San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-09-03
HARRIsoN's ADMINISTRATION
TEXAS REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.

1hAAS fLA1fOTm.
Adopted at the convention held at Dallas,
April 18th, 1892.
TO the Republicans of the state: We pre-
sent for your serious consideration and de-
libirative judgment the following statements
inst lf1cat.on of the course we nave marked
QUE ana the new departure we have taken in
a convention called together as a repre-
sentative body of the white republicans of
of Texas, and we appeal to you 10 give us your
aid in an attempt TO rescue the republican
patty in our state from its present degraded
and hopeless conditlon.
Assembled as we are. free from all hope
of political reward with only a patriotic de-
cree 10 further the advancement of our state
and the success Of republican principles, we
believe that 10 order 10 secure the blessings OF
free ana honest government, the contention
of well balanced political parties is necessary,
and that this may be attained in our state by
placing the republican party on an equal
footing with its national opponent, The demo-
cratic party. Alter years of trial and defeat
of humiliation and despair IN attempting TO
keep the republican party organized by the
methods left us rs a legacy of reconstruction
times, we have witnessed the party gradually
but surely failing under the management and
control of a few men whose only object seems
to be TO advance their own ambition aud
gain in the securement OF federal offices and
the distribution OF federal pat oDage, until
the parry conventions amount 10 nothing but
the assembling of federal officials and their
personal followers, and after each such con-
yention The party dIssolving into an unor-
gdniZed and unreliable mass, who have neither
head nor loot, aim nor object 10 justify its
further existence, commanding neither
strength nor respect.
In proof OF this statement we have only to
point to the scenes enacted at the late con-
VentiOn at the cry of Austin, where every
semblance OF shame was thrown aside and
the boosted civil service regulations of the
government were trampled under foot in the
unseemly scramble of federal appointees 10
secure their own prominence and represent
atives OF the party at the national conVen-
ten.
We feel justified in assuming that the re-
pu blican party sf Texas has no organization,
such as is recognized as Re quisite to consti-
tute a political arty; that il has degenerated
into an unorganiZed mob, where biannual
gatherings have wrought disgrace and des-
pair TO our patriotic people who hold to the
tenets of the republican party. Therefore
the necessity has arisen for the organization
of the republican party of Texas, independent
of its past history and upon the further re.
cognitiOn of the fact that only upon the i-
teligence and manhood of the white Ameri.
can citizens can any party in this country
hope for growth and success.
We call upon the white republicans of the
state and those in sympathy with the princi-
pies and policies of the republican party to
come TO oar aid and give us their assistance
in buildirg up repubIicanism in Texas. Year
after year for the psst twenty years we have
Witnessed the republican party standing still
or gradually falling off in strength, and this
in face of tie fact of the great growth of our
state in population from republican states.
anu "lNholhhNAbG Nv uINhS Jaw AhdN
the material and business interests of our
great state demands the aid OF the republican
party in their development. This condition
of things can only he attributed 10 one cause:
The republican party has fallen below par as
a political organization inTeXas commanding
neither the respect nor the confdence of the
intelligent masses of the people. 1t is to
| rescue our party from this condition and to
build il up ON a basis of intelligence and
respectsbility that this new departure IL
taken. We call upen the white republicans of
the state 10 organize and come to the support
or our standard bearer in the coming state
election.
Resolved, That we declare our adherence to
the principles of the republican party and
commend the national administrator in
carrying out with success that great Ameri-
can principle of protection to American la or
and American products, the fostering of
home industries and the provision by fair in.
farm products we believe to be the true
American doctrine.
Resolved, That we condemn the federal
election bill as ar unnec essary and impOlitic
measure and express the hope that the ma
tional republican party will make no further
insistance upon its adoption.
Resolved, That in the future organiZa-
ton of the republican party in Texas
and till another state convention is held, the
state executive m shall have
charge of all matters touching representa-
ton in conventions [SignedI Henry Cline,
chaIrman; James Z. Newcomb, A. 3. Norton,
G. W. Gillespie, A. Metzler, A. J. Houston,
A. L Dornall, O G.. White, II. p Shields. E.
NJ. Martin, John A. Harris, John u. Schultz,
Thomas Brien, H. F. McGregor.