REPUBLICAN PARTY OF TEXAS 
 The First 50 Years

AUSTIN, March 26

Failing in their efforts to vote down the report of the credentials committee, unable to stop the proceedings by boisterous conduct, and unsuccessful in their attempt to capture the stage by physical force, about sixty per cent of the delegates organized another convention immediately after Cuney declared the "Regular"  Republican convention adjourned. Chairman Grant mounted the rostrum and said: "I am now before the highest tribunal in the land that of the people through their representatives. I am here in the interest of liberty and freedom some thing we have been denied today. I stand before you as the chairman of the Republican State executive committee to demand for you the rights and privileges guaranteed to you by the constitution and laws of the State. The talk of the mob which has just left here about fairness and harmony is a hollow mockery. One man stands here and says we shall not be heard. As chairman of the State executive committee it matters not to me how you voice your sentiments, but I now give you a chance to voice them in your own way. I now declare the proceedings just had here null and void. You were sent here by the people to voice their sentiments, to attend an orderly convention. I now call such a convention to order and declare it open for business."

Officers: Chairman, Richard Allen, of Houston. Secretary, Lewis Luitwieler.

Delegates to the National Convention: State at large, John Grant, of Grayson; Frank Hamilton, of Travis; R. L. Smith, of Colorado; Dr. W. E. Davis, of Tarrant.

Presidential electors: State at large, A. H. Colwell, E. P. Hunt.

Committee on Platform and Resolutions: 1st Congressional district, D. C. Anderson, 2. H. B. Kane, 3. Webster Flanagan, chairman, 4. H. G. Goree, 5. Thomas McConnell, 6. D. N. Mason, 7. W. F. Banks, 8. C. C. Drake, 9. T. B. Rowland, 10. R, L. Smith, 11; J. W. Robinson, 12. E. Vanderlight, 13. Marshall Hunt.

REPORT

We believe that the question of protection to American industries in the coming presidential contest will be the leading issue and we, there fore, regard Hon. William McKinley as the logical Republican candidate, and instruct the delegates and alternates selected by this convention to vote for him at St. Louis as long as his name is before said convention.