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A CONSISTENT RECORD OF TRUE DEMOCRACY NEVER FALTERING OR WAVERING A HAIR'S BREADTH. The Democrats of the Fifth District honored themselves yesterday in unani mously renominating Hon. W. Vv. Kitchiu for Congress for the sixth con secutive time. Mr. Kitchin, while one of the youngest men in Congress, is the oldest m point of service of any North Carolina member either in the House or Senate, and no man of his years in either House is an abler or more capable servant of the people. He was brst elected in 1896, when the whole State was in the hands of the Fusionists, and he owes his first victory to a magnifi cent campaign in which he championed the cause of the whole people and handled without gloves the trusts that feed on the people, not forgetting to show how the tobacco trust, with head quarters in his district, was robbing the people. During all the years he has been in Congress, without faltering or waver in a hair's breadth, he has stood for fundamental Democratic principles just as his distinguished kinsman, Nathaniel Macon, did, against monopolies, and special privilege and the like. He stands firmly on Democratic ground. He does not fight special privileges in New Sgland and bsilent while the tobacco trust robs the farmer of his State. He does not declaim against the iniquitous ship subsidy and then vote for a more iniquitous subsidy to the Southern Rax -way because it runs through his dis trict He stands for principle and makes no exceptions or saving clauses for the trusts of his own State. It i because Mr. Kitchin's record has been so consistent and he has championed old fashioned Democratic principles so abl. that he has held the confidence and en thusiastic support of his constituents. Four years ago, when some timid Democrats doubted tne wisuom "standing pat" on the Kansas City plat form, Mr. Kitchin made a speech in the Democratic State Convention that has been equaled only once in this decade, and that was by the speech of Mr. Ay cock in accepting the nomination for Governor. During the recent session of Congress Mr. Kitchin made several im portant speeches, the most notable being his masterly speech against the subsidy for the so-called fast mail of the South ern Railway and the L. and N. That speech exposed the pure subsidy of the su-ar-coated proposition, and though abTe men sought to find plausible ex cuse or reason for supporting the sub sidyor "steal," as Ben Tillman calls it no argument could answer Bill Kitchin's terrible onslaught upon it. He was powerful and effective because he stood upon the solid ground of an eternal principle. When he had finished the subsidy majority, that had formerly been large, "swunk" to one jority, nton5nff its unhonored doom. While Mr. Kitchin does not belong to that class of statesmen who measure ..fia K-cr crpttinsr "pork" for their uat. i uinvoo t o friota thouffh securing appropria fnr Tipped improvements is an 11UHO I"1 A : n,tflnt while the least service of a statesman he has not failed to get money for public buildings for his dis trict and for Guilford Battle Ground. aA 1,0 "Fifth District has more public buildings than any district in the sfQf Ttaleisrh News and Observer, Julv 3, 1906. KITCHIN'S POSITION IN GUBERNA TORIAL CAMPAIGN OF 1908. fF.vtracts from speech of W. W Kitchin delivered in Raleigh, June 4, "The. Democratic party is in favor of regulating the natural monop olies, but you can not regulate trusts, for trusts are unnatural monopolies. I have found no intelligent man who thinks that we can fix the price of trust products. You can hedge them around as much as you please, but so long as they fix the prices they will plunder the people. But they will not plunder the farmer to the extent that they will kill the goose that lays the golden egg. They intend to pay the farmer enough to give him a profit, but they will fix the lowest price that will still keep him producing the products. When you find that you can not regulate them you are driven to the position that trusts are iniquitous and should not exist. "When the monopolist fixes the price, "a fine is no punishment on Him. He will get it back out of the people. You must let the human beings back of them know that it is better to obey the law than to violate it, to let them know that if they hold the law in contempt and break it at will, they will be put behind the prison bars. "These special interests will not pick me out as the nominee of the Democratic party if they have the power of naming the nominee. Don't understand me to say that the men who are not with me are under the railroad and trust innu ences many are; don't understand me to say that Craig and Home would not make good Governors. "If they (the special interests) thought I was a bad man they would gladly present the evidence. I have incurred their hostility because I have always had the courage to stand for the rights of the people and have not acquiesced in their wrongs, because I have always stood for the interests of the people and have not courted the favor of the railroads and the trusts. "Suppose they (the special inter ests) can defeat mi in this cam paign. Will they not say to your State officials and to your Con gressmen and Senators, TBehold the fate of Kitchin! Do you remember himt Kitchin's severest critic never accused him of deserting the people, of bowing before the public service corporations, and the people deserted him and retired him.$rom public life. Now, Mr. Public Servant, you had better listen to us or we will turn you out of office.' They play politics all the time. " Every cor poration that seeks special advantages over the people plays politics all the lime. Wherever they can secure a paper, or a clique, or a special iniiuence, they have secured them already, for they never sleep, but always play politics. "They say Kitchin is a dangerous man. I defied my critics to name one vote or act in all my career that was danger ous or unsafe, and they have never an swered, and being unable to answer set about to mislead you and misrepresent me. Raleigh News and Observer, June 5, 1903. A PROPHECY FULFILLED. When Hon. Chas. W. Tillett nomi nated him for Governor he said: If he is elected Governor, then he will If he is ejected Governor, then there will be 110 power behind the throne. If lie is elected Governor, mere will be no clique nor ring formed around whre he sits. Historians tell us that the intrepid and independent Cato the Younger plunged a dagger into his heart ,...i. i.an i.nvi a. kinff rule over him. t will tell vou of a truth that it W W Kitchin has the alternative put before him, he will suffer his head to be severed from his body rather than have a boss rule over him. , Yet with all his boldness and mde nendence of thought, I defy any man to lay his hand upon a single act of his that can properly be called revolutionary or dangerous. The pages of the Con- T?.nrd will be searched in vain for a single vote or a single ut hostile to the Democratic party or inimical to what he, in the exercise t intollio-ATit conscience, conceived to be for the best interest of h.s coun try I do not deny that he has been bold and aggressive, but I do deny that he has done anything to frighten any persons except those whose consciences have made cowards of them. Mv countrymen, the man I represent thinks that the evils which oppress and ind the face of the people snouiu 1 y Z . . itmi rltia be destroyed, out 1 promise that in his effort to cast out the devils from the body politic, he win use " v.nf simnle shepherd s Stan of Democracy "Equal rights to all and . , XT man special privileges to " " that is engaged in any legiuumic ness will be disturbed by any agitation of his, but on the other nana, ne nmrer that liOd nas SJiveii m" to conserve and preserve the magnificent resources of the State. Afraid of him. I tell vou verily he will not Drea uised reed of a struggling .uui. nor quench a smoking nax 01 nonest, i. iwrr, fmm the bumble farm where labor in the sweat of their taces, with the hoe" and the woman with the t oil tho way up to the gilded palace, .where rest in luxurious ease the man with the bonds and the woman with the diamonds, he believes in absolute jus tice and equal protection for all. If you will make him Governor I will under ,;t. fci hond and eet ten thousand 1 i w - - - a 1 freeholders of the State to sign it with me to the effect that when he has iori i,ia four vears' career it will be recorded in the annals of the State that the Commonwealth never had a Chief Executive who did more for the upbuild ing of all its worthy enterprises 01 laDor and commerce. Tf wa turn to the argument of party I vield to no man. I have, heard it said that there were some others who did for the establishment of white su premacy. Why, gentlemen, the man 1 offer you was born and bred in Halifax County, and he sprang from the loins of a man who bore a name that help less children and defenseless women and timid men conjured with in tne uariv days of the Black Peril. And in our epoch-making contest for the adoption of the Constitutional Amenamem, nut upheld it with more zeal and ability than he, and the astute chairman of the Dem ocratic State Committee caused over eighty thousand copies of his speech on the subject to be circulated all over the State. that it would seem idle to argue its justice to any American legislative body. J The universally acknowledged princi ple of self-defense, applicable to States as to individuals, would destroy a con spiracy so damaging in its effect and s i general in its blight. The duty of re pressing wrong and protecting those who can not protect themselves requires the lawmakers to put the whole power of the State against such conspiracies. 1 therefore recommend that the General Assembly comply with that declaration, because "it is right and ought to be the law, and because the dominant party is pledged to its enactment; and I also recommend that the putting down or keeping down by purchasers of the prices of articles produced by the labor of others in pursuance of such conspiracy malp criminal. Fear of the wrath of those who violate a moral principle, and who threaten, 11 1.0 T.rislnture of the State of Nortl Carolina complies with the wish of her maioritv to punish the communities al- ready in their grasp, ramei imu the "laws, should not affect the judg ment, or naralvze the efforts, as it can not nullify the duty of those whom the people have chosen to do their will TRUSTS SHOULD BE DESTROYED. (Extract from Governor Kitchin's In- a u sural Auaress 01 isu - ; The man who by foul means willfully and needlessly takes the life of a rival, under our law forfeits his own. The cor porate monopoly that by foul means will fully and needlessly destroys its rivm uy wrong-doing for the purpose of exacting unjust profits from the public, should forfeit its existence. All the power 01 the State in all of its departments should be exerted to destroy every unnatural monopoly, every industrial trust that commits wrong upon the people ana their industries. And the nxed policy of regulating the natural monopolies, the public service corporations, should be maintained. UNDIMINISHED HOSTILITY TO TRUSTS. (Extract from message of Governor Kitchin to Legislature of 1911.) T,eritimate corporations and joint stock companies are beneficial and greatly develop the State, inspiring an enterprising business spirit, and no one can sneak other than words of praise concerning them, but private monopolies are tyrannical and intolerant. A free people desiring justice and hating op pression should exert their entire govern mental power to destroy them. Under our dual system of government the Fed eral law has sole jurisdiction over inter state commerce, while the fetate is su- nreme over commerce wholly within her territory. It behooves the government of every State to exert its entire power in contributing to the, destruction of monopoly, the restoration of competition in industrial lite, m limning trust, eviis in nrotectinsr her people, and in com nellintr compliance with and in punish ;nT violations of her laws. I have endeavored to obtain from the severa solicitors, who have in the last two years represented the State in the various ju dicial districts, definite suggestion! which in their official experience or otherwise have occurred to them as proper amendments to strengthen our the ablest has sussestel fi,ot the words "article or thinz of value" used in said law probably in eluded only tangible things and woul; not include telephone and telegraph mes sages. Although the Corporation com mission has the power to rejmlate then charges, I recommend that you consider the lancuaere used in the statute wTiti the view of including practices which are prejudicial to the rights of the people and for the purpose of including rates and tolls. I also recommend that subsection "g he added as follows: "For any per son. firm, corporation or association t contract, to combine in the form of trus or otherwise, or to conspire with any other person, firm, corporation, or as soniation m restraint ot trade, com merce. or manufacture in this State." I further recommend that an add tional subsection "h" be added as fol lows: "For any person, firm, corpora tion or association to monopolize or attempt to monopolize or combine or conspire with any other person, nrm. corporation or association to monopo lize any part of the trade, commerce or manufacture within this State." These two sections recommended are the substance of the two most impor tant sections of the Federal Anti-trust Law. I recommend that the use of coupons in packages of merchandise or other articles of value be forbidden in this State. I also recommend that in purchasing goods, wares or merchandise for the use of the State or any of its institutions that it be provided that preference shall be given to the products of independent manufacturers and dealers. The Constitution places the control of all criminal prosecutions in the Su perior Court in the hands of the dis trict solicitors. States. These commercial pirates I have fought from my youth up to this day. 1 have alwavs thought and sun V U and "reat offenders should be punished as well as others. W w The Governor of North Carolina is the onlv Governor in the unuea oiate has no veto power, and the governor, without the power to veto legislation, nu. - rT7r.il the reason can nave nine jwci j..- - --- of his messages, in securing legisianun. You have constantly opposed giving tue Governor the veto power. A striKing comparison of the powers of Governors is found between the Governor of this State and the Governor of New Jersey, i.na the veto power: who nas tne nrwvar r.f nnnointinff the Secretary of State, the judges oi tne supreme wu;, v.e riort of the Supreme uouri, tne uia- trict judges, the Attorney-General, and the district attorneys, a uovernor witu disposed to use the "big atirk- " can be very effective in legisla tion; and yet the Governor of New Jersey has not driven the American To bacco Company one oi its cnariereu m stitutions from its borders. in 1 A 1.1. I J nnrtCS T V. n ... 1"! "Vl m tne last muiv vcio a u known a more conscientious, patriotic or cleaner public man than Gov. W. W. Kitchin. While a member oi congress with mm ior two tenua wo u question the best debater and the most 1 ... i i 1 : influential memuer oi our ueiegaiwu. He is an able man, a splendid speaker, well and favorably known in Washing ton, and I believe if elected to the Senate will exert an influence in pur national affairs which can not be sur passed by any member of the present delegation. And, best of all, he is a Democrat in every essential of that term, and is much needed at this junc ture of our public affairs when the principles of our party should be en forced, rather than be discarded and ob him. He is a fine type of puhl firv ant. I believe he always endeavor t realize the high saying that '-public office is a public trust." No j uier m.n ever set foot in the nation' caui-a! Eloquent, magnetic, forceful, f.a-li with a heart beating for huiiiiiiMty, i,,', would greatly serve ami uonor liU stat in the exalted olIn:e of Senator of ,, United States. Whitehead Klvttz Salisbury, N. C. ABLE AND rilOtillESSIVK. I have been familiar with 1J.1v, men. Johx D. Beixamt. Wilmington, N. C. ANSWERS DEMAND OF THE PRO GRESSIVE SPIRIT IN THE PARTY. (Interview of Hon. A. H. Eller State Press. Aueust 21. 1912. Upon being asked what he tnougnt oi the senatorial contest, Mr. A. H. Eller said in effect: Governor Kitchin is making another victorious campaign. This is hard ior some people to realize, but it is plain enough to those who understand and sympathize with the aspirations of the Democratic masses. There is and has been a considerable number of men in and out of the party who would shape and prejudge public sentiment against him, no matter when or to what public position he aspires these men always have him "beat" until the people are heard from. His services to the public and to the principles of Democracy stand out in brighter and bolder light the more they are carped at by his critics, or con trasted with the" records of those who have opposed its platform and its p,icy- . , . The progressive spirit in our party today is a manifest purpose of the peo ple to have leaders and public servants responsive, not to special interests, but to the general good. W W. Kitchin answers this demand. No vote or act of his, contrary to the declared principles of his party, will ever call for labored defense or expert explanation. A discussion of his public record Will never be construed by his friends as reading him out of the party. Where he leads the rank and file can follow with confidence, ne is able, true and courageous; his heart is pure and always with the people, and they are not tired of honoring him. 1X111,11141 a wix nunc a lilt:itiui!f (jI I OM rress and since he has been GovM-m.r nt scured as they are by some of our public .North Carolina, and while he distihiv.-d I !!!... . conspicuous Dimy as a mtnibor of Con grcss, he hav. shown even greater ability as Governoi. ile has matted the af fairs of the great State so wisely and go well that ttw people have malt their rrrAnt AO 4- vs.aa ivULnu ... n? oirrQOtAV I b c cofc i"un'"3 n..wut vuniiou A11S la ruiii iit'Au uioijucikHuii.i strife I consider Governor Kitchin one of I Johx A. Rabrinukb the fairest men in political discussion 1 Greensboro,. N. C. I ever heard speak. I have heard the speech he is making in his present cam- paism Ior the senate, ana it is penecin legitimate from every standpoint. He makes no personal attack on his oppo nent, but confines his remarks entirely to his public record, made up of his public acts and utterances. While his speech is bold and lorcibie, iz is in no sense bitter or abusive. So long as the people are expected to rule, it is not only proper but necessary for public questions and the records of public offi cials to be discussed betore tne people. Net McNehlt. Monroe, N. C. "Indeed he seems to me None other than an ideal leader. Who reverences his conscience as Kins." his INSISTS ON PLATFORM DEMAND, (Interview of Governor Kitchin in News and Observer, February 2, 1909.) I consider our platform was a direct endorsement of the famous subsection A. which failed to become a law at the last Legislature, and in my judgment this Legislature ought to amend our ex isting law by adding the substance and effecting the purpose of that section. STRONG AGAINST TRUSTS. ( Extract from Special Message of Gov ernor Kitchin on Trusts, February 10 1909.) It is needless to repeat at this time facts and arguments showing the evil of private industrial monopolies com monly called trusts. Few advocate them and fewer, perhaps, think them right. The opportunity has come to make such conspiracies criminal and to pre scribe punishment for such conspirators You are face to face with the duty of obeying the mandate of the Democratic Convention. A mere statement of the proposition that a conspiracy by purchasers to put down the price of an article produced by the labor of others is wrong, is so clear and convincing in its simplicity I recommend that the Governor be au thorized to employ special counsel to assist Solicitors in prosecutions under our anti-trust law, and to employ special agents to investigate the facts upon suggestions from a Solicitor that such investigation is desirable in any case ot supposed violation of such law, and that the Treasurer be authorized to pay the compensation and expenses of such coun sel and agent out of the public Treas ury upon the Auditor's warrant issued upon the Governor's approval. I also recommend that said law be amended so that 40 per cent of the fines collected by virtue of any prosecution thereunder be paid to the Solicitor, such special coun sel assisting him, and the private prose cutor or prosecutors, if there be any, in such proportion as the trial court may adjudge. I also recommend that it be provided that any violations of our anti trust law shall subject the offender to a penalty of one hundred dollars a day, which may be recovered by any citizen of the State, and that any person, nrm, corporation or association injured oy its violation shall, upon having his ac tual damages legally assessed, have a judgment against the defendant for three times such actual damages. WELL EQUIPPED. I was a supporter of Governor Ay cock, but since his death I am for Gov ernor Kitchin. 1 have known Governor Kitchin well and favorably for many years. His long service in the House of Representatives and his general equipment well fit him for the duties of a Senator. W. T. Crawford. Waynesville, N. C. NOT rURITAMCAL. While the life of Governor Kitchin u one of unusual purity, he is in no sens puritanical, lie accepts men as tli'v are made, knowing that some are weak and some strong, that some must he con demned, but not in bitterness, that smif must be judged in charity, but that all are entitled to consideration. As a re sult all classes and condition of men are his friends. H. C. Pakks. Hillsboro, N. C IN ACCORD WITH WILSON. Any one who has read carefully the speech of acceptance of Woodrow Wil son and caught the spirit of that great utterance must realize how well Gover nor Kitchin fits into the splendid scheme of government as outlined by the next President. Few men can be found whose life and political creed show them to be so well suited as he to serve in the Senate and help work out the pro gram outlined for the new era. O. Max Gardxeb. Shelbv. N. C IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE PEOPLE. In the ordinary acceptance of the word I do not consider Governor Ivitctun in the light of a politician. He seems to be in partnership with the great body of the people and he boldly lays his cause before them, scorning the cheap tricks of the ordinary politician to nat ter and fool and use the people. He has unbounded confidence in the intelli gence and patriotism of the people and of their ability to govern themselves. He is a Democrat in the highest and best sense of the word. Rodolph Duffy. Jacksonville, N. C. DEMOCRATIC AND PROGRESSIVE. I regard Gov. W. W. Kitchin as one of the cleanest men I have ever known in politics. A man of his intelligence, of his undoubted democracy being al ways progressive and of Ins unfa Iter ing adherence to Democratic principle and platforms, should be our next U. S. Senator. No person ever doubted where he stood on any question, and no persin who knows him will ever conclude that he believes platforms are maue to get in on. My admiration for him is profound and I sincerely trust that the people of North Carolina will learn in time, for the good of their own interests, that no fitter man for the position he seek-t can be found in the State. E. t. Watsox. Burnsville, N. C. SPLENDID VICTORY VAST BENEFIT TO THE PARTY. The writer recalls vividly the hard fight W. W. Kitchin put up to redeem this district when he began his political career, and what an incentive his vic tory was to the Democrats of North Carolina, especially this western sec tion. The writer was a resident of Winston-Salem at that time, and in this district everything else went Republi can from President ddwn. "The only bright spot" was the election of "Kitchin," and it was oelebrated every night during the week in Winston Salem by about 1,000 young men, who marched through the streets. Your election at that time was of vast benefit to the party. O. W. Kernek. We heartily concur in the above. Frank F. Kebneb. R. P. Kerneb. Jno. G. Kebneb. Kernersville, N. C. ATTITUDE TOWARDS TRUSTS UNCHANGED. (Governor Kitchin, replying to News and Observer, July 20, 1911.) My attitude toward trusts has never changed. I am as anxious to aid in the destruction of private monopolies and the punishment of offenders as I ever claimed to be. I never said that I could destroy the American Tobacco Company or any other trust operating throughout the United States, if elected Governor. And yet vou have tried to make your readers believe that. I never promised the people to usurp the powers of the Legislature or the judiciary. I have al ways regarded the great trusts as pil laging plunderers of our progress, and I shall do what I can to relieve the people from their oppression under the Consti tution of this State and the United EXPERIENCE ABILITY-PRESTIGE. If Governor Kitchin is sent to the Senate the people may rest assured that they have sent no new hand at the busi ness, but one of experience, ability, and prestige. He served twelve years in Congress as a member of the House of Representatives, and he will have been absent only four years. Many with whom he served are still in the House, and quite a number of them are now in the Senate. If there ever was a time when a man's influence in the Sen ate was measured by his length of serv ice instead of his ability and the things he stood for, that time is happily past. It must be remembered that the suc cessful resolution to oust Lorimer from the Senate was one of the first acts of a brand new Senator. W. D. Tubxeb. Statesville, N. C. DEVOTION TO DUTY. The indications in Mitchell are that Kitchin will receive at least two-thirds of the votes cast in this county, and his strength is materially increasing. What I specially admire in the life and character of Governor Kitchin is his devotion to duty. His chief concern seems to be not whether a thing is ex pedient or popular, but whether it is right. The rule of right is the only safe rule to follow in statesmanship as well as in the ordinary affairs of life. V. R. Butt, M.D., Supt. Co. Board of Health of Mitchell County. CLEAR MENTAL VISION AND SOUND JUDGMENT. During all the years I have known W. W. Kitchin and I have known him from his boyhood I have detected no weak spot in his life or character. His poise and self-control are conspicuous characteristics. While he is alert in mind and body, he is never rattled or excited. On the floor of Congress, in the hurly burly of a State Convention, in a joint debate on the hustings, in the office of Chief Executive everywhere, he has carried the same poise and self-control and evidenced the same clear mental vision and sound judgment. W. F. Marshall. Raleigh, N. C. THE OLDEST EDITOR'S ESTIMATE. "The candidates for Governor now (1908) may not equal some of the can didates of the past for that high office, but m ability, character, training, ex perience, and personal worth, I recall "nen 8i?tv yeara 1 would place above W. W. Kitchin, and I am not a poli tician or office-seeker." Dr. T. B. Kingsbury in News and Observer, June 21, 1908. " A DEMOCRAT IN EVERY ESSENTIAL. In my acquaintance and association with the public men of North Carolina LOYAL TO HIS FRIENDS. One of the dominant traits of char acter in Governor Kitchin is his loyalty to his friends. He makes them few promises, but he never forgets them. This they know and they do not ask or expect promises. He went into the of fice of Governor without a pledge or a promise to any man, and if he is elected Senator it will be in the same manner. He is not now parceling out collector ships, clerkships, postmasterships, and the like, and promising them secretly to friends in return for services in his campaign. They know that if elected he will be free, and every friend of his will have a fair chance and a square deal, and they know he will not forget them. Roxboro, N. C Lutheb M. Cabltox. TRUSTS STILL AGAINST HIM. It is a noteworthy fact that while the great majority of the people of Gran ville County are favorable to Governor Kitchin for the Senate, every American Tobacco Company man in the town of Oxford is opposed to him. His well known hostility to the trusts is ample explanation of this fact. During his whole political career he has fought the trusts, and they have always fought him in return. They are fighting him probably harder in this campaign than they ever did. T. N. Bubwei-L. Oxford, N. C. FINE TYPE OF PUBLIC SERVANT. For nine years I have known W. W Kitchin as Governor, Congressman, an man. x nave a sincere admiration A FOE TO SPECIAL PRIVILEGE. Governor Kitchin's life has hen in entire harmony with the best and high est conceptions and practices of the Democratic party botli in Stae and nation. His record is so clean in ltb private and public life that his Litterw? enemy can not attack it and there i, therefore, no need for his friends t defend it. His long career in public life as Rrp resentative in Congress and as Gover nor has been one long, loud, persistent and consistent protest against class legislation of all kinds, and in him the protective tariff heresy, mail subsidies, the trusts and all privilege seeking in terests have found an implacable foe. The present progressive movement in the Democratic party as expressed in the platform of 1912, and as exponded by Woodrow Wilson, is the logical oui come of his life along advocacy of cor rect Democratic principles, and Gov ernor Kitchin's supporters for the Sen ate naturally find themselves at the fortfront of the Democratic procession, and in thorough accord with the spirit of Democracy. Mark Majettk. Columbia, N. C. STRONG WITH THE PEOPLE. At this time the whole country mviii to be turning from the sordid policy of tariff for protection. It is unfortunate that any Democrat should sound a fals" note on this question. To protect tin industries at home is all that any He publican desires to do, and home t him is his own district and his own State. Tariff for revenue only will triumph in the end 'and it will be a long time before the Democratic pa' ty will permit any man or set of men ti commit it to a policy of protection. When it does, it will die and deserve t die. In this crisis the party is fortunate in having leaders who sound the note of warning, and few there are who more ably expound the Democratic doctrine and hold to its fundamental principles with greater ability and tenacity than Governor Kitchin. He defends tie' party against the insidious attacks of special privilege with a power and con viction of right that makes him strong with the people. Greensboro Record. KITCHIN FOR THE SE.VU l . We shall support Governor Kitchin because we believe he will lent repre sent the progressive, militant Dcnioc racy of this State, and because of hi ability, experience, and loyalty to principles of his party, which demands equal and exact justice to all peopl' As a young man he withstood the temptations and pitfalls of Washington, and in his mature years he will not f,ir sake the cause of the people. The lamented Aycock was known the Educational Governor, Glenn i known as the Prohibition Governor, and Kitchin should be known as the l'r gressive Governor, because the State )m made more progress in almost every line during his administration than i any like period in its whole history. -The Clayton Xews. EARNEST SUPPORT Or KITCHIN We believe Governor Kitchin nici ures up to the high standard set by tm people, and like the immortal N any his heartbeats will be in unison w i the throbbing heart of the great co'.n nion people, and his oilicial nets, elected Senator, will express tut? ' of the party, outlined in the lVm;cra.K platform, and therefore we give him ou earnest support. Warrenton K-cor-i.
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