The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-08-03

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Madison. y. C., July Ii. 1911. !
-. Edifor:-Your editorial or /
,nt on The Tobacco Trust
.- - vas very interesting.
raising tobacco in Rocking
county and am in position TO |
~.-.z. me truth OF the following ed
North Carolina has suffer
ar,-ageously at its hands. for to-
20 farmers have been often paid
s.eryation prices for their crops,
lororeritors have been ruthlessly
-.-,yad Of they refused to sell out,
-.,se terms offered by the trust 80.
.s. this: North Carolina has
IN engaged in the disgusting spec
..-t. ~ danOuncing them before cleo
IAN. and forgetting the denuncla-
.....ors after elections"
,f., this: political platforms
-... rHng the changes against the
--.raras OF monopolies, candidates
t.rataundered against trusts and Sc
...-ed Office on the pledge, l am
s--g.~o1S man-tO trusts; for the
.-a.rr9 trust knows that if | am
,l.r-ad / will see that stripes are put
IN Eq criminals as we'll as little
ones.
These promises and campaign
,rsdges have been made only to be
forgor,cn or repudiated until the peo-
Mo have begun to think that there
ras no hope even of putting the
brand of "law-breaker" upon the man
~asDoDsible for creating the monopoly
and criminally destroying competl-
ion
believe that the political record
Of every man is public property, and
write to state some things about the
record Of Governor Kitchin on the
rust question.
/ supported him heartily for thu
nomination. for Governor because o
he promises he made in his publ1
s9peches. because | believed he Woult
be in North Carolina what Governo
wilson has proved to be in New Jer
SEA real fighter in the Governor
ofce-and did not think that out o
courtesy TO trust sympathiZers IN tn
legislature he would let them nav
their way, just to keep down row
When the Legislature Of 1909 me-
the people in my county were greatl
disappointed that he did not do any
thing. and a delegation Of Rocking
nam tobacco farmers, accompanied o
the late lamented Reuben D. Rel'
went to Raleigh to demand that Den
Ocratic Office-holders keep the pleds
es made by Democratic candidates.
Every one of the delegation fro
Rockingham, so far as | heard, r
ported on their return that GOvern(
Kitchin had a bad case of weak bacl
bone on the trust question, and tn;
they were afraid nothing would
done against the trust. | know tn
they were afraid nothing would
done against the trust. | know tn
Mr. Reid was disappointed in Cove
nor Kitchin and felt that We were
ing to get no help from him. Wh'
the Legislature passed the act Of 19'
Mr.. Reid, and others, who were IN
position to know, said it was n
worth the paper it was written Q
In the campaign of 1910 Govern
Ktchin came. to Rockingham Coun
and defended it as a good law, a.
defended the Legislature that pass
1t, and abused those who did u
stand up to him and the Legislatu
OF 1909. Many of his appointmeI
10 Office convinced me that his sy
pathies are with those against who
ne talked when he was a candida
Tor the nomination for Governor.
Some papers that are known
sympathize with the trusts, and tt
abused him when he was i candld'
lot the nomination for Governor, a
which he abused in that campail
calling them by name, have since
oecame Governor, Dragged on b
ana have not criticised him at all
have investigated Cover
htchln's record, and among oil
tnlngs on June 10th wrote to Hon
able James A. Lockhart, who led
ught for antitrust legislation in
legislature of 1909, asking him
governor Kitchin's record on
trust question that session, and I h
reply from him. I send you
nockhart's letter and ask you to p
tiSn 1t as a part of this commun
'lon, and 1 think it furnishes pr
Vi all that have said.
Very respectfully,
M. L. MISENHEIMER