The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-06-30

another was out of the State; so that
ont of a possible thirty-one, there were
twenty-five present.
When opportunity presented DR.. NJ
go rose to a question of personal priv
lege. the right enjoyed by every mem
her of Il dclbcratiye body, stated his
grievance. read the correspondence be-
tween himself and you, and on motion
the said correspondence was referred
! TO n committee of five worthy men, men
who pcrhaps rank second to none i'll
North Carolina in according to you hon
or. respect and fraternal devotion, name
w. RevS. G.. A. Oglesby, +. A. Bishop,
w. G.. Wilson. S. i. Turrentinc, and
Col. G.. w. Flowers, which reference re-
suited not in IL trial of yourself, as you
seem TO think, but the investigation OF
statements that you had made concern
ing another and if any one was on trlai
if WAS DR.. Kilgo. Neither of you APP
peared before the committee, which,
after n careful consideration of the cor
, respondence. herein referred to- brought
in n report to the Board of rcaffirnatlol
and Il hearty endorsement of DIR. kligo
and his administration with the pledge
of continued support; depreciation ana
condemnation of the unchartabe aud IN
, fair spirit manifested by you in your
, correspondence with and charges against
him; Il positive affirmation. in the lighI
of ample evidence. that your charges
! against him as including himself to be
elected as president of Trinity College
for four years, which was to secure for
himself ''protection from removal for
four years" were not only unsupported,
but actually contradictcd by facts, and
! Al -. hat HvnI
ought. to resign as Il Trustee of the
College.
These conclusions in the form of reso-
lutions sent you by the secretary, Mr..
V. Ballard, were read, discussed and
carried. there being only one dissenting
vote. Three of the Trustees are known
TO have been absent when this commit
tees report was adopted. One was sick:
two others left the afternoon before and
arrived too late to take part in the pro-
ceedings the following morning.
Your request fer data made Of the
Executive Committee through the secrc-
tary, Mr.. Ballard. could not then he
granted for the reason that so far as
you were concerned the case was con
sidcrcG closed until something Else ap-
peared. Your every complaint against
Dr.. t,lgo has been investigated with
the result as announced to you and to
that you were referred.
| Concerning the publicity given to the
subject through the Charlotte Observer
and III w.lich you find justification for
publishing your letter in the papers, the
following kilograms are submitted:
Durham, y. c., June -. 1898.
"Mr. j. L. Caldwell, Editor Charlotte
Observer CharlOttp n C.:
Item in Saturdays issue of Observer
concerning Trinity College and Judge
| Clarke was not authorized by our Boar
Will YOU kindly inform me by We at
whose instance or on whose information
/ the item was based
u. ii. SOUTHGATE. President.
TRUSTEES Trinity College"
:" Charlotte, \. c., June 81, 1898.
''Jas. III. Southgate:
'Scc tO-dayS Observer. 1t is enough
for me to say that item Clark's re-
signation asked was furnished without
procurment or even knowledge of any
body connected with Trinity
u. Z. CALDWELL,
Editor Observer"
Respecting the question of jurisdiction:
| First. You will admit the right of II
against its members.
Second. You will admit the right of
our Beard to deal with DIR. Kilgo, an
etlployee of the Board.
Third. BY reference to Section Three
Of the College charter you.will find that
no person can be elected Il Trustee by
the Conference till he has first been re-
commended by majority of the Trus-
n lar i'm nd htt bn
Trustees shall have power to remove any
member of this body, who may remove
beyond the boundary of the State or
who may refuse or neglect to discharge
the duties of a Trustee.
! If n failure TO respond to that part of
your letter which refers to the political
opinions or the professional or business
calling Of any one or more members of
the Board should cause you to think
/ there is an objectionable degree of
! weakness and infrmity and a species of
tyrrany manifest in the life of this -
loved institution, let it go at that. The
record fails to show where any one con
/ nected with it has suffered or been dis
counted for opinions sake in matters of
public policy. This record speaks for
itself no less than the mertoriOus work
the institution is doing, and this, after
all. is and should be the standard by
which it will be measured. So judged,
! it is not to succeed; it is pronounced a
success. Already the pride of North
Carolina Methodism its phenomenal
growth has attracted the admiring gaze
Of the church at large. 1t courts not
honor nor popularity save as these may
come through right thinking and right
acting.
! With assurances. if such be necessary,
that such an institution may be de-
pended upon to defend the character of
the man who bears its standard before
the people from the mountains to the
sea against unjust and unwarrantcd at
lacks by whomsoever made.
Very truly yours.
j. III. SOUTHGATE,
Tres. Board Trustees Trinity College
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