The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-09-11

fered their prayers unto their God, who
have sat at tables and talked one night
with another, who unbosomed their in
nermost souls to each other-and these
men come here and say, This man is
incapable Of sycophancy, he toadies to
nobody"
"What is the testimony of the defend
ants colleagues? They are men who see
him here under every trial incident to
his official position, they see him in
his home, they know him on the walks
of this park, they know him in his as
sociations with the students, they know
him in connection with the financial
problems of this institution, they have
seen the laugh of joy on his face, and
the knit brow of distress he wore. these
men come here and say that he is u
frank, open, independent man who
stands on his manhood.
And yet here is this man, Judge
Clark, who, mark you, was not present
on the occasion of that speech, who
never sat with the defendant, outside of
this BenefactOr's Parlor, three hours to-
gether socially, a man upon whom is the
ermine of the Supreme court Of North
Carolina, sitting in judgment upon the
innocent, frolicsOme spirit of the defend
ant, when with his boys, they went to
thank a good old gentleman for a rich ben
faction which he had bestowed upon their
| institution. That was no mean hour to
us: other men may have cursed it as an
hour of bartering away manhood; other
men may have shed false tears and
lmourned hypocritically over what they
Thought was a degradation of this institll-
ton; but in that crowd, that happy laugh
| ing crowd, assembled on the green of that
| ord gentleman's yard sat that night
men who knew Trinity when she was
small and poor and who know her now.
| and are thankful to a Providence that
| led her amid her Strifes and protects her
in her wealth. They loved Trinity in the
| dark days and they did not that night
| go to barter their institution to any.
| body. Because the defendant told his
torical truth, that he, Mr.. w. Duke, is
the greatest benefactor in the South,
he lis charged with sycophancy. Have
| you, gentlemen of the Board of Trus-
tees come here year by year. and seen
| the defendant barter this institution off
1 for small game, absolutely trading its
character for few shekels and
| lettering it out in the pastures of po-
| litical grazers, and have you kept your
| lips closed? That is charge that
| doesn't simply strike the President. but
| it charges the last man, from Judge
! Clark down, with being a party to a
fearful crime, and that crime i'll re-
| ligious matters.
Where is the sycophancy? That
young man, Mr. Council, says the de-
| PENDANT made an impromptu Speech
that he said nothing that Judge Clark
| published; that he made a humorous
| reference to Mr.. Dukes home. Ah LET
| me say, after an association of fifteen
long and eventful years with men,
measuring their characters by the
standards OF truth. by which we meas
| ure them under the ordinary conditions
| Of life, that II man who leaps Mt such
| small, insignificant things as these to
make of them crime. is man whose
| spirit would degrade praying into crime
/ if his interests so indicated to him.
We come to the speech as the third
| charge. The defendant is made to ut
| ter a speech. which, if true. is bias
phemous. What are the facts in the
case? The speech was made in the
presence of several hundreds of people
and evidence is ample that no such
| speech was made. The witness for the
Il II
| YOU. this is no indirect discourse, at
tempted to be quoted, but it is posi-
| tive statement that in the spirit OF
| sycophancy President Kilgo made this
| speech and in it attempted to defame
| the courage of Mecklenburg wipe out
the lustre of Bethel, stamp out the
| glory Of Cardenas, and on this dust and
| wreckage erect god of gold.
1 .Nt, n,,f
| who has been in the class room with
the defendant and heard his private
| talks to his students, and when he
4 spoke his thoughts out frankly, as Mr.
| Bivans says he always does? What does
| Mr.. Bivans say? ''He points us to high
| standards" Just contrary to Judge
| Clark's charge; he tries to lift the
| minds of his students to the heights Of
Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego
| where in defiance Of the assembled
hosts, they will not bow at the sound
1 of music, but stand out and declare
that manhood and truth are above dol
| lars and pennies. A number of witness
es, gentlemen, went on the stand to
| testify as to this same fact, men who
| mark you, were standing close by the
side of the defendant on that occasion.
i lively VI AllGlH SdSSg NJ ouNn
speech was uttered" They testify, on
| the contrary, that the spirit of the de-
PENDANT is reverent spirit, that he has
at least some symptoms of respect for
| God and the truth, and that he never
| takes such high language as the cor
| onation declaration of God when He
shall crown His son, and drags it down
| to an hour like that, and gives it any
such false application. He is rever-
cEt man, they say. Do they know
| They have seen him in the happy crowd
full of laughter; they have seen him in
| the sad hour of the heavy gr0ans in the
cemetery; they have seen him bowed
down morning after morning in prayer;
| they have heard him talk to his stu
dents assembled from all parts of North
| Carolina; they have seen him down
morning after morning in prayer; in soul
| and trying to lead it into spiritual light
and liberty, and these men say he is
| reyerent.
There are some things, gentlemen,
| that it takes stronger nerve and
| spirit than the defendant has to bear
| without emotion. His mother taught
him reverence before he can remember;