The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1889-02-08
Hon. w. IL Kitchen for Railroad Com.
missioner.
Especial Cor. STATE CHRONIC


Especial Cor. STATE CHRoNICLE.i
HENDERSON, n. c., February ), 1850
A Railroad Commission will undoubtedly
be created by our present Legislature.
These Commissioners or perhaps great
er number will be appointed,
These commissioners should be gentle
men of acknowledged ability and Of un-
| impeachable integrity, and should have
| signalized themselves by long and arduous
| labor in 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
| chieftains work for reward many of them
would die for the principles they enunciate
| but it has ever been true that when
ones services are ignored, it thrusts the
| keen edge of ambition, wounds the feel
| ings, causes him to feel that his services
are not needed, and he will soon fail to
tender them SO readily and SO heartily as
was his wont. Casting our eyes over the
| recent great political battle in our State,
| we can hear no voice raised amid the con
| tlict, above that of the Hon. W. 81. Kitch
| EMS as he urges the chilvary of North Caro-
| lima to follow him, and put to flight the
| cohorts of Ruin and Republicanism. In
| the times of chivalry each Baron had his
''cry to arms" which he shouted IN battle
| in order to animate his followers, and
whose sound heard in the moment of direct
peril, rallied the scattered knights by the
recollection of the glories of their Com
manders House and the memory of their
| own former achievements.
| 1.-The belief in the Athenian mind that
on the day of Marathon the shade OF
Thesius had marched in the rear of their
| countrymen and by the strokes of his
| flashing sword REDEEMED the waves of the
Aegean Sea with the blood of their enc
mics, sustained their banners at Salamls
! and Platea."
| So likewise amid the seyerest shock of
| the recent battle, when the enemies of our
! people were bringing to bear upon them
| all the powers of darkness, outrageous
! falsehoods, vile SANDERS, contemplate
| demagoguery, bribery, to begul!e them OF
| their senses. TO fasten upon them the gall
| ing shackles of Republican ruie-and to
| implsOn them in the dungeons of humlli-
ton and despair, the Hon. ". II. Kitchen
raising alOft the banner of North Carolina,
! shouted the Democratic battle cry to the
! chivalric white men of the West, in tones
! that leverberate still throughout her val
| ltys and over her green mountain sides
! that battle cry was North Carolina, God
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 remen bering 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
silvery eloquence of Ransom and Fowle,
| they had oft times seen the Saladin like
blade of Waddell, they had ever and anon
witnessed the crushing blows OF Vance fall
like the cleaning battle axe of Richard
upon the helme}S of the foe, they had
hung with confidence aud love upon the
| eloquent words and unanswerable logic of
that great tribune OF the people-Thomas
j. Jarvis. and they had stood transtixed
with astonishment as the peridy and cor
ruption OF the Republican party came TO
them on the burning rhetoric and thun-
dering tones of OctaviuS Coke the A jax of
| the Democratic camp for fifteen years III
| Nor,h Carolina. bat this man Kitchen.
this democratic Nemesis upon the trail Of
Oliver Dockery was indeed to them a veri-
table phenomenon. His like had never
been seen by them before. He threw the
grandcst thoughts and truths, clothed in
the most rugged aud powerful Anglo
| :
and as irresistably as the shafts and jave-
lins of the English archers and men at
arms ratified against the battlements of
| Font De Boeuf
Col Dockery and his followers were ut
terlv confounded and dismay.d by the
meTciless onslaughts of this Titan from
the East and it was not long before his
promises and deeds of daring carried Joy
aud encouragem to the Democratic
hosts all over North Carolina.
We hear him repelling all false accusa-
tons against mis- great leader, the Honor
able Daniel G Fowle. We hear him telling
hia opponents that the sanderers of Mrs.
Cleveland, the fair young wife of our
President Of blessed memory, are liars and
towards, we hear him presenting to them
in all their black defOrmity the Internal
iniquties OF the Protective Tariff, and we
see the star of negro ascendancy-
star which IS yet to 90 down in blood
paling in the West before his lightning
glance and fiery impetuous oratory.
Col Dockery, | understand, declared
during the late campaign, that he was not
afraid Of any Democratic debater that be
had ever met before, but that he hardly
, knew how to deft nd himself IL rainst that
Democratic Clyoone Buck Kitchen.
heard gentleman say not long since tha
.
Tor heard the rattling discharges, of Cap
| tain Kitchens oratory amidst the Repub
lIc;,n legions without thinning of tn,
thunder storm so sublime y pictured b.
Lord Byron:
Far along from peak to peak
The rafting cragS among,
= Leaps the live thunder"
"You may refuse him the privileges ant
emoluments Of place, but you cannot TAX
from him those habtual and warm re
CARDS for the prosperity of North Carroll
III; which constitute the honor, the hap
piness, the pride of his life, and which
an sure death alone can eXtinguish."
: The Democratic party can reward n
f brayer or truer man.
i Respectfully,
q w. r. HENRY.
. An Important Bill.