Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-01
Mistellanru,ts 8rading.
A NEGRoLESS PARTY.
White Republicans Seek to Launch
New Organization.

| New Organization.
| Columbia Record, Friday.
State chairman-L. w. c. Blalock,
Laurens.
Vice chairman-I. H. Norris, York.
Secretary-D. H. Wallace, Union.
| Remainder of state executive COM
mittee composed of three members
| from each of the seven congressional
districts.
| The Platform Adopted.
THE Republican party of South
| Carolina, in convention assembled IN
the opera house in the city Of Colum
bia. this 9th day of October, 1910, at
firms it's loyalty to the principles OF
the Republican party, as adopted at its
last national convention, in the city OF
Chicago, in June, 19OS.'
None but qualified electors may be
members of clubs or delegates to con-
ventions.
Conspicuous Absentees.
Shortly after noon National Com
mittceman Capers called the corVen-
ton to order. Several hundred per-
SONS were present. Conspicuous alb
seatees were the collector of Internal
revenue for South Carolina, MAJOR
Micah Jenkins OF Columbia; the COL
lector of the port of Charleston, Mr..
r. w. Durant; the United States dis
trict attorney, Mr.. E. F. Cochran OF
Anderson; the postmaster of Charles
ton, Mr.. Harris; the postmasters OF
Columbia, Spartanburg, Greenville'
Anderson and Sumter, Messrs. G. h.
Higgins. Mart Floyd, ]. F. Richard-
son. John R. Cochran, Jr, and Geo. d.
Shore
The Call Is Read.
Captain Capers read the call, issued
bv himself, upon which the body had
met. He said it had appeared to him
and his associates that it was neces-
sary to take this step just now, for the
perpetuation of the party in South
Carolina. He thought the oppor-
tunity ripe for the rehabilitation of the
party here, the Improvement OF its
personnel and its development into
militant, respectable organization,
which would have some voice in ma
tional affairs.
Capers Sounds Keynote.
Captain Capers was elected tempo
rary chairman. He then proceeded TO
deliver the keynote" speech OF the
convention. 1t referred mainly to the
elimination of the negro from the
councils of the party in this section;
and every utterance along this line
was warmly cheered.
Not Taft's Suggestion.
Captain Capers said, in part:
1T should be stated at the outset
| that this convention was not assem-
bled at the suggestion Of the adminis-
| tration in Washington.
1.-The fact that we have as delegates
very few, If any, Federal officeholders
and that there. will not be an officer ot
this new organization from chairman
down to doorkeeper who holds Fed
eral office should be the best evidence
of the fact the convention is here in
| answer to a call from the people OF
South Carolina to take advantage OF
| the fact that there does not now exist
Republican organization in this state
operating under either the state or the
party law upon such matters.
No Antaeonism.
| This should not be taken to mean,
however, that we entertain any antag-
onism to our splendid national admin
| istration, or to our patriotic and wise
| president, but simply as an expression
of our independence of Federal patron
age in organizing a high class opposi-
ton party which we believe will de-
Velop so as to be representative OF
the brains, culture and business in
| terests Of our state.
The CaroIinas Compared.
| To-day the vice president OF the
United States is campaigning in our
sister state of North Carolina urging
the reelection of three Republican
congressman and steadfast adher-
ence to the principles of the national
administration. How uniting 1t would
be to invite him to campaign South
| Carolina and address the few and scat
tered members of our political faith,
who without a party organization or
fixed purposes could not furnish such
distinguished citizen the audiences or
| the support to which his high office
would entitle him. We are here to
| inaugurate a movement and perfect
party organization which we believe in
no distant day will command such con-
fidence and respect as to justify Re-
publican president himself in coming
among the people Of his party in South
Carolina.
| "The Goat"
THE northern and western Repub-
licans who have for the last forty
years made the southern Republican
| the goat of the national situation.
| should be made to take care of their
own colored neighbors and where
these white men are in congress be-
| cause of the cOlOred mans vote in their
districts, they should urge a Republi-
can president to provide for them in
| the distribution of Federal patronag"
If not indeed send a few of them to
congress from the north and west,
rather than attempt to palliate the
colored voter in the doubtful states
by Afrcanzing the South Atlantic and
Gulf coast through the appointment
of the colored man to office in a Sec
ton of our country where he exercises
no political power whatever, and where
such appointments have only resulted
in keeping the white Republican of the
south in helpless political bondage.
That is why it has resulted, as Mr..
Taft said at Greensboro, that except
in two or three southern states there
is a little corterie of politicians who de-
vote themselves solely to the selection
of delegates to the national conVen-
tions, who devote no time and energy
| whatever to elections and whose whole