The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-08-17
p ". GLIDEWELL REPLIES
TO EX-JUDGE MANNING
r. G1dewell Reterates His Original Statement Abou,
v;tcbins Backdown-Ant-Trust Law Which Kitcbin En-
3orsed is Tootbess SpineIess Fraud.

hght vas particularly warm aruons
the delegates from ny dls,ric, t,he
F!fth Congressional District
knew At that convention that Goye~-
nor hltchin had been appealed 20 for
! the vote Of Person County in favor
o. mat committee. and knox tha,
me solid vote Of Person County Was
cast Tor a gentleman gho vas q MEN,
Der OF the House of 1907. and Who
vas IN accord with men like Nr. II.
\. Doughton. and was not in accord
on many questions with the large
majority OF that House. | had
heard Governor Kitchiu In hig CAM
paign commend Mr.. Justice In a mos,
emphatic way, for his courage. abII-
ity and patriotism, and had heard
him endorse his entire course, and
yet at the convention In Charlotte,
Governor Kitchin's brother, Hon.
Claude Kitchin. authorized a gentle
man who Is unusually classed as CON
serVative" to state to the delegates
or the Fifth District that Speaker
Justice was too radical" to go on
/ know that the result as to who
should go on the Committee on Reso-
lutions as member from the Fifth
District was determined by the vote
or Person County. | was a delegate
at that convention and have personal
knowledge as TO these matters. l
also know that delegates from the
, Fifth District were generally In &C
cord with Mr.. Justices political rec
ord, and that some OF these were in
fuenced to vote as they did out of
Difference to what they supposed were
thew ishes of Governor itchin. They
supposed, in the absence of time for
consideration and thought, that it
would be helpful to Governor Kitch-
in to allow his friends to organize
, the committee.
The Governor in one of his recent
published letters has referred to the
fact that his brother, Paul Kitchin,
reported the Texas antitrust bill to
the House in 1909, as some evidence
of his position with regard to that
bill. 1t is fair to assume by his in
action at Charlotte, or by his action
through his managers, that he was
not in favor of progressive anti
trust platform at that convention.
In 1908 the platform declaration
against trusts was in the first in
stance due to four members of the
Committee on Resolutions. Among
these were Mr.. w. G. Hammer, of
Asheboro, and Mr.. J. w. Pless, of
Marion, and they know the details of
the fight for an effective declaration
against trusts, and they know that
they received no aid or word of en-
couragement from Governor Kitchin,
or from any one who was authorized
to speak for him or professed to
speak for him.
The first time the Governor failed
to cry aloud against trusts and to
condemn those he said were friend
ly to them was when the delegates
who were to write the platform as
sembled at Charlotte in 1908. He
was nominated in that convention
after a prolonged and close contest,
, in which Judge Manning, who led the
fight against effective antitrust leg
islation in 1907, was candidate Kitch-
ms manager, and from that time up
to the present there has been mark
ed difference in the attitude of Gov
ernor Kitchin on the trust question:
! When he was candidate for the
nomination he did not hesitate to in
dulge in personalities. He denounced
Mr.. Craig's position on the trust
question and said, in substance, that
the trusts were for Mr.. Craig and
against him because they hoped that
! if Mr.. Craig was elected Governor
he would pursue a do-nothing policy,
and they knew if Kitchin were Cover
nor he would favor putting ''human
! beings" responsibilie for the trust be-