The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1912-08-01
GOVERNOR KITCHIN
TO CAPTAIN ASHE,

: American coal against the coal oi
j Canada. On that date Senator Sim.
mons forgot his North Carolina
speeches and voted with Aldrich for
the eoceit rate aad against reducing
1t from 90 TO 40 cents. 1t was pure
Iy a protective tariff and North Car.
DINA uses 7,00O,0 Geo tons of coal and
produces not one ton.
Z. He says the statement that
Senator Simmons voted for the ocean
mail subsidy is untrue. / charged
that on March Is, 1903, he favored
and voted fer an ocean mail subsidy
: which was Tar WOlse than the one
which Ransom and Vance opposed in
1890. and that no other Democrat
; from this State, either in the Senate
or IL the House, ever favored the
proposition. The Democratic mem
bers of the postoffice committee in
the House, including Hon. Jno. Fl.
Small from this State, declared the
ILL fer which Senator Simmons
spoke and voted, in reality provided
ship subsidy, and further that it was
neither more or less than poorly
concealed attempt to subsidize our
merchant marines" and further that
the same men, the same interests
and the same influences were pro-
noting that ocean mail subsidy bill
which has for years been pressing
the old direct ship subsidy PROPOSE
ton. Our platf orm adopted in Bal
tinore the other day opposes boun-
ties or subsidies for the merchant
marine, yet Capt. Ashe says Senator
Simmons did not regard il as a sub
sidy when heSspohe for it. | think
that what was so clear to the Demo
cratic House ought to have been
very clear to our senior Senator
that it was as subsidy.
If Capt. Ashe will read the records
Of the oates have cited above i sub
nit that his sense Of fairness will
suggest that he Withdraw his letter
and state that at the time he pre-
pared it he did not consult the re-
-, Is.
l will add that the position which
| have taken and now maintain upon
the tariff is in exact accord with the
teachings that Capt. Ashe gave the
people of North Carolina when he
was editor Of the News Observer
Chronicle, and so far as I know,
which Capt. Ashe always entertained
and I mean no reflection OF MIN
until he went to Washington city
under Senator Simmons. 1t is un-
fortunate that the senatorial atmos- |
phere has changed his viewpoint
Ia that paper on January 80, 1894. /
Capt. Ashe declared that party plat
forms should be upheld; on April |
q. 1894, that Senator's VINO put !
tariff reform in jeopardy were cut
Of the traces; on May 25, 1894, that |
if Democratic Senator'S had pursued !
the course that Senator German pur-
sued, they would have been no bet
ter than Republicans who narceled |
out the power of taxation to serve
private interests; on January 10, |
1894, he commended free iron ore
and free coal: on January 26, 1894, i
he again, among other things, com !
mended free coal and free iron ore,
and stated that the votes on such .
questions emphasized the difference
between the two parties; on June
"a. 1890, as editor OF the News and |
Observer, he declared that recipro
city was q step towards the prlncl-
pies of the Democratic party; on
Z, 1892, that reciprocity
was A B c Democratic doctrine; on
February 27, 1890, he declared that
the new law placing tariff on agrl-
cultural produces in no sense bene-
fitted the farmer. IN fact no man i
as editor stood more firmly for the |
Democratic doctrine against protec-
tiOn. was more drastic in denouncing |
protection as delusion and a snare
70 the farmer, was more emphatic
in favorlng free iron ore and tree
coal and reciprocity than Editor
Asle. He was then a type OF the
militant. aggressive Denoc-
racy for tariff for revenue only.
Pity it is that the thinge he then
TAUGHT as contrary to Democratic
interests and the interests OF the
people, he now upholds III behalf OF
his chief. Pity it is that the policies
which he advocated are now discard
ed by him in order to sustain Sena-
tor Simmons in his departure from
Democratic doctrines.
forwarded to Senator Simmons
CODY Of my original speech IN which