Platforms of Political Parties in TexasErnest William Winkler The University, 1916 - 700 Seiten |
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1st Congressional district Additional Resolutions administration adopted amendment August Austin Bastrop believe Bexar blank candidates Chairman pro tempore citizens Collin Commissioner Committee on Platform Comptroller Congress Constitution convention are taken convention assembled corporations Dallas Dallas Morning declare delegates demand Democracy of Texas Democratic party DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION denounce Denton election enactment Executive Committee Fannin favor Fayette Federal Fort Worth free schools Galveston George Governor Grayson Harris Harrison Houston indorse issue J. W. Henderson James John Johnson labor Lamar Land Office legislation legislature liberty Lieutenant-Governor M. J. Nolan McLennan minority report National convention Navarro nomination opposed organization party of Texas permanent Platform and Resolutions pledge political President Presidential Electors primary election principles proceedings prohibition Prohibition party protection purpose railroad Republican party Resolved Rusk school fund secure Silas Hare silver Smith tariff Tarrant taxation tion Travis Treasurer United Vice-President vote Waco
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Seite 1 - The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
Seite 320 - Still one thing more, fellow-citizens, a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
Seite 337 - ... both metals must be of equal intrinsic and exchangeable value, or be adjusted through international agreement or by such safeguards of legislation as shall insure the maintenance of the parity of the two metals and the equal power of every dollar at all times in the markets and in the payment of debts; and we demand that all paper currency shall be kept at par with and redeemable in such coin. We insist upon this policy as especially necessary for the protection of the farmers and laboring classes,...
Seite 142 - ... of good faith and the usages of common decency, and that, encouraged and aided by the party in power, he has attempted to usurp or control legislative and judicial functions, and thus establish a consolidated personal government, destructive of the rights of the States and the liberties of the people.
Seite 337 - We hold to the use of both gold and silver as the standard money of the country, and to the coinage of both gold and silver without discriminating against either metal or charge for mintage...
Seite 487 - In a Republic like ours, where the citizen is the sovereign and the official the servant, where no power is exercised except by the will of the people, it is important that the sovereign— the people— should possess intelligence. The free school is the promoter of that intelligence which is to preserve us...
Seite 444 - Pacific oceans, the election of United States senators by direct vote of the people...
Seite 502 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political: peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none: the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns, and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies...
Seite 503 - Constitution providing for the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people, and we favor direct legislation wherever practicable.
Seite 79 - The right has been established of every citizen to take his property of any kind, including slaves, into the common territories belonging equally to all the States of the confederacy, and to have it protected there under the Federal Constitution. Neither Congress nor a territorial legislature, nor any human power, has any authority to annul or impair this vested right.