REPUBLICAN PARTY OF TEXAS 
 The First 50 Years

HOUSTON, April 20

"The convention was composed of representative men, very few, if any, of whom appeared to belong to the class known as professional politicians.

Officers: Chairman, Lock McDaniel, of Harris. Secretary. A. B. Norton, of Dallas.

Delegates to the National Convention: State at large, H. F. McGregor, of Harris ; L. P. Goodell, of Tarrant ; W. N. Norton, of Dallas; J. B. Schmitz, of Denton.

Presidential electors: State at large, W. B. Slosson, of Harris, E. P. Scott, of Lamar.

Committee on Platform and Resolutions: 1st Congressional district, Henry Cline, 2. George F. Pool, 3. W. T. Koach, 4. E. P.Scott, 5. E. W. Norton, 6. W. H. Atwell, secretary, 7. H. K. Davis, 8. John L. Ward, 9. T. H. Dwyer, 10. W. R. Kimmons, 11. F. Fritz, 12. C. W. Standart, 13. W. S. McCutcheon, of El Paso, chairman.

PLATFORM

1. We reaffirm our allegiance to the great basic principles of the Republican party, protection, reciprocity, and internal improvements,, sustained by a sound financial system.

2. We favor bimetalism, i. e., the use of gold and silver coin as money of ultimate redemption.

3. We favor the immediate calling of an international monetary and reciprocity conference for the adoption of an international agreement, with such reciprocal clauses as to trade between countries that ratify the action of the conference as will force every country through self-interest to adopt the basis thus established.

4. We favor the Nicaraguan canal project.

5. We favor changing the basis of representation in the National conventions so that congressional districts, that are not represented by Republican congressmen at the time the congressional convention for the election of delegates is called, shall be entitled to elect but one delegate and one alternate.

6. We favor the adoption by the National convention of a code of procedure for State and district conventions, governing the election of delegates to the National convention, that will protect the integrity of the Republican party.

7. We favor all measures calculated to improve the condition of the colored race and that will enable an Afro-American citizen to better fulfill the obligations of and maintain the high standard of American citizenship.

8. We believe in a protective tariff that will protect our markets for America's products and that will insure American wages for American workmen. We 'believe in a protective tariff for Texas products horses, cattle, sheep, and all raw material as well as manufactured products.

9. We believe in the payment by this government of the bounty to sugar producers and manufacturers, as under the McKinley act of 1890, to the end that the production of sugar be stimulated until all that we can consume is produced by our own people in this country.

State Executive Committee: H. F. McGregor, chairman; 1st Senatorial district, Ed Davis, of Marion; 2. William Holliday, of Newton; 3. G. 0. Greiner, of Lamar; 4. J. T. Atcheson, of Cooke; 5. H. Wagner, of Hunt; 6. J. M. Steere, of Dallas; 7. John Gillis, of Wood; 8. blank; 9. P. Altbayer, of Kaufman; 10. George B. Colby, of Johnson; 11. Dr. A. M. Armstrong, of McLennan; 12. S. M. Jones, of Limestone; 13. blank; 14. J. T. Armstrong, of Jefferson; 15. R. F. Trau, of Polk; 16. Seth B. Strong, of Harris ; 17. F. Colwell, of Brazoria ; 18. and 19. blank; 20. T. L. Wren, of Travis; 21. F. A. Vaughan, of De Witt; 22. and 23. blank; 24. T. B. Johnson, of Bexar; 25. C. W. Standart, of Kinney; 26. blank; 27. W. Harvey, of Bell; 28. blank; 29. J. E. Lutz, of Wilbarger; 30. blank; 31. C. T. Ramsdell, of Denton.