REPUBLICAN PARTY OF TEXAS 
 The First 50 Years

FORT WORTH, May 23

The convention was well attended; one correspondent called it "the largest and whitest" Republican State convention held in many years.

Officers: Chairman,, Eugene Marshall, of Dallas. Secretary, John D. Van Demark, of Harris.

Delegates to the National Convention: State at large, H. F MacGregor, of Harris; Phil E. Baer, of Lamar: Eugene Mar-

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shall, of Dallas; C. W. Johnson, of Young; R. A. Harvin, of Brazoria; William McDonald, of Tarrant; C. L. McDowell, of Val Verde; R. S. Legate, of Grayson.

Presidential Electors: State at large, Eugene- Nolte, of Guadalupe ; James Field, of Burnet ; Charles R. Bone, of Jeffer son ; Fred Matthies, of Guadalupe ; District Electors. J. J. Dickerson, J. C. McBride, W. A. Hawn, M. A. Taylor, C. W. Beck, C. C. Martin, Ben Sass, J. Sam Angier, E. M. Tracy, J. M. Cope, J. C. Eakin, J. E. B. Stuart, Henry Ingerton, Nat Sulzbacher, Frank C. Blane, and F. M. Morton.

Committee on Platform and, Resolutions: William H. At- \vell, of Dallas, chairman, D. H. Morris, G. W. Eason, H. H. Duncan, M. A. Taylor, M. G. Brooks, H. A. Griffin, David Abner, R. A. Harvin, William White, T. J. Darling, H. Zweifel, Otis Bacon, Marshal Smith, Eugene Nolte, R. B. Slight.

PLATFORM 

1. The convention came out for protective tariff, in the payment of the expenses of the Nation.

2. The so-called "trust and industrial" laws were condemned as legislation calculated to drive capital into hiding and deprive labor of an opportunity to make an honest and legitimate wage.

3. As a return to the English espionage and picketing system, the continued multiplication of officers and commissioners to "smell, probe, and report," was condemned by the convention.

4. That the "blowing hot and cold" policies of the administration cease and the honor of the flag at home and abroad be maintained persistently.

5. That the shiftless indecision of the present administration, re sulting in the loss of American lives on the high seas and in Mexico, be condemned and that an adequate army and navy be maintained by the United States.

Additional Resolution

The delegates to the National convention were instructed to vote for the reelection of MacGregor as National committeeman.