The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-08-22
NEVER INTENDED TO KEEP
THEIR PLEDGE.

m excusa Governor kitchin TOT
breaking his pledges to the people,
says:
at is a fact that Mr.. Kitchln
has done nothing with the
trusts. But neither has any oth-
er Democratic Governor, and
most of them made the race on
an antitrust platform. Why
not be honest about it and ad-
nit that it has not been the in
tention of the party in this state
to put any trust out OF Dusl-
ness?
This statement of the perfidy OF
the Democratic leaders is thing
that is already known to the whole
State vet it is a remarkable confes-
sion to be made by a Democratic pa
per as an excuse for Governor
Kitchin.
In short, the bald, cold-blooded
statement is that Governor Kitchln
made false pledges to the people to
get elected and that when he made
these pledges he intended to break
them, but that he should not be
blamed for this, because all of the
other Democratic leaders are and
have been guilty of the same pert1dy
The Durham Herald should re-
member, however, that Governor
Kitchin has been more specific in his
promises and louder in his profess
sions of virtue than any of the othe-
ers. The old ANTITRUST law had a
few teeth in it, but Mr.. Kitchin,
when asking the people to elect him,
said that the law was not strong
enough to protect the people from
the operations of the big trusts that
were robbing them of millions of dol
lars each year He declared with
great emphasis and on every stump
that the greatest question before the
people was the passage and enforce
ment of an honest antitrust law
with teeth"
Mr.. Kitchin denounced Mr.. Craig
his opponent for the Democratic
nomination, as being a man toe
friendly to the trusts, and one whom
the people could not trust to protect
them against this great and growing
evil. Kitchin was elected Governor
on his antitrust issue. AS soon as
he was elected Governor he begar
to use his influence to prevent the
passage of a strong antitrust law
like the Texas law and the Missouri
law, both of which he promised the
people to advocate if he was elected
Governor.
A Democratic member of the Leg
Kitchin, and who believed that h
meant what he said, introduced a bill
in the Legislature containing tht
Missouri antitrust law, which ha.
driven all of the big trusts out O.
Missouri, and law which has beer
sustained by the Supreme Court O
the United States.
Governor Kitchin at once called /;
number of his friends around hin
and told them it would not do tt
pass such law, that he did not wan
to drive a single trust out of tn,
State, and that they must go easy OF
big business" The result was tina
a sham antitrust law was passet
which not only did not strengthen
the old antitrust law but which act
ually robbed it of all it's force an,
vitality.
The Supreme Court of North Caro-
lima has just passed on an anti-trus
law case that was started under tn,
old antitrust law and has sustaine,
the prosecution, but in it's opinion
which was unanimous, has declared
that if the action had been brough
under the Kitchin antitrust law tina
it could not have been sustained, be
cause the effective part of the oil,
antitrust law had been entirely re
pealed by the new Kitchin anti-trus
law. Thus we see that what few
teeth were in the old law have beer
effectively drawn by DR.. Kitchin.
This no doubt explains why it il
that Governor Kitchin is today in ia
oe A. o+l,or n, q china Doraoo.a4n I,