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Show KITCHIN IN TROUBLE. All in not peace and harmony baclt home for Congressman Claude Kitchin, who boldly and buoyantly announced himself opposed to President Wilson 's preparedness programme. Ju the first place, it was rather startling for Democrats Demo-crats generally to find that the chairman chair-man of tho ways and means committee, and by that 'token the floor leader in the house of representatives, was determined deter-mined to oppose the president's pro gramme. It smacked of high treason, and they were angry. It. trnnspircs that Democratic wrath is not confined to administration circles at the national capital. Certain rumblings rum-blings and grumblings in the Second .S'orth Carolina district indicate that tho Kitchin constituency is divided. Some will have it that so far ,-ih preparedness is concerned Mr. Kitchin hnsn 't any constituency con-stituency left, but this, nf course, is an exaggeration, for it would be difficult tu deprive such a nuavo and successful rioUtician bh Mr. Kitchin of unpportcrs. Nevertheless,' it seems safe to say that Mr. Kitchin is " iu bad." One complaint against the Democratic floor lender in that he is not (piite the same man in Wanhingtou as at home. When among his own people ho apDcnrs to defer to their judgment; when in j Washington he appears to scoff at their judgment. Of course this scoffing is not loud and rude. It is the mild scoffing scof-fing that one sometimes indulges in among the great and notable when one refers to the "small town stuff" back home. In this instance the " small town stuff" refers td the limited gray matter mat-ter of the folk of the Second "Xawth Calina. " Naturally the Second district, haviug acquired this impression of Mr. Kitchin, is irritated. "On what meat hath this our Caesar fed that he is grown so great?" they ask themselves. It may bo that the agents of mili- j tarism are spreading discontent among j the erstwhile admirers of Mr. Kitchin. j Mayhap they are purposely seeking to give him the seeming of a Machiavelli who is fit for all kinds of treasons, stratagems and spoils. At all events, Mr. Kitchin is far from the popular statesman lie was a few weeks ago. The Second district is a sample of what is apt to happen in other Democratic Demo-cratic strongholds. Under tho leadership leader-ship of Mr. Bryan there will be division and discord. The Democratic party will be split in twain and Mr. Bryan will continue to smile and whet his knife. |