Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-01
ventions. We may as well place tn
responsibility where it belongs.

THE time has come for southern Re-
publicans to take care of themselves
and to do so as they have done in
North Carolina by giving a Republican
candidate for president, one hundred
and fourteen thousand votes and elect
| ing three Republican congressman.
then, and not until then, will they rise
to the political Importance and dignity
of West Virginia, Ohio or New York.
I'VE southern Republicans must
realize that even a kind providence
only helps those who help themselves.
An "Off Year"
This is an off year in national pol
itics and while I believe the Republi-
can party will carry New York and
control the next national house of rep
resentatives, Democratic house could
only force the Republican administra-
ton to mark time, it could not upset
the wise legislation already enacted
nor could it accomplish single thing
upon which to successfully appeal to
the country in 1912. In fact, the Re-
publican party would Immediately get
together as never before in its history
and sweep a Republican president
back into the White House two years
hence.
Appeal to New North.
I'm such a battle for ballots the
southern Republican has the opportu-
nifty of his political life and we are
here today in our modest efforts or
ganizing a real opposition party for
work in promising fields of the new
south, and appealing in our efforts to
such a new north as was so eloquently
described by Col Willett Of Alabama
in his address before the Union League
in Chicago in these words:
You have heard of a new south
and there is new south, striving with
might and main to build up all the
waste places and give the priceless
boon of education alike to white and
colored races, but there Is also a new
north. which is just as distinct as the
new south.
1.-The north of Sumner, Ben Wade
and Thad Stevens, breathing venge-
ance and passion against the south
has given way to the north Of Charles
Francis Adams, William Mckinley and
William Howard Taft, breathing moth
ing but loving kindness. 1t is no Won
der we are one people. 1t would be
something strange if we were not"
The Machine Well Oiled.
Every detail had been arranged in
advance. Even the committee reports,
the lists of the committees themselves,
had been prepared and neatly typed at
Captain Capers room in the Columbia
hotel There was evident a deter
mination that nothing should be left
to chance, no opening be given for al
legations of irregular procedure.
When Captain Capers had concluded
his speech, the routine motions neces-
sary to perfect a temporary organiza-
ton and resolve this into permanent
organization were put and carried in
quick succession. Mr.. Dan ii. Wallace
of Union, son of the late Judge VIM. H.
Wallace, who was chairman Of the ia
nous wallace House" that wrested
control of the state government from
the negroes in Reconstruction times.
was elected temporary chairman. On
motion the chairman appointed a COM
mittee on resolutions and organization.
one on platform, one on nominations
and one on credentials. While these
were preparing" the typewriter re
ports" which had been handed them
from the rostrum, Mr.. S. B. Blakely OF
Fairfield, one of the oldest delegates
present spoke briefly, on invitation OF
Mr.. Lawson D. Melton of Columbia,
upon the evolution of the respectable
white Republican" of South Carolina.
He cordially welcomed this movement,
and believed the meeting Of the con-
vention marked the beginning of new
era in the political history of the
state.
The Committees.