TEXAS. 



TCI;KI-:Y. 





Vanderwort. of Nebraska, and fur Vice-I'iv-idt-nt 

 Frank Burkett, of Mississippi. 



Tin- People's party met in convention, Aii.ir. ">. in 

 Gal vest on. wit li about 1.000 delegates. The "middle- 

 of-the-road " -eiitiment was .stron.tr. but the conven- 

 tion seems not to have committed itself to any ac- 

 tion that would hamper plans for fusion that might 

 thereafter be made. The following ticket was named : 

 -lerome ('. Kearby : for Lieutenant 

 nor. II. s. P. Ashby; for Attorney-General, 

 W. M. Walton: for Comptroller, E. O. Meit/.en : 

 for Land Commissioner. S. ( '. Granbury: for Treas- 

 urer. S. <>. Dawes : for Superintendent of Educa- 

 tion. A. I>. Francisco; for Railroad Comn 

 W. \V. Nelms. Evan Jones. E. P. Alsbury : for Jus- 

 tice Supreme Court. T. J. M'Minn ; for Justice 

 Criminal Court. R. V. Bell. 



On State issues the resolutions said, in part : 

 We demand a change of administration in Texas, 

 for the reasons that during the twenty-three years 

 in which the Democratic party has had control of 

 this State it has squandered our magnificent public 

 domain in donations to corporations and sales at 

 nominal prices to syndicates and land grabbers, and 

 has thrown every impediment in the way of the actual 

 settler. It has multiplied officers, wasted the public 

 revenues, increased our State debts, and raised our 

 - to the point approaching confiscation. It has 

 increased the expenses of the State government from 

 $1,000.000 per annum to more than $4.000,000 per 

 annum. By its maladministration of the public- 

 school fund's it has in open violation of the Consti- 

 tution reduced our public free schools from six to 

 three months' session per annum, and at the same 

 time it has invaded our permanent school fund so 

 that the same will be ultimately extinguished, in- 

 stead of remaining as a perpetual benefit to pos- 

 terity, as designed by our fathers. 



Though needlessly multiplying courts, it has 

 failed to enforce the laws by refusing to repeal 

 senseless technicalities in our criminal procedure: 

 it has rendered necessary reversals of the judgments 

 of convictions against notorious criminals to such 

 an extent that our courts of final resort have been 

 subjected to gross abuse and the administration of 

 our laws has been brought into such contempt as to 

 incite mobs to deeds of violence to the shame and 

 disgrace of our State. 



\Ve denounce the present administration in this 

 State as being purely personal and dominated lu- 

 ring rule, as is evidenced by such acts as the payment 

 of extravagant and unnecessary fees to its henchmen 

 and its refusal to buy bonds except through favorite 

 brokers. This administration, like its prede* 

 claims the right of being its own successor, and, like 

 them, will claim the right to pass the office of Gov- 

 ernor to "the next in line." unless the citizens of 

 Texas show by their votes that the office of Gov- 

 ernor belongs to the people, and not to the official 

 family. A long lease of power tends to corruption 

 and is subversive of economy and efficient govern- 

 ment, and we believe that the best interests of Texas 

 demand a change of administration and an inspec- 

 tion of the books." 



W. M. Walton, candidate for Attorney-General, 

 withdrew from the ticket, and W. 0. Hutchison 

 was nominated in his stead. 



The Prohibitionists convened at Dallas, July 29. 

 chose presidential electors, ratified the proceedings 

 of the national convention, and named the follow- 

 ing State ticket : For Governor, Randolph Clark ; 

 Lieutenant Governor. Rev. H. Bradford : Attorney- 

 General. .lames B. Goff: Comptroller. W. T. Clay- 

 ton : Treasurer, Jerome W. Henderson ; Land Com- 

 missioner. W. Manning: Superintendent of Public 

 Instruction. Dr. R. C. Burleson. 

 The declaration of principles denounced the liquor 



traffic, favored Government control of 



lation of immigration, prohibit;- , j n 



futures and of using public moiie\ 



Is, and favored dir.-i-i \ ,,<, f,.|- ['[, 

 the initiative and referendum. 



The official returns of ti .1 the fol- 



lowin_ -an and Scwull. -j'.Mi.sii-j : |; : 



Watson. 79,572 ; McKinley, 107..VJO; Pain, 

 Levering, i . 



All tlie Democratic candidates !' 

 were elected. 



Of the 13 representative- in ( are 



Democrats except 1. who is a Republi 



The Legislature has a large majority of Demo- 

 crats in both hoi.- 



An amendment to the Constitution making tin- 

 requirement that aliens shall declare their inten- 

 tion to become citizens of the United Stai 

 six months before any election at which they may 

 offer to vote was submitted at this election, and 

 seems to have been carried, though the total li-_ 

 are not at hand. By the article sought to be amend- 

 ed aliens might declare their intention to bo 

 citizens up to the very hour they offered to vote 

 and became legal voters at that election. 



TURKEY, an empire in eastern Europe and 

 western Asia. The Sultan, who rules absolutely 

 under the moral limitations contained in the Mo- 

 hammedan sacred books, is the eldest prince of the 

 house of Osman. Abdul Hamid II, the thirty- 

 fourth sovereign of the line, born Sept. 21, 1*42. 

 succeeded his brother Murad V. who was deposed 

 on the ground of lunacy on Aug. 31, 1876. The 

 Sultan is recognized as Khalif. or spiritual head of 

 Islam, not only within the bounds of the Ottoman 

 Empire, but by most of the Sunnite Mohammedans 

 everywhere, being guided in his ecclesiastical policy 

 by the Sheikh-ul-Islam and the Ulema. a body of 

 eminent doctors of the law. In temporal matters 

 the Sadrazzam, or Grand Vizier, is the chief execu- 

 tive officer under the Sultan. These two functiona- 

 ries, together with ministers of departments, form 

 the Privy Council or Cabinet of the Sultan, which 

 was composed in the beginning of 1896 as follows: 

 Grand Vizier. Halil Rifat Pasha : Sheikh-ul-Islam. 

 Mehmed Djemal Eddin Pasha : Minister of War. 

 Riza Pasha : Minister of Justice and Ecclesiastical 

 Affairs. Abdurrahman Pasha : Minister of Marine, 

 Hassan Pasha : Minister of Foreign Affairs. Tevfik 

 Effendi: Minister of the Interior, Mahmud Jella- 

 leddin Pasha : Minister without portfolio. Aarifi 

 Pasha: Grand Master of Artillery. Zeki Pasha: 

 Minister of Finance. Sabri Bey: Intendant of 

 Evkafs, Galib Pasha : Minister of Public Instruc- 

 tion.'Zuhdi Pasha ; Minister of Commerce and Pub- 

 lie Works. Mahmoud Pasha ; President of the Coun- 

 cil of State. Said Pasha. 



Area and Population. The area of the imme- 

 diate possessions of Turkey and their population 

 according to the still incomplete census of 1885 are 

 shown in the following table : 



The following territories are nominally subject to 

 Turkey, but are now under autonomous or foreign 

 administration: Bosnia. Herzegovina, and Xovi Ba- 

 zar, occupied and administered by Austria-Hun- 

 gary ; Bulgaria and the autonomous province of 



