San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-08-26
TEXAS REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.

Adopted at the convention held at Dallas
| april 18th, 1892.
ITO the Republicans of the state: We pre-
| sent for your serious consideration and de-
Lucrative judgment the following statements
| inst itcat. 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 10 give us your
| aid IN an attempt to rescue the republican
party in our state from It's present degraded
| and hopeless, condition.
| Assembled as we are, free from all hope
| of political reward with only a 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
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 as 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 TO advance their own ambition and
gain in the securement of federal Offices and
the distribution of federal pat ODage, until
the party conventions amount TO nothing but
the assembling of federal officials and their
personal followers, and after each such con-
ventiOn the party oIssolving into an unor-
gained and uniellaDle mass, VINO nave neither
head nor tOUt, 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 tire 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 ;crsmhle of federal appOlntees 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 a 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.
cogniton of the fact that oDly 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 republicans 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 assistance
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
political organization in Texas, commanding
neither he respect nor the confidence of the
intelligent masses of the people 1t is to
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 call upon the white repu blicans 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 Ia 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 impolitc
measure and express the hope that the ma
tional republican party will make no further
insistance upon its adoption.
Resolved. That in the future organza-
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 [Signed Henry Cline,
chairman; James z. Newcomb, A. B. Norton,
G. w. Gillespie, A. Metzler, A. J. Houston,
A. l.. DOrnAll, y. G. White, H. =. Shields E.
NJ Martin. john A. Harris, John B. Schultz,
Thomas Brien, Fl. F. McGregor.