San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-10-08
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM,
ADOPTED BY THE CONVENTION
HELD AT FORT WORTH.
SEPT. 18TH. 1892.


I'VE. the republicans of the state of Texas.
in convention assembled, pointing with just
pride to the record of our party, declare our
allegiance to its principles as expressed in
the national platform adopted at Minneap-
We heartily approve the action of the ma
tional convention in the denomination of
President Harrison, whose pure, able and
patriotic administration of affairs has defed
arrangement 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 afraign the present administration or
Texas because:
to the great injury of both, ana has intensihed
class pref udce.
Second-it has in effect confiscated proper
ty and practically denied to tn the owners there
Third-lt has by intolerance, prescription
and incorporate expression driven much cap
itai out of Texas and prevented the coming or
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-
precated taxable values.
Fiftb-It has robbed the laboring men of
Texas by driving out capital; our industrial
enterprises have been paralyzed and the
value of labor diminished.
courts and tried to bring into contempt the
very citadel of liberty, our judiciary.
Seyenth-It has discouraged Immigration,
thereby retarding agricultural deyeiopment
values and the state by restraining produc'
ton.
Eighth-It has prevented the organization
and upbuildng of new industries that would
have employed large capital, gwen prohtable
employment to many laborers and increased
the value of farm products.
Ninth-lt has favored nepotism and pros
tituted a sacred trust, the appointiye power,
for personal ends,
Tenth-It has selfishIy and corruptly used
the power entrusted by the people as means
to perpetuate its existence in office.
EIeyenth-Its ignorance of the constitution,
as evidenced by the approval and attempted
enforcement of the alien land law, the usury
law, the railway. commission law ana otheT
laws has been Just cause of complaint, and
imposed veXations 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 il has invaded and begun to destroy
the common heritage OF the children OF Iexas
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-
bic of fuIillment, has caused strife and dis
satisfaction among the masses.
Fifteenth-Its future policy, as outlined i'll
the Houston platform. gives no promise or
hope of any relief frOn the evils complained
of, but rather confirms the belief that they
will be increased and intensified If 1t receives
endorsement in November, and we therefore
urge upon 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 government.
| Third-We 1avor the regulation of railway
| corporations under such restrictions as will
insure equal justice to the railways as we'll as
| Fourth-we condemn all forms of com
/ munisu and state socialism, and view with
alarm the existing war In this state upon
property.
| Fifth-Our sympathies are most cordially
| extended to ali laboring people In their eff
forts to better the condition OF themselves
| and tn se 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
| Seventh-We condemn all legislation cacu
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 legtsla
ture sh All provide for the colec ZION 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 ballo
OF every citizen in accordance with the de
| mands expressed in the election plank of thu
| national republican platform.
Eleventh-Wc demand the passage of sucl
, laws as will furt her the building and keeping
| in repair of a system of inter-cOunty publi
| roads and to this end We demand the employ
ment of penitentiary convicts, thus procur
, ing for them profitable employment withOu
bringing them in competition with FREE
: | labor.
f Tweifth-we condemn the law which dis
eliminates against colored teachers upon tn
) county school board of examiners as elias
legis alton.
D Thirteenth-We demand that the legisls
ture comply with the constitutional require
q. ments and establish branch for the coloret
3 people of the state university.