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

high enough not to introduce mere
newspaper reports, for the SANDER ana
damage of one over whom he had been
sent as guardian. But he does 1t on
hearsay testimony.
You recall that he accused the Board
of Trustees of cOnvicting him on eX
parte testimony in the June meeting;
yet he. a Supreme court judge, on hear
say, eX parte testimony, renders TINS
verdict of blasphemy against the de-
PENDANT and announces it to all men.
There is no way out of that gentlemen;
no amount of squirming, no amount of
| logical trickery. and no amount of dick
ering with words viii get around the
fact that the verdict was rendered on
hearsay, eX parte testimony, the very
crime which he charges had been COM
mitted against him in its June meet
ing by this Board of Trustees. Where
was that sincere conscience of his when
i'll that court room in which he was the
| self-appointed juror, witness and judge,
and to which the defendant was not adj
mitted, bearing the seal of our highest
court, comes this verdict Of blasphemy
against the defendant? l ask you, gem
your verdict to take in all these facts,
to review them, and if you find YER
diet of guilt in every charge if in the
range Of mercy. justice and truth, you
/ can tighten on this one. let it be done.
In the fourth place. Judge. Clark
charges the defendant with venality, by
asking the question, 81 wonder how
much personal gratuity he received for
this speech? 1t is hard for n man to be
patient when he sees the low and false
measures which certain men put to him.
For fifteen years in a Southern Method
/ list conference. at the call of the de-
i PENDANTS name. the answer has been,
Nothing against him." That is the
measure Of his church on him. But
hear the measure of your highest judi
1 ciary upon common citizen; it is that
he is guilty of venality. 1t is true that
! the man who makes free to charge
other men with venality should retire to
his own closet and ask his own con-
science as to whether he has not price
for himself
i But where is the evidence by which
he expects to sustain the accusation?
The prosecution lodges this charge No
doubt he wishes that the defendant
would dodge it. If the defendant is
guilty of evasion, then what must you
say about the prosecuting witness? Not
n question did they hear bearing on it.
i The defendant did ask witnesses; he
i asked DIR. Wilson; he asked Il number
of South Carolina gentlemen, whether
they thought that was the character
of the defendant, and every man of
them said NO" ANY man should be
slow to charge another with II crime SO
low, and should pray Il kind Providence
to save him from measuring humanity
by such low standard, and If men are
guilty of these things, for the good of
humanity keep it from the public ears.
But this Supreme court judge, the CEN
| servatOr--one of the final cOnseFyators
of moral truth and civil rectitudr.
makes free to charge that crime against
the president of Trinity College, and
hadn't word of testimony to prove it.
but says, "Give me thirty days time
and | will get it," He got forty three
days and never secured word Of this
promised testimony. but comes into this
court and goes around the charge with
display of high-handed innocence.
i Now, whatever else you may find.
gentlemen, in your review of this mar
! ter. / do not hesitate to say you can
not find one word that ought to make
i you stop a moment at this charge.
In the fifth place he charges the de-
PENDANT with having the reputation of
wire-pulling politician of the ward
type in South Carolina. Mark tho
4 words, gentlemen; not simply a poll
tician, not simply a wire-puller, but Il
wire-pulling politician Of the ward
Il type. Who can define the meaning of
that? | stand here to say that the de-
, PENDANT doesn't know what he means
by ward politics. Providence has sent
his lief rom the cradle to this hour
along a different plane and along a diff
ferent pathway from the dirt of what
4 he means by ward politics." wire
4 pulling ward politicians" If ward
i politician is n mean man, then how
much meaner is wire-pulling one?
That man would Out-Beelzebub Beol-
zebub This, gentlemen, is not the
language of calm man; it is the Ian
I guage of an enraged man; it is not the
deliberate utterance of a man sure of
the foundation of his statements. Poor
human nature when once turned loose
under passion. drags its anchor and too
frequently drives its bow into the rocks
and wrecks itself. And when men be-
come enraged adjectives become cheap,
and the charging of crime becomes
pastime
This charge gentlemen. refers to the
defendants South Carolina record, and
South Carolina testimony is necessary
for its establishment. Because you as
his brethren, and the church which you
represent could not know all the facts
in the case, the defendant was willing
to undergo the humiliation of walking
in the streets of the towns of his ma