The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-12-15

North Carolina. In convention
assembled at Charlotte. resolve
that We never have believed In any
thing. We do not believe in anything
now. and We do not want to believe
in anything hereafter
Il again challenge any one In this
audience to arise and say that this il
| not fair statement of what is In
and what is not In this fraudulent.
hypocritical 'so-called' platform"
Again the speaker paused, but
there was no response. Continuing,
the speaker said:
There Is very good reason why
the Democratic bosses who dominat-
ed the convention at Charlotte wrote
| such fraudulent and hypocritical
platform. in the past, the Demo-
Cratic machine has been very prolific
! in promises. Not one of the solemn
promises made to the people In the
| past have they kept, so this year
they are forced to write a platform
which not only does not refer to q
single promise made in the past,
but which is as silent as the grave
as to any promise of performance In
| the future.
The Governor Making Bold, Brave
: Promises.
Two years ago, the present Cover
nor of the State campaigned this
great Commonwealth, from the
| mountains to the sea, both before
the Democratic State Convention
which nominated him and also after
the convention and before the cleo
| ton. In his campaign TO rthe nomi-
nation he spoke at every county-seat
in North Carolina. He made prac-
tically the same speech at every
point. The following Is one extract:
'Fellew-citizens, admit that
my party has not always kept it's
promises in the past. In one
respect my party signally failed
to keep its promise made in the
last campaign, and that was to
pass an honest antitrust law
and to enforce the same with the
against smaller criminals and
violators OF the law are en-
forced. / believe in passing and
enforcing laws to control and
regulate the actions of the rich
and powerful as well az the poor
and more helpless part OF our
citizenship
Without attempting TO follow ver-
batim the speeches which Governor
Kitchin made, the substance may be
stated as follows: That the trust
question was to-day the greatest
problem before the people of the
State and the Nation; that the State
alone could not curb, regulate or
dissolve the greatest criminal trusts
whose operations were largely in in
terstate business. Therefore, it was
necessary to have complete cooper
alton between the State Government
and the National Government in OF
der to protect the people and to pre-
vent any criminal trust from evading
the laws and depressing the people.
For an Antitrust Law With Teeth
The Governor then proceeded to
make a solemn pledge to the people
in each county OF the State that IL
they would elect him Governor, and
| il the National Government would
cooperate with him and do its part,
that he would see to it that an hon
est State antitrust law was passed,
and that that law would be vigorous
ly enforced in cooperation with the
efforts of the National Government
under the interstate antitrust law.
In every speech he pointed ont the
enormous burdens placed upon the
people in this State and all OF the
States in the Union by the great
trusts controlling and overwhelming
a majority OF the Interstate business
of the country.
He went 50 far as to point out
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