The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-10-05
WILL MEET
Cap.rs Issues Call for Republicans in The
State 10 Meet
PARTY OF LILY WHITES

May BE Formed, as the National
Committeeman Assures the Re-
publicans and Near Republicans
That They Will BE Welcome in
the New Party.
The Washington correspondent of
The State says John C. Capers, fresh
from the Republican gathering in
New York on Saturday night, as
national committeeman for South
Carolina mailed out on Wednesday
the following letter to over 100 men
in various parts of South Carolina,
in the effort to found a new Republi-
can organization in that State:
"Greenville, Oct. 5 1910.
Dear Sir: 1t will he established.
when the next Republican ma
tional convention meets that
there is no Republican organiza-
ton in the State of South Ca:ol;na
at this time. Amy organization,
through a State central comnittee.
or a State executive committee, which
may have existed, has now ceased TO
exist and the necessity for party re-
organization is apparent.
Where no party organization ex-
lists in a M wly created State Of the
| Union. or where a party organization
has ceased, under the party law, 70
| perform its functions the Republi-
con national committee rec1gnizes
what is called the mass meeting
plan, for organization or reorgaan;-
cation as the case may be.
mo such ODD. .u.:i:Hhas existed
to improve the personnel Of the R.
publican party in S":a Carolina
since the Philadelphia convention Of
1900, at -hici P 'ns:AsEt Mckinley
was renominated withou. opposition
and at that time the OPP 'rLunIly was
not taken ~ an sHA &C
Under the circumstances. made
ossjhlo only by recent de'e 'r-
ments, 1 feel ( my duty, in spi:
of a strong personal desire to refrain
from further political effort, to ad
wise our people of this opportunity
to organize in South .~.arolina a 'e-
spectacle, militant opposition party
with some promise for 4 discussion
hereafter of party issues and ines
tons of government, rather than a
continuance of the one n'iy plan
where the campaigns are confined
solely to a discussion of the n.e,l.s
or dement's of the candidates them
selves frequently accompanied oy
violent personal attacks Of mouth
and muscle.
Therefore, as the member Of the
national Republican committee Tor
our State, l write you to say that
after full consultation with personal
friends and due notice you will
please cause to be assembled at ycrr
county ceat at IL o'clock Wednes-
day. October &c. a meeting of me-
in sympathy of the national Republi-
can party, and from such a meet.
ing eject delegates, and an equal
number of alternates (the number
allowed your county by law, said
delegates TO meet in convention at
the opera house in the city Of Column
bia at II o'clock Thursday morning.
October 81. for the purposes OF par
ty reorganization.
Those in your county who have
participated recently in the Demo-
cratic primaries. the candidates be-
ing for purely local or State Offices,
are entirely eligible to ONE as cand-
idates to the convention herein men,
toned. if they are in sympathy with
the Republican party and its ad-
ministration of national affairs, all
of which are of interest to the whole
country and particularly at this
time to the South.
Respectfully yours.
(Signed) John 6, Capers.
South Carolina Member Republican
National Committee"
1t is understood that the Republi-
IAN national leaders are interested in
this movement and hat an effort
will be made to build up a white Re-
publican party in South Carolina In
time to participate in the campaign
of 1912.