The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-23
CLAUDE KITCHEN OF NORTH
 CAROLINA
By SAyoYARD

A long time ago I tried to deliver my self of tribute to what is known among our citizenship as the Scotch-Irish, and the following poor passage was the usu- fruct:
 Tt is of the blood of Stonewal Jack son, rather than of the caste of Philip H. Sheridan. It is a hardy race. It defended Londonderry. It drove the Stuart from the British Isles. It believed in prayer and it believed in works. It had faith and 1t could fight. It came to these shores and we find it in New Hampshire in Pennsylvania, in Virginia and in the Carolinas. It was at Cape Breton and at Quebec. It was in the Continental Congress and In the Conti- mental army It was in the infant navy and in the adult navy. It sailed with Pre- ble ad fought with Decatur. It was with Farragut at Mobile and roamed with Semmes on strange seas. It gained the victory at Kings Mountain and saw the surrender at Yorktown. It helped to make the constitution and did more than its share in winning the west. George Rogers Clark was of it's blood and the victor of New Orleans was one of it's heroes It was with Stonewall Jackson at Characteristic and with George H. Thoraas at Chickamauga. It triumphcd with Grant and it surrendered with Lee. It believes in the family and in the home, in the church and in the school, and when it has girded on the sword it has put the Bible In the knapsack. It is a Preshy- terian. and representative government, in church and state. is part of its religion. It is for the Sabbath day that God or Gained. It Is nightly nearly the clot- ted beam of American citizenship
 There is greater proportion of Scotch
 Irish in North Carolina than in any other
 state, though down there immense mum
 bers of them are Baptists, but however } that may be, the proud escutcheon
 s'Ffrst at Bethel, farthest at Gettysburg
 and last at Appomattox, may be claime'
 as an additional glory for the Scotch-Irisl
 race.
 And Claude Kitchin is of the blood, ant
 he is a splerydid specimen of manhood
 r1entally ,sniorally and physically The
 man< <actually has the temerfty to be- liste something and to be governed by MS convictions, and that is great thing An public man now days, when there is so much that is false and so much that is vapid abroad in the land. But here mind and matter and conscience conspired to- eether, and they made a man-Claude Kitchin, 42 years of age and ten years Congressman.
 had slight acquaintance with his father. who was a member of the Forty Blxtn congress IrOIl the ulslllct HOW So ably represented by his son. What I es- pecially recollect of the father is that he was noted for a striking individuality, a trait that is nearly as common in North Carolina as it is In Kentucky. Not near ly so richly gifted in the graces of "a public man as his younger son, he was vet a man of sterling parts. as was evil denced by the frequency with which his associates quoted his utterances In prl- vate converse.
 William w. Kitchin, elder brother of the present congressman, was 12 years in Congress from the Fifth district, and re- tired to accept the democratic nomina- ton for governor of North Carolina, to which office he was elected and which he