The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-07-05
70 submit this matter, and. I viii CO.
cept their verdict-not yours.
Yours truly,
WALTER CLARK
THE oAsus BETI1
WALTER CLARK.

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the Judge said:
AT the meeting Of the Trustees I
year ago Dr.. KIgo brough in a repor,
IN which q paragraph instantly ar
rested my attention. This paragrpf
recommended that the Faculty should
be elected for four years. instead 81
from year TO year, as usual / opposed
that accommodation, and it being re
ferred to a committee, composed O
Judge w. j. Montgomery and myself
we recommended that that paragraph
be not adopted, and It was voted down
A few days later, having visited the
tobacco belt and heard the adverse
criticisms Of Trinity College under DR.,
KDgo's management, I mentioned the
matter TO Mr.. Joseph g. Brown and
said: you see now we were wise tC
vote down that recommendation oil
DR.. Kugo TO give him a term Of -four
Years. Mr. Brown asked il Z thought
that was DE-. Kilgols obi set, to which ]
said that the recommendation was
broad enough to embrace the President,
and from what / knew Of DR., Kdgo'G
previous reputation and his course in
this State, I Thought he had not in
tended to leave himself out-or words
to that effect.
This was q conversation Witha Eel
low trustee, and I expected to hear nc
more about it, but some Ramsey sniff
hes" got hold of it, and / received q
letter from DR.. Klgo asking il I had
used such expressions. Desiring nc
controversy, I replied, asking his in
formant. After some correspondence,
DR.. Kilgo wrote that il was q CONVEX
sation with Nj. Brown. Still desiring
to avoid q controversy I wrote that
what passed between Mr.. Brown and
myself was q private, not q public,
conversation, was between us as trus
tees about college matters, was net in
tended to ir ure him, and that he ought
not to press the matter. Then DR.,
Kilgo wrote q peremptory letter wind
ing up by threatening to lay the mat
ter before the Trustees. To this / re
piled as follows:
RALEIGH. N. O., July IA, 1897.
DR. John @ KEgo:
SR:-Yours 20 hand. It's tone Inn
pliedly asserts that it is q very grave
misdemeador not to entertain for you
the same good opinion which you hold
OF yourself.
In a conversation with another TEus
teo, / told him Of your growing unpop
ularity, and ] expressed my thankful
ness that the Trustees had defeated
your recommendation which would
have made you irremovable for -four
years. Your recommendation tina
the Faculty should be elected for -four
years was unheard Of and unnecessary.
You made no exception OF yourself
from its provisions, and as men are
presumed to intend the consequences
of their own acts, / inferred that your
motive was to do exactly what your
recommendation would have done ii
we had adopted it, i g. given you, a
well as the professors, protection from
removal for four years.
The growing opposition to you
which has become intense, with many
in the tobacco section especially, your
reported speeches attacking the hon
esty Of silver men (Who constitute
nine tenths Of the white men Of NORTH
.Carolins), the attacks you have made
on the State University, and the quar-
rels you have managed to get up and
keep up with DR.. Kingsbury, Rsv. Mr.
Page, Mr.. Webster and others, have
created antagonisms which must shoT:
en- your stay, unless you n protected
by four years. term or some influences
not based on public esteem. / an
sorry that your energies are go little
occupied that you are ven now seek
lug to add q controversy with myself
to your amusements.
The attempts of Northern multi mil
lionaires to capture by gifts and en-
dowments the control OF the education
of the children of the people, hal
created q constituencies on that suhjs ct
in the public mind. The charges il
the public prints. however, intimatine
that the consideration OF the gift by
members Of the Tobacco Trust to Trim.
ity, was that the youth there were Il
be proselyted and taught q political
heresy foreign to the faith of then
fathers, would have had small effect
with so just a people as ours, il BY
your parade of your gold standard
views (Which must have an untoward
effect on the minds OF the young men
in your care) and your reiterated and