The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-05-09
Kitchin True to His District.

Kitchin True to His District.
(Reply of Mr.. o. P. Dickinson to tho
Wilson Times, May 5, 1850
Dear Editor:
1 was glad to read in your editorial
a few days ago in reply to Mr.. Has
sell 8 article, that your columns are
open to your subscribers to reply to
any criticism you may make of any
Democratic candidate for Office.
Mr.. Hassell reuested you to file a
bill of particulars to show wherein
Claude Kitchin has failed to serve the
people of his district, since you have
repeatedly accused him along this line
in your paper. You refused to file
a detailed statement but only request
ed Mr.. Hassen to show wherein Mr..
Kitchin has served the people and
been in harmony with the administra-
ton.
You ought to know that the burden
of proof is on the one who makes the
allegation and not on the one who is
accused. Mr.. Kitchin is presumed to
be a democrat and one who is stand
ing on the Democratic platform and
since you have brought a charge
against him, you should make good your
charge.
I have often noticed on the streets an
anonymous circular directed to HMr
Farmer which is characteristic of
the enemy who strikes from the dark
do not know who wrote it, but 1 am
not surprised that they were ashamed
to acknowledge the paternity of such
a monstrous abortion. 1 think they
ought to be ashamed Of it. The very
idea Of calling Mr.. Kitchin, the chair
man of the ways and means committee
a hireling! We should be proud of him
for he and Senator Simmons have
brought honor and prestige to North
Carolina. The authors of the circular,
though ashamed to sign it, hope to de-
ceive the farmers of the county by the
most peurile sophistry that could be i'm
agined. Trying to make the farmer
think because cotton is $500 in Liver
guess Dives, who Gin hell lifted up his
eyes, and begged Father Abraham for
one drop of water to cool his parched
tongue would give million dollars
n Of 1,,@ =.
that ice should be more than one half
cent per pound in Wilson.
We cannot get ice to Dives nor can
we send our cotton through the zone
established by war which is only an
other name for the home of Dives. ac-
cording to Sherman, and deliver it to
England or Germany, even though VIC
owned all the ships on the high seas
today. Great Britain has forbidden the
shipment of cotton and tobacco to Ger
many and Austria, and even to neutral
countries where there is probability
of re-shipment to Germany or Austria
Even If the merchant marine bill
had become law at the last Congress-
not an extra pound Of tobacco or cot
ton would have been shipped Whya
Because all our ship builders have cor
tracts ahead for two years and not a
new ship for the government can he
built for two years SO says the secretary
OF the United States Chamber of Com
merce; and the only ships which the
government could have purchased are
in the export trade.
Then how could you get more wagons
TO haul your cottona If Mr.. Kitchin
caused tobacco to go down in price and
caused cotton to go down as you saw.
then every Southern representative in
Congress ought to be defeated for elect
ing Claude Kitchin chairman of tho
ways and means committee aftar III.
vote was taken. Don't you suppose.
Mr. intelligent Farmer that all these
sood Democrats in Congress knew as
much about Mr.. Kitchin s service to the
people as Mr.. Nameless Circular Writer
ioesF Why did not the people in che
Oanv1ile, Va, tobacco district put q
nan out to defeat Judge Saunders. who
epresents that district and who NOT
MY voted against the ship purchase
I'LL but filed vigorous minority re-
'ort against it, if it injured the tobac.
o 1armersY Please answer that cues
Ion. The truth about the matter ia
'iaude Kitchin is friend Of the
obacco farmer.
In the fall of 1914, after the out
reak OF the European War, heavy :
var tax was threatened on tobacco. Mr.
Altchln as member of the WAYS and
leans committee in Congress kept this
Ak on tobacco and thus saved the tob-
eco farmers Of his. district millions
dollars.
a delegation was sent from Wilson
" ashlngton to protest against the
tax on tobacco, and Mr.. h