The commonwealth., 1916-05-23
TOM BOST WRITES GRrENspono
NEWS OF THE SITUATION

''0' ""o hi' "eAthted opponents ~.
with hlm IN seeking the return Of Il.
house leader. R. H. Fulghum, +
Darden, K. A. burlington and G. so.
ry contested this luscious nlun ILL.,,
Mr.. Smith. Fulghum, Darden and ru
lington are outspoken for kitcbin ~.
Perry is not attached. The postotrc.
fight which alone threatened Ki+cb;n
is now a 4 to / shot and il m.,.
unanimous before the thing is ove-
Colds 2 to l.
Then there is John D. Gold. Par5.,,..
the Greensboro Daily News has had nr
casion to recall Mr.. Gold. In his ..,;,r
newspaper he has daily raped .,
Claude s tegument, to how much I'm.
pose 1t wouidn t be nice to print. Eo1b
sides give eloquent testimony to H.,
worth of the Times ceinpaigu ia ri,,
kitchin candidacy.
Now. II the candidates for pos1ma..
ter could settle it Kitchin would r.+
4 OF the 5, assuming that postmaseer
Smith would vote and it is fair to 80,
that he would. If the Colds are allow
ed to name congressman. John viii
deposit a ballot for Mitchell but .Ioa
and that father in Israel Elder p u
Gold, will carry Zion for Kitchin j.,
two to one. Editor John Gold has Ana
difficulty persuading his household IA
beat or teach Kitchin. How n,ucl,
greater the job of converting q distric
which has contracted the kitchin hab
It almost ANYBODY can imagine
Will Mitchell Retire?
The runaor that MI Nirchnil ma.
f1n1sh the race may be inspired bv H.,
growing evidence that he really has nor
begun it. but his supporters do not 4,
init that he has any notion Of With
. drawing. In substance they quote Mr..
Mitchell as having said that he ll3
hot desiT: enter the fight and want
ed some au,.y else to do it. Moreo or
Il Mr.. k'&oi:n showed a dispositions to
GO >3c;'t y and stay right, the ~
ward @. tisose driving him to rectitu4.
Wonld he great indeed We have csriv-
th 'i!a back to the Democratic par-v
SAID tlc picturesque Mr.. Woodar9
Am that a great deal for uso'
And that seems to be about thn oy-
tent OF the enterprise. The official re-
turns will not show it neither will they
carry any disappointment to Mr.. Mitch
ell AT best it is improbable that more
THAN ty will e, I,
would be low down mean if she
lnistreated a favorite son and Berry
mas always been a very nice girl. Bu5
Edgecombe, Greene Halifax. Ieno;r
Northampton, n Warren and Wilson are
oead certain to maltreat one of IL,
incest men in North Carolina TODAY
There IS no sign of any money. The
campaign has not reached that danonr
point. The enterprise was noble a.
flrst. 1t started out on colossal
scale. Friends of Kitchin expected 10
see hlm encounter million dollars
dropped down here hv the multitudl
nous munitions factories. IF COM
has come this way It is not visible to
the naked eve.
The opposition is now willing to
compromise on spanking, a slap, it
would not peIpretate a knoc1dov.u. The
-ohservatlveness of the njurv It wcald
10 TO kitchin doubtless accounts fo,
ne repeated rumor that Mr.. Mitchell
$ not to complete his course. Indeed
some OF his friends quote him as boine.
pleased that he turned Mr.. Kitchin IN
he right direction and the Be1tie man
eems to have no more killing grudoc
han that.
Hard Wilson Fight.
VI course, the Kitchin ma ioritv i!
wilson county must be small. The fac
ION are evenly divided and if the
freaks went against either man h,.
would be defeated. 1t is evident. how
yer, that the fight has been taken
rom the Mitchell forces and that here
d thls dandy town mighty little re
lalns to q contest that has had q
atlon s eyes on it. Of course. the
Tlldest kitchin claimant could not hope
carry Wilson by the same ratio that
ohn Goid fails to carry his own house
old.
Mr. MifcbaI1 CnoIyo b,.o 1.4