San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-09-23
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM,
ADOPTED BY THE CONVENTION
hEt3 At E0HT W0RTH.

HeE sIeeSI ts TH! ,ggSSssr H'
| I'VE. the republicans of the state of Texas
| in convention assembled, pointing with JUS
| pride to the record of our party, declare oul
| allegiance to its principles as expressed in
! the national platform adopted at Minneap-
oils.
We heartily approve the action of the ma
| tional convention in the denomination OF
| patriotic administration of affairs has defed
| arraignment even at the hands OF democracy
| and we pleoge him and his colleague on the
national ticket, Whtelaw Reid, the solid vote
| of the party in Texas.
| We arraign the present administration of
| Texas because:
to the great injury of both, ano has intensified
| class pre- udce.
SecOnd-it has in effect confiscated proper.
| ty and practically denied to the owners there.
| 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-1t has unsettled land titles and de-
preciat ed taxable values.
Fifth-It has robbed the laboring men of
| Tt xas 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 IL e
very citadel of liberty, our judiciary.
Seventh-st has discouraged immigration,
thereby retardng agricultural developme MT
| and thus robbing the farmer by decreasing
values and the state by restraining produc-
tion..
Eighth-It has prevented the organization
and upbuilding of new industries that would
have employed large capital, gwen profitable
employment to many laborers 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
en- tOrcement 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 1T has for selfish purposes de-
prlved 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.
Thireenth-For a selfish if not corrupt
purpose ii 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-
| Die OF 1uInllInent, mas caused strife ana us
/ 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 ii receives
endorsement in November, and we therefore
urge upUn 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 govern ment.
Third-We ayOr the rePu latiOn OF railway
| corporations under such restrictions as will
insure equal justice to the railways as well as
Fourth-we condemn all forms of CON-
munisn and state socialism, and view with
| alarm the existing war in this state upon
property.
Fifth-Our sympathes are most cordial y
/ extended tn ali IaborinR peo pie in their eff.
| forts to better the condition of themselves
| and 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
| rights.
| Seventh-we condemn all legislation calcu.
lated to drive CAPT al out of the state or turn
immigration from us.
Il
| laws as will secure TO us the introduction
| into this state OF money at a low rate of in
terest.
| Ninth-we demand tn at the coming legisla'
| ture sh all provide for the colec ion from the
| fed eral government of he 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.
| Eleventh-Wc demand the passage of such
laws as will furt her the building and keeping
in repair of system of inter-county public
| roads and to this end we demand the employ
ment of penitentiary 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
legis alton.
| Thirteenth-we demand that the legisla
ture comply with the constitutional require
ments and establish branch for the colored
people of the state university,