The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1912-10-23
THEY PRAISE TAFT
EPUBLICANS TO NAME AN ELEC-
TORIAL TICKET.

No State Convention Will Be Held,
Nor Will Any State Ticket BE
Nominated.
Tht State says the Republican
State Executive Committee with 70
counties represented was held in Co.
lumbia on Monday and adopted res
olution indorsing President Taft tor
reelection and issued call for dis
trict conventions to be held when
candidates for congress will be nam
ed to contest with the Democratic
nominees in every district in the
State. A subcommittee of nine mem
bers was namtd to prepare list or
electors to be approved by the entire
committee. The committee decided
rot to call State convention at pres
ent and not to put out State ticket.
The committee met upon the call OF
J. R. Tolbert, the State chairman,
and the names of "the nine citizens
who are all worthy, upr git men,,
who are to be on the electoral ticket
will be made public soon.
A roll call developed that there
was not member Of thu committee
vic favored the candidacy Of Th"r-
dore Roosevelt. Members Of the COM
mittee said that it was the intention
to oust all supporters Of the Bull
Moose party. The following rcsolu-
ton was adopted by the committee:
''The Republican party presents as
it's candidate for president the Hon.
William Howard Taft of Ohio. His
administration of the Office of presl-
dent of the United States has been
marked by the passage Of more Geas-
ures of real progress 1ha.l any pre-
vious administration. He has con-
Quoted the affairs of the nation with
wisdom and prudence, but without
vain and spectacular display and
has appealed to the reason Of >nen
and not to their emotions, PASSIONS
or prejudices. Above all he has been
the president of the whole country
and not merely the president OF a
section; he has been the president
for all the people and has in every
way labored in the interests Of the
people as a whole without regard to
party, creed or class. No man ever
sat in the White House who has
shown such an interest as he has
shown in the welfare, the progress
and pappiness of the South. No can
didate for president has had greater
right to ask or expect the suffrages
of the citizens of the South than has
the present incumbent, who at all
times and in all seasons and clrcum-
stances has been the president of
reunited country and maintained
that the South was entitled to re-
ceive the same fair and impartial
treatment as that accorded other
sections of our common country.
Therefore, the Republican party
OF South Carolina appeals to all cit
liens of South Carolina, without re-
gard to previous political affiliations,
who believe in fair play and square
DEAL who believe in progress on safe
and sane lines, who believe in main
tanning our constitutional and repre-
sentative form of government, who
believe that the people of this State
should be politically free and no long
er bound in the cast iron straight
Jacket of the Southern Democratic
party, to cast their votes for Presi-
dent Taft.
"The Republicans of South Caro-
lima have placed in the field as can
didates for the electoral college nine
citizens who are all worthy, upright
men, and who command the respect
of the communities in which they
live. An opportunity is now offered
for every man in this State to vote in
presidential race his honest con-
victions.
eve urge all true men to vote for
the ticket, which in their honest
Judgment will best promote the in
Iterest of the whole country.
| eve hereby declare that all mem
bers of the Republican State execu-
tive committee, as at present consti-
tuted, are loyal members Of the Re-
publican party and hereby pledge
ourselves and the organization we re-
present to support the candidates and
platform held last June in Chicago" ,"