The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-02-22
GOV. KITCHENS OPENING SPEECH
WAS ON SEN. SIMMONS RECORD
Charges That Simmons 10 Out Of Harmony With His Party
and Has Refused to Stand the Plaform-He charsed
That the Senator Was Lined Up With Lormer for the
Lumber trust and Nearly Always Voted With the Trusts
Challenges Simmons for Joint Debate.

/ OF the Democracy OF North Carolina.
which. from the mountains 10 the
sea. has been and IL fighting the he
publican doctrines OF favorfttgu
privilege. and protection. and which
will keep up the fight until no tar
Is levied by the Republic upon all It's
citizens for the purpose OF fostering
the private fortunes of any OF their
plunderers. As one who never yio-
lated a Democratic platform, or
trangressed a Democratic principle.
] shall show that in the pas; few
yeIrs the Senator has materially
changed his views on important par
~ principles. and In every case his
! change OF opinion has been against
the interests OF all the people and In
favor OF special classes. and so thor
ough has been his change that con-
trary To what must have been his
original inclination he has felt COM
/ PEELED by speech and vote to combat
/ the plainest teachings OF Democracy.
Even his manifest error In the
! Lorimer case is used In his support
With his personal friendship for SEN
atOr Lorimer with whom he had Of
cen voted, who held the same views
with him on important public mat
] ters, with whom he had often paired
and who had been interested by him
/ in business matters, | can understand
now, owing to their cordial rcla-
tions, he could have such confidence
in Senator LOrimer as to be unable
10 believe the abundant direct and
the overwhelming circumstantial evil
dence which fixed corruption upon
nois. | do not, however, think that
vote should add any strength to his
cause. Yet his speech and the
speeches of others have been circu-
lated throughout the State in the
vain effort to convince our people
that Lorimer's election to the Sem
ate was fair. With amazement at
his doctrine | have found an editori-
al defender Of Senator Lorimer pro-
claiming that II he did not partici-
pate in the fraud or know Of It he
should retain his seat. Waving the
probability of his knowledge of the
corruption, every Judge and every
| law writer declares that no man,
however innocent himself, can right
fully or legally retain any Office OBJ
tained by fraud or corruption. Will
! any one contend that even the most
| inn
! which another has stolen? The pub
lie conscience was shocked at the
boast of lumber trust captain that
he put Lorimer over"
Against Democracy on Ocean Mail
Subsidy.
! If there is any policy which the
Democratic party opposes and which
opposition is known to every man,
it is that of ship subsidies. The
Democracy always opposed giving
money out of the common treasury
to ship owners to enrich their bust
ness. Our last national platform de-
clared against it. The Federal law
denies the right of American regis
try and Of sailing the American flag
OF all foreign built ships. Any 9TH
er thing may be bought abroad and
by paying a tariff become American
property An American citizen can
indeed buy pleasure yacht abroad
and by paying a high tariff on it have
it registered as an American vessel,
but he must contract never to carry
freight for pay. This narrow policy
under an unwise law compels ship
owners who want to fly our flag to
/ buy their ships from the protected
ship builders. The ship subsidies say
the Government ought to pay vast
sums out of its treasury for each voy-
age of certain character of ships OF
certain classes as subsidy to counter
act the increased cost caused by the
protective tariff"
| Against Ransom and Vance.
/ The Governor, declaring against
subsidies of this nature, said there
are millions of dollars tied up in
American money invested in ocean
going ships flying foreign flags and
there never has been in the history
of the world a port that did not have
enough ships for its regular com
merce.
He told how Vance and Ransom
opposed the subsidy scheme of 1890
and how Mr. Simmons in 1908 voted
for an ocean mail subsidy, far worse
than the one of 1890, using argu-
ments which Republicans always had
used and which Ransom and Vance
and every Democratic Senator had
disputed. The Democratic members
of the Postoffice Committee, includ-
/ ing Hon. John Fl. Small. of this
State, in their statement said this bill
! nnrnorted 'nnminallY to promote the