The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-09-06

lished to the world. In the Chariot
Observer, June -, appeared the follow
ing:
JUDGE CLARK'S RESIGNATIO
a word to any one. The punishment
troversy by letter has recently been i
AS TRUSTEE ASKED FOR.
at is learned in Charlotte that Il con
progress, between Judge Walter Clark
Of the Supreme court. and DIR. j. G.
kilgo. D.. D., President CT Trinity col
lege and that at Il meeting OF the trus
tees af this institution last week, DR.
Kilgo laid the correspondence befor
the Board, asked for an investigation
and stated if they We're sustained hi
resignation would be forthcoming. TIL
investigation was made, the result bein
that DR.. Kilgo was sustained. and tina
the resignation of Judge Clark as
member of the Board was requested
This was the first time that the matte
was pat in the papers. 1t did not com
from DE. | did not know then Of DR..
kilgo's threat to resign if you did not
find his Way. This going into print
came necessarily from some one who
was on the Board. \ telegram from
the Charlotte Observer has been print
ed to the effect that it did not receive
the news from any one connected with
the college, which is true, so far as the
paper is concerned. But a part of the
process was disclosed at the meeting
here on July 18th, when Rev. \. NJ
Jurney stated that Major Jas. w. Will
son told him 4 preacher had told him
NNilson) and he was going to have it
published in the Charlotte Observer.
Mr.. journey said Major Wilson did not
have it exactly correct, and he gay it
to him straight. SO we have an au-
thentic statement of the threat, and the
resultant proceedings, for Mr.. Jurney is
not only a member Of the Board who
voted for the resolutions, but he is
travelling agent in the employ Of the
college. and so 4 member of the ad-
ministration" that was endorsed. Who
the preacher was who first told Major
Wilson. and who had not told it exact
ly straight. according to Mr.. Jurney, |
do not know, but he must necessarily
nave been Il member of this board, or
have gotten it from one who was.
When it is published that any one has
been requested by his associates to re
sign. no matter from what kind of a
board, it is Il stigma (and this publica-
ton was so intended and calls for eX-
PLANTATION. 70 the reporter who called
on me for an interview. | gave the cor
rcspondence. including my letter to Mr.
Southgate. in which | said that if | had
been asked in 4 proper manner for my
resignation. it would have been cheer
fully given. but that it was unheard OF
to try me III my absence without no
tice; without opportunity to be heard OF
submit evidence, and to condemn me
and publish that. and tina my resigna
ton had been asked for. | said further
that the Board had no jurisdiction to
try it's members for their individual
views. and if it had. why had the BoarC
not tried and condemned him (South
@ate) for his speech condemning public
schools. which was calculated to be fal
more Injurious to the college than ny
unpublished views as to DIR. Kilgo
And especially why did they not try
DR.. Kil@o. for whose views the Boaro
is responsible. being the employee, fol
his excessively laudatory speech to Mr.
Duke. Of the Cigarette Trust, which was
IA deitication of wealth. | spoke of hi>
reputation as Il ~Wire-puller III Soutl
Carolina. and that he had not reformed
in North Carolina. and mentioned tha'
Il clergyman in Tennessee had said h,
was Il scrub politician. Mr.. Southgatt
replied, saying among other things,
had not been on trial, only DR.. Kil"o
to which | replied that if | was not q
trial. then the condemnation and sen
tence passed upon me WAS still les:
juStifiable.
DIR. Kilgo then came out in an inter
view. | could have answered him yer!
conclusiveIy. but believing that the III
terest of the church and college coul,
; not be served by Il continuance of tn,
controversy. at Il sacrifice Of my impuls,
and to my own injury possibly. | WA!
silent. The other side having had tn
first article in the paper, and the last
the opening and the conclusion as i
were. it would seem the incident wa
closed
Put since | would not further reply
DR.. Kilgo had the ingenuity to re-opel
! the fight and selected his own ground
He asked for an investigation of him
self by his Board which had just eli
dorscd him under threat of losing HI
valuable services if they did not. ITO
Mr.. Jurney said the article c%ontainin!
that statement had been corrected b,
him for Major Wilson, and summonet
me as Il witness. / received the follow
ing letter:
Durham. \. c.. July I. 1898.
Judge Walter Clark. Raleigh, \. c.:
In your recent letters to me gwen I
the public through the press, there ar
, accusations against the President o
Trinity College. which reQuire invest
CATION by the Board Of Trustees. \
DR.. Kilgo is an employee of the Boar'
this investigation which viii be con
med to him. is not in order
but is necessary for the protectiol
Of the Trustees in their purpose to EN-
ploy no man in any capacity. who's
character is not worthy of the fulles
confidence.
Among others your attention is Gale
to your statements that DR.. kilgO wish
ed to evade the evidence you had agains