Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-10-07
LILY WHITE MOVEMENT AGAIN.
Capers Issues Call For Reorganization
In This State.

Fresh from the Republican gather
ing in New York on Saturday night,
says the Washington correspondent of
the Columbia State, John G.. CaperS,
national committeeman for South Car
olina, today mailed out the following
letter to over 100 men i'm various parts
of South Carolina, in the effort to
found a new Republican organization
in that state:
"Greenvlle, S. c., Oct. 5, 1910.
Dear Sir: 1t will be established.
when the next Republican national
convention meets, that there is no Re-
publican organization i'm the state of
South Carolina at this time. Any or
ganiZation, through a state central
committee, or q state executive COM
mittee, which may have existed, has
now ceased to exist and the necessity
for party reorganization is apparent.
Where no party organization exists
in a newly created state Of the Union,
or where a party organization has
ceased, under the party law, to per-
form it's functions the Republican ma
tiOnal committee recognizes what is
called the mass meeting plan, for or
ganiZatiOn or reorganization as the
case may be.
mo such opportunity has existed to
improve the personnel of the Republi-
can party in South Carolina since the
Philadelphia convention of 1900, at
which President Mckinley was re-
nominated without opposition and at
that time the opportunity was not
taken advantage of.
Under the circumstances, made
possible only by recent developments,
feel it my duty, in spite of a strong
personal desire to refrain from fur
Their political effort, to advise our peo-
Dle of this opportunity to organize in
South Carolin a respectable, militant
opposition party with some promise for
discussion hereafter of party issues
and questions Of government, rather
than a continuance cf the ore party
plan. where the campaigns are confined
solely to a discussion Of the merits or
demerits of the candidates themselves,
frequently accompanied by violent per-
sonal attacks of mouth and muscle.
Therefore. as the member Of the
national Republican committee for our
state, | write you to say that after
full consultation with personal friends
and due notice, you will please cause
to be assembled at your county seat at
IL o'clock Wednesday, October 26,
meeting Of men in sympathy with the
policies of the national Republican
party, and from such a meeting elect
delegates, and an equal number of al
ternates (the number allowed your
county by law), said delegates to meet
i'm convention at the opera house i'm the
city of Columbia at II o'clock Thurs
day morning, October q, for the pur-
poses of party reorganization.
"Those In your county who have
participated recently in the Democra-
tic primaries, the candidates beinP for
purely local or state offices. are entire
ly eligible to come as candidates to the
convention herein mentioned, II they
are in sympathy with the Republican
party and it's administration Of nation
al affairs, all Of which are Of vital in
terest to the whole country and parti-
cularly at this time to the south.
Respectfully yours.
(SignedD John G. Capers,
South Carolina Member Republican
National Committee"
1t is understood that the Republican
national leaders are interested In this
movement and that an effort will be
made to build up a white Republican
party in South Carolina in time 10 par
tcipate in the campaign of 1912.