The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-12-15
MARION BUFFERS RAIL
EIGH SPEECH.
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,ow many millions Of dollars the
-oo,Is had been robbed OF In recent
Ear. by unjust Determinations and
factions from criminal trusts that
doeed the law and appeared TO be
eunerior to the Law and the power OF
The state and National Government
tIa sald that In order that the people
should not be misled or be In doubt
az 70 the kind of antitrust Law that
ne favored, that II he was elected
Governor and supported by q Demo-
cratic Legislature that there would
be enacted in this State the Texas
antitrust law word for word. He
said he favored that law because it
had been tried, and had not only
been sustained by the Supreme
Court OF the State of Texas, but also
BIZ the Supreme Court OF the United
States, and had been found most ef-
fective and wholesome.
He pointed out how under the
operation of that law one great
criminal trust had been driven out
Of the commonwealth OF Texas, and
others had been fined for minor vio-
lations Of the law, and that mil
lions OF dollars had been collected
by such means and poured into the
public school fund OF that great
Commonwealth He pledged the peo-
ple on every stump that II he was
elected Governor that the Texas
antitrust law should be enacted In
this State without the dotting OF an
i or the crossing OF t, and that Wig
orous prosecutions under this law
would be begun at once in North
Carolina against every great trust
operating within It's borders.
THE people took Governor Kitch-
in at his word, and he was elected
on this pledge as his leading issue
and as the leading plank in the plat
form of his party.
How Kitchin Betrayed His Pledges.
Now, let us see what happened.
Mr. Kitchin was hardly warm In the
Governors chair at Raleigh before
he began to lay plans as to how not
to keep this pledge. | am informed
that he began to talk to his close
advisors and to his friends in the
legislature about being conservative
and going slow. However, one fool
ed Democratic member of the Legis-
lature, who thought that Kitchin
meant what he said, at once upon
the assembling of the Legislature in
troduced the Texas antitrust law,
and asked that the same be passed
at once and without discussion, and
of course without amendment, point
ing out that this was the law which
the Governor and ethe party had
promised the people of the State.
Strange to say, at once there de-
yeloped situation which showed
that the Governor and his closest
advisors did not want the law passed
without amendment. They are re-
ported to have said that it was too
drastic, and | am told that the
Governor at once got busy and pull
ed the teeth out of that great anti
trust law, and that he did not stop
until every tooth had been drawn,
and then, when the miserable, con-
temptible, harmless dishrag of a
thing had been reduced to a condi-
ton that was not worth the paper
upon which it was written, that the
Governor let it be known that it was
in shape where he was willing for 1t
to pass; and thus was passed the
most hypocritical, harmless and
fraudulent law that ever disgraced
the statute books of any State
law that no trust feared, and which
met their unanimous approval.
A TOothless Antitrust Law and q
Spineless Governor.
Two years have passed since that
fraud Of law was placed upon the
statute books of this great State
During that time the same great
criminal trusts, so graphically pic
tured by the Governor in his cam
paign before election, have contin-
ued to do the same kind Of business
at the same old stand. Neither the
Governor nor his Attorney Genera
has invoked that law to indict or tt
prosecute a single trust. That Law
lies to-day upon the statute books al
impotent and helpless as day-olt
babe wrapped in its swaddlins
clothes. If these great trusts were
robbing us of millions before Gov
ernor Kitchin was elected, they are
robbing us Of more millions now
(Applause.)
The Governor, in his forcefu
speeches in his campaign for cleo
ton, in addition to the above, also
said that the amount of money
which the trusts wrung from the
toiling millions in the State and
country was not the greatest danger
out with their increasing power tt