San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-10-18
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM,
ADOPTED BY THE CONVENTION
HELD AT FORT WORTH,

HELD At Fort WORTH
1--WE, the republicans of the ate of Texas.
IN convention assembled, pointing with just
pride TO the record of our party, declare our
allegiance to its principles as expressed in
the national platform adopted at Minneap-
We heartily approve the action of the ma
tional convention in the denomination of
President Harrison, whose pure, able and
patriotic administration of affairs has defed
arraignment even at the hands of democracy,
and we pledge him and his colleague on the
national ticket, Whitelaw Reid, the solid vote
of the party in Texas.
We arraign the present administration of
Texas because:
First-It has arrayed labor against capital
to the great injury of both, ana has intensified
class prejudice.
Second-lt has in effect confiscated proper
ty and practically denied to the owners there.
of the right to be heard in the courts.
Third-It has by intolerance, prescription
and incorporate expression driven much cap
ital out of Texas and prevented the coming or
much more and thereby raised the rate OF in
terest and increased the burdens of all except
the money lenders.
d, Fourth-lt has unsettled land titles and de-
preciated taxable values.
Fifth-It has robbed the laboring men of
Texas by driving out capital; our industrial
enterprises have been paralyzed and the
value of labor diminished.
Sixtn-It has attacked the decision of
courts and tried to bring into contempt tie
very citadel of liberty, our judiciary.
Seventh-It has discouraged immigration,
thereby retarding agricultural development
and thus robbing the farmer by decreasing
values and the state by restraining produc-
ton.
Eighth-It has prevented the organization
and upbViding of new industries that would
have employed large capital. gwen profitable
employment to many laberers and increased
the value of farm products.
Ninth-lt has favored nepotism and pros
tituted sacred trust, the appointive power,
for personal ends,
Tenth-It has selfishly and corruptly used
the power entrusted by the people as means
to perpetuate its existence in office.
Eleventh-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 Just cause of complaint, and
imposed veXations and burdens alike on the
people and courts.
TweIfth-It has for selfish purposes de-
prived the public treasury of large moneys
that should have been placed there to the
credit of the state by refusing to accept the
bounty on sugar due Texas from the federal
government.
Thilteenth-For a selfish if not corrupt
purpose il has invaded and begun to destroy
the common heritage of the children of Texas
the sacred school fund benueathed in trr ST
to them nv their fore fathers
FonrteenthNBy unwise legislation. by
threats against capital and reckless a dis
regard of sacred rights, IT has paralyzed
.csSitsi Frustrated fnSustries' depreciated
farm values and nv false promises impossI-
HE of fnItIlment has caused strife and dis
satis faction among the masses
Eiftaenth-Its fI1tnre Motley ss outlined I'm
the Houston pJstform gives no nromis- or
hone of any relief fro n the evils Complained
of hui ~ ratSar noptirms the heller that ,hev
will he increased and intensified If II reoeiyes
endorsement in November. and we therefore
nrge nnon tbe neon,e of Texas the imnerative
NECESSITY of nlscinp the seal of their inter
nondcm1atiop nnon the nresant eIministra.
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