The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-08-17
+. W. GLIDEWELL REPLIES TO
EX-JUDGE MANNING.
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EX-JUDGE MANNING.
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the Governor now defends, Is not in
accord with the Democratic platform
upon which he was elected. The
important point about this contro-
versy is: Was the legislation OF 1909
and 1911, which the Governor has ap-
proved in his speeches, in compli-
ance with the platform declarations
against trusts? The language of the
platform of 1908 upon which the
Governor was elected was as follows.
"Conspiracies by prospective
purchasers to put down or keep
down the price of articles pro-
duced by the labor of others
should be made criminal, and all
persons or corporations entering
into such conspiracy should be
punished"
The platform of that year formally
declared that all private monopolies
be destroyed. The result of the leg
islation of 1909 and of 1911 were
not that "all persons entering into
such conspiracies, or any such per-
sons" have been punished, and the
trusts have not been destroyed. The
Legislatures of 1909 and of 1911
were not calculated to destroy the
trusts and punish conspirators. All
that subsection F of the Act, of 1909
did was to declare certain things I'M
lawful. The lobbyists of the Ameri-
can Tobacco Company permitted the
Act of 1909 to pass without protest
or resistance, and they certainly must
have known when they did it that
the act would not result i'm the pun
ishment of the men by whom they
were employed and sent to Raleigh.
If Governor Kitchin had been as
progressive and jealous after he be-
came Governor as he was when he
was talking about Mr.. Craig's record
when he was trying to get to be Gov
ernOr, he would have denounced this
toothiess, spineless fraud and joker
of 1909 as a betrayal of the party's
pledge to the people, and would have
secured proper legislation at that ses-
sion. Or would have paved the way
for it in 1911. -.
1t was Senator Bassett who in 1909
Joined hands with Mr. Travis, Judge
Manning and others to put through
the act of 1909. It is generally un-
derstood, and I take it to be a fact,
that both Judge Manning and Senator
Travis are now supporting the Cover
nor for United States Senator, not
withstanding the fact that they are
known to be against effective anti
trust legislation, and the Governor is
attempting trust. They evidently
think that he is still mot a danger
Gus man to trusts" In view of the
record of Governor Kitchin and his
attitude on the stump favorable to
the legislation of 1909 and his atti-
tude toward Judge Manning person.
ally. it strikes me as rather funny
that Judge Manning should now at
tempt to bolster up the Governors
record by writing an article with the
purpose of trying to show that the
Governor disagreed with him on the
trust question in 1909.
Mr.. Koonce introduced the Texas
antitrust bill in the House of 1909,
and Mr.. Paul Kitchin's committee re-
ported it favorably.
Governor Kitchin, in one of his
published letters, cites this action on
the part of his brother as the only
evidence he has that he favored that
bill. Judge Manning then comes for
ward and contributes his testimony.
that he told Mr.. Manning in private
conversation, 81 n the presence of Mr..
koonce, that he regarded that as the
most effective antitrust law of any
State, and that he hoped the Legisla-
ture would pass it, There is some
thing pathetic about this statement
Of Judge Manning's. The former
trust-busting candidate for Governor
when he got in Office left his friend
Koonce, who was fighting for the
Texas antitrust law in the House of
1909, without any public word of en-
couragement, or declaration in favor
OF Mr.. Koonce's bill, and when Mr..
Koonce was engaged in his death
struggle with the lobbyists of the
trusts in and out of the Legislature
OF 1907, Judge Manning tells us that
the Governor did give him a little
crumb of comfort by telling him pri-
vately that the Texas act was the
most effective antitrust law of any
State, and that he hoped the Legisla-
ture would pass il" Brother Koonce
and his bill went down in defeat in