Evening star., 1907-08-15
SUCCESSOR TO GOV. GLENN
SEVERAL RADICAL ASPIRANTS
IN NORTH CAROLINA.
The Governor Himself Has Already
Announced His Ambition to Come
to the Senate.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
RALEIGH N. c., August 15.-The man
who will succeed Gov. Glenn in the guber-
material Office Of North Carolina will be
sworn into Office in less than year and a
half and there is already a most interest
ing contest on for the official shoes of the
man who has become famous within a
month because of his aggressive fight
against the big railroad systems in order to
enforce the new state laws reducing pas
senger fares and regulating freight traffic.
Gov. Glenn cannot be a candidate to sue
ceed himself, there being a constitutional
inhibition in North Carolina preventing a
governor once elected In the regular way
for a full term Of four years from sue
ceedng himself. although he may be elected
again to serve another term, provided q
term shall intervene.
But even If Gov. Glenn could succeed him
self he probably would not be a candidate
again next year, because it is his ambition
to go to the United States Senate and he
has definitely made up his mind to contest
for the seat now held by Senator Overman,
whose term expires March A, 1909, two
months after the term of Gov. Glenn ex-
pireS.
Kitchin Leading Aspirant.
There are several gubernatorial cand-
idates already formally in the canvas for
the nomina ton by the democratic conven-
ton next spring. One of the men at pres
ent In the lead is the representatives from
the fifth district, William w. Kitchin Of
Person county, who has been actively can
vassing the state for two or three weeks.
He has served six consecutive terms In
Congress and now retires permanently from
the national legislature, partly because Of
q promise or understanding made two years
q n
congressional aspirants In the fifth district
might get chance at that office.
If Mr.. hitchin Is nominated and elected to
succeed Glenn as governor 1t Is believed
that he will out-Herod the present chief
executive in doing the corporations and
combinations Of capital. and especially the
Southern, whose faithful old enemy of
long standing he H..
Mr. Kitchin is one of the few Southern
congressman who has persistently opposed
and voted against the subsidy paid the
Southern railway for many years in order
to secure fast and special and exclusive
mail train from New York to New Or
leans, service which had been for years
one of great Importance and benefit to the
business interests of his own Site particu-
larly, as well as the other southern states.
The Subsidy" was recently cut down to
figure which made the Southern railway
withdraw the service altogether.
There is large following Tor kitchin
servatives in opposing him. and his nomina-
ton depends very largely upon whether the
radicals or the conservatives shall have the
majority and the controlling voice in the
state convention.
Corporations Would Fare Badly.
If either Speaker Edward L. Justice or
kitchin should be placed in position TO en-
force their personal ideas and plans for
'd!sciplining' and regulating the cor
porations, the railroads and the American
Tobacco Company in particular, they would
probably be disciplined and regulated out
of existence before the job was completed.
And yet 1t is entirely possible that either
of them may become the next governor of
North Carolna-because this is yet a state
with only one party, practically speaking,
although Roosevelt polled nearly 100000
white votes at the last election; there are
twice that number on the other side.
Therefore the nomination for a state office
by the democratic convention is equivalent
to an election. At least 1t is so regarded
at this time. Consequently. while large
body of democrats of North Carolina en-
tertain views radically different from those
represented by the Justices and Kitchins,
the latter element is probably in a small
majority and stands good prospects of being
able to capture and control the next demo-
cratic state convention and nominate men
for all the important offices of their own
way of thinking.