The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-02-28
Hon. W. II. kitchin for Railroad
Commits siOneF.
ISDccjal Cor. State ChronicIe.1

HENDERSON, n. c., Feb. ), 1889.
A Railroad Commission will uDdoubted-
ly be created by our present Legislature
Three Commissioners OF perhaps great
CT number Will be appointed
! These commissioners should be gentle
man of acknowledged ability and OF unim-
peachable integrity, and should have SIS
naliZed themselves by long and arduous
| labor i'll behalf Of Democratic supremacy,
and the welfare Of North Carolina.
| Just reward for labor done and dangers
| encountered is the only cement that Will
| prevent party or parties from ultimately
! falling to pieces. Not that the Democratic
! cheftainS work for reward many of them
would die for the principles they enuncl-
| ate--but it has ever been true that when
ones servi ices are ignored, it thrusts the
keen edge of ambition, wounds the feelings,
! causes him to feel that his services are not
needed, and he will soon fail to tender
them SO readily and 50 heartily as was his
wont. Casting cur eyes over the recent
great political battle III our State, we Can
hear no voice raised amid the conflict,
above that of Hon. w. II. kitchins as he
urges the chiva1ry of North Carolina TO
follow him, and put to flight the cohorts
of ruin and Repuhlicanism. In the times
of chivalry each Baron had his ''cry to
arms" which he shouted i'll battle in order
to animate his followers, and whose sound
heard iii the moment of direct peril, rallied
the scattered knights by the recollection of
the glores of their Commanders House
and the memory OF their own former
achievements.
The belief in the Athenian mind that
Oh the day OF Marathon tie shade of The
| sius bad marched in the rear Of their cOun-
| trymen and by the strokes of his flashing
sword Redeemed the waves of the Aegean
Sea with the blood of their enemies, sus-
tanned their banners at Salamis and Platea."
SO likewise amid the sevcrest shock of
the recent battle, when the enemies of our
people We're bringing to bear upon them
all the powers of darkness, OutrageO,l
falsehOOdS, vile ISLANDERS, contemplate
demaBoguery, bribery, to bcgule them Of
their senses, 10 fasten upon them the gall
ing shackles Of Reput,lca rule-and to
| imprisOn them in the dungeons of hunilia-
ton and despair, the Hon. w. II. Kitchin
raising aloft the banner OF North Carolina,
shouted the Democratic battle cry to the
cllivalric white men of the West, in tones
| that reverberate still throughout her val
ley. and over her green mountain sides
bless her, let us keep her grand and pure,
rally to the rescue of our women and chill
dren, down with the protective tariff,
! Anglo-SaXOn supremacy forever"
Hearing his mighty ''shOut to arms, -
and remembering the history of their State
in the past. the white men of the West
sprung to his call as gladly as ever Scots
did to the call of Wallace. The people of
the West had often heard the polished and
Silverv eloquence of Ransom and Fowle
they had often seen the Saladin-like. blade
Of Waddell, they had ever and anon wit
messed the crushing blows of Vance fall
like the cleaning battle axe of Richard
upon the helmets of the foe, they had hung
with confidence and love upon the eloquent
words and unanswerablc logic of that
great tribune of the people-Ihomas j. JAR
Wis, and they had stood transfiXeG with as
! ioniShnl pnt a tho nnrfiiits and
of the Republican party came to them on
the burning rhetoric and laundering tones
of Octavlus Coke the Ajax of the Demo-
cratic camp for fifteen years in North Car
olina, but this man Kitchen, this Demo
cratic Nemesis upon the trail of Oliver
Dockcry was indeed to them a vertible
phenomenon. His like had never been
seen by them before. He threw the grand
est thoughts and truths, clothed in the most
rugged and powerful Anglo-SaXon into the
ranks of the enemy as fast, and as irresist-
ably as the shafts and javelin, of the
English archers and men-at-arms ratified
against the battlementS of Font De BOeuf
Col. DOckery and his followers were ut
terly confounded and dismayed by the
mercilesS onslaught of this Titan from the
East and 1t was not long before his prom
iseS and deeds of daring carried joy and
encouragement to the Democratic hosts all
over North Carolina.
We hear him repelling all false accuse.
tons against his great leader, the Honora-
BILE Daniel e.. Fowle, we hear him telling
his opponents that the slanderers Of Mrs
Cleveland, the fair young wife of our Pres.
ident OF blessed memory, are liars and
| cowaris we hear him presenting to then,
in all their black deformity the Internal
iuiquities Of the Protective Tariff, and we
see the star of negro ascendency-that staI
which is yet to go down in hlooa--paling il,
the West before his lightning glance and
fiery impetuous oratory.
Col. Dockery, l understand, declared
during the last campaign, that he was not
afraid OF any Democratic debater that he
had ever met before, but that he hardly
knew how to defend himself against thai
Democratic Clycone Buck Kitchin.
heard a gentleman say not long since thai
he never witnessed the electric flashes, nor
heard the rafting discharges, of Captain
kitchIn's oratory amidst the Republica.
legi MS without thinking of the thunder
storm 50 sublimelypictured by Lord Byron
Far along from peak to peak
| The rafting crags among,
| Leaps the live thunder"
"You may refuse him the privileges and
emoluments of place, but you cannot take
from him those habitual and warm regards
for the prosperity of North Carolina which
constitute the honor, the happiness, the
pride OF his life, and which l am SURE
death alone can eXtinguish.'