The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-05-23

ItS oipl IiiSu New DIX mas been
shot up, foreign soldiers have marched
IL close formati up Broadway and
just one man h. by q stray bullet.
Then the climax. Woodrow Wilson IS
for preparedness, Mitchell is for pre-
paredness; j i, III Is not
The pictur. fallen upon duh times
Patriotic Mitchell men explain il bv
telling where Wilson was visiting this
week. The pictures have not excited
the populace and the Kitcllin people
have been disappointed with the patron
age Of the screeny evangel. They have
now reached that speed in the racing
where every knock IS a boost and gath
ers momentum with lustiness OF the
kick. They will not admit that they
brought the scream to this storm center
Of the domestic typhoon
One considerable personality II Cal
vim Woodard, wholesale merchant, in
carnates the Mitchell strength. Mr.
Woodard likes Bob Glenn and speaks
like Bob Ingersoll. You may catch hin
in his store without a clerk or book
keeper or any help. He will boot a ton
OF meat on a wagon and kick kitchin
as the wagon leaves the curb. He nev
er stops. He is 81 years old and has
voted for Kitchin since the war. q
aIn getting derned tired Of it, MIR
Woodland says, 'Eand we are going tc
teach him a lesson.' -
Doesn't Hope to Beat Kitchin.
! Mr.. Woodard admits that the cam
paign now can be didactic only. IL
does not hope to beat kitchin, viii
whose dogma he isn t wholly displea5
"a. But we can teach him that Norti
Carolina is yet q sister and the secone
is a child Of the sister. The enter
prise has either degenerated or beeI
exalted to a school.
The merchant Will bet any man any
thing from a ton of western meat t,
a half million that kitchin VIII no
carry Wilson county. It is a soul > res
to find one man positive. Both side
are claiming this county but the Nit
chel men whisper it until Calvin Wood
ard hoaycs in sight and whoops it u
like some Israelitish captain cheerin!
the fainting legions of the Lord.
kitchin VIII carry Wilson, It
safe to say so now for Mr.. Woodar
won t know it until Saturday, and
will be too late to have him show hoy
much more q inguist money is with
wholesaler than it is with newspape
guy. But it is in the air. One breathe
the very feebleness of the Kitchin oI
position and his supporters could g,o'
arrogant in the sureness of certain an
overwhelming Endorsement of Brothc
Claude.
This isn t the only place that ha
: been visited and on it does not depen
the outcome of the Mitchell candidac,
But il is the only place which show
the fighting good faith. Mr.. Mitche
has many strong supporters in Wilson
and Mr.. Woodland ism It his sole HOPE
Nobody else puts quite the energy c
the eloquence into it that Calvin Woo
ard carries and it is pleasure to Sc
or hear him speak.
Why Fight is Hopeless.
For days the integrity of the figE
against Kitchin has been impeached ,
friends of Postmaster S. W. Smith VII
| holds the office by the Kitchin O. !
The tobacco men q class have al
peared to feel more resentment of tt
Kitchin record than any other. NJ
Smith comes in here. He is the hea
: of the big cooperative tobacco bus
: ness in which 700 farmers share. Ii u
: three wears these farmers have divide
t their III per cent with him. A ma
j able to make money on tobacco th:
way WASH t the fellow to make pos
e master. Some Of this fight is meal
/ for Smith, they say.
g But Mr.. Smith not only has the II
o cleus of a great Kitchin force in tt
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