The first person to put beans in chili was probably neighbors with the first person to make chili.
Thus, chili with beans is as legitimate as without and just as "Tex-Mex".
It started as a "this is all we have to make food from" fare.
It became a staple of cattle drives because the ingredients are resistant to spoilage in the chuck-wagon.
Beans, likewise, were staple cattle drive food for the same reason.
It wouldn't and didn't take long for the cow-pokes to mix the two items, assuming the cook hadn't done it already.
Listening to "Texans" pontificating about chili sans beans reminds me of nothing so much as a hipster waxing poetic about some form of music that is "better" without an instrument which made the descendant of that music iconic.
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