The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-08-10

.oz Governor h'tIniH S'Hi
- - down on the antitrust Law
b.. zag elected Governor. and
ssre issue was printed Gov
Et-rhin's reply. Below will be
g another article written by Sen
r,.ghart to the News and OBJ
in which he replies to the
.--or.- letter. Sir. Lockhart not
- ...ands pat" on his first state
-. but produces even a warmer
1..--rarf than the first. The reply
a. follows:
- ne Editor: | have read with
-. gara Governor Kitchin's answer
:. .bose who, having been his sup
..-,a-.s have been alieniated by his
,,rirv in office, and | reiterate and
arm every word contained in my
.,-ne- letter. Carefully analysed,
-. defence is a plea in confession
IA avoidance. admitting in effect
hat he made no effort to secure an
.sartiye law and excusing himself
ANN the ground that Mr.. Nimocks
.,d also had cold feet. Neither of
lisa candidate for office, and where
70 stood makes no difference: Meth
a,ar shall | enter into a detailed de-
,ars4 of my record upon the trust
question. Any man who kept up
rith the work of the General Assem-
bIy Of 9O9 knows that Mr.. Nimocks
and I fought in season and out OF
season TO secure the adoption of an
effective law, and the charge that we
we're willing to surrender is absurd
and falsely absurd.
The Governors memory is worse
than | had even thought. I knew
that he had forgotten the men who
helped pledges and the issue upon
which he was elected, but I did not
know that he had forgotten the men
who helped elect him, but he GER
tainly has got me mixed with some
body else I went to his office with
Mr.. NimOcks, as he says, on only
one occasion-this was on either
the 14th or 18th day in January,
about $3.50 in the afternoon. We re-
NAMED there about two hours. Our
object in going was to consult with
him and see what bill should be in
,roduced and whom he preferred to
Introduce it. We had then not
drawn, copied or introduced any bill.
When We saw that he was opposed
to any effective law, we left his office
and went to the office of Mr.. Jo-
Sephus Daniels, where we told him
of what had occurred, and consulted
with him and some other gentlemen
as to what bill we had best intro
duCe. and We agreed that under the
circumstances the Reid bill was the
best that we could do. The next day
| told Mr.. Zeb. Weaver, representa-
tive from Buncombe, about the Gov
ernor's back-down, and asked him if
he would introduce the measure in
the House if did in the Senate. He
agreed. We went to the State Lii
brary, found the Reid bill, and had
Miss Ellington to make three copies
Of the bill, and on January 18th Mr..
Weaver introduced the bill in the
House, and | did in the Senate. Mr..
Daniels will doubtless recall the fact
that | had introduced no bill when
told him of the Governors attitude
and talked with him and Mr.. MINI
ocks, and that afterwards 1t was
agreed to make the fight for the Reid
Dill. 1t would therefore have been
impossible for me to have agreed to
eliminate sections from bill which
had not in my possession, and when
l had not decided what bill to intro
duce or who should introduce it. 1t
would also have been impossible for
NE to have told the Governor how
many votes could be counted on. /
mad barely made the acquaintance OF
the majority of the Senate, had made
no poll and did not know how they
stood, either on the general question
or any particular bill. The Governor
could not have possibly told me OF
an Interview with another gentleman
on February 1st, which was more
IMAM two weeks after I was in his
Office.
The most charitable explanation OF
his letter is, that he is suffering from
such case of self-agrandized, exag-
sefated ego as to be unable to recall
anything distinctly, except his own
glory.
Reading his letter carefully, one
VIII see that he admits that I was
reclting the arguments against the
trusts, and he the arguments in
tnelr favor; and, further, that ]
wanted him to send a hot message
ana he did not want to send any
AS TO our having been in thorough
harmony, let the people of the State
ask any of their Representatives OF
senators what the feeling between
ne and the Governor was, after my
ISL interview with him. From the
torego1ng statement as to times when
Tue interview with Kitchin occurred
~ Will be seen that many of his state.