REPUBLICAN PARTY OF TEXAS 
 The First 50 Years

AUSTIN, August 14 and 15

The delegates who withdrew from the regular Republican convention proceeded to hold a convention of their own. Although the number was small, the committee on credentials re- ported that "the delegates who answered to their names and those acting with the convention, representing all parts of the State, possessed the proper credentials."

Officers: President pro tempore, G. W. Whitmore; permanent, D. F. Davis, of McLennan. Secretaries, A. P. Bennett and H. M. Taylor.

PLATFORM 1

Mr. Talbot, from the Committee on Platform, introduced the following resolutions:

Resolved, 1. That the Republicans of Texas indorse the platform and ratify the nominations of the convention held in Chicago, on the 21st day of May, A. D. 1868.

2. That we will do all in our power to carry out the Reconstruction Laws, and restore peace and civil government in Texas.

3 and 4. [Resolutions 3 and 4 are verbatim copies of Resolutions 1 and 2 of the Minority Report, p. 114, 115.]

5. That, in the opinion of this Convention, a liberal policy in the matter of the regulation of the elective franchise, a policy the dictate of prudence rather than revenge, will be best calculated to bring about harmony and acquiescence in the beneficent provisions of the Reconstruction Acts.

6. That, in the opinion of this Convention, the organic law of this State should embrace no prescriptive provisions looking to long probationary terms of residence as necessary qualification for office. This Convention believing that exclusive regulations of this sort will have a tendency to create the impression abroad that the Republicans of Texas are jealous of the influx of strangers.

7. That the establishment of just and liberal provisions in our organic law, placing our State among the most progressive of the Union, with a rigid and exact enforcement of the laws, will encourage emigration, promote prosperity, and at an early day suppress lawlessness and violence.

8. That the encouragement of manufactures and internal improvements, under some general and effective system, should, in our opinion, be made a part of the organic law. But of first importance is the establishment and support of a complete common school system, and we recommend that all money, claims, and property belonging to the school fund should be collected without delay and appropriated to this purpose and that other means, if wanting, should be supplied.

On motion of Hon. E. J. Davis, of Nueces, the resolutions were unanimously adopted.

State Executive Committee: M. C. Hamilton, of Travis; E. Degener, of Bexar; G. W. Smith, of Marion; P. W. Hall, of Robertson; C. W. Bryant, of Harris; A. Bledose, of Dallas; GK W. Whitmore, of Smith; J. W. Talbot, of  Williamson; B. F. Williams, of Colorado ; N. Patten, of McLennan ; and G. T. Ruby, of Galveston.