The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-11-11

the Tobacco Trust and the Southern
Railway were fighting him and that he
was glad of it because their opposition TO
him proved tina they could not get him to
vote money out of the treasury TO put
into their pockets. In Congress-, when
the subsidy to the Southern Hallway
came I'D Mr.. Kitchin was urged by South
ern Railway officials to vote for it. True
to his convictions that voting subsidies
is wrong. he refused to vote for it, and
he did right. He gained thereby the i'm
nlacable hatred of the Southern Rail-
way crowd. Always in Congress and out
of Congress he has voted against trusts.
He not only believes in denying them
the favor Of tariff taxation. but he be-
Heyes that the Sherman criminal law
ought to be enforced and trust magnates
prosecuted and punished. Believing that
this is the proper method OF killing
trusts. Mr.. Kitchin advocates it, whether
erfu1, or in his own district at Dur
ham, where the sway of the Tobacco trust
is strong and influential.
During the recent campaign, a promi-
ncnt politician, discussing Mr.. Kitchins
speeches., said He is putting his
ouItcr in too deep. ! am afraid he is
going to infuriate the Tobacco trust and
Southern Railway folks so that they viii
nut up piles of Doodle to defeat him 1t
is certain that in at least three counties
somebody put up plenty of money to
fight him, but he appealed to the people
He told them if they sent him back to
Congress he would continue to oppose
subsidies to the Southern Railway and
to every other monopoly, would
all other trusts, and that if they wanted
a trust agent or railroad agent in Con-
gress to vote against him. His boldness
won the admiration of the honest man.
hood Of the people of the Fifth district
who approved it by an unprecedented
large majority.
There is a lesson in the result in the
Fifth district for all men who aspire to
positions of public trust. The people
are tired of %trimmers, Of men who are
mutual on all public questions, of
men who talk nit the people and
drink nit the trusts and subsidy
getters. of men who dodge and shift and
straddle. The nomination of Clark and
the big majority for Kitchen prove that
the people arc ready to stand by mon
who stand out in the open and defy the
trusts and monopolies.
The day is ar~riving-its dawn is al
ready here-when 1.-The available candi-
convictions, who fights wrong entrench-
cd in high places, who cannot be Sc
duced by trusts or m~onopolies, who pre-
fers private life to public position OBJ
tanned by appealing to the masses against
special privilege and then voting for the
continuance of special privilege on the
sly. If Coler had not ~resolutely set
himself against the Ramapo steal, he
would nave Deen deIeatcd Dv loo,ooo ma
jority, and he would have defeated any
other man than Governor Odell. The Re-
publican Governor had won deserved
praise by his courage in demanding and
enforcing just franchise taxes, over the
protest of the bcnefciaries of the quasi
public corporations.
In the State and the Republic the cry
for the man who brings things to pass.
1t is the Tilden, who courageously in his
own party demands and secures clean
government, rather than the passive and
receptive and unknown Hayes that the
people of this active and strenuous age
wish 10 nut in nOSitiOnS Of leadership.