The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-09-04

heard DIR. kHg0 III lecture at Madison
in 1897 say that the kindergarten or
primary department of the graded schools
were baby ranches into which people who
could not or would not control their
children pitched them to be rid of the
responsibility of their care and restraint
and that if he was hunting for vice
and immortality he would not go into
the dark sections of the State, commonly
called dark corners, but he would go
into the graded schools and the other
Christless institutions of learning.
Sworn to before me this 22nd day oil
August, 1897.
(SigncdD JOHN II. WEBSTER.
Sworn and subcribed before he, w.
S. Staples, Notary Public.
Our graded schools are our pride and
our hope. They were founded by the
best thought and purGst patriotism of
our State, and their teachers are self
sacrificing and devoted, among them
many ladies of the highest personal and
social standing, but DIR. kilgo tells the
public that if he were hunting vice and
immortality he would go IN preference
Into the graded schools and the other
Christless institutions Of Tearing" The
other affidavits duplicate Mr. Websters
and the intelligence and character of the
affiants will carry conviction throughout
North Carolina as to the absolute truth
of what they testify. how can you
expect our people to send students to a
college whose President dcnouDcps our
graded schools as Christlcss and as dens
of vice and immortality.
Your prosecutor excluded or rather
withdrew this testimony, which is part
of Dr. Kilgo's record in North Caro-
lima" which you asked for, burt the peo-
pie of the State will not exclude it, DIR.
Kilgo offered no evidence to contradict
it, but i'm his speech, when he could not
be cross-cXamined he ventured to say it
was not true.
| offered the affidavits of as highly re-
Spected men as are to be found in the
county of Caswell that DIR. Kilgo pro-
posed to cure the free silver mon by
the application of rs lashes 20 each
back and large portion of the audience
rose and went out. The people of North
Carolina are in the habit of thinking for
themselves and when the President of
this college proposes to punish them
with the lash for opinions sake it is
part of his record in North Caro-
lima that will do the College no good.
Your prosecutor excluded this also. Here
is the affidavit | offered:
"North Carolina,
"Caswell County.
C. G.. Lea being duly sworn says that
he was present at lecture at New Hope
church in Caswell county, when DIR.
]. G.. Kilgo used the following language,
that 1.-THE reason the farmers were not
prosperous was on account Of their lazl-
ness and trihingness. that the 16 to I
calamity howlers ought to have 16
stripes to each back" He (Kilgo) used
this language in n public lecture at the
above named place, which so offended
a large number of the best people there
that they got up and left the church
without waiting to hear more. There
were a number of other things of like
tenor as the above which were resented
by our people.
Sworn and subscribed to before me this
July %, 1S9S-Thos. l.. Lea, j. +.
(Signed) 6. g. LEA.
We, the undersigned. certify that we
heard DIR. Kilgo on the occasion above
mentioned and the language attributed
to him was used by him with the result
as above stated.
Here follows the signatures: II. L.
Mitchell. G. II. Warren, Geo. William
son, r. NJ. McCrary, II. I. Chandler, \.
j. Parzant, VIM. Lea, W. c. Stephens.
ANY one who will take the trouble TO
write to Caswell county can learn the
high character of these gentlemen. The
occurrence exactly as stated by these
gentlemen was first given to me by the
Rev. JnO. E.White,a minister of Raleigh,
of character, soon after the speech and
on investigation his statement has been
borne out in every particular. DIR. Lea,
the first affiant, is a Methodist as, l be-
lieve are most of the signers. DR.. kilg0
has right to entertain gold standard
views, but can it be expected that our
people of different opinion will send
their sons to college whose President
declares that their fathers should be
struck sixteen lashes to the bare back
for being in favor of the reconciliation
of silver at 16 to 1? This evidence was
excluded on the same technical grounds
as the diamond ring evidence from
Roxboro. Instead of turning on the
light upon his record in North Caro-
lima" the whole effort of the defendant
has been to shut it off
| also offered you the affidavits of a.
]. Conner, j. Il. Bryan and w. ii.
Evans, from the county of NOrthamp-
ton, MI Methodists and gentlemen Of
high character. two of them official mem
bers of the church. Mr.. Conner who
is editor of the Patron and Cleaner
and Mayor of Rich Square, says:
THAT on or about the 2nd day OF
November, 1878, | heard DR.. j. G. Kilgo
deliver Il lecture at Primers NJ. e. church
in Northampton county, n. c., in the
course of which he said in substance
that the men going over the country
complaining of exciting conditions and
claiming to have panacea for the evils
of the government were nothing but poll
teal demagogues, meaning, as l believe,
w. j. Bryan and the advocates of The
restoration of the free coinage of silver
as set forth in the Chicago platform. Iii
the same connection he said: "There is
nothing the matter with the country but
lazincss," referring as | thought at the
time gathered from the context and gen
eral current of his address, and still firm
ly believe, to the farmers who complain
of the low price of the products of their
farms. His lecture impressed me also
as a masterful and Ingenious apology
and defense of trusts, mOnopOlies and
the existing gold standard, and as an in
direct covert attack anon the nuhlic