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     Lily-White Movement   
      
      
   Paul D. Casdorph General Entry   
      
   Lily-White Movement.The "lily-white" movement began within the   
   Republican party after the Civil War. From the first days of   
   Reconstruction, a fight developed not only in Texas but across the South   
   between White and Black factions for control of the newly formed party.   
   As White GOP leaders sought "respectability" among Southern voters and a   
   conviction grew that continued "black and tan" involvement thwarted   
   expansion of the party, the lily-white Republicans began an organized   
   effort to drive Blacks from positions of party leadership. Though Texas   
   Blacks appealed to Northern party managers to halt the movement,   
   lily-whiteism flourished because Republican presidents after 1865 wanted   
   approval from the Southern White masses. The term lily-white apparently   
   originated at the 1888 Republican state convention in Fort Worth, when a   
   group of Whites attempted to expel a number of black and tan delegates.   
   Norris Wright Cuney, the Black Texas leader who controlled the state   
   party from 1883 until his death in 1896, promptly labeled the insurgents   
   "lily-whites," and the term was soon applied to similar groups   
   throughout the South.   
      
   Actually, an organized lily-white movement had begun in Texas during the   
   1870s, when the party was dominated by former governor Edmund J. Davis.   
   But once Cuney gained the national committeemanship in 1884 upon the   
   death of Davis, the lily-whites started a concerted drive for mastery.   
   Though Cuney was reappointed to the national committee at the 1892   
   Republican national convention, the Black-White struggle in Texas   
   resulted in a fractured party and the first GOP state convention without   
   a black and tan delegation in attendance. The 1892 election proved a   
   turning point for both GOP factions as Cuney aligned the black and tans   
   behind George Clark, a conservative Democrat, in his fight with James S.   
   Hogg, and the lily-whites nominated Andrew Jackson Houston for the   
   governorship. Houston, son of Sam Houston and a future United States   
   senator, received only 1,322 votes in the November election, while Cuney   
   suffered a dual setback: not only did Clark go down in defeat, but the   
   Democrat Grover Cleveland won the presidency, so that Cuney lost all   
   federal patronage.   
      
   Southern GOP leaders, Black and White, relied upon the dispensation of   
   federal jobs to maintain their state organizations; and when Cuney lost   
   out under Cleveland, the door was opened for a lily-white takeover.   
   Though Cuney was replaced as national committeeman as well as state   
   chairman during the 1896 campaign, other black and tan leaders emerged   
   to lead the state party. Edward H. R. Green (son of multimillionaire   
   Hetty H. R. Green), who arrived in Texas to oversee his mother's   
   railroad empire, captured the party after Cuney's downfall by forming a   
   political alliance with William M. (Gooseneck Bill) McDonald, a Black   
   banker from Fort Worth. The Green-McDonald partnership, however, was   
   unable to stem the lily-white insurgents, and after Green's withdrawal   
   as state chairman in 1902, Cecil A. Lyon, a White businessman from   
   Sherman, took control. Lyon generally spearheaded the party and the   
   movement in Texas until his death in 1915.   
   - 100 % OF THE XL PIPES ARE MADE IN CANADA FROM A RUSSIAN COMPANY   
      
   - THE TAR-SAND SLUDGE REQUIRES 3 BARRELS OF WASTE PRODUCTS TO BE ADDED   
   TO BE PUMPED THROUGH THE PIPE.   
      
   - THE REFINERY AT THE END OF THE PIPE HAS TO GET RID OF THOSE 3 BARRELS   
   OF WASTE   
      
   - IT ACTUALLY COSTS MORE TO PROCESS THE SLUDGE THAN WHAT IT IS WORTH.   
   THE CURRENT BREAK-EVEN PRICE IS $70 BARREL.   
      
   - CANADA CAN'T REFINE THE SLUDGE BECAUSE THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT   
   EXCEEDS IT'S OWN LAWS . THAT IS WHY THEY NEED TO EXPORT IT.   
      
      
   - THE TOTAL JOBS ARE 1000 PART-TIME CONSTRUCTION GRUNTS HIRED LOCALLY AS   
   THE PIPE LINE MOVES.   
      
   - LONG TERM PERM JOBS ARE 150.   
      
      
   - COAL MINING JOBS ARE BOOMING   
      
   - UBER DRIVERS ARE ALWAYS NEEDED   
      
      
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   The CANCEL CULTURE is code word meant for poorly educated #TrumpBillies   
   that are too stupid to comprehend what AT WILL EMPLOYMENT means .. fired   
   for being an asshole !   
      
      
   Kinda ironic that many work in "right to work" states that discourage   
   unions. They even voted enthusiastically for people who work to destroy   
   unions. Now, when the shoes are on their feet they find that it really   
   sucks. But they're too fucking stupid to connect the dots.   
      
      
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