San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-10-04
REPUBLICAN, PLATFORM,
ADOPTED BY THE CONVENTION
HELD AT FORT WORTH,
SEPT 18TH 1902

I'VE. the republicans of the state of Texas.
| in convention assembled, pointing with just
| pride to the record of our party, declare our
allegiance to it's principles as expressed in
| the national platform adopted at Minneap-
We heartily approve the action of the na-
tional convention in the denomination of
President Harrison, whose pure, able and
patriotic administration of affairs has de1ed
arrangement 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 sgainst 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-lt has by intolerance, prescription
and Incorporate expression driven much cap
| ital out of Texas and prevented the coming of
| much more and thereby raised the rate of in
terest and increased the burdens of all except
the money lenders.
Fourth-It 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.
Sixth-It has attacked the decision of
courts and tried to bring into contempt the
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.
Eghth-It has prevented the organization
and upbuilding of new industries that would
have employed large capital, given profitable
employment to many laborers and increased
the value of farm products.
Ninth-It has favored nepotism and pros
tituted a sacred trust, the appointive power,
for personal ends,
Tenth-It has seIfishly and corruptly used
the power entrusted by the people as means
to perpetuate its existence in office.
| Eleventb--lts ignorance ofthe 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.
Twelfth-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
Thrteenth-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, bequeathed in trust
to them by their fore fathers.
Fourteenth-By unwise legislation. by
threats against capital and reckless dis
regard of sacred rights, it has paralyZed,
capital, Frustrated Industries, deprecated
farm values and by false promises impossl-
BILE of fulHlment has caused strife and dis
satisfaction among the masses.
Fifteenth-Its future policy, as outlined in
the Houston platform. gives no promise or
hope of any relief from the evils complained
of, but rather confirms the belief that they
will be increased and intensified if it receives
endorsement in November, and we therefore
urge upon the people of Texas the imperative
necessity OF placing the seal OF their utter
condemnation upon the present administra-
ton.
The Republican party demands:
First-Pertect equality before the law,
equal rights to all and special privileges to
none.
second-we are opposed to all sumptuary
laws and believe in the largest individual
liberty consistent with good government.
Third-We favor the regulation of railway
corporations under such restrictions as will
insure equal justice to the railways as well as
Fourth-we condemn all forms of COM
munism and state socialism, and view with
alarm the existing war in this state upon
Fffth-Our sympathies are most cordially
extended to all laboring people in their eff.
forts to better the condition of themselves
aud those dependent on them.
Sixth-We condemn all revolutionary me-
thods and violence on the part of our citizens,
believing that an appeal to the law best pro-
tects every citizen in the enjoyment of his
Seventh-we condemn all legislation calcu-
lated to drive capital out of the state or turn
immigration from us.
laws as will secure to us the introduction
into this state OF money at a low rate of in
terest.
Ninth-We demand at the coming legisa.
ture sh All provide for the coIlec dOn from the
federal government of the county on sugar
produced on the state farms.
Tenth-We demand that the state legisla-
ture enact such laws as will protect the ballot
OF every citizen in accordance with the de-
mands expressed in the election plank of the
national republican platform.
EleVpDth-Wc demand the passage of such
laws as will further the building and keeping
in repair of system of inter-county public
roads and to this end we demand the employ
ment of pententiary convicts, thus procur-
ing for them profitable employment without
bringing them in competition with free
labor
Twelfth-we condemn the law which dis
eliminates against colored teachers upon the
county school board of examiners as class
legislation.
Thirteenth-we demand that the legisa.
ture comply with the constitutional require
ments and establish branch for the colored
people of the state university.