The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1908-09-30
Q llIICll FINISH.
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ID John q. cap<rs. United. States in
ternal revenue commissioner. In ex-
pected 20 arrive IN Columbia today for
ths purpess Of anisting In naming the
nspublican electors for South Caro-
llna In the coming presidential elec-
Ation. Capers n national committee
man OF the Republican, party for
Dootb' Carolina and u looked upon az
the head OF the party In this State.
when the special committee ap-
pointed 10 select the electors of the
Rspubliean ticket meets. Ills not i'm
yprobabls that Il win not hsvs alto
osthsr smooth calling The commit
~ - composed ef white and black
nembsrs Of the party and there IL
unsIy to ~ Z wransls about the oom-
Do>nSon of>ths ticket to bs named. II
= knowA that some Of the white
npBsmbess of the party arc favorable to
~ proposltjon 70 eliminate the negro
snEifsly nom ths Iiss Of electors. The
>nHve - ssashsd the blacks and
s6ne e. shsm ssssrt that II . ma
)ogsty Of negroes are not named On
[. oDoooogs there win sb . split In the
1aFty.
= white man who has been more
ee-lsss prominently Identified with the
Hspublicsn party In this State for the
pass - years approached q white Re-
publican who has heretofore let the
party organisation severely alone In
} this state and asked him II he
fwould consent to his name being plac-
Cd on the ticket as one Of the electors
He declined to allow his name to be
used on the ticket along with that Of
. negro. whsreupon he was told thai
an effort was beng made to eliminate
the negro entirely from tho electoral
. ticket The gentleman referred to is
. native Of New York state: he has
never cast q vote In South Carolina
a.:d 10 not registered voter Of the
stste. He has never afiliated him
self with the black and white mixture
known as the Republican party In
, South Carolina and says he would
never consent to having his name
connected with II In tho slightest
way II q negro's name is to appear
along with his
Some Of the white Republicans of
the state--there ere possibly not
moro than a couple Of hundred--are
anxious TO eliminate the negro en-
tirely from the Republican organiza-
tion and from politics. but they are
forced to cater to the negro to some
extent lest they cause negroes In
other sections to withdraw their sup
port from the party candidates this
year. It is being realized that Taft
has only a fighting chance to win this
year and while some would like to
drop the negro from the Republican
party. they dare not do II before the
conclusion OF the present campaign.
but prominent white Republicans as
sert positively that the day OF the ne
gro as a part OF the Republican or
ganixation Is numbered. One man
went so far as to say that he did not
believe there would be a dozen ne
groes In the next national Repabll-
can convention. and that still another
four years would see him eliminated
entirely.
As a matter OF fact. the negroes In
South Carolina are less enthusiastic
this year over the national Republi-
can presidential ticket than. perhaps,
they have ever been since the date OF
their emancipation. There IL not the
slightest reason to doubt that the vote
for Taft and Sherman will be the
smallest ever cast In South Carolina
for Republican candidates since 1868.
10 is believed that this condition
exists pretty generally throughout the
country and Bryan Is expected to car
ry some OF the very close States OF
the Middle West because of the de-
fection OF the negro vote from the
Rspublicsna-Ths state.