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the useless and extravagant issuance of bonds by 

 cities, towns, and counties in Mils State. 



We favor an amendment to our State Constitution 

 Unit \\ill permit the legislature to provide for the 

 indigent ex-Confederate soldiers resident In our 

 Staii-, that were disabled in tin- military service of 

 tin- ( 'onfederate States, in any manner that may be 

 deemed best. 



We demand the constitutional provision requiring 

 the public free school to be maintained and sup- 

 ported for a period of not less than six months each 

 year, shall be fully and faithfully carried out, and 

 the university, its branches, and other public educa- 

 tional institutions be properly endowed and main- 

 tained. 



The nominees of the Clark convention were 

 George Clark for Governor, C. M. Rogers for 

 Lieutenant-Governor, Thomas J. Goree for 

 Treasurer, C. B. Gillespie for Comptroller, E. A. 

 McDowell for Attorney-General, Jacob Bickler 

 for Superintendent of Public Instruction, W. C. 

 Walsh for Land Commissioner, and W. D. Wood 

 and R. H. Phelps for Judges of the Court of 

 Criminal Appeals. The name of Ethan Allen 

 was later substituted for that of C. B. Gillespie, 

 who declined the nomination. The platform 

 adopted includes the following resolutions : 



We favor the election of all officers by the people 

 themselves. 



We favor the continuance of the present method 

 of railway regulation. 



We condemn all forms of communism and State 

 socialism, and view with alarm the existing war 

 upon the rights of property. 



We condemn all secret oath-bound political organ- 

 izations as un-American and undemocratic, contrary 

 to the genius of our institutions, and destructive of 

 the liberties of the people. 



We oppose what is commonly called the Jester 

 amendment and the law enacted thereunder, because 

 the effect of the same will be to ultimately squander 

 the permanent school fund. 



We oppose the investments of the school fund in 

 railroad securities. We oppose perpetuities and 

 monopolies, and we oppose the acquisition of lands 

 by corporations except such as maybe necessary to 

 enable them to carry on business for which they are 

 created. 



We arraign the administration of Governor Hogg 

 because it has driven and is keeping capital from 

 the State, because his administration has been 

 undemocratic and despotic. 



On Sept. 14 another Republican State con- 

 vention was held at Port Worth, representing 

 the regular party organization as opposed to the 

 white Republican movement. This convention 

 decided to adopt the nomination of Judge Clark 

 lor Governor, out made no nomination for other 

 places on the State ticket, or for Presidential 

 electors. The platform demands a State univer- 

 sity for the colored people, the employment of 

 penitentiary convicts on the public roads, and 

 protection to every citizen in voting. It con- 

 demns the administration of Gov. Hogg for the 

 following, among other, reasons : 



It has discouraged immigration, thereby retarding 

 agricultural development,"thus robbing the farmer 

 by decreasing values, and the State by restraining 

 production. 



It has prevented the organization and upbuild- 

 ing of new industries that would have employed 

 large capital, given profitable employment to mam 

 laborers, and increased the values of farm prod- 

 ucts. 



Its ignorance of the Constitution as evidenced by 

 the approval and attempted enforcement of the alien 

 land law, the usury law, the railway commission 

 law, and other laws, has been a just cause of com- 

 plaint and imposed vexatious burdens alike on the 

 people and the courts. 



It, for selfish purposes, deprived the public treas- 

 ury of large moneys that should have been placed 

 there to the credit of the State, In refusing to accept 

 the bounty on sugar due Texas from the federal 

 government. 



For a selfish if not corrupt purpose it has invaded 

 and begun to destroy the common heritage of the 

 children of Texas, the sacred school fund, bequeath- 

 ed in trust to them by their forefathers. 



At the November election the Democratic elec- 

 toral ticket received its usual large majority, the 

 vote being as follows : Democratic, 239,148 ; 

 Republican, 81,444 ; People's party, 99,638 ; Pro- 

 hibitionist, 2,165. For Governor, Hogg received 

 190,486 votes ; Clark, 133,395 ; Nugent. 108,483 ; 

 Houston, 1,322 ; and Prendergast, 1,605. All the 

 other candidates on the Hogg ticket were elected 

 by nearly the same vote as that cast for Governor. 

 Thirteen Democratic members of Congress were 

 chosen, and the following members of the State 

 Legislature for 1893 : Senate Democrats, 29 ; 

 People'sparty, 1 ; Independent, 1 : House Dem- 

 ocrats, 112 ; People's party, 8 ; Republicans, 

 1 ; politics unknown, 7. Of the 141 Democratic 

 members of the two Houses, 97 are classed as 

 adherents of Gov. Hogg. 



Judicial Election. On Aug. 2 Democratic 

 conventions were held in each of the three judi- 

 cial districts created this year by the Legislature, 

 and the following candidates for judges of the 

 new Courts of Civil Appeals were nominated : 1st 

 district at Houston, Presiding Judge, C. C. Gar- 

 rett, Judges Frank A. Williams and Henry C. 

 Pleasants ; 2d district at Austin, Presiding Judge, 

 H. C. Fisher, Judges William Key and W. E. 

 Collard ; 3d district at Dallas, Presiding Judge, 



D. B. Tarlton, Judges H. O. Head and I. W. 

 Stephens. In each of these districts there was 

 an opposition ticket in the field, but the above- 

 named candidates were elected in November by 

 considerable majorities. 



Special Election. On June 14 a special elec- 

 tion was held in the 9th congressional district, 

 for the purpose of choosing a successor to Hon. 

 Roger Q. Mills, elected United States Senator. 



E. L. Antony, the Democratic nominee, was suc- 

 cessful. 



TURKEY, an empire in southeastern Europe 

 and western Asia. The fundamental laws of 

 the Empire are based on the Koran. A Con- 

 stitution adopted Dec. 23, 1876, was never en- 

 forced, and no meeting of the Assembly created 

 by it has been held since 1877. The Sultan 

 is the supreme ruler and is represented as such 

 for the affairs of the State by the Sadr-azam or 

 Grand Vizier, and for the ecclesiastical affairs 

 by the Shelk-ul-Islam. The succession to the 

 throne is to the eldest of the princes of the 

 house of Osman. The reigning Sultan is Abdul 

 Hamid II., born Sept. 22. 1842, who succeeded 

 his elder brother, Sultan Murad V.. on Aug. 81, 

 1876, the latter being deposed on the ground of 

 insanity. The Shelk-ul-Islam in the beginning 

 of 1892 was Djomalledin Effendi, appointed in 

 September, 1891, and the Grand Vizier, appointed 

 at the same time, was Gen. Djevad Pasha. In 



