"However, in 1888, the struggle was begun by the organization of "white Republican clubs," for the purpose of controlling the county conventions that they might elect their delegates."
"It was their object to create a factional fight among the colored men, so that THEY would be free from blame. Their main fight was centered on the chairmanship of the convention, placing Louis Johnson against Ed. Davis, who was proposed by the Cuneyites for the position."
-- Maud Cuney Hare
Maud Cuney Hare was an American pianist, musicologist, writer, and African-American activist in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. She was born in Galveston, the daughter of famed civil rights leader Norris Wright Cuney, who led the Texas Republican Party during and after the Reconstruction Era, and his wife Adelina (née Dowdie), a schoolteacher.
In 1913 Cuney-Hare published a biography of her father.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maud_Cuney_Hare
She has an entire chapter (chpts.93) devoted to "The Lily White Republican" insurgents.
Free E-Book: Norris Wright Cuney: a tribune of the black people - Maud Cuney-Hare - Google Books https://books.google.com/books?id=ZqU6AQAAIAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false