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WHAT ARE THE FACTS.
Lexington Dispatch, April %.


nomination was an
has declared that the Amer
can Tobacco Company and the South
ern Railway Co. were bitter antag-
onists and unrelenting enemies. Let
US see as to the probable truth OF this
assertion. The American Tobacco
Company has three homes in North
Carolina. These homes are Durham,
Reidsville and Winston. All of these |
cities are located in the Fifth Congress |
ional district. w. w. Kitchin has rep |
resented the Fifth Congressional dis
trict for the past twelve years. During
all these years Mr.. Kitchin has been
nominated to succeed himself every
two years without one solitary vote be-
ing cast against him in the conven-
tions. If the American Tobacco Com
pany has been the implacable enemy
of Mr.. Kitchin that he would have the
people believe,why is it that not vote
has been cast against him in the nom1-
mating conventions during all these
years? If the American Tobacco Com
pany has been fighting Mr.. Kitchin as
he declares, it certainlyh has no inf1uence
whatever in the Fifth district. But is
the American Tobacco Company OPP
posed to Mr.. Kitchin? Mr.. Kitchin
says it is, but do the facts corroborate
Mr.. Kitchin in this assertion? IT the
American Tobacco Company is opposed
to Mr.. Kitchin why did he select as the
manager of his State campaign Mr.. j.
S. Manning, vice preside ent the Dukes S
National Bank of Durham? II Mr..
Kitchin is opposed to the American To-
bacco Company, it is certain that his
State manager, Mr.. Manning, is not.
The Dukes do not put a man in their
bank as vice-president and director
who is opposed to them. And Mr..
Manning's attitude towards the tobac-
co trust was Enthusiastically shown in
the last Legislature when, mem
Der of that body, he was the leader in
the fight against the adoption OF wha at
has come to be known as "sub b-secton
A'' OF the antitrust bill, which was
directed expressly against the Ameri-
can Tobacco Company. Mr.. Manning
not only voted against the adoption OF
this section, but opposed it on the floor
of the House, and thereby defeated it.
Personally we have never had any serj-
Gus objection to Mr.. Manning's oppo-
sition to this section, but if Mr.. kitchin
is sincere in the great war he is max
ing on trusts, why should he select NJ r.
Manning as his manager?
Is the Southern Railway opposed tC
Mr.. Kitchin? Mr.. kitcbin says it is
but do the facts with reference to this
great corporation corroborate MIR.
K1tchin in this assertion? The South
ern Railway has more miles of road in
the Fifth Congressional district than
in any other territory OF similar mag
nitude in the State, and of course has
more employees in this district than
anywhere else, yet during the last ten
years the Southern Railway has not
: been able to induce one solitary dele
gate to stand up in one OF Mr.. Kitchin IS
conventions and say that he was op-
posed to his nomination for Congress.
It is we'll known fact that many
ayers OF Mr.. Kitchin's campaign III
various counties.
First of all, we have Col. A. B. An
drews, the first vice. president of the
Southern, on record as supporter Of
Mr.. Kitchin, according to the Green's
boro Record, Kitchin supporter
Next we have Col. Andrews first as
} sistant, Mr.. Henry w. Miller, who de-
clared several months ago that he
would support Mr.. Kitchin. The at
torney of the Southern in Lexington,
Senator S. E. Williams, is a Kitch1n
| man; the attorney tor the Southern in
Salisbury, Thomas c. Linn, Esq, is
Kitchin's manager; the attorney for
the Southern in Asheboro, Mr.. John
IT. Britain, is also manager tor MIR.
Kitchin in Randolph; Col. Wescott
Robinson, Of High Point, Southern at
torney. is with Mr.. Kitchin in that sec
ton; w. w. Barber, ESQ.,, of Wilkes
boro,says the Hustler,is Mr.. Kitchin's
manager in that county; and the Dis
patch leans that Mr.. S. M. Gattis, OF
Hillsboro, who is the Southern Rail
way attorney in Orange county, is
Kitchin's friend and supporter, while
ex-Judge Avery, of Morganton. South
ern lawyer, who appeared in the case
against the State in the rate proceed
ings,is doing all he can in Burke coun-
ty for Kitchin. And last, but by nc
means least, we have the Hon. Charles
o. McMichael, of Madison, editor the
Madison Herald, red hot Kitchin
man, who is also attorney for the rail-