The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1911-07-25
THE FUSS
At RALEIGH
GOVERNOR And EDITOR DANIELS
REITERATE THE SAME THINGS
THEY HAVE SAID BEFORE
G.
A WORDY CONTEST
(By w. J. MARTIN.)

Raleigh, N. c., July 24.-In his card
just issued, Governor Kitchin gave
additional impetus to the United
States Senatorial contest in which he
and Senator Simmons, Ex-Governor
Aycock and Chief Justice Walter
Clark are pitted against each other,
making reply to Editor JOsephus
M. L. Misenheimer and ]. A.
Lockhart, who attacked so fiercely
the Governors antitrust record,
charging him with denouncing the
trusts and p1edging most strenuous
effort for their elimination in North
Carolina in the event the people
would elect him Governor and then
that he shifted to a "pink tea" atti-
tude when it came to keeping his
pledges. The Governor denies the
in toto and reviews his att1-
ture as shown in his inaugural ad-
dress, his messages to the Legisla-
ture and his conferences with legis-
1ators. And says as to the things
that Lockhart claims took place in
the conference as to the fate of the
Lockhart bill in the Senate, that Sen
ator Lockhart has simply been dream
ing dreams and that the things he
says occurred did not occur. He
quotes Senator Lockhart as having
said in that conference that cit would
be hard to put the Ten Command
ments through the Senate" After set
ting out his course as shown by the
records the Governor charges that
this is the first time the editor OF
the Raleigh morning paper has been
other than neutral in a Senatorial or
other Democratic primary contest and
declares that he won his nomination
without E6ifOr Daniels
aid and he will leave his cause with
the people and win the Senatorial con-
test in spite of his opposition. He
declares that he has always been
anxious to aid in the destruction of
private monopolies; thate he never
said he could destroy the American
Tobacco Company if elected Gov
ernor or promised the people to usurp
the powers of the legislative and jul
dicial branches of the government.
He cites the fact that this State is
the only one in which the Governor
has not the veto power and directs
attention to the fact that the Govern
or of New Jersey with his veto power
and power to appoint the Secretary
of State appoint the judges and clerk
of the Supreme Court, the district
judges and solicitors, attorney gen
eral has not driven the American To
bacco Company from New. Jersey
which is the State in which it is
chartered to carry on its interstate
and international business. And yet
the Governor of New Jersey could, If
he were disposed to do so, could use
the "big stick very effectively. AS
for himself he has no such conception
of either his moral or constitutional
duties in respect to the acts of CO.
ordinate branches of the government.
The keenest sort Of interest is de
veloping on the part of parents as
we'll as educators in the impending
adoption of the textbooks that are
to be required to be used in the pub
lie schools of the State during the
next five years, the examination OF
books for adoption being now in pro
gress by the sub-text-book commits
sion, with the actual work of final
adoption less than two weeks off
Possibly the greatest anxiety is be
ing manifested as to the share OF
prominence that is given to accurate
information regarding North Carolina
in the readers, the histories and kin
dred books that are finally adopted
by the commission. This State has
suffered so much from lack of presen
tation and from misleading 1nforma
ton that there is a deep-seated ankle
" IN LQ1S regard.
In a notable and animated discus
sion of this question it was asserted
that there is now being exploited II
North Carolina set of biographies
that may be involved in the work O
adoption that have in the elementa~
volume over three hundred and fiff'
pictures, without single one OF then
being credited in North Carolina
while the advanced book has nearly
six hundred illustrations without
single one bearing a North Carolin;
name.
Tt is also declared that in the his
troic treatment of the United State
in the formation of the Union cen
tains a sneak blow at North Caro1ini
and the South that would have tn
ultimate effect of imbuing the chi
dren with the idea that their father
who fought in the Confederate arm
were rebels This was illustrated o.
quotation from the elementar
book, page 70, which reads: I'm les
than three hundred years after tn
country was discovered thirteen colo
nies had been settled along the A
1antic coast, all belonging to Englane
which is one of the omst 1mportan
countries of Europe. In 1776 thes
colonies began the War of the Reve
luton to become new nation." Thls
It was pointed out, is dangefou
error in that the men VINO mao