

 and means to prevent the further introduction of capi- 

 tal into our State, and which is in effect open repudia- 

 tion. 



We arraign them for their unjust and unauthorized 

 construction of the revenue laws, whereby our farmers 

 are for the first time doubly taxed ; first on their grow- 

 ing crops, and again on their crops after they are 

 harvested. 



We arraign them for their laws concerning the col- 

 lection of taxes, whereby a large per cent, of those as- 

 sessed are not collected, and another large per cent, of 

 those collected never reach the Treasury. 



We arraign them for the crime of aiding and abet- 

 ting the robbery of the State Treasury, and their 

 refusal to brinor the defaulting State Treasurer to trial 

 alter they had impeached him for high crimes and 

 misdemeanors. 



We arraign them for their policy which has pre- 

 vented immigration into the State, and the introduc- 

 tion of capital and the growth and development of in- 

 dustries. 



We arraign them for their unjust and infamous re- 

 distributing law, whereby for the purpose of disfran- 

 chising 175,000 Kepublican voters they made some 

 districts to contain but 20,000 voters, and others with 

 over 50,000 ; some two miles long and thirty wide, 

 and one to cross the Missouri Kiver three times, and 

 none compact but all Democratic. 



We arraign them for their abject and servile sub- 

 mission to the dictates of the Confederate wing of their 

 party, recognizing in their conventions no other qual- 

 ification for their nominees but their devotion to the 

 lost cause, except when the party outside the State 

 warned them that such course would be impolitic. 



We arraign them for squandering the school funds 

 of the State, and their spirit of opposition to the public 

 schools. 



We arraign them for their failure to prosecute the 

 notorious criminals of the State, and for permitting a 

 Kepublican State to perform that duty. 



We arraign them for their misappropriation of the 

 sinking fund, and their neglect to provide for the 

 payment of the State debt as required by the Consti- 

 tution. 



We arraign them for their effort to levy a poll-tax, 

 and make the payment of such tax the basis of the 

 right of suffrage. 



The election returns show the following vote 

 for Governor: Crittenden, 207,670; Dyer, 

 153,636; Brown, 36,342. Crittenden's plu- 



rality over Dyer, 54,034; his majority over 

 all, 17,692. The composition of the Legisla- 

 ture of 1881 is as follows : Democratic Senators, 

 26 ; Republican, 6 ; Greenback, 2 ; Democratic 

 Representatives, 97 ; Republican, 43 ; Green- 

 back, 3. 



The vote for President gave 153,587 to the 

 Garfield electors, 208,609 to the Hancock elec- 

 tors, and 35,045 to the Weaver electors ; total, 

 397,241 votes, against 351,765 in 1876. The 

 Greenback vote was larger than in any other 

 State, Michigan casting nearly as many votes 

 for the third party, and Iowa the next nearest 

 number. 



MOHAMMEDANISM. The number of Mo- 

 hammedans is known but very imperfectly, 

 because, in most of the countries in which Mo- 

 hammedanism prevails, no trustworthy census 

 has as yet been taken. It may, however, be 

 regarded as highly probable that it can not fall 

 short of 230,000,000. The latest estimates of 

 the Mohammedan population of the states of 

 the Balkan Peninsula given by Mr. Jakshilch, a 

 distinguished statistician of Servia, vary some- 

 what from those given in former volumes of 

 the " Annual Cyclopaedia. 1 ' The following is 

 an approximate statement of the statistics of 

 Mohammedanism at the close of 1880: 



I. In Europe : 



Turkey proper 1,883,000 



Bulgaria 760.000 



Eastern Konmelia 359,000 



Bosnia and Herzegovina (inclusive of Novibazar) 510,000 



Roumania 120,000 



Servia '. 75,000 



Montenegro 4,000 



Eussia 2,365,000 



Total Europe 6,076,000 



II. In Asia: 



Russia 5,064.000 



Turkey 13,000,000 



Persia 6,900,000 



Arabia 3,700.000 



India 50,000,000 



China 5,000,000 



Afghanistan and Beloochistan 4,630,000 



States of Central Asia 3,000,000 



Indian Archipelago 23,000.000 



Anam 50,000 



Total Asia 114,244.000 



III. In Africa 110,000,000 



Grand total. 



231,220,000 



The decay of the Mohammedan states con- 

 tinues to advance without interruption. The 

 most powerful among them, Turkey, was again 

 obliged to cede territory to Montenegro, and 

 will hardly escape, in the course of 1881, the 

 cession of a considerable portion of its southern 

 provinces in Europe to Greece. The Mohamme- 

 dan population of Roumania, Eastern Rou- 

 melia, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Servia, Montenegro, 

 Russia, the Netherlands, and the British pos- 

 sessions, lives under Christian Governments, 

 without any prospect of ever gaining their 

 independence. Of the 121,000,000 Mohamme- 

 dans of Europe and Asia, 4,000,000 are now 

 subjects of Christian Governments, and this 

 number is likely to increase steadily. In Africa, 

 Tunis is threatened with destruction by both 

 France and Italy; and Morocco received, in 



