The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1912-04-17
CAPT. JOHN q. CAPERS
OUT FOR CONGRESS
announces that He will Run en Re.
publican Ticket for Congress from
This District.

Pu"iSuu IChet IOr congress from
This District.
Capt. John G. Capers, of Greenyille.
South Carolina member of the repub-
lican national committee announced
last Wednesday that he would be a
candidate for congress against Joseph
t. Johnson, the present representa-
tive.
In an interview at the Gresham ho-
tel In Spartanburg, where he was con-
ferring with republicans from several
counties of the Piedmont, Captain Ca
pers declared that he would give Mr..
johnson a hot race.
There are $4,000 voters in the
Fourth congressional district" said
Captain Capers, who have come here
from North Carolina and Tennessee
and are working in the mills. These
men Will vote for republican candi-
date II he is clean, decent white
ldS DGGu ITO ODDOrJun-
ity here to vote for republican of
good repute for 16 years. These men
are naturally republicans and would
vote the republican ticket If there
we're republican organization and
republican candidate of which they
were not ashamed. AS there has been
no respectable republican party, they
have had to turn to the democratic
primary.
Furthermore, the mill presidents
VIII remove their estoppal If the re-
publican party will put forward re-
spectacle candidates. Heretofore they
nave discouraged in a Ineffective way
any movement on the part of their
employees to support the republic an
party, but that was because the par
ty was controlled by negroes and such
men as Joe Tolbert. The mill presi-
dents like Lewis w. Parker. of Green
vile, are friendly to me and would
have no objection to their EMPLOYEES
voting for me-"
Nuh Wcb Il uDllc BullulngS.
Captain Capers said that he esteem
ed Congressman Johnson, but that
the latter was not in position to do
much for the district
IF the voters of this congressional
district will send me to congress- >
said Captain Capers, Il will be OF
great value to them. | will secure
public buildings, for one thing"
The republican nomination is made
by convention and not by the demo,
cratic method of a primary There
is no doubt, however, of Captain Ca.
pers' ability to secure the nomina-
tion.
However, the black and tan" re.
puDlicans may also put out candi
date. They nominated Tom Briar. q
Greenville negro, for congress two
years ago.
Captain Capers said he was more
interested in the establishment of q
clean. respectable republican party in
South Carolina than in the question
of whether Taft or Roosevelt would
be nominated.
Il will frankly admit" said he,
that the party in South Carolina as
up to this time constituted, has been
disreputable organization. have
been in disgrace with my family and
intimate friends for being repuh.
lican. And as the principles fol
which the republican party stands are
as dear to me as my personal integ-
rity, it is necessary for me to remove
the stigma which attaches to the
name of republican in South Caroline
by establishing respectable party
Captain Capers said that the title
lilly whites" was a misnomer. as
negroes would not be entirely ex.
cluded from the Capers-Blalock par.
ty. In some of the coast counties
there are no white republicans at all
he said, and it would be necessary tc
have few negro delegates, but col.
ored men Of unquestioned respect.
ability would be chosen
He said that probably six of the
lilly white" delegates to the repub.
lican national convention would be
negroes.-Spartanburg Journal.
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