Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-16
WHITE REPUBLICANS.
To Reorganize the Party in Texas. to
Exclude the Negro in the Primary.
Letter from the Provisional Secretary OF thu
Republican Central Executive
Committee.
HEADQUARTERS OF THE CENTRAL
REPUBLICAN EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. (


endure the shame, disgrace and humilia-
ton brought upon Republicanism in
Texas by the audacity, arrogance, cor
ruption and treachery of the negro lead
taken forcible possession of our prImar-
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 decency to scorn and branded
patriotism with ignominv, they have
bartered their citizenship away in open
market and sold their votes to the high
est bidder at every election. Republic
canism in Texas has become stigma
upon American citizenship. q reproach to
our civilization and curse to our coun-
try.
Fellow Republicans, you, who ap-
precating the grand and lofty principles
of the Repub lican 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 and 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
To
and your country as to sit by silently and
submissvely and allow the ignorant and
degraded to turn back the hands of our
civilization, to gnaw with venomous
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 q home to human
freedom?
Surely, there cannot be a white Re-
publican in this broad land of ours who
may justly lay claim to responsibility
and self-esteem, and to a true love for
his country and fellowmen and to liber-
tv and progress, who will not assert his
manhood 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 principles!
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 treachery
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
lecting delegates, and of delivering the
suffrage of his followers to whomsoever
bids the most. It 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, 10 emphatically
state that in excluding the colored 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 it Is, on the
contrary, our wish, and it shall be our
effort, to protect the colored man in his
right, to guard him against the baneful
influence of his base and interruptions
leaders, and TO enable him to vote INTEL
ligentlY and conscientiously, and not to
have his vote sold for him by his party
boss, as has been hitherto done at almost
every election. The colored man pursu-
ing his avocation in earning bis livelihood
for himself and family, abstainiug 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 IN
der present circumstances.
state convention which met at San An |
tonic on September 3, 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 diabolicsl design of gaining per-
sopal benefits at the expense of the Re- |
publican party. The convention, there |
fore, although sailing under the name of |
Republicanism, was nothing but q 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 |
Republicanism is aroused throughout the |
state. We have, therefore, in order to |
emphasize the sincerity and earnestness |
of our undertaking, put out a state ticket |
in the field for the coming election, COM
prising candidates whose intelligence and |
virtue, manly courage and lofty patriot
ism make them the Drida 0f THAR uaiph |