The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-09-05
THAT Is A LlE!'
so SAID MR.. SPIER WHITAkER
yesterday TO MRS. II. ID. Ii.
ARLINGTON.
SHE FLEW OUT IN A RAGE


Acted Like a Lady She Would be
Treated as One---The Fan-Miil Kept
A,shaking and the Dust it Kept
A,fyiug--Mr. Whitaker's Character
Auacked--He Replies 10 the Attack
in the Midst of Which he Drops into
Poetry--Judge Conner and Hon. f.
A. Woodland ON the Stand.
The Peedybees met yesterday morning
at nine o'clock. They will meet again
this morning.
Just as they had gotten together yes
terday morning, in walked ExJudge
Spier Whitaker, who, seating himself,
made some inquiry touching the journal
which Mrs. P. D. B. Arlington had in
hand. There was some cross firing wind
ing up finally by remark from Mrs.
Arlington to which Mr.. Whitaker re-
piled:
''That is lie J"
Mrs. Arlington seem much ''shook-
up by the remark ana she
left the Senate chamber in a
huff. saying that she would get man to
arrest Mr.. Whitaker in case his language
grew worse She insisted that she
should be treated like lady.
Mr.. Whitaker suggested that If she
would act like a lady she would be
treated like lady
Mrs. Arlington had grabbed the notes
of the testimony taken and away she
went with it. Old Hoola Boom was ap-
pealed to, but it was too late and the
only reply he uld make was, "Well
you see she's got it, what are we going
to do 2"
Then arose Mr. Whitaker, who, address
sing Chairman Hoola- Boom, said:
gentlemen of the Committee:
'Mr. Campbell and Mr.. Phillips both
promised me that as a matter Of simple
Justice if Mrs Arlington began to
say anything about me that they would
stop her at once, send for me and so soon
as / could ger here allow her to proceed
with her statement and would give to me
the privilege of examining her and then
introducing such evidence as | saw fit.
Last night at $50 o'clock sitting at my
supper table in the country one of my
sons handed to me this note:
Judge Whitaker
'sYou can come up to the Senate
Chamber, you may want TO hear the
evidence given with which you are con-
ceTned.
"Yours truly,
y. T. PHILLIPS
From 4:30 until dark was, as was
almost every body else in town, / sup
pose, attending the funeral, and acting
as one of the pail bearers of Mrs. Vass.
Then diving down into hidden recess
of his nature that is rarely accessible
to public view Mr.. Whitaker continued:
.'We are born to- day; we come up like
the flower and are cut down in the after
noon or evening as the flower. The
time we stay here is simply moment as
compared to eternity; but character is
worth more than have language to TELL
I have whether justly or unjustly, &C
quired some reputation in the state.
Whether / deserve it or not, have es
tablished in North Carolina the character
of gentleman, the character Of an
honest man and an upright man, and
this woman comes here to attack my
character and you permit her TO do it
without giving ne any notice, without
requiring her TO make charges and with
out giving an opportunity to cross ex
anime her"
81 have an ancestry excuse me for
saying so-of which / am proud. | have
a wife and children whom | love better
than all the world besides. If / should
die as | address you it would be of little
consequence, for ere long We would meet
in another world; we would go to the
giver of all justice and mercy and would
be in good hands; but If you-whether
you intend it or whether it is done
thoughtlessly it is all the same permit,
without giving me an opportunity to be
heard, without giving me an opportunity
to know what charge has been made
against me, without giving me an OPP
portunity to cross examine the prosecu-
trix, and if / should find it proper to in
troduce Whatever evidence | may think
necessary Il say gentlemen of the com
mittee, if you do that, you are attack
ing, you are destroying in so far as you
have the power, my character,
character which / have established
after long years, and which ! have
.longed and hoped to hand down to my
children as precious heritage to them;
worth more than all the money, worth
more than all the lives. AS | said, it
was life as compared to character. Life
as compared to law. The law Of our
country is as nothing. have risked my
life. have given it away, so to speak,
to my country in twenty great battles of
the war 1t was of little consequence
whether in the charge made upon the
enemies battery | went down or not,
because those whom loved would have
had the consolation of knowing that ere
long they would see me again; that ere
long we would live where no war or tur-
mol, no strife were, and all would be
happiness and Joy and no separation,
and that had established character
which would be comfort and consola-
ton to them for the short separation.
81 call your attention to the fact. that
this note does not tell me when to come
even, and have come by nine O'Clock
hy oruoca Now I jngist as matter of