Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-09-29
|Bl0IAcE0R TIE SOUTA
CapeTs Says Republicans
Have KOpes ot Success
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In,Dixie Lana.
Says President Taft Has Entered
Upon the Right Road to Make
Gains for His Party i'm
the South.

Washington, d. c., Sept 24.-Capt
| John G. Capers, who has just retired
from the Office of commissioner of in.
ternaI revenue, is one of the leading
Republicans of the South. He is the
national committeeman from South
| Carolina, and by virtue of this posi-
| tion is consulted by the President or
matters of patronage in his state
Captain Capers did some very effec-
tive work in the campaign last year in
North Carolina and South Carolina
and also in some sections of Tennes-
see. Speaking of the Republican out
look in the South, Captain Capers
says: President Taft has entered upon
the right road to make gains for the
party.
The time has not only come, but
is at, hand" he said, when the South
will no longer be called. Solid In
the last few: years we have had con-
siderable new blood in the form OF
immigration from other states, and
the newcomers are favorable to Re-
publican policies. Take my district
for instance, which is represented by
Congressman Joseph T. Washington
a Democrat. We have in that district
seventy five cotton mills, and the ma
jor portion of the employees came
from Tennessee and NortH Carolina
where Republicanism is very strong
You can imagine, therefore, that the
doctrine of protection, for which the
Republican party stands, has a large
following. 1t may be that / shall an
nounce myself candidate for Con
gress from that district next year.
'The South has made great prog
ress in the last twenty years, not on.
ly in manufacturing enterprises, but
in every line of business. With that
progress there has been a lessening ol
the bitter feeling engendered by poll
ties. The Republican party today il
| the South contains some of the bes1
families, men born and bred in De
mocracy, who hav changed their po
| litica1 faith because of the changed
conditions. 1t used to be that Whe1
men from the North brought thei1
families South to live they identified
themselves with the Democratic par
| ty because of the local conditions
But, happily, these conditions hav.
| passed away and now one can pro
claim his Republicanism and affiliat
with the Republican party withou
| fear of social ostracism. / think thi
was made manifest in the vote cast il
the Southern states at the last presi
Dental election. . In that campaign
the Republicans carried three con
gressional districts in North Caro-
lima and held their own in Tennessee
President Taft understands tn
Southern situation thoroughly, al
though a party man, he is Presiden
of the whole people. He has show
by his appointments thus far that n
candidate Objectionable to the grea
body of the people will be appointe
to Office, no matter how strongly the
may be Endorsed. 1t seems to me tina
the South is on the eve of reformin
her political lines and preparing t
return to the position she occupie
prior to the evil days of 1860-61.
the tariff figures in the congressiona
campaign next year, you need not
surprised to see some Republica
gains in congressman in the South
ern states"