San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-09-07
MANSIONS ADMINISTRATION
TEXAS REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.

TEXAS REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
Adopted at the convention held at Dallas,
Apnil e3th, 1892.
$40 the Republicans of the state: We pre-
sent for your serious consideration and de-
Lucrative Judgment the following statements
in st ifi1at .on of the course we have marked
Que and the new departure we,have taken In
| a convention called together as repre-
sentative body of the white republicans,of
of Texas, and we appeal to you TO give as your
aid ias an attempt to rescue the republican
patty in our state from its present degraded
and hopeless condition..
Assembled as we are, free from all hope
OF political reward with only apatriot1c de-
cree to further the. advancement OF our state
and he success OF repub licaH principles, we
believe that IN order 10 secureithe blessings OF
free and honest government, the contention
of well balanced political parties is necessary,
and tn At this may be attained i'll our state by
placing the republican party on an equal
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 rs u legacy OF reconstruction
times we have witnessed the party gradually
but surely failing under the management and
control of a lew men whose only object seems
to be 10 advance their own ambition and
gain in the secureInent of federal offices and
the distribution of federal pat ,opage until
the parry conventions amount TO nothing hut
the assembling of federal officials and their
personal followers, and after each such con-
veutiOn the party oissolving into an unor-
ganized and uIeliabte mass who have neither
head nor loot. aim mar 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-
| ti19.
publican party eff Texas has no organization.
such as is recognized as requisite to consti-
| tute political Larty; 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.
Wecall upon the white republicans of the
state and those in sympathy with the princi
piles and policies of the republican party to
| come to OR aid and give us their assistance
| in building up republicanism in Texas. Year
| alter 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 TO one cause:
| The republican party has fallen below par as
| political organization in Texas. commanding
neither I he respect nor the confde ce of the
| intelligent masses of the people 1t Is to
4 rescue our party from this condition and to
| build it, up on a basis of intelligence and
| responsibility that this new departure is
taken. We eail upon the white republicans of
the state to organize and come to the support
o. 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
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 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 committee shall have
charge of all matters touching representa-
ton in conventions tSigned Henry Cline,
chairman; James p. Newcomb, A. B Norton,
G. W. Gillespie, A. MetZler, A. j. Houston,
A. L Dornal. O G. White, H. 2. Shields. E.
NJ Martin. john A. Harris, John b. Schultz,
Thomas Brien, II. r. McGregor.