TEXAS. 



The resolutions relating to national finances 

 were as follows : 



That the commercial and industrial stagnation 

 which has so long prevailed throughout the countrv 

 and the consequent widespread want and Bufterimr 

 are due directly to the pernicious financial legisla- 

 tion of the Republican party, which we hereby ar- 

 raign ; contraction of the currency and demonetiza- 

 tion of silver are denounced; the action of Congress 

 in restoring the debt-paying power of the silver dol- 

 lar is approved. 



We favor one currency for the Government and the 

 people, the laborer and the officeholder, the pensioner 

 and the soldier, the producer and the bondholder. 



We declare that all bonds and obligations of the 

 National Government ought to be paid in legal-ten- 

 der notes of the United States, except where it is 

 otherwise provided by the original law .under which 

 they were issued, and all that can be called in ahd 



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oldens of government. 



ing of the public domain upon 



10. No contract system by which convict labor is 

 brought in competition with honest labor. 



11. A more efficient system of criminal procedure 

 for the suppression of crime. 



.ii H n ? 8tv and economy in the administration of 

 public affairs, both State and national. 



Although the Greenback organization was 

 made up chiefly of opponents of the Democratic 

 party ot the State, there was a Republican Con- 

 vention held at Dallas, which adopted a plat- 

 form approving the Republican national plat- 

 form of 1876 and the Administration of Presi- 

 dent Grant; favoring a 



iwfully done. 



It was further declared to be the duty of the 

 Legislature to pass an act regulating the rates 

 of freight and tariff on all railroads in the State, 

 in obedience to the provisions of the State Con- 

 stitution. 



The Convention of the Greenback party was 

 held at Waco on the 8th of August. 



The candidates nominated were the follow- 

 ing: Governor, W. H. Hammons; Lieutenant- 

 Governor, J. S. Raine; Comptroller, H. A. Spen- 

 cer ; Attorney - General, Frederick W. Chan- 

 dler ; Treasurer, G. W. Whetstone ; Commis- 

 sioner of the Land Office, Jacob Kaucchler. 



The following platform was adopted by a 

 convention of the same party in March : 



Whereas, The object of our republican Govern- 

 ment is to protect alike the rights of every individ- 

 ual in the Union, irrespective of section, State, rich- 

 es, poverty, race, color, or creed ; and 



Whereas, Both the old political parties have per- 

 sistently ignored this fundamental principle, have 



_ -iry demand a return to specie pay- 

 ment ; charging the Democratic party with in- 

 volving the country in war, debt, and misery; 

 saying that the Government is pledged to re- 

 deem fully their bonds, which were the means 

 of maintaining the nation's life in time of peril, 

 and congratulating the country on the wise 

 financial legislation of the Republican party. 



The election on the 5th of November result- 

 ed in the choice of the Democratic candidate 

 for Governor by a large majority over Ham- 

 mons, Greenback, and Norton, Republican. 



The following is the vote for members of 

 Congress: First District Reagan, Dem., 18,- 

 038 ; Newton, opp., 199. Second District 

 Culberson, Dem., 19,728; O'Neil, Nat., 9,617. 



30,535 ; Smith, Nat., 9,039. Fifth District- 

 Hancock, Dem., 19,721; Jones, Nat., 21,101. 

 Sixth District Schleicher, Dem., 19,119; Ire- 

 land, Ind. Dem., 15,671. The Democratic ma- 



pauperize the masses to support a chosen few in idle- 

 ness and luxury : 



Therefore, ' we, the delegates of the Independent 

 Greenback clubs of the State of Texas, in convention 

 assembled, do hereby sever all connection with other 

 parties, organizing ourselves under the name of the 

 Independent Greenback party, and make this dec- 

 laration of our principles : 



1. The greenback dollar must be a legal tender for 

 the payment of all debts, and by the Government 

 issued, protected, and received at par with gold. 



2. The greenback to be a legal-tender money of 

 the country, and to be issued by the Government. 



8. The General Government alone to issue money, 

 and this for the benefit of all, and not to, through, or 

 for the enrichment of national bankers. 



4. All kinds of property owned by individuals or 

 corporations to be taxed alike. 



5. The immediate calling in of all United States 

 bonds, and the payment of them, principal and in- 

 terest, in legal-tender lawful greenback paper money 

 of the United States ; and that every dollar of such 

 issue of legal-tender lawful money be protected by 

 the Government as at par with other lawful money 

 in gold or silver coin, never to be converted into 

 bonds of any rate or class. 



6. Universal manhood suffrage, without property 

 qualification. 



7. An efficient system of public jfree schools, com- 

 mensurate with the growth and importance of our 

 State. 



was : Democratic, 

 160,474; National, 49, 059; Republican, 23,288. 

 Governor Roberts is a native of South Caro- 

 lina, born in 1815. He was educated at the 

 University of Alabama, studied law, and was ad- 

 mitted to the bar in 1838. After settling down 

 to practice in Alabama and serving one term 

 in the Legislature of that State, he emigrated 

 to Texas in 1841, and took up his residence at 

 San Augustine. He became District Attorney 

 in 1844, and District Judge the following year. 

 After the annexation he continued the practice 

 of his profession, and in 1857 was elected one 

 of the Associate Judges of the Supreme Court 

 of the State. He was President of the Seces- 

 sion Convention in 1861, and the next year 

 raised a regiment for the Confederate service, 

 and was assigned to duty in the division of 

 General Walker. While in the army he was 

 elected Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of 

 the State. He served in the first Reconstruc- 

 tion Convention in 1866, and was chairman of 

 its Committee on the Judiciary. The ensuing 

 Legislature elected him to the United States 

 Senate, but he was not permitted to take his 

 seat, as the reconstruction of 1866 was set 



