The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1895-06-12

| III accordance With the action of the
board of trustees.
One by one the names were read ont
and the pretty girls came up.
DECLARED HER A GRADUATE.
Then in calm voice Colonel Harris
read the name of the young lady who
had been expelled as one of the legal
graduates. The name was not off his
lips when President Chappell, who by
nature is man of great conservatism
and modesty, jumped to his feet and
towering with emotion, walked to the
front. His face was lived as he said:
81 wish, in the name of the faculty OF
this institution, to earnestly enter a pro-
test against the action of the board of
trustees in giving Miss Emmie Spence
her diploma"
Wild applause followed these words,
and in the excitement many of the peo-
pie were already ON their feet
CLAIMED IT PERSECUTION.
There was nothing said in the remarks
of President Chappell to show that he
tn ought the action of the trustees was
| due to political Influences. The applause
was long.
Before it subsidized Governor Atkinson,
boiling with Indignation, his face whittier
than the wall against which his tremb-
ling figure was silhouetted, walked out.
There was the silence of death about the
hall as he faced President Chappell and
in voice of choking ire said:
81 have known Professor Chappell
long, but L never thought that he could
be guilty of an act so unbecoming a
gentleman and so unchivalrous as perse-
cutting defenseless girl"
He stopped for second. There was no
applause.
"The board of trustees were guided
solely by the justice in this affair and
they have stood between gross wrong
and the most absolute justice" Again
the governor paused and looked about.
He saw thousand faces red with rage.
There was no applause,
Again he spoke:
"The teachers of this institution can
not confer diplomas. Their terms end
with this:commencement, and they can
not do so under law"
Here the governor paused again. His
next sentence was never finished. First
the teachers, who knew that by all law 1T
was their prerogative to issue diplomas,
rose from the seats on the stage and
started hastily toward the door. Then
the students in body of three hundred
began to push their way through the
audience to follow the teachers. Many
of then gave vent to their expression of
disgust in the most emphatic language.
The governor looked on in unspeakable
establishment.
FLEMING DUBIGNON SPEAKS.
There were Kisses heard about the
hall when the governor took his seat.
Hon. Fleming duBignon then stepped
out and announced that the trustees in
tended to do nothing but what was just.
At the announcement from Mr.. duBign-
on broad smile fitted about the room
at the idea of the trustees doing justice
in the case, the intimation being that the
board was uninfuenced by any political
motives whatever. In making bis speech
Colonel Nat Harris suffered several times
from slip of the tongue and referred TO
the trustees as these politicians here"
This concluded the exercises.
IT will be remembered that heretofore
Governor Atkinson has been the idol OF
the college. The students enthusiastic
cally supported him in their harmless
way in his face for governor When he
was inaugurated the students moved
heaven and earth to get permission to
attend the exercises in body, but today
as the governor stepped from the stage
he was met by three hundred angry, tear
ful faces. and, ignoring all rules of cour-
+asv the innocent maids Kissed him to
the echo. With bowed head 1.-THE gov
ernor passed through the doorsi OF the
college with the conviction that never
AGAIN will he occupy the exalted station