The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-10-08

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Washington, Oct. 5.-Believing the
time ripe in South Carolina to launch
Republican party, one that will be
such in reality as we'll as in name,
John G. Capers and other Republi-
cans, backed it is understood by nat
ional leaders, have decided to call
Convention at once with the purpose
of not only lining up all the G.. o. p.
people there, but as many Democrats
opposed to the incoming Adminstra-
ton as possible.
Mr. Capers today mailed copies Of
the following letter to a hundred or
| more men in different parts Of the
State, explaining in detail the reasons
for the calling of the Convention: ut
| will be established, when the next
| Republican Convention meets. that
there Is no Republican organization
in the State Of South Carolina at this
time. Any organization, through
State central committee 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 newly created State Of the
| Union or where party organization
has ceased, under the party law, to
| perform it's functions, the Republi-
| can national committee recognizes
what is called the mass meeting plan
| for organization or reorganization, as
the case may be.
mo such opportunity has existed
| to improve the personnel of the Re-
| publican party in South Carolina
since the Philadelphia Convention Of
| 1900, at which President Mckinley
was renominated without opposition
I and at that time the opportunity was
not taken advantage Of
] Under the circustances riade pos
sible only by recent development, I
feel 1t my duty. in spite of a strong
| personal desire to refrain from fur
! ther political effort to advise our
| people of this opportunity to organ
| ize in South Carolina, respectable.
| militant organization party, with
| some promise for a discussion here
| after of party issues and questions of
| government rather than a continu-
1 ance of the one party plan where
| the congressman are confined solely
| to discussion of the merits or de-
| merits of the candidates themselves.
| frequently accompanied by violent
| personal attacks of mouth and mus
] Gle.
| Therefore, as the member of the,
/ national Republican committee for
I our State, l write you to say that af-
| ter full consultation with personal
| friends and due notice you will please
| cause to be assemble at your county
| seat at II o'clock Wednesday, Oct
ober 26, meeting of men in sympa-
| thy with the poicies of the national
Republican party, and from such a
| meeting elect (blank) 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 CO.
| lumbia at II o'clock Thursday morn
| ing, October 27, for the purpose of
party 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 come as can
| didates to the Convention herein
| mentioned, If they are in sympathy
with the Republican party and its
| administration and national affairs.
| all which are of vital interest to the
whole country. and particularly at
| this time in the South"