The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1912-10-31

z IL IS high time Tor the people to b.
scanning that mans record closely
1t is at best 'penny-wise-pount
) foolish policy to be found tradin,
compliments and votes with tn,
stand-pat ring of the republican
| party. Verify, evil communica
tons corrupt good manners" and w
IN this part of the country do no
regard the Aldrich faction as banc
of political saints.
II we want man in the Senat.
against whom such charges coulo
not possibly be brought, we can as
suredly find him in w. W. Kitchin
This man is not Gin the present day
usage Of the term a politician. HI
IS much more than that. He is E
broad and constructive statesman
He has wise and understanding
heart which sees clearly the trend
OF events and policies. His wise and
understanding heart is in turn guild
ed and controlled by conscientious
principles which are as infexible as
rock itself. He might we'll have
conscientiously moulded his life on
the little poem he is so fond of
quoting:
Let dwell by the side of the road
And be friend to man.
Such a man is not likely to err and
is utterly unable to be treacherous
or base,
In the controversies incidental to
this campaign some one has had the
childishness to characterize Gov.
kitchin's public career as sixteen
years of empty public service"
This charge had been almost redicu-
lous had it not been brought with
such malicious intent. 1t is slur on
the intelligence Of our State to say
she would tolerate so long such
costly useless" servant. The man
who made such statement was only
a degree less foolish than the one
who could credit it.
To mention only few of Kitchin's
achievements: Who forgets the
noble work he did against the threat
ened reduction Of Southern repre-
sentation in Congress? Who forgets
the threatened mail subsidy bill?
Willie Kitchin acted at these juno
lures manfully for the people as the
people expected he would do. He
has never failed yet to justify that
expectation. Fer this very reason
the fact that he can always be found
where the best interest Of the mas.
ses at large require him to be-ha is
a man that wears well. In eloquent
witness of this fact, the fifth DISCREET
alone, which he represented in Con-
gress for II years will give him a
larger majority this year than Mr..
Simmons will get in the whole State.
The fifth evidently did not think his
service empty. Besides, if his ser
vices had been "empty'' as alleged,
why was this grave charge rot
brought forth years ago? What gave
him at that time the strength and
confidence IF the majority people Ct
N. c.. which bore him in triumph to
the gubernatorial chair in face of the
combined opposition of the Inter
ests and trusts of the State? This
same empty service" was full
enough and whole-souled enough to
satisfy them, then. The people-the
masses at his back-knew
and gloried in his achievements then.
And be We well assured they have
not yet forgotten them.
If this were a trust ridden State,
we should feel that he had little
chance Of victory, for the bosses and
trusts know him as the foe Of their
illegal practices and Entertainments
upon the rights of the people. Who
else in our State can present such
of nobility and honor
such passion for justicefor the
people as our Incompatible leader?
Join the throng, friends, come out
and vote for Kitchin. Be on the
winning side and more than that be
on the right sidr.
Vote for W. w. Kitchin.
A. /. PURRINGTON.