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

(Signed) J.. II. SOUTHGATE.
President Board of Trustees Trinity
College.
In obedience to that request | attend
ed here on the 18th. What then hap
Fened and how | was received are fresh
in your memory. Rev. DR.. Oglesbg,
(pastor of M. Dukes church and chair
man of the committee which had con-
demned me unheard) was appointed pro-
secutor and | was required to give the
names Of my witnesses to him and time
was given both sides till Aug. 80, to gel
up the evidence.
This brings Us to the evidence submit
ted here on this occasion. This resume
has been necessary to rs better consider
alton. Before | enter upon it, | wish 10
call attention to two points in DR.. Xii
COS interview which | refrained from
anSWering-in the vain hope thereby To
end this controversy. He said therein
that on 4 rising vote at June session.
1851. | endorsed him. 1t is true that IT
that time | was willing to re-elect him
for one year, but | knew enough to be
opposed to risking hin for four years.
When shortly thereafter | found my
views confirmed and told Mr.. Brown we
had done wisely to defeat the four year
term, this racket began. Till then there
had never been the slightest friction be
tween DR.. Kilgo and myself.
In the same interview. he said on a ris.
ing vote to thank Mr.. Duke and accept
his gift | was present and did not pro-
test. Note the difference. On the rising
vote to endorse DIR. KilgO, he says |
voted Gas l said abOve) but on Il rising
vote to thank Mr.. Duke he merely says
| did not protest. He is correct that
there was a difference. The fact is when
the rising vote was taken to thank Duke
| land | believe one other) did not rise.
| thought that protest enough. if profess
were necessary. While | did not vote 10
thank Mr.. Duke | wish to call attention.
to the fact that nowhere in this contro-
verSy have | raised the detachable ques-
ton whatever my opinions may be-
whether the College ought to receive
money made by a cigarette trust, which
is Il business not only condemned by the
church, but which like all other trusts is
illegal. What | have condemned was
the laudation which endorses the method
of making the money. Whether eating
meat that had been set before idols was
unlawful the great apostle left an open
question but he certainly condemned tn.
worship of the idol.
Nor have | said aught against the
Methodist church or college. | know
Ut. lAllSO 1flenuS would Ike TO give
it that turn but he is neither the Metho-
dist church nor is he Trinity College. To
c~riticise him is not to attack either. With
out my knowledge or desire the Confer
ence elected me Il Trustee of the college
and | have endeavored to serve the best
interests of both. If | shall satisfy YOU
that DIR. kilgO is not Il proper person
to manage this institution it will be no
pleasure to me. / shall feel that | have
discharged 4 painful duty.
| VIII now proceed to review the evi-
dence brought out on this Investigation
In no court of Justice could matters be
properly investigated unless there WAS
process to compel the attendance of Wit
nesses. You ave no compulsory pro
cess for witnesses and that has been the
only chance of escape for the defendant
OF curse those not MethodiSts can not
be made to obey your subpoena but
when | accepted your request to get Up
the evidence, | understood that Metho-
dlsts, especially ministers would obey t.
But many of the most material witnesses.
among them ministers who would nave
: readily prOven the charges in Il few min
utes, by testifying to what they had
repeatedly stated. have refused to testi-
! fy anG you admit you are powerless to
compel them. Some refuse because it
is unpleasant and they do not wish to
s, mingle in the affair. Others frankly say
they fear they will be injured by the in
! tiuenco of the agents of the Duke Cigar
: cite Company. and Of DR.. Kilgo. Others
+ still. who had promised to testify after
their names were furnished to the defen-
dant were touched by some magnetic in
tluence that changed their minds. With
this absence of power to compel Wit
ncSScS the prosecution is called to prove
Il case. We have done SO we think. but
it is nothing to the case we would have
proven if witnesses could be cOmpellsd
TO testify here rs III 4 court of justice.
In reference to the charge that DIR. kilgo
was a wire puller in South Carolina. the
following evidence has been offered you:
T.. {. BeckWlth. a graduate of this
college, 4 Methodist, Il gentleman of the
highest character, Il lawyer of fine abill-
ty was sent by YOU to South Carolina
to get up evidence. He testified here
); that he was absolutely Indifferent and
told DR.. kilgo who went with him that
he would report the fact as he found it.
He went through South Carolina from
one end to the other, stopping at several
important points. He said he conversad
with fifty to ~soventy-fiye gentlemen Of
; standing in the Methodist church inclul
ing four ont Of six delegates to the Gen
eral Conferences. and with note book II
hand he told YOU could tell what each
one mad said, that witnesses would talk
: freely. but that few We're willing to have
dispositions taken. He teld you that
!, while DR.. Kilgo has some strong part
sans there that his character is that Of
i. Il ~Wire-puller and ecclesiastical politi-
clan, that it is generally believed that he.
John Q. Wilson and DIR. Kirkland form
) ed a combination at the Memphis Gencr-
+ nj Conference to secure certain offices.
. DIR. Nilgo'S share to be the presidency of
: Columbia Female College. He took tw,
dispositions, Rev. Il. G. Lyon and J. X.
Jennings, which supported this view, but
after that those who expressed those
views would no longer go into deposi-
ton. AS soon as DR.. Kilgo got a state
ment from Bishop Duncan favorable to
, him, the preachers possibly out of re