San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-04-14
THE WHITE REPUBLICANS.
Meet at Dallas, Pass Resolutions
Adopt a Platform and Nominate
a Full State Ticket.

About three hundred white republicans
coming from nearly every section OF the
state. assembled at Dallas on the 18th
and 18th, and resolved itself into a mass
convention, for the purpose of nominating
full state ticket, and selecting delegates
to the national republican convention at
Minneapolis. There was much enthuSi-
asm. and some earnest and lively speech
eS, and the office holding element were
severely scored The following is the
substance of the proceedings: >,
judge A. b. Norton, OF Dallas, called
the meeting to order at l0a. m. on the l2th.
Hon. Sam J. Wright, of Paris, was
made temporary chairman, ana y. W;
Bradley. Of Arlington and K. Wiley OF
Dension. secretaries. .,
The address of welcome for the city OF
Dallas was made by Col J. p. c. White
head. and replied TO by James +. New
comb
The following committees were then
appointed:
Organization and busineSs--W. P. Golf
OF Tarrant. chairman; b; McCarn OF
Lamar. G. w. Cotter of Johnson, 5. b.
Strong of Houston, L. b. Johuson OF
Bexar: q. w. Mccormick of Dallas, c. +.
Hale of DenisOn.
Resolution and address-Henry Cline of
Houston. chairman; Col A. ]. Houston
of Dallas: j. p. Newcomb of San Anto-
MO. II. McGregor of Houston, G.. w.
Gillespie of Fort Worth, John Smith of
Denton, =. Metzler of Dallas, A. L. Oar
nell of Grayson, Thomas Breen of Wood.
A. b. Norton of Dallas, E. w. Norton of
Parker, Capt. II. b. Shiel of Tarrant,
John A. Harris of Harris, c. G. White OF
Smith.
The session then adjourned till s
o'clock D. NJ. At the night session the
committee on permanent organization
and order of business reported as follows:
We recommend as permanent chairman
of this convention Hon. Sam j. Wright,of
Lamar county; first vice chairman, ID. A.
Robinson, Dallas county; second vice
chairman, G. w. Gillespie, Tarrant coun-
ty; for permanent secretaries, o. w.
Bradley. Tarrant county: h. IL. Lult-
weller. Grayson county.
We recommend that with a view to
permanent organization of the party in
Texas state executive committee be Sc
lected, to be composed of a chairman and
one member from each senatorial district.
For chairman of the state executive COM
mittee we recommend I'll. T. McGregor, of
Harris county. who is hereby authorized
TO select a secretary for the committee.
We recommend that where vacancies
occur in the executive committee the
chairman be authorized to fill the same
by appointment until the district can
make selection.
We recommend further, that this con-
vention elect eight delegates at large TO
the Minneapolis republican national con-
veBtiOn and that two delegates be elected
from each congressional district to said
convention.
We also recommend that a full state
ticket be nominated by this convention
knN hn Is ,fra1 aaI
and every county in the state and wher-
ever practicable, a straight republican
ticket be placed in the field.
Order of business: 1. Report of commit
tee on resolutions. Nominations for
state officers. g. Election of delegates to
national convention. 4. New business.
The name of G. W. Gillespie was sub
mitted for III. f. McGregor, as chairman
OF state committee, and the report was
adopted.
Al the morning session on the 18th. the
committee on resolutions and platform
reported the following, which was unani.
mously adopted:
RESOLUTIONS AND PLATFORM.
To the Republicans OF the state: We
present for your serious consideration and
deliberative judgment the following
statements in justification of the cours,
we have marked out and the new depart
ure we have taken In convention called
together as a representative body of tn,
white Republicans of Texas, and we ap
peal to you to give us your aid in an at
tempt to rescue the Republican party II
onr state from its present degraded ant
hopeless condition.
Assembled as we are, free from all hop
of political reward, with only a patriot
decree to further the advancement of on
state and the success of republican prin
aiyIn hal hot in nrda 70
the blessings of free and honest govern
ment, the contention of we'll balanced pc
litical parties is necessary, and that thi
may be attained in our state by placin
the republican party on an equal fOotin
with It's national opponent. the democrat
ic party. After years Of trial and defea
of humiliation and despair in attemptin
to keep the republican party organize
by the methods left us as a legac
of reconstruction times, we have witness
ed the party gradually but surely fallin
under the management and control of
few men whose only object seems to
to advance their own ambition and gal
in the securement of federal offices an
the distribution of federal patronage, III
til the party conventions amount to nOtf
ing but the assembling of federal otfcia
and their personal followers, and aft
each such convention the party diSSolvir
into an unorganiZed and unreliable mas
who have neither head nor foot, aim n
object to justify its further existenc
commanding neither strength nor r
spPct
In proof of this statement we have on
to point TO tue scenes enacted at the la
convention at the city of Austin, whe
every Semblance of shame was throw
aside and the boosted civil service regul
lions of the government were trampl
under foot in the unseemly scramble
federal appOintees to secure their ov
prominence and representatives of d
party at the national convention.
We feel justified in assuming that &
republican party of Texas has no organ
Zation, such as is recognized as requisi
to constitute political party: I'll at il h