San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-08-30

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| PENSIONS.
Ever mindful of the services and sacrifices
| of the men who saved the life of the nation.
| we pledge anew TO the veterans soldiers OF
| the Republic watchful care and recognition
| OF their just claims upon grateful people.
HARRIsoN's ADMINISTRATION.
We commend the able, patriotic and thor
oughly American administration of President
| Harrison. Under IL the country has enjoyed
remarkable prosperity, and the dignity and
been faithfully maintained, and we offer the
record OF pledges kept as a guarantee of faith
| full performance in the future.
TEXAS REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
Adopted at the convention held at Dallas,
april 18th, 1892.
$40 the Republicans of the state: We pre-
sent for your serious consideration and de-
| Lucrative judgment the following statements
| inst ificat.on of the course we have marked
Que ana the new departure we have taken In
a convention called together rs repre-
sentative body of the white republicans of
| of Texas, and we appeal to you TO 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 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 hat 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 rs 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 patronage, 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 dissOlving into an unor-
| ganized and unreliable mass, who have neither
| head nor foot, 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 the late con-
| yention at the city of Austin, where every
| semblance of shame was thrown aside and
the boosted civil service regu lations of the
| government were trampled under foot in the
| unseemly gcramble or federal appolntees 10
| secure their own prominence and represent
atives of the party at the national conven.
| ton.
publican party of Texas has no organization
| such as is recognized as requisite to consti.
tute political party; that it has degenerated
into an unorganized mob, where biaDnual
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.
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 Our aid and give us their assistance
| in building up republlcanism in Texas. Year
after year for the psst twenty years we have
etssd the republican party standing still
or gradually falling off in strength, and this
in face of TIE fact of the great growth of oul
state in population from republican states
and notwithstanding the further fact that
| the material and business interests of oul
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 al
| q political organization in Texas. commanding
neither the respect nor the confidence of thu
| Intelligent masses of the people. 1t is II
rescue our party from this condition and Il
build IL up ON basis of intelligence ant
responsibility that this new departure II
taken. We call upon the white republicans o
the state to organize and come to the supper
or our standard bearer in the coming stat
| election.
Resolved. That we declare our adherence t,
| the principles of the republican party ant
commend the national administration il
carrying out with success that great Ameri
| can principle of protection to American la 10
| and American products, the fostering o.
| nome industries ana the provision by falr in
| ternatonal reciprocity of a market for oul
| farm products we believe to be the tru,
| American doctrine.
Resolved, That we condemn the fedora
| 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
tion of the republican party in Texas
| and till another state convention is held the
state executive committee shall have
charge of all matters touching represents
| iion in conventions [SignedI Henry Cline
| chairman; James p. Newcomb, A. B. Norton
G. W. Gillespie, A. Metzler, A. j. Houston
| A. L Dornall, q. G. White, II. p. Shields. e
| NJ Martin. Johr A. Harris, John B. Schultz
| Til omas Brien, II. f. McGregor.
| NATIONAL REPUBLICAN TICKET