Bisbee daily review., 1911-05-31
CLAUDE KITcHIN OF NORTH CAROLINA
BY sAvoYARD.

of North Carolina are trained, and he Is indeed fortunate who can cali ] that institution alma mater. ! That futile authoress, Ouida, wrote book with this Passage from | Shakespeare as text:
 "A young man married is a mah that marr'd."
 When men are not yet emerged nom the "Byronic stage Granville Devine is a great work, and we hang on its artificial and bizarre rhetoric and its forced sra sham sentiment with rapture, but to us older the stuff is insipid and worthless an1 t is with pleasure we recall that the passage quoted was the opinion of the most arrant knave and eontemf- tible reprobate even genius of Shakespeare ever conceived.
 Claude Kitchin at the age of 10 was hapilpy mated with the woman of his choice, then a girl of 8. and from that day it might be said oi
 him. "a young man matriCs is a man that's made" He studied law and came to the bar. As much a man Of the people as Feb Vance himself. clients fiocked to him and he had a large and lucrative practice when elected a member oftheFifty-seventh congress in 1900.
 Kitchin has the presence, the gifts, mental and physical. that make the orator. He is a fanatically honest man and champions no cause he does not approve. He is sober and in- 6ustrious. an untiring student, and in a rough and tumble debate. such as Zeb Vance delighted in, he is the most formidable man in congress. No one hates sham more cordially than he. Full of physical health, ov- erflowing with animal spirits, young. ardent, brave, enthusiastic, able and eloquent, Claude Kitchin. if not eX- actly pet, is certainly a great fav- ctite ou the democratic side His speech on Roosevelt went into the democratic campaign book of 1904 and made him a national figure. but it was not until the lumber schedule of the Payne Aldrich tariff gave him theme that this young fel- low showed what a giant he is. It is a great speech, one of which any real Eemocrat might well be proud. He stripped the thing and revealed the | the floor and in the galleries gave him the splendid ovation he had earned. His motto was: T want no stealing for North Carolina"
 That speech established him as a leader and stamped him as a states man. IL was that speech which mark ed him for his present position, high among the political and intellectual ! aristcracy of the public men at the capital. It was inevitable that he would be one of the ways and means ! committee, and the pity is that all Of his democratic associates at that : council board are not of the stripe he is. If the party is to be Randall ized he will have none of it. If the ! tariff Is to he Gormanized, 1t will be ! in spite of this man. not because Of | him.
 Because of the soundness of his democracy and his gifts as an orator | Claude kitchin was chosen to opeu ! the debate bor the democrats on Can | adian reciprocity, and great speech it was. No better was made on that subject, no better will be made. It is the democratic idea Of political economy. It is a step in me direction of free trade It will make genuine reform of the tariff easier of attainment.
 But since reciprocity went thruuch the house with a practically unani- ! nous democratic vote the democratic ! party in congress is confronted with this problem: Shall we follow Bailey. Or renounce protection and all of it's knaYeries? l am beginning to fear the IopGun assault is a failure. As soon as wool was reached. every Janizary oi protection became alert. But I'll tell you about it in a re- 1 view of Claude Kitchin's reciproclrv ! speech