Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-08-12
NUMBER 1856.
TEXAS.
THE POLITICAL SITUATION THERE.

/ ihh roLiliCAL SITUATION THERE,
The following memoranda have been pre-
pared for us by one of the most active and
uncompromising Republicans of Texas, as
presenting the history of the two tickets now
In the field, there, and giving true view Of
the present situation. We are led to hope
that the plan of dividing the Republican
party, so successfully carried out in Virginia
and Tennessee, may fail in Texas, as 1t also
promises to do in Mississippi
In the election for delegates 10 the Consti-
tutional Convention, which met in 1868, Ex-
Governor A. j. Hamilton was chosen del
ega,e by the citizens of Travis county, muck
to the qualification of the entire Republican
party of the State. Soon after the organiza-
tion OF the body, however, it became appar-
ent that bad influences were at work. 1t
soon transpired that dangerous Railroad
monopoly, Ohe Texas Central Railroad Com
pany,) had been virtually released from its
obligation to the State for three quarters of
million of dollars, gold, belonging to the
school fund, and that the measure was car
ried through by the influence and energy Of
Gov. Hamilton. This blow staggered the
Republican party, and produced in it Sc
rious disintegration, for long time, as Gov
ernor Hamilton was deemed the embodiment
of the cause of reconstruction. From that
day until the Inauguration of Grant, the
Jealous men of the State, under the advice
of the party leaders, of the nation, have been
gathering up the fragments, and welding
them together. About the time the Con-
vention adjourned, after having Teorganized
under the leadership of its President, Gen.
Z. }. Davis, and formed a Constitution,
secret conclaye met at Austin, the State Cap
ital, consisting of Ex-Governor Hamilton,
Ex-Gov. Throckmorton, Confederate Judge
James Ii. Bell, and several others, resulting
in determination on the part of the Rebels
to put no ticket in the field organize a ''Dem-
ocratic' ticket with Hamilton at its head, send
that gentleman to the United States Senate,
and once again seize the State Government,
and practically re-enslave the negroes under
the Infamous Texas apprentice laws of 1866.
The Republicans, through the Union
League, during this time, reorganized the
party machinery, elected delegates to Re-
publican convention, and would have reor-
ganized in March last, but at that time, Gov
ernor Hamilton, then in Washington, tele-
N'-IAsN ~ LIS P"poi VIC LbtpUUtt-
can, that ''the President had issued procla-
:. nation ordering an i'm Mediate election"
This action by the President, would of course
make our cause hopeless, and work for the
time ceased. We soon discovered however,
that the telegram was made of whole cloth,
and once more proceeded to organize, COM
plotting our labors on the 1tl of June, at
which time very full convention of Repub-
llcan delegates nominated state ticket with
Gen. Davis at its head This ticket has been
officially recognized by the Grand Council
Of the Union League of America, and the
National Republican Executive Committee,
and materially aided by the Grand Army of
the Republic. The administration has re-
moved many Of the coalitionists even to
Hamilton's own son, and proposes to sus-
tain us even more fully
Many able men have declared in favor of
the Houston ticket, and advces teen with
hopeful accounts of accessons to our ranks
among the most prominent are Gen. w. T.
Clark, of Galveston, a Hamilton man few
weeks since, and Judge Lemuel d. Evans,
former member of Congress.