Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-18
WHITE REPUBLICANS.
To Reorganize the Party in Texas, to
Exclude the Negro In the Primary.
Letter from thu Provisional Secretary OF the
Republican Central Executive
Committee.
HEADQUARTERS OF THE CENTRAL
REPUBLICAN EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.


REPUBLICAN ExEcuEfvE COMMITTEE.
| To the Republicans Of Texas.
Fellow REPUBLICANS Our patience
Is exhausted and we cannot any longer
endure the shame, disgrace and humilia-
ton brought upon Republieauism In
Texas By the audaoity, arrogance, COR
ruption and treachery OF the negro lead
ers and their followers. They have
| taken forcible possession of our prlmar-
les and ruled our conventions with re-
lentless tyranny, they have driven many
of the best and most patriotic white Re-
publicans out of the party ranks, they
| have demoralized and disorganized the
| Republican party in our state, they have
| laughed deoency to scorn and branded
| patriotism with ignominy, they have
bartered their citizenship away in open
market and sold their votes TO the high
est bidder at every election. Republic
eanism in Texas has become a stigma
upon American citizenship. q reproach to
our civilization and curse TO our coun-
try.
Fellow Republicans, you, who ap-
preciating the grand and lofty principles
Of the Republican party, have shed your
blood upon many battlefield for the
| suppression of slavery upon American
soil and maintenance OF our union, and
you who have devoted the best years of
your life to the advocacy OF Republican,
Ism in the South, who honor intelligence
and love virtue, who value freedom and
rejoice in the duties of citizenship, can
you and will you submit any longer to
the political domination of the ignorant
negro In Texas aud bend your head in
shame and modification TO the dictates
of his corrupt and degraded leaders? Can
you and will you SO far forget your
sacred duty to yourselves, your children
aud your country as to sit by silently and
submissively and allow the ignorant and
degraded TO turn back the hands of our
civilization, TO Enaw with venomeus
tooth at the very heart of our liberty, TO
pollute the purity of American citizen
ship, neutralize your suffrage by
bartering away their own, and to destroy
every sentiment of pure and lofty
patriotism, which has created our re-
public and has given home to human
freedom?
Surely, there cannot be white Re-
publican in this broad land of ours who
may justly lay claim to responsibility
and self-esteem, and to true love for
his country and feilowmen and to liber-
ty and progress, who will not assert his
man hood and join us heart and soul In
the effort TO rescue Republicanism from
the negro domination in Texas and re-
store the Republican party in our state
to the dignity and universal recognition
to which 1t Is entitled by the merit of its
patriotic principlesi
Fellow Republicans, the time has come
to meet the terrible and gigantic evils of
negro domination in our state face to
face and to array in solid phalanx against
the arrogance, corruption and treRchery
OF the negro leaders. Let US not wait,
for two years hence and the presidential
campaign will be upon US, and render
our efforts vain and futile. No bloody
weapons shall be ours to combat the
growing evils, but intelligence and pa
triotism.
Let us reorganiZe the Republican party
in Texas on the basis that all Republican
primaries shall be conducted and partici-
pated by white Republicans alone and
exclusively; thus depriving the
negro leader of his power of
making denominations and Sc
Letting delegates, and of delivering the
suffrage of his followers to whomsoever
bids the most. 1t will wrest the manage
ment of our party from the hands Of the
base and degraded negro politician and
entrust it TO the hands of intelligent and
patriotic white Republicans who possess
the respect and esteem of their fellow
men, and whose influence will lend VIC
tory TO Republican principles.
We desire, however, TO emphatically
state that in excluding the coiored man
from the Republican primaries, we do
not intend to deprive him of his right of
suffrage or any other right Of citizenship
guaranteed him by the constitution of
the United States, but that 1t Is, on the
contrary, our wish, and 1t shall be our
effort, to protect the colored man in his
right, to guard him against the baneful
influence of his base and inscriptions
leaders, and to enable him to vote intel |
l;gently and conscientiously, and not to
have his vote sold for him by bis party
boss. as has been hitherto done at almost |
every election. The colored man pursu-
ing his ayocation in earning bis livelihood |
for himself and family, abstaining from |
political agitation and refraining from |
attempting TO assume the leadership over
white Republicans, while trying to be in |
formed upon the questions of the day, |
will gain more in prosperity, in intelli- |
gence, in morality, in true patriotism |
and in the esteem and good will of his |
fellow men, than he can possibly do I'M
der present circumstances.
Fellow Republicans, the Republican |
state convention which met at San An |
tonic on September 8, although contain
ing many intelligent and patriotic white |
Republicans among its delegates, was |
composed for the most part of negroes |
who, devoid Of intelligence and the |
virtues which should characterize free |
American citizen, came there solely, at |
the dictates of their arrogant and cor
rupt chiefs, to vote there at their lead
ers' behest, regardless of right and |
principle, and to help these leaders in |
their diabolical design OF gaining per-
sopal benefits at the expense of the Re-
publican party. The convention, there
fore, although sailing under the name of |
Repnblicanism. was nothing but ship
manned by political pirates, bent upon
an errand OF evil and mischief, and de-
serves the adherence and contempt of
every true Republican.
The time is ripe for action and true
is aroused throughout the
state. We have, therefore, in order to
EN- phasize the sincerity and earnestness
~ our undertaking nut out state ficket