San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-10-03
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM,
ADOPTED BY THE CONVENTION
HELD AT FORT WORTH,
SEPT 18th 1892

SEPT. 18TH. 1892.
I'VE, the republicans of the state of Texas
| in convention assembled, pointing with jus
pride to the record of our party, declare ou
allegiance to its principles as expressed il
| the national platform adopt ed at Minneap
We heartily approve the action of thena
tional convention in the denomination. Of
President Harrison, whose pure, able anC
patriotic administration of affairs has defeC
arraignment 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 against capital
to the great injury of both, and has intensified
class prejudice.
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.
Eighth-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.
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tituted q 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.
Eleventh-lts ignorance OF the 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, aud
imposed vexatious 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
government.
Thilteenth-For a selfish if not corrupt
purpose it 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 a dis
regard of sacred rights, 1t has paralyZed,
capital, Frustrated industries, deprecated
farm values and by false promises impOssl-
BILE of fulfillment 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
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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 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 viii
insure equal justice to the railways as well as
the people.
Fourth-we condemn all forms of COM
muntsn and state socialism, and view with
sIsrm the existing war IN this state upon
pt6perty,
fifth-Uur sympathies are most cordially
extended to ali laboring people IN their er.
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 pest pro
tects every citizen in the enjoyment of his
rights.
Seventh-We condemn all legislation calcu.
lated to drive capital out of the state or turn
immigration from us.
Eighth-We favor the enactment of such
laws as will secure to us the Introduction
into this state of money at low rate of in
terest.
Ninth-we demand that the coming legisla-
ture sh all provide for the collec tion 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.
Eleventh-Wc demand the passage of such
laws az will further the building and keeping
in repair of a 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
legislation.
Thirteenth-we demand that the legisla-
ture comply with the constitutional require
ments and establish q branch for the colored
people of the state university.