Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-05-05

/.
] n that the two ISitchin broth
ers. William ". and Claude,
who are both representatives in con
gress from North Carolina, are among
/ the ablest men in the house. They are
4 young, handsome. clean, strong indus
trious and faithful to their duties, com
manding the respect and admiration
of all who know them. Claude, the
younger of the twain. is now serving
his second term. While hitherto he has.
participated somewhat in the running
fire dehates. always in a highly credit
able manner, he never until April y
delivered what is technically known as
a set speech, but on that occasion be
spoke in q manner. certain to attract
the attention of the whole country.
When he sat down he ranked among
the crack orators of the house. His.
themes were Colonel Theodore Roose-
welt. General Charles Henry Grosvenor
Of Ohio and Colonel William Peters
Hepburn of Iowa. and he handled them
without gloves. His matter was excel
lent and his manner superb. In both
personal appearance and style of ut
terance he much resembles Senator Jo-
seph Weldon Bailey of Texas, and he
mauled the Republicans much in the
same manner as does the young Texan
He read amid uproarious applause Cen
eral Grosvenor's caustic remarks about
Colonel RooseYelt's capers at the Phil
adelphia Republican national conven
ton Of 1900. when the general was act
ing as correspondent of Hearst's New
York American. No Democrat has
ever said as hard things about Colonel
Roosevelt as General Grosvenor wrote
about him in those letters General
Grosvenor was mad enough to bite his
own tongue while Kitchin was reading
choice extracts from those abusive let
ters especially while he was contrast
ing them with General Grosvenor's re
cent fulsome adulation of the presi-
dent
Then Kitchin took up the question Of
lynching and, by reading extracts from
Colonel Roosevelt's books, showed that
the latter had Endorsed lynching as
remedy for horse stealing. or, as the
young North Carolina orator put it,
slynching for stealing a ten dollar rat
tail pony thus carrying the remedy
by lynching much further than has
been dreamed of in the south, and
much more of the same sort
Then, taking for his text Colonel
RooseyeIt's declaration that "a streak
Of coarse brutality runs through the
southern people" young KitchinS en-
tered upon a splendid defense of his
people. which not only elected much
applause, but brought the moisture to
many eyes.
To the astonishment of his hearers
he dug up a passage from one of Colo
mel Roosevelt's speeches while he was
governor of New York, in which he
referred to congress as cattle" and in
which Colonel Roosevelt especially pill
loried General Grosvenor, Colonel Hep
burn and others as champions Of foul
politics and dishonest government.
Then he entered upon a pretended de-
Tense of those two old gentlemen,
as he truly termed them. which made
their blood boil' Altogether 1t was
one of the richest oratorical perform
ances witnessed by this congress
When Kitchin had concluded. General
Grosvenor rose to reply. but was so
angry and the facts were so strong
against him that he made sad mess
of it and loundered dreadfully sure
sign that Kitehin's bullets had gone
to the mark
Colonel Hepburn acted more wisely,
slept over the matter and next morn
ing assaulted Kitchin in a speech of
great aerceness. He, too, made poor
case. Kitchin got ten minutes and gave
both General Grosvenor and Colonel
Hepburn roasting which set the
Democrats wild with delight and even
forced applause from the Republicans.
A New Figure Of Speech.
Hon. Henry D. Clayton, the hand
some, genial and very able representa-
tive from the Third Alabama district,
has invented d brand new figure Of
speech The other day when Hon.
William Bourke Cochran was in the
midst of his tariff speech and was skill
fully bowling over all Republicans who
interrupted him Clayton said, soto
voce, Better let the talking Irishman
alone. After Cochran had concluded
some one asked Clayton what he
meant. whereupon he replied: There
Is an did adage about not n1onEavinsz
with buzzsaw while in motion. but
buzzsaw III motion is not half so dan
gerous as quick witted Irishman
while talking. SO my advice to al con
cerned is not to interrupt talking
Irishman
Ran Away.
The Fifty -eighth congress has adj
journed until December The Repub-