The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-05-23
Tom B0St Writes the Greensboro DaiIv News
of The Political Situation in Second District
Importers it
4 Appear for Ienors

3tao4. May ~ -- With Champ
Clark s handsome Kitchin letter ac-
quitting the House Leader Of filibus-
tering, temporizing or Gisorganizing
il the late shipping bill fight in Con
gress the Kitchin men are swamping
the opposition today by vast circular
i.:ation Of the district.
The Wilson people have more reason
20 believe in tobacco than the silver
smiths kau for faitl, IN Diana Tobac-
so is king down here, albeit Diana was
10 horse goddess Whatever and
whoever abates one jort orlittle tlie
tobacco business is a thing of uglifi-
cation and q kick forever This soft
impeachment the Wilsonians brought
against Claude Kitchin Champ Clalk
says it ain t SO.
Postmaster S. w Smith is a big
tobacco dealer ard his ia per cent
profit II three years, shared by 700
farmers. IS declared TO have offended
more than one man who deals IL the
staff that makes men spit ham o@avv.
Now, how anybody knows that ant, ca
Irove whom it displeascd, does not ap
pear, but that is what Wilsonians say
Mr.. Smith landed the postoffice To
him that hath shall be given. Claude
Kitchin made foes when he noratel hi
selection.
tobacco men then fought Kitchin
! To- RI
lures OF the shipping bill they inter
rreted 4 further inharmony i'll the par
| ty. It is very true that some OF tho
! best Wilson county men vehemently
President Wilson. Il is just as trlGc
tEat some OF these We're little inter
estoa IN Woodrow Wilson four years
ago and are not crazy about him now.
But the biggest opposition which the
district has been able to arouse comes
from the tobacco interests which de
clare that Kitchin s course tied up many
millions OF pounds and caused heavy
loss TO the people who grow and mann
facture the weed.
s'Truth Shall Never Die.''
This has been made ar effective IS
sue and was worth a hundred such q
.dislovalty to the President. Even
Postmaster Smith s noble Seven Hun
1retl would have had difficulty stand
ing together if the Mitchell men made
good on that charge In large circu
lars over which is printed 'Trutl
Shall Never Die, = i'll big black type
the following letter from Speaker
Clark, S'the statesman who came IN :
very few votes of being the Democratic
President today
Many Leaders Against Izitchin.
With the certainty that kitchin i
going TO be overwhelmingly renomlnat
ed and chat the onslaught which prom
ised something a month ago will b.
forgotten in a day Mr.. Kitchin find
many leaders against him and viii prob
ably have q harder fight next time
The leaders are 'Flaying' for him
). Assuming that self interest plays con
o siderable part in their caluculations ]
was but natural that they desired MI
Mitchell At best he would have bee
! satisfied in Congress but a term or two
4 IF he could be sent to Washington O.
{ the wave of presidential popularity Q
upon the call for preparedness, Claud
! Kitchin s career was ended and some
:. body else s begun.
J. The two men who have most dis
IL cl1esed as successors are n. J. Rouse 0
II Lenoir. and Judge Geo. w. Connor Q
Wilson. 1t APPEARED three days ag
e that their friends might exert then
selves to the utmost. Neither trlan
G nor principal seems to have turned
IF hand. Il now looks as If kltchln WI
take so per cent of Lenoir, 80 per eei
re being the least that a Kitchin ma
st would be satisfied with.
Il AS for the Connors, they are NJ
IA fighting Kitchin. They are not eve
talking about him. Back in 1902 Claut