San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-06

A committee was appointed TO form.
ulate an address expressing the senti-
ments of the delegation. The report
of the committee is as follows:
To Texas Republicans:
The st. Louis convention demon.
strated that there has been revolu-
ton in sentiment toward the South
and a revolution in the condition of
the Republican party in the Southern
states. The Ottice-holding Oligarchy
is about to pass away. A loyal, re-
spectacle organization, in accord with
local sentiment, is taking it's place.
Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia,
Kentucky, Tennessee, and Arkansas,
We're there with delegates controlled
by the reform element, and the refor-
nation will be complete by the next
national convention. The machines in
Texas and Alabama were crushed at
the convention. Texas, Louisiana
and South Carolina presented an issue
of distinctive methods of party dis
cipline. The convention was careful
about committing the national Organi-
cation to new methods that were being
attacked, but in every other respect
the delegates from Texas, who repre-
scented the decent methods, were made
N feel the sentiment of the conven-
ton was with them. The Mckinley
managers took great pleasure in
smashing the machine in Texas, and
also made an effort to reunite the frag-
mentS with our organization. This
failed from no fault of the Mckinley
managers, but from the causes that
have always prevented party progress
in TeXaS-the selfish and personal
purposes of "black and tan" leaders,
clothed with a little brief authority.
There is a general feeling of relief at
the turning down of the old regime
the danger is that an effort is being
made to continue the same offensive
machine control of the party under a
new boss" The "black and tan"
factions are disorganiZed over no issue
Of principle or policy, but it is simply
a fight for supremacy by individuals
for control.
Very cordial were the invitations
from the "black and tan" leaders to
the Lily Whites to abandon their we'll
organized party and go into the mob
county conventions and send delegates
to the next mob state convention, I'M
der the assurance that we would
stand on the same footing. To ac-
cept the invitations would be to de-
StrOy all opposition to the methods
heretofore prevailing, for even the sug-
gestiOn of a reform has never ema-
mated from "black and tan" sources.
Our motto is the Mckinley One-pa-
triOtism, protection and prosperity,
and not pie, patronage and plumber.
We do not propose to subordinate pa
triotism to pie, and we do not feel that
the Mckinley people will consider it a
crime that our people have not bent
the knee" to a political machine so Of
fensive that they felt justified in de-
its corrupt and disloyal
methods in open convention. We
have never demanded anything but
decent political methods, and our or
CARNATIONS and conventions are con-
Quoted on these lines. We have al |
ways been open to consider any plan |
for re-uniting and recognizing the |
party, other than proposition to sur
render and abandon the only decent |
organization in Texas, to |
join an organization whose record is a
disgrace to the state, and that was the |
subject of severe condemnation at the
convention.
We recognize that there is a better |
element in the "black and tan" outfit |
that ought to cooperate with us, but |
it has got to come through some well |
defined understanding. The new con- |
verts to the Republican party are GER
tainly not going to join the 'black and |
tan" fragments and chance it in a l
fight for supremacy. And we are not |
going back to a condition that has |
prevented Republican growth.
The Mckinley managers did all that |
was done that benefited Texas, and |
would have completed the work of |
purifying the party and putting it on a /
firm foundation but for the obstruc-
tive tactics of "black and tan" lead |
ers, whom some people now think are |
entitled to great credit for their SER
vices in perpetuating a diSsension in /
the ''black and tan" camp and pre-
venting a union of Republican forces, |
as though Republican success could |
ever be obtained under such cOndi- /
ton. 1t is the duty of every Republi- |
can to be active in increasing the |
forces of the organization that repre-
sents the people and not the "bosses,"
until the demand for a decent Repub- /
lican party organization will be heed /
ed and enforced. The situation was /
never more encouraging. There are /
$4,000 to $4,000 voters in Texas who |
have heretofore been voting with the /
Democratic party, who believe in |
sound money and protection to Amer
lean labor, who should join forces
with us in the coming campaign.
There is still another element, who
have been taking no part in politics
for years, although Republicans, now
that they can vote and work for the
Republican party, without sacrificing
self-respect, are with us. These men