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The commonwealth., 1916-05-16
econd District.

A Representative in Congress should
be man of strict integrity, of high
character, of unfailing courage, of a
bility and diligence, and of sincere de-
votion to the interests of the people. If
to these manifest qualities there be ad-
ded the power and the readiness to pun
ish wrong and promote right in discus
sion, to uphold his party principles
against all assaults to tie confusion of
the enemy, he becomes the highest and
best type of a people s representative.
Ii a Representative has by long years
o1 service demonstrated these qualities
to the knowledge of all men, and is still
in the prime of vigorous manhood, his
are fortunate-they will be fortunate
in his return to Congress.
The Second District has such Rep
resentative. Those who can take no
pride in his career from the time he
helped lead the great white supremacy
campaigns to his championship of de-
mocracy in the House of Representa-
tives last March, when the whole coun-
try rang with admiration for his abil-
ity and eloquence, will themselves
never do deeds to thrill their friends
with worthy pride, nor qualify them
selves to feel it.
We should remember that one for his
own ease and advantage will sacrifice
his conscience under glaring criticism
in order to be in accord with any man ,:
opinions, may for his ease and advan
tage under other circumstances sacri
fee his conscience upon matters which
ware of the Representative whom criti
cism can frighten or fiattery seduc'
from the anchorage of judgment or tn
sound principles of his party.
!, We should not let the ambition Of
worthy man, nor the activity of tn
. gentleman in Wilson who induced hi1
: to run, make us vote against one VIII
has often been tried and always foun
true and equal to the occasion. Gu
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are 90 many things to be said IN his
favor that the limitation Of this arti-
clio prevents only the mention.
Above everything else, his life is IN
open book; his character is upright and
clean He has supported every meas
IRE that stood for the redemption of
every pledge of the Democratic Plat
form. His friends ask this cOterie
wbe have launched this contest agaips.
him, backed as they are by New York
papers, to put their fingers upon 81 /
gle line of a single pledge Of the par
ty Is platform that he has not helpfully
supported. The whole program of the
president has been placed in Mr.. Kitch-
in 3 hands and under his leadership to
be put into law.
What a spectacle do we have! While
this man with the mature experience OF
long and efficient service in Congress
is at his post of duty accomplishing
things in legislation; most conspici-
GUS and knightly figure by reason Of
his splendid ability, there are those
who are visiting the county, towns and
other places of the district, in compan-
les of twos, and threes, trying to make
a combination to bring about his de-
feat. It is even rumored that con-
siderable campaign fund has been rails
eI to accomplish this end. His oppo-
nent, Mr.. Mitchell, Of the county Of
Bertie, will need larger following
than he will get by the influence of
those who set this contest in motion
before he will even attempt to fill the
seat of Claude Kitchin in Congress.
Finally, can any one hesitate when
the possibility Of the larger service,
that awaits our representative in the
future by reason of his experience, his
craftsmanship and the honor that will
come to our State, is considerede
To sum up the whole situation, when
in the State it should be the effort Of
every one to heal all factional divisions
that have for many years existed in the
party, it is ill-timed and ill-advised
for any set of men for petty grievance e'
to attempt to defeat Mr.. Kitchin.
The voters of the district will reg
lister their approval of the course Of
their representative when they com,
to the primary in no uncertain voic'
and his majority will be entirely salts
factory to his friends.
WALTER E. DANIEL.
Weldon, N. c., May IA.
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FOOTSTEPS OF THE
FATHERS
the Older Citizens or the Town
Were Boys and Girls.

The rector Of Trinity Church, Rev.
Fl. w. Robertson is about to give week
ly courses of lectures on the church,
her history, and her doctrines. The
first of the series will be delivered on
Wednesday the 25th., just after join
ing prayer. The subjects on church
history include "'The Apostle Age
|'The Age Of Prosecutions, 1.-The
Age of Heroes,'' The Asceotic Age
The Papal Supremacy and "The
Reformation
Our Advertisers Week of May 20, 1886.
E. c. Atkins & Co., johnson s Lini-
ment, E. T. Whitehead & Co.. S, o.
Brinkley & Sons, N. B. Josey & COS,
Chesboro Mfg. Co., G. & A. Barginam,
Newark Machine Co., E. A. Currell, '"
Ii. Yarboro, Herbert & Cole Publish
ing Co., DR.. Rutts, Walter A. Taylor,
OH"o' a. 1oIcn q Co., mason q f1dnil"'
Chas. Folsom, J. H. Lawrence, Dennis
q Horne, Brown Cotton Gin Co., Will
mlngton & Weldon Ry. Co., Mayonla
Tobacco Warehouse, David A. Madry,
Edmondson & Josey, w. H. Randolph
John l.. Kitchin & Co., w. Payne 4
Sons, Brown s Iron Bitters, F. f. Fross'
& Co, Singer Sewing Machine Co..
Clarks o. N. T., John F. Stratton, II.
3. Peirce, New York Sun, w. H. hit
chin, Hicks & BrunGchild Bros G. +
Lawrence, Jno. A. Gamage & Son, kl'-
chin & Dunn, White & Shields, &c
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Representative has constantly honoresl
the District. The District will again
hon .r him.
His opponents do not ask his defeat
because he fails to possess any worthy
quality in a great degree, or because he
has any unworthy quality or habit. The
manly virtues and the desirable quail
ties in so large a measure, and the un-
desirable qualities in so small a meas
ure, that he has become unsatisfactory
tc them-to them because he declined
to face about in accordance with their
views. His intellectual, moral, and
physical vigor are admitted. His dill
gence, thoroughness, attention to pub
lie duty, with his ability, loyalty and
leadership, have placed him in a most
commanding position in Congress. His
critics have searched his career of six
teen years and have found one fault
the fault of intellectual independence
the fault Of daring to differ with the
President on non-political question.
Moral cowardice and political trucul-
ence on his part would have avoided
this fight upon him. Good democrats
can tolerate difference of opinion
when it is not contrary to party
platform or principle. In fact, it is
by clash of opinions that the right Is
often discovered. His critics would
paralyze the mental faculties Of Con-
gressmen and require them to follow
the President at all hazards. They
think and express their views, while
they deny that right to their Represen-
tative. He is not suitable to those of
G. domineering spirit, but to those of a
genuine democratic spirit, who have al
the time been working and wishing fol
, Democratic success in county, State
, and Nation, without hesitation or quaE
/ fication, his record at home, in tn.
District and in Washington should ap
| peal for his vindication against the as
r saults upon him.
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REASONS WHY SOME CONGRESS
MEN HAVE OPPOSITION.

ST Hopkins didn't get the post Office
N Bear Creek.
Charlie Jenk s son failed to pass the
examination for Annapolis, and now
old man Jenk is a gin him.
John Hargot is fighting the present
incumbent bitterly because his brother
,,i,n It get a clerkship on the committee
Of which said incumbent is chairman.
Congressman Blank once assisted in
the prosecution of Ezra Bolts for steal
ing a shoat Now all of the Bolts are
working against him.
Representative Blank s brother-in-
law once killed chicken that insisted
OH scratching up his wife 8 flower bed.
The Chick belonged to Sam Heck The
Hecks are mighty influential, and will
poll a great vote against Mr.. Blank at
the coming primary.
Sugar has advanced two cents since
Mr.. Blank has been in Congress-. Fol
this reason Hi Simpks is against him
It will be remembered that Hi address
ed an audience of seven (including hi
three boys) at Stampers Cross road
recently on the" High cost of Rations
Josh Bunkem failed to get his an
1.ual allotment of government seed thi
year, and is now about to influence hi
associate v. Gettim Of the firm of Get
tim & Bunkem, in voting against Nj
Bank at the primary. Josh want
~h1t, comm 70 him.
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the then and still existing emergencies.
and that his ideas were not accented
and the benefits which might have
flowed from the acceptance of his views
denied our country because the advo-
Gates of the Ship Purchase Bill would
not accept measure in effect COM
promise? Let the people Of the See
ond District be correctly informed and
they will know that their representa-
has heard the voice of his peoDle
Alright and who stands squarely upon
the Democratic Platforms Hill
Standard-LacOnic.
The commonwealth., 1916-05-16

A campaign circular apparently faith
cred by enemies of Claude Kitchin in
Wilson is before u.s. We use the word
" enemies advisedly, for an opponent
who would so far forget himself to dis
tort facts calculated to deceive the suf-
frage Of people is deserving of no po-
liter title. This circular places the
blame of the high price of shipping cot
ton and tobacco to foreign markets on
the failure of the Shipping Bill to be-
come a law at the last session of Con
gress-and it charges Claude Kitchin
with the failure of this bill to be enact
ed into law.
Such a wild juggling of the true facts
about Mr.. Kitchin IS connection with
this bill, as set forth in this circular
will not merit the consideration, we dc
not believe, of the intelligent farmers
Of the Second District. Indeed, we
hardly see how the people to whom this
anonymous piece of campaign literature
is addressed, can countenance such ar
insult to their intelligence. They know
that this bill was killed in the Senate
by flibuster. They also know that
MIR. Kitchin, at the request Of the Pres
ident, co-operated with those in charge
of the bill in getting a special rule tt
take it up for immediate consideration
He did not vote for this bill because
it's advocates insisted on permanently
keeping the government in the shipping
business. The bill with the perman
ent feature passed the house but was
killed in the Senate. Now, the advo
Gates of this bill realizing the impossi
bility of it's passage with the perman
ent feature, have come around to th'
views of the House Leader, and it will
become a law at this session of Con
gress, with the permanent feature
stricken out. The writer's Of this circu
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Staying on the Job.

Claude Kitchin is not losing any sleep
over the opposition that has developed
in his district and is staying on the
job attending to the business that he
was sent to Washington to do. Any
old mollycoddle' can go to Congress
and do what somebody else tells them
to do, but it takes man to 90 there
and stand up for what he believes to
be right, regardless of other people s
opinion. That 8 Claude Kitchin, everv
inch man and statesman.-Creed-
moor Times-News.
The commonwealth., 1916-05-16

It's funny how the opposition to
Shipping Bill as an issue to defeat that
gentleman. The new Shipping Bill,
about to be passed on, embodies all tho
contentious of the Majority Leader,
which he insisted on last year. If we
remember right the Democratic plat
form opposes government ownership,
does it not?
The commonwealth., 1916-05-16
"The Bump Of E go"

Washington to protest against a tar
or tobacco during the last session OF
Congress- The question is: what had
become of the "bump' of ego when
Nj. Kitchin. fought off a tax of several
million dollars on tobacco, and saved
Wilson county farmers thousands of
dollars by his great victory before
the Ways and Means Committees Col
onel Bruton probably knows where the
:bump of ego" was then, for he re-
cited Mr.. Kitchin s victory for the to-
bacco growers in a letter to the toast
master of a banquet in Wilson few
months later. Colonel Bruton and the
Wilson county tobacco growers know
that if it had not been for the victory
of their Congressman in keeping eff
this tax, the farmers would have lost
heavily by it. And again: where will
that "bump Of ego' be when the to-
bacco growers are looking toward
Washington for a man to keep the tax
clear of their weed, when the Ways and
Means Committee are deciding upon
the commodities to be taxed to pay
Cor the fabulous increase of armament
legislations
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The Hand of The Herald.

The New York Herald is taking q
hand in the politics of the Second N.
c., congressional district and is lend
ing its powerful efforts to defeat Rep
resentative Kitchin for the nomination
If the Herald can make it's influence
felt in North Carolina, it may later
make an effort to defeat the Democratic
State ticket next November. The Her
aid is Republican paper when it comes
to business Wilmington Star.
The commonwealth., 1916-05-16
Mr.. Mitchell's Worst Foe.

From the editorial columns of tho
Wilson Times, we quite the following.
Notwithstanding the efforts of his
friends to get him Mr.. Kitchin) to
stand with the President he knew more
than the president and the people of his
district. Now since it is too late 70
buy ships and afford the farmers relief
from high freight rates he supports the
merchant marine bill. Why didn' t he
dc it at first?
"He says he didn It do it because
the platform is against it.
"Well the platform is still against
it. Why does he do it now?'
The editor Of the Wilson Times knows
very well that Mr.. Kitchin refused to
support the shipping bill in its initial
form because it amounted practically
to ship subsidy. He knows, if he
reads the news columns of his own
paper, that Mr.. Kitchin is now support
ing the bill because the administration
supporters revised it to conform with
his ideas. He knows that the measure
has not caused one cent of loss to the
tobacco farmers of the second district
The Wilson Times, whose editor
claims to be personal friend of the
house leader, is aligned with set of
disgruntled politicians of Wilson coun-
ty, who oppose Mr.. Kitchin because
he has not devoted large share of his
time while in Congress to the securing
of pork barrel legislation for the bene
fit Of Wilson.
The Wilson Times has, in its efforts
to prejudice the voters of this district
against their present representative in
Congress, showed no regard whatever
for the truth. We dislike to use the
short and ugly epithet which expresses
our opinion of the Wilson Times-but
only that suffices.
The Wilson Times has repeatedly pub
lished garbled, inaccurate, and frequent
ly false accounts of Mr.. Kitchin g ac-
tions in Congress. It has accused him
Of being bribe- giver. It has stated
openly that he has been false to his
oath of office. It's editorial columns
have been replete with inslnuations OF
dishonesty.
Fortunately the rawlings of the Viii
, son Times will affect the Majority
: Leader s cause about as much as the
4 yapings of any flee impede the progress
Lf the thoroughbred. But, even though
they are SO silly and SO palpably false
they cannot fail to arouse the ire OF
e any honest minded reader.
It is unfortunate for Mitchell
1 that the Times is in position to sprca,
S its false insinuations through the por
r tion of this district Immediately sur
e rounding it's home city. Mr.. Mitche!
= we regard as an honest, clean man
who believes his cause to be just. W.
believe that he wants the people of thu
: Mr.. Kitchin on the real merits of tn.
+ case, and not to be influenced by chi
r canery and deceit. We do not believe
n that any one can possibly deplore more
= than does Mr.. Mitchell the actions O.
t this would-be yellow sheet.
l. When the votes in the primary ar,
counted, Mr.. Mitchell, who can no
avoid it's efficious advocacy of hi
cause, can credit a large increase il
a the majority by which the present rep
+. rcsentative of this district will be re
'nrned to his post in Congress to th'
) .iirty politics Of the Wilson Times
Il kinston Daily News.
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NJ Me h o ds That React.

lar also know that if the bill had been
passed by both branches of Congress
" hen it was first brought up, the pres
ent price Of cotton and tobacco trans
portation would not be affected. And
the whole world knows-barring, of
course, few political enemies of Kit
chin in Wilson-that had this shipping
bill passed, the British Order in Coun-
Gil, which forbade the shipment of cot
ton and tobacco to Germany and Aus
tria, and later to neutral coun tries
where there was a possibility of reship-
ment to the enemies of England, these
two commodities would not have been
affected in the transportation charges
With these incontrovertible facts be-
fore the people, how can any man who
loves fair play and is endowed with or
nave "AJ P@0ASo
with these false charges that are broad
casted among the farmers to deceive
them and poison their minds against
their representatives. man who has
proven himself friend to them and
their interests. Truth may be tempo
rarly crushed and buried beneath the
lies and deception; at first blush, an
honest man may turn against his friend,
but when the excitement subsidies, he
wants to know the reason why-and the
serpent recoils beneath its shell Of cal
umny. On June the third, the truth
CT this fatherless literature will rise
and find voice in the verdict of the peo-
pie of this district-the tremendous ma
iority with which the Second will re-
turn their representative to Congress
will be ringing triumph over a manner
of campaigning that has for it's mouth
piece literature that is as devoid OF
truth as it is of authorship-which il
anonymous.
The commonwealth., 1916-05-16

Last night as | lay on my pillow;
Last night in my iii trundle bed;
Last night as l lay on my pillow,
A mosquito bit me on the head.
The commonwealth., 1916-05-16

He has the ring Headline of a
news story in the Wilson Times an
nouncing the Hon. w. G. Mitchell 8
candidacy.
Ring? Where have we heard that po-
1itical term before?
The commonwealth., 1916-05-16

For fear some Of the voters of the
Second may not have heard of it, we
pass it along that the Wilson Times
recently issued an "organ' edition.
The commonwealth., 1916-05-16
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY
ABOUT CLAUDE
Most Probably.

Clingman w. Mitchell, who wants
Claude Kitchin s place, says he is no
politician. And before he sees many
''rare June days. he will perhaps ne
able to state that he is no Congressman
Herald.
The commonwealth., 1916-05-16

AS far as we are able to learn, Will
son county is still in majority for the
present congressional incumbent. The
people of that county are wise to John
u.
The commonwealth., 1916-05-16

Just as we were having our 1915 mo-
del palm beach overhauled, it hauled
off and rained, of course.
The commonwealth., 1916-05-16

Reinforcements are arriving! We
refer to the already large army of old
General Fly.
The commonwealth., 1916-05-16

It is refreshing to note that Beasley
of the Kinston News is soon to visit
Morehead City for his annual bath.
The commonwealth., 1916-05-16
Clean Kitchiu,

The political faction of Wilson coun-
ty that would Cling Mitchell wants on
ly toady, an echo, cypher, however
debased, it can not tolerate a clean
kitchin that has honest, individual de-
corations illustrative of principles that
are heart prompted.-Tarboro Southern
er.
The commonwealth., 1916-05-16
Played Out.

When the charges get down to the
POINT that Congressman Kitchin is ac-
cused of having stifled legislation and
thereby being the cause of farmers
getting five cents pound less for their
cotton and tobacco we think they re
pretty well played out as charges
Roanoke Rapids Herald.
The commonwealth., 1916-05-16

BY the guards!-we III have that bor-
der protected, anyhow.
The commonwealth., 1916-05-16

Fore long now you may find out,
That baseball here is Just about
We might say "dead,' we might say
'ive,'
The commonwealth., 1916-05-16

Thimble! Thimble!-where is Villa
The commonwealth., 1916-05-16
SPECIAL NOTICE!

Persons owing The Common
wealth should pay only recog-
nized representatives Of this pa
pcr. If you live out Of Scot
land Neck it is to the advantage
of all concerned for you to send
remittance by mail addressed to
THE COMMONWEALTH.
The commonwealth., 1916-05-16

But do your part and twill survive
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