San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-10-17
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM,
ADOPTED BY THE CONVENTION
HELD AT FORT WORTH,
SEDT 90 ..

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HELD AT FORT WORTH.
SEPT. 90 2.
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 ma
| tional convention in the denomination of
President Harrison, whose pure, able and
patriotic administration of affairs has defied
| arraignment even at the hands of democracy,
and we pledge him and his colleague on the
! national ticket, Whtelaw 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 great injury of both, ana has intensified
class prejudice.
Second-lt has in effect confscated proper
| ty and practically denied to the owners there.
| of the right to be heard in the courts.
Third-It 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-I has attacked the decision of
| courts and tried to bring into contempt the
very citadel of liberty, our judiciary.
Seventh-lt has discouraged immigration,
| thereby retardng 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 nepotism and pros
tituted sacred trust, the appointive power,
Tenth-It has selfshy and corruptly used
| the power entrusted by the people as means
to perpetuate its existence in office.
Eleventh-Its ignorance ofthe constitution,
! as evidenced by the approval and attempted
enforcement of the alien land law, the usury
law, the railway commission law ana other
| laws has been just cause OF complaint, and
imposed vexations and burdens alike on the
people and courts.
| Twef. hit 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.
| Thirteenth-For a selfish if not corrupt
| purpose il 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 impossl-
| BILE of fulfillment 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 from the evils complained
| of, but rather confirms the belief that they
| will be increased and intensified If ii receives
| 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 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
insure equal justice to the railways as well as
the people.
Fourth-we condemn all forms of COM
| muntsm and state socialism, and view with
alarm the existing war in this state upon
property.
Fifth-Our sympathies are most cordially
/ extended tn alI laboring PEG pie in their eff.
| forts to better the condition of themselves
/ and hose dependent on them.
| Sixth-We condemn all revolutionary me-
i thods and violence on the part of our citizens,
believing that an appeal TO TIE law best pro-
| tects every citizen in the enjoyment of his
| rights.
Seventh-We condemn all legislation calcu.
lated to drive CAPT al out of the state or turn
immigration from us.
| EighthTWe 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 that the coming legisla
ture sh all provide for the collec don from the
federal government of he county on sugar
| produced on the state farms.
Tenth-We demand that the state legisla-
ture enact such laws as willprotect the ballot
| OF every citizen in accordance with the de-
mands expressed in the election plank of the
| national republican platform.
Eleventh-Wc demand the passage of such
laws as will further the building and keeping
| in repair of a sy stem 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
J bringing them in competition with free
labor.
II Twelfth-we condemn the law which dis
| eliminates against colored teachers upon the
county school board of examiners as class
! legis alton.
Thirteenth-we demand that the legisla
ture comply with the constitutional require
| ments and establish branch for the colored
| people of the state university.