The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-11-26
CAPERS ISSUES "MANIFESTO."
Exhorts 'Lily Whites" to Take COur-
age-Takes Fling at T0lbert
Faction.

Washington, Nov. 24-National
Committeeman John G. Capers today
issued manifesto No. 2 to the G. o ?.
of So 18th Carolina, Number 1, having
been issued just prior to the Lilly
White" convention held in Columbia
October 27.
Copies of this manifesto have been
sent to all of those who attended the
Columbia convention, with the watch
ord "organize"
In this communication Mr.. Capers
says:
81 have purposely waited until after
the election before referring to the Re-
publican convention held in Columbia
on October 27. All of us realized, of
course, that the probabilities were
that a Democratic wave would sweep
the country as it frequently does in
an off year, and I waited, as T wanted
to address a few lines to you in the
event of such a thing to urge you to
take courage and renew your efforts
along all proper lines looking to the
perfection and strength of the Repub-
lican organization we made good at
! Columbia.
Organize Counties.
eff you have not already done So.
let me urge that a county Republican
organization, based upon the Colum-
bia organization of October 27, be per-
fected in your county. That should
| be followed by regular call and the
organization of the congressional dis
trict and the election of congress
sional chairman and secretary.
Reports are to the organizations in
the counties and in the districts should
be sent to State Chairman Blalock at
GoldviNe, S. c.
Remember we took the keynote or
inspiration for the reorganization OF
our party from President Taft's state
ment at Greensboro, N. c., more than
three years ago when he was secretary
of war, in which he rebuked Southern
Republicans for having with few ex-
ceptions what he termed only a small
coterie of Federal ofice-holders who
took no interest in the organization of
their party or in it's elections, but who
seemed busy only in their efforts to
hold their federal jobs and to control
delegates to the national conventions
Three States Excepted.
'tHe made an exception Of North
| Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia in
this statement, and it was our effort,
and shall still be our effort to put
South Carolina where that State can
also be made an exception to such de-
! served rebuke. Do not be alarmed,
therefore, it some of those higher up
who claim to represent the president
are now deliberately organizing the Of
fce-hcIders in the State, at least all
of them who can be managed for the
purpose of controlling the delegation
to the next national convention. Such
an organization of federal of1ce-hold-
ers will have to form third republl-
can party in South Carolina, for Joe
Tolbert and his sixty-six varieties
claim to be the Republican party OF
the State. We know that we are the
Republican party Of the State, and,
therefore, this federal ofdce-holders
trust now being organized must come
into the regular party with US; go to
Joe and his sixty-six colored boys or
stand out in plain, direct, opposition
to the known and expressed senti-
ments of the president as coterie OF
federal ofice-holders looking only to
the retention Of. their federal jobs and
the control of delegation to the next
national convention
Has Inside "Tips."
"I know more than I care to disclose
why certain people reversed themsel-
YES as to sustaining our convention o;
; October 27, but it will all come out
right in due time, and as we represent
the only real Republican organization
in South Carolina, all we have to do
is to unselfshly press forward and
maintain the high ground taken at
! the Columbia convention.
mo severe criticism should be made
of the offce-holders in the State, who
in spirit of loyalty to the appoint
ment power whatever their amaze
ment must have been, halted or mark
ed time, and who still halt or mark
time, that is a matter which will work
itself out.
Cali we know is that there is not a
! of ann Pn411h1ioo0 Or