San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-10-12
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM,
ADOPTED BY THE CONVENTION
HELD AT FORT WORTH,

Sept. w,
1--WE. the republicans of The ate of Texas
in convention assembled, pointing with just
pride to the record of our party, declare ouI
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 defled
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 arraign the present administration of
Texas because:
First-It has arrayed labor sgainst capital
to the great injury 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
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-It has attacked the decision of
courts and tried to bring into contempt the
very citadel of liberty, our judiciary.
Seventh-It has discouraged Immigration,
thereby retarding agricultural development
and thus rOhbing 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 nepotism and pros
tituted sacred trust, the appointive power,
for personal ends,
Tenth-It has selhshly and corruptly used
the power entrusted by the people as means
to perpetuate its existence in office.
Eleyenth-Its ignorance of the constitution,
as evidenced by the approval and attempted
enforce ment of the alien land law, the usury
law, the railway commission law and other
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
Thrteenth-For a selfish if not corrupt
purpose ii has invaded and begun to destroy
the common heritage of the children of Texas
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.
Fitteenth-Its future policy, as outlined in
the Houston platform, gives no promise or
hope of any relief from the evils complained
of, but rather confirms the belief that they
hff NNsar GOD int
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 sumpJuary
laws and believe in the largest individual
liberty consistent with good government.
Third-We favor the regulation of railway
corporations under suchSrestrictious as will
insure equal justice to the railways as well as
the people.
Fourth-we condemn all forms of COM
munisn and state socialism, and view with
alarm the existing war in this state upon
property.
Fifth-Our sympathies are most cordially
extended to ali Iaboring people in their eff.
forts to better the condition of themselves
and those dependent on them.
SiXth-We condemn all revolutionary me-
tnOdS ana violence on the part OF our cltlZenS,
believing that an appeal TO the law best pro-
tects every citizen in the enjoyment of his
rights.
Seventh-We condemn all legislation calcu-
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 hat the coming legisla-
ture sh All provide for the collec lion from the
fedora government of he county on sugar
produced on the state farms.
Tenth-We demand that the state lepisla-
ture enact such laws as will protect the ballot
OF every citizen in accordance with the de-
mands expressed in the election plank of the
national repu bican platform.
Eleventh-Wc demand the passage of such
laws as will further the building and keeping
in repair of a system of inter-county public
roads and to this end we demand the employ
ment of penitentiary convicts, thus procur-
ing for them profitable employment without
bringing them in competition with free
labor.
Tweifth-We condemn the law which dis
eliminates against oolored teachers upon the
county school board of examiners as class
legislation.
Thirteenth-we demand that the legisla.
ture comply with the constitutional require
ments and establish a branch for the colored
pnOpla Of the state nniVarSitV