The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-26

from his own deliberate writings, Mr.
Kitchin says:
This is the man whom the people
of this country-Republican and
Democrats, capitalists and laborers,
rich and poor, strong and Weak-fear,
and, sir, when the check of his ambi-
ton to succeed himself has been
loosened from his conduct, no man
can tell, no man can dream, to what
length he will go and to what length
he will carry this nation
1t should be read by every true man.
every patriot, every toiler. every
voter. The second speech is a ten
minutes reply" and most happy one
to the two prominent Western Repub-
lican leaders, Grosvenor, of Ohio, and
Hepburn, of Iowa. 1t is very amusing,
pungent and successful. 1t literally
brought down the house" 1t is too
good to be overlooked. Mr.. Kitchin
made decided reputation by his two
speeches, and he may be said to be a
member of distinction now He will
be reelected, l hope, and will contri-
butte yet more to the undoing of
Roosevelt the Ranter, the most dan
gerous demagogue now kicking up a
dust" in our land. 1t is a very uncom-
mon circumStance-poSs unpre-
cedented in American history, that two
brothers should be in the Congress
at the same name, from the same
State, of the same politics, and both
young and gifted. His brother, MEM
Der from the Fifth District, is a gem
tleman of fine character and admir-
able abilities. He will be reelected
/ doubt not. They are true Demo-
Gratis and can be implicitly relied upon.
They never hedge or dodge in their
Democracy, but stand four-square and
on the side of the people Away.
George Cary Eggleston, 1 believe a
native of Indiana, has issued a stout
volume he calls American Immort-
ais" And who are these .Immort
ais" and how distinguished? Well, of
20 the South has g. Very generous
indeed and quite like Yankee opinion
and self-consequence. All of the six,
but one, were born in Virginia. If
Audubon is to be classed as Southern
then there are seven. Admiral Far
ragut, born in Tennessee, is one. Men
like Madison, Andrew Jackson, George
E. Badger, HAIRY, Stonewall Jackson,
John c. Calhoun, and others are shut
cut of the possibility of immortality"
while John Adams, Story, Kent,
Grant, Peabody, Mann, Robert Fulton,
Morse and Asa Gray are crowned. 1t
is said Eggleston was in the Confed-
tIdIe y. L suspect HIS DOOh Is poor
stuff from a few samples | have seen.
/ have never met with a sensible
criticism on Prof. Woodberry's Life
of Poe" that was pleased with the
treatment the greatest American poet
received from this really gifted critic
and poet of New England production.
Since then he has shown himself very
unappreciative of other Southern
poets, and | do not doubt that he holds
the best writer's OF Southern birth as
cast in a very inferior mould and out
of dirt of the most common kind. A
writer, Mr.. Francis Sullivan, Northern.
also. / suppose, has been criticizing
Woodberry's Poe, and no wonder and
is himself engaged in a literary wild
goose chase in attempting to identify
localities with Poe's poems. This was
futile but pardonable, but not SO with
a reconstructed portrait" of the
greatest American poet. To this pre-
sumption and failure the New York
Saturday Review" objects of right
for it says: I'VE all revere the men,
DRY of the poet, and no one will care
to see him represented as a CHASTITY
looking lay figure with an impossible
pair of legs" Mr.. Sullivan is either