The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-04-21
THE WHITE REPUBLICANS,
THEY NOMINATE ANDREW J. HOUSTON,
OF DALLAS, FOR GOVERNOR.
A Worthy Son Of an Illustrious Sire, Will
Lead the Party to Inglorious Defeat
That Which They Call Platform Is
Plaintive Vail for Fat Offices.
Special to The Statesman.

Special to The Statesman
DALLAS, Tex, April 13.-The white
republican state mass convention
concluded its work this morning by
nominating state ticket and adjourn
ed sine die. A. J. Houston, of Dallas,
a son of General Sam Houston. was
nominated for governor. After the
convention was called to order at 8
a. M, the committee on addresses re-
ported the following which was
adopted as the platform on which the
new ticket will stand:
To the Republicans of the State of Texas:
We present for your serious con-
sideration and deliberative Judgment
the following statement in justifica-
ton of the course we have marked
out and the new departure we have
taken at convention called together
as representative body of the White
Republicans of Texas, and we appeal
to you to give us your aid in an at
tempt to rescue the Republican party
in our 0state from its present
degraded and hopeless condi-
ton. Assembled as we are
free from all hope of political reward,
with only patriotic desire to further
the advancement of our state and the
success of Republican principles, we
believe that in order to secure the
blessings of free and honest govern
ment the contention of well balanced
political parties is necessary, and that
this may be attained in our state by
placing the Repu blican party ON an
equal footing with its nation
al opponent, the Democrat
ic party, after years of
trial and defeat, of humiliation and
despair, in attempting to keep the Re-
publican party organized by the
methods left us as a legacy of recon-
struction times, we have witnessed
the party gradually but surely falling
under the management and control of
few men whose only aspirations seem
to be advanced to their own personal
ambition and gain in the secure
ment of federal offices and
the distribution of federal pa
tronage until the party conventions
amounted to nothing but the assem-
bling of Federal officials and their
personal followers, and after each such
convention the party dissolvtng into
an unorganized and unreliable mass
who have neither head nor foot, aim
nor object, to justify it's further ex-
istence, commanding neither strength
nor respect.
In proof of this statement we have
only to point to the scenes enacted at
the late convention at the city of Aus
tin, where every semblance of shame
was thrown aside and the boasted
civil service regulations of our govern
ment trampled under foot in the as
sembly, the unseemly scramble
of federal appointees to Sc
cure their own prominence
as representatives of the party.
At the national convention we feel
justified in assuming that the Repub-
lican party of Texas has no orgaliza-
to constitute political party. That
it has degenerated into an morgan
lied mob, whose bi-annual gatherings
have wrought disgrace and despair to
our patriotic people who hold
to the tenets of the
Republican party. Therefore
the necessity has arisen for the organ
ization Of the Republican party Of
Texas, independent of its past history
and upon the further recognition of
the fact that only upon the intelli-
gence and manhood of the white
American citizens in any part of this
country, hope for growth and success.
We call upon the white Republicans
of the state, and those
in sympathy with the principles
and the policies of the
Republican party, to come to our aid
and give us their assistance in build
ing up Republicanism In Texas.
Year after year for the past twenty
years we have witnessed the Republic
can party standing still or gradually
falling offin strength and this in the
face of the fact OF the great growth of
our state in population from Republic
can states and Notwithstanding
the further fact that the material and
business interest of our great state
demands the aid of the Republican
parry in their development. This con-
dition Of things can only be attributed
to one cause. The Republican party
has fallen below par as o political or
ganization in Texas, commanding
neither the respect nor the confidence
of the intelligent masses of the people