The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-03-10
Claude Kitchin As Seen Bv
Sam Blythe in Who's Who

lle7e anything one hears in these d4ys
when false statements are rampant
and unchallenGed Il. myself
and a few others.
As for the box, lid YOU zee this
identical cigar pat into the box? IL
not, why lug that inCon~eQQential de-
tail into the gumtnI2"
\ Procession III Political Ifs-
But. protested James wildly, II
ann not arguing. / don't care what
kInd OF clEar 1t Is. / like II. Ths i
all there IS 10 it
Not arguing" exclaimed kitchiu.
w ny. you forced this argument on
me- / h2u said nothing. Apparent
ly"-and he was quite Indignant
there ,are people who makc state
ments thinking they may - unchal-
Ienged-but not while / All about.
And that is the exact truth of tt.
No person nay make i statement
when Claude kitchin is about unless
he is. prepared To argue III down t.
the snalIness OF q bugs ear. and t.
maintain Vigorously every contention
he makes. Hence il il happens as
many hope it viii happen. there i
likely TO be some hairspfittiue on the
floor of the House Of Representatives
next year that viii keep those
~wranelers up there employed for
many d~isputatious hours.
YOU see, Claude kitchin is second
man on the majority side OF the Ways
and Means committee. ranking next
10 Oscar tnderWpud. Now the chair
manship Of the Ways and Means Com
mittee carries with il the floor lead
ership Of the House OF Representa-
tives. Thus, if oscar Underwood
shall be successful in his campaign
for the senatorship in Alabama,
wherein he is opposing that loud
aiarum of war. Captain Richmond T.
HObSon. then, in the natural course II
DnlIticS and events Vii n I hp fittipp Of
Underwood to the Senate, Claude viii,
sbe elevated TO the Ways and Means
. craftsmanship and simultaneously
! given the majority leadership ON the
I floor.
Conjure up the siuuatlon-aIbei,
there are several ifs in it. Ii Under
+ wood is sent to the Senate. if kitchin
O gets TO be floor leader: if the Demo
: Gratis hold the next Honse-all these
are potent, but most are predicated-
I then jim Mann Will rise one bright
morning and say u~rh3ncIE: The gen
O tlennan is a villain and q traitor TO the
. state, and the truth has not been n
, his vicinity for forty Near4-and then
some"
Whereupon Claude Nitchin viii
fa argue the points made. regardless OF
whom jim Mann had IN mind; and
= seventeen suns viii set before the al
gument is concluded. Talk about ar
10 guing Will the inevitable, as did Mr.
n Lowell, Claude is not only inevitable
IN but imminent. inCeSsant and tonitrouS
% He is a hefty citizen, zone the less
III from Il family that seemed at one tim,
tn to nave about all the oongreSSiOna
privileges of North Carolina; for tire
ya of the KitchinS have served in tn
House. and two Of them, il | remem
or Der correctly. al the same time-Wil
re liam W. and Claude-WhiIe William
i'll was also elected governor OF the State
a family, [ should say. that realize
ia adequately the advantages Of the SUI
IS, pie and knew 4 little politics oI tn
side.
Clauoe is . sturdy citizen hailin
AZ from Scotland Neck, North Caroline
which, appears 20 be the :>itchin an
~cestrel seat. lie was born in 1856
- and has been practicing law at tn
- old home place since 1890. The
@ elected him TO the J'ifty-seycnth Con
gress, which began its operations ]
1901: and he has been there eve
since. rising steadily IL the esteem I
~ his colleagues and becoming a pow
erful member IF the Democracy. II
" is a GOod speaker. q forceful debate.
"a q student of the tarin and is a ma
"a OF excellent ability, with full know
edge of the legislative machinery.
0 However. he will argue. Nothin
~ can stop that. He. as the poet say
counts that day lost whose low dc
=" scerding sun" see-by himseif-n
- argument begun: and he j. not pa
- ticular whether il is finished that da
~, or in a sennight tiicrefrom. The longe
~ one runs the more fun he can HAY
: ont Of IT.
- And if perchance his eye should "a
:" on this humble testimonial TO his c,
p~iouSneSS and continuity as
- Wr1irgleT, he viii Immediately Ia
down 2 s>rics Of. propositions tendir
TO prove III" statement that he nev'
aid h.5 a.; heId an a,.r17nenf in his ne
and always agrees IN q most deferel
tat with every eJatenlel
T1ad".