San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-08-31
HARRIsoN's ADMINISTRATIONS
TEXAS REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.

TEXAS REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
Adopted at the convention held at Dallas,
| april 18th, 1892.
80 the Republicans of the state: We pre-
| sent for your serious consideration and de-
| Lucrative judgment the following statements
| inst ificat.on of the course we nave marked
| Que ana the new departure we have tax, n in
| convention called together as repre-
sentative body of the white republicans of
| of Texas, and we appeal to you 10 give us your
aid ia an attempt to rescue the republican
party in our state from its present degraded
| and hopeless condition..
Assembled as we areyfree from all hope
| of political reward with only patriotic de-
| cree to further the advancement OF our state
and the success OF republican principles, we
| believe that IN order 10 secure the blessings OF
| free and honest government, the contention
of well balanced political parties is necessary,
| and that this may be attained in our state by
| footing with its national opponent, the demo
| cratic party. After years OF trial and defeat
| of humiliation and despair in attempting to
| keep the republican party organized by the
| methods left us as a legacy OF reconstruction
| times, we have witnessed the party gradually
| but surely failing under the management and
| control of few men whose only object seems
| TO he 10 advance their own ambition and
| gain in the securemeDt of federal offices and
| the distribution of federal patronage, until
| the party conventions amount 10 nothing but
| the assembling of federal officials and their
personal followers, and after each such con-
vention the party OIssolving into an unor-
| ganized and u ur enable mass, who have neither
| head nor foot, aim nor object TO 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 city 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 TO
| secure their own prominence and represent
atives of the party at the national conven-
| ton.
| We feel justified in assuming that the re-
| publican party of Texas has no organization,
| such as is recognized as requisite to cOnsti-
| tute political arty; that il has degenerated
| into an unorganized mob, where bi-annual
| 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 in
| telligence and manhood of the white Ameri
| can citizens can any party in this country
| hope for growth and success.
| We call upon the white repu blicans 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 assistan
| in building up republicanism 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.
| and notwithstanding the further fact that
| 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 be attributed 10 one cause:
| The republican party has fallen below par as
| a political organization in Texas, commanding
| neither he respect nor the cOnfid en- ce of the
| intelligent masses of the people. 1t is to
| rescue our party from this condition and to
| build IL up ON basis of intelligence and
| responsibility that this new departure II
| taken. We call upon the white republicans of
| the state to 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 administration 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
| ternatIonal reciprocity of a market for our
farm products we believe to be the true
| American doctrine.
| Resolved, That we condemn the federal
| election bill as an unne cessary and impOlitic
measure and express the hope that the ma
| tiOnal repu olican party will make no further
| insistance upon its adoption.
| Resolved That in the future organiza-
| ton of the republican party in Texas
state executive committee shall have
| charge of all matters touching representa-
| rion in conventions. [Signedl Henry Cline
| chairman; James Z. Newcomb, A. B. Merton,
| G. W. Gillespie, A. MetZler, A. J. Houston,
| A. l.. Dornall. g. G. White. II. z. Shields. E.
NJ Martin. JohP A. Harris, John b. Schultz
Thomas Brien, H. +. McGregor.