The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-06-26

your letter to them, and write you fur
| Their.
u have the honor to be yours re-
spcctfully,
''y. BALLARD, sec't'y.
After the committee met the following
| letter was received:
Hon. Walter Clark, Raleigh, N. g.
MY Dear Sir: At Il meeting of the
executive committee of Trinity College,
held yesterday, | submitted to them
your letter.
1T was the opinion of the committee
| that your letter required no further an
swer. YOU having already had copy of
| the report of the committee appointed
| by the board Of trustees.
Il have the honor to be yours very
respectfully,
~. BALLARD, Secretary"
70 which the following reply was
| made:
Raleigh, n. c., June %, 1898.
| James IL. Southgate, Esq, President
Board of Trustees Trinity College.
Dear Sir: | ann in receipt Of Mr.. Bal
| lard's letter in which he informs me that
you executive committee declines to
permit him to give me the information
| l. requested.
AS trustee | have legal right to
any information contained in the min
utes and / should have thought as a
measure of courtesy and of just dealing
to one who had been afforded
no chance of being heard, that You
would have given me the fullest infor-
nation as to all proceedings affecting
myself even that not reduced to writing.
q Il, lf,.tfL5
| tees had stated to me in a Christian
spirit that it was unpleasant to have a
| difference between DR. KilgO and my
self and that it would smooth matters
| il / should resign, | would cheerfully
and promptly have done SO. l had DO
| intimation Of such a wish from any one.
| On the contrary, at DIR. Kilgo's instigl-
| ton Il committee is appointed, | am
! given no notice. no chance to put in
| evidence, nor present an argument.
am tried, found guilty and requested to
resign. When | even then ask for the
names of the witnesses and the nature
| of the evidence, and the names of the
| trustees who voted against me, So
| that / may see what weight is to be
given to their wishes and if there was a
majority present, / am abruptly told /
am entitled to know nothing but the
verdict. Then in addition to that this
morning Information is given to the pub
lie. through the Charlotte Observer. that
| have been asked to resign.
me motive which actuates such pro-
ceedings is too plain to need comment. A
| verdict obtained by jury appointed al
the instance Of the prosecution without
any evidence or argument except from
fsa% t.s1 ii
| give any, and with refusal subsequently
| OF all INFORMATION rs to the proceedings
| viii command no respect from any inn
partial or intelligent man. / shall give
| no weight to it and shall decline ia
accede to any request based upon 1t.
| think / know the $4,000 Methodist
| people in North Carolina, with whom /
| was raised and among whom / have
| lived all my life. well enough to say
| that they will give no weight TO proceed
| ings conducted in such n manner They
will at once divine who "ran'
| the proceedings and that the motive
was not the good Of the college nor the
| vindication of justice, but to crafty the
wounded vanity Of DIR. Kilg0, and ven
geance on the man who had ruffied it.
| As there were expressions in my letter
not gratifying to those who make their
| millions by illegal trusts Cat the expense
of the toiling masses) there were doubt
less some who felt it was necessary to
| pr0pitiate them by condemning. unheard,
| the man who had been bold enough
to let it be seen he did not fear "injus-
| tice, though wrapped in gold"
| would have resigned as / have said,
| ii requested in a proper spirit for he
good Of the college. But if a trial mad
been insisted on and opportunity given
| could, and would, have laid before
| the committee. evidence that should have
satisfied any impartial body of men that
| was justified in every word of my let
ter Of 18th of July, 1897.
For eleven months | heard not a whis-
per about that letter and then on 18th
of June, 1893, / am suddenly informed
/ have been tried, found guilty and
asked to resign for having written it,
| In his letter of July 18th, DIR. kilgo
stated that he would lay my conyersa-
| ton with Mr.. Brown before the trus-
| tees, but was aware they had no
more jurisdiction to pass upon it than
| to try a law suit between DR.. kilg0
and myself, and | did not dream, no one
would have dreamed, that IL the Board
assumed jurisdiction any committee
would try the matter without giving
me notice and opportunity to produce
eyidence-but that was the last thing
DR. Kigo intended | should have d
chance to do
This proceeding, Mr.. Southgate, was
not instituted for the benefit or the col
lege. 1t was palpably done to soosne
DR.. Kilgo's vanity and to placate the
Trust that more money might be obtain
ed from it.
None know better than yourself that
the trustees had no jurisdiction of the
matter / was not elected by them.
was their peer If the Board are judges
| was one of the judges and not subject
to them. At the meeting Of the Board
n wear ago a resolution to endorse the
| Common School System of the State
was introduced. You spoke against it,
You said that it was contrary to primary
right to tax one man to educate the
children of another; that IF man
| wonld admit he was a pauper you
would contribute as charity to help edu-
cate his children and you would contr-
butte to educate orphans who were
paupers, but you protested against
holm taxed for the common