San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-10-14
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM,
ADOPTED BY THE CONVENTION
hElD AT FORT WORTH

SEPT 90 az
I'VE, the republicans of the ate 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 na-
tional convention in the denomination of
President Harrison, whose pure, able and
patriotic administration of affairs has def1ed
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 greatinjury of both, ana has intensified
class prejudice.
Second-It has in effect confis Gated proper
ty and practically denied to the owners there.
or 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-lt has attacked the decision of
courts and tried to bring into contempt IL e
very citadel of liberty, our judiciary.
Seventh-lt 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, gwen profitable
employment to many laborers and increased
the value of farm products.
Ninth-lt has favored pepotism and pros
tituted a sacred trust, the appointive power,
for personal ends,
Tenth-It has selfishly 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 a 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.
ThiIteenth-For selfish if not corrupt
purpose ii 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 dis
regard of sacred rights, it has paralyzed,
capital, Frustrated Industries, deprecated
farm values and by false promises impossI-
BILE of fuIfllment, 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 fro N 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
necessity of placing the seal OF their utter
condemnation upon the present administra-
tiOn.
The Republican party demands:
First-Pertect EQUALITY before the law,
equal rights to ali 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 favor the regulation of railway
corporations under such restrictions as will
insIpre eouai Justice to the RAILWAYS as well as
the people
| Fourth-We condemn all forms of COM
munisn and state socialism, and view with
sisrn the existipp war in This state upon
nronerty.
Eifth our symoatbies are most cordially
| extended to ali IaborinV people in their Ell.