San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-08-19
TEXAS REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.

TEXAS REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
Adopted at the convention held at Dallas,
april 18th, 1892.
TO the Republicans of the state: We pre-
sent for your serious consideration and de-
libjratiye Judgment the following statements
inst iicat.On of the course we have marked
Que ana the new departure we have TAX n in
a convention called together as repre-
sentative body of the whine 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 its 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 that this may be attained in our state by
placing the republican party on an equal
footing with its national eppone mt, the demo-
cratic party. Alter 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 be TO advance their own ambltlon aud
gain in the secuTement of federal Offices and
the distribution of federal pat onage, until
the party conventions amount 10 nothing but
the assembling OF federal officials and their
personal followers, and after each such con-
vention the party dissolvinR into an unor-
gained and unreliable mass, who have neither
head nor loot, aim nor object to justify IT'S
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-
| 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
| unseemIy ,crambe of federal appointees 10
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 u political arty; that it 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.
| cognitiOn of the fact that only upon the in
teIligence and manhood of the white Ame2.
| can citizens can any party in this country
| hope for growth and success.
We call upon the white republicans OF the
| st te 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 budi' z up republcanism in Texas. Year
| alter ! ear for the psst twentr years we have
witness d the republican party standing stIIl
| or gradually falling OFF in strength. and this
| in face of tie fact of the great growth ofour
| state in population from republican states
ana nOtWltnStdnulUg the 1urtntr lhcI lnhl
| the material and business interests of our
| great state demands the aid OF the republican
party in their development. Ttis condition
of things can only be attributed 10 one cause:
| The republic party has fallen below par as
| a political organization in Texas commanding
neither he respect nor the cOnt1de 2ce of the
intelligent masses of the people 1t Is to
| rescue our party from this cOnditi' and to
build il up on a basis of intellge nee and
| responsibility that this new departure is
| taken. We call upon the white republicans of
the state to org aniZe and come to the support
| o. our standard bearer in the coming state
election.
Resolved, That we declare our adherence to
he principles of the republican party and
,ommend the national administration in
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 unnt 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-
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-
lion in conventions [SgnedI Henry Cline,
chairman; James Z. Newcomb, A. y Norton.
G. w Gillespie, A. MelZler, A. j. HOu ton
A. i DornRlI Z G. White, II. =. Shields f.
Martin. JOhr A Harris, John B. schultz,
III omas Brien, II. F. McGregOr.
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