REPUBLICAN PARTY OF TEXAS 
 The First 50 Years

FORT WORTH, September 20

Only about half of the Committee of Thirty-Three, created by the Fort Worth convention in April, assembled at Austin on the day appointed. Those in attendance disagreed upon the subject of placing a State ticket in the field. It was agreed that a State convention should be called to deal with this subject. Chairman DeGress issued a call on August 29th.

Officers: Chairman, John T. Brady, of Harris. Secretary, J. E. Wiley, of Dallas.

Committee on Resolutions: 1st Congressional district, Richard Allen, 2. W. H. Stewart, 3. F. I. Richardson, 4. J. T. English, 5. J. M. Thomas, of Collin, 6. Eugene Marshall, chairman, 7. N. W. Cuney, 8. J. N. Brown, 9. J. W. McDonald, 10. W. H. Ellis, 11. W. L. Aldwell.

REPORT

We, your Committee on Platform and Resolutions, beg leave to report as follows:

[1] We cordially ratify the nomination of the eminent statesman and tried soldier, Benjamin Harrison, for President, and that able financier and philanthropic citizen, Levi P. Morton, for Vice-President, and do hereby pledge them our hearty support.

[2] We hereby declare that we are in thorough accord with the platform promulgated by the late National 'convention at Chicago, and with the principles of the National Republican party as enunciated, explained, and interpreted in the recent letter of Benjamin Harrison, accepting the nomination of the Republican party for President.

[3] We demand such National legislation as will give adequate protection to wool, hides, and all Texas products and industries.

[4] As citizens of this great State, the material welfare of which is to us paramount to every partisan consideration, we deplore the existence of the outrages which have been recently committed in Fort Bend and Washington counties.

T5] We believe that the growth, development and prosperity of this great State should not be retarded nor imperiled by the lawless acts of certain parties in these counties. We denounce these outrages and demand that their perpetrators be punished according to the law of the land without regard to party affiliation.

[6] In view of the fact that the Republicans of Texas have already placed a full electoral ticket in the field, and the further fact that there is no reasonable probability of electing a State Republican ticket, we hereby express our conviction that it would be unwise and in- expedient under these circumstances for the Republicans of Texas to place in the field any candidate or candidates for State offices.

Report was adopted by 256 ayes to 130 noes.