The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-09-04
WISH TO EVADE EVIDENCE
AGAINST HIM.

The next thing | am called upon TO
prove is the statement that DIR. kilgo
wished to evade the evidence | had
against him. When it is remembered
that / could easily have been given no.
tice, there being Il telephone i'll this
building connected with one where /
was, and four daily trains each way.
that no notice was given that if | had
attended and produced evidence the
Board could not have sutained him,
(which he desired so earnestly that he
threatened to resign if it was not done)
and that my subsequent request for
information as to the trial was refused
a case has been made ON that point for
any jury Now, has it been shown that
if opportunity had been given, evidence
could have been offered, which should
have prevented the finding of the COM
mittee that they endorsed DR.. Kilgo and
condemned my charges. If it had been
in evidence then that DIR. kilgo had
said in Caswell that free silver men
ought to have sixteen lashes to the bare
back, could you have endorsed that! III
it had been shown as now, that he had
said in Northampton that the cause OF
the depression was the laziness of the
farmers, and that he made monopoly
and gold standard speeches i'll Sampson
and Duplin, could you have endorsed
that and denounced my charge, that he
favored the gold standard publicly, as
unfair? If it had been shown then that
he had denounced graded schools as
dens of vice, and as Christless schools,
could you have endorsed him so readi-
ly? II it had been shown that he had
been well known wire-puller in South
Carolina, and had threatened DIR. Kings
bury with using his wires against him
TO his hurt among the Methodist preach
ers. whom he claimed to have at his
back, could you have endorsed that!
Could you have endorsed his state
ment that our ladies could be led any
where by Il consideration! Could you
have endorsed those and other things
that could have been shown against
him? If not, then the conclusion IS IT.
resistible, he did not want them shown,
and that he wished to eyade their being
shown, for he did not wish to resign, and
the JAS w. Wileon-Jurney card in the
Charlotte Observer says he threatened
to resign unless you did sustain him.
SPEECH TO DUKE.
Now we come to that remarkable
speech to Mr.. Duke. The reporter who
took it down. Zeb Vance Council has
a most excellent character. No at
tempt was made TO attack, though he
lives here in Durham, whore Jealous
agents would have gotten such evidence,
il to be had. He is gen
tleman of intelligence and
bears in his name a hereditary
approval of the peoples truest and great
CT friend 10 hn 10 nncitivn fo
the language, that he took it down ut
the time, for he was struck by it that
Dr. Kilgo should say that Mr.. Duke be-
cause of his gift was greater than all
these-the primacy at Mecklenburg, the
blood shed at Bethel and Cardenas.
did not purport in my letter to give the
exact words used by DIR. Kilgo, but | said
that in effect he said so and so and Mr..
Councils affidavit fully ana entirely sus-
tains me. 1t is this
"Z Il. Council makes affidavit as fol-
lows that on the 18th day of January. he
was the local reporter for the Durham
Daily Sun, an afternoon paper published
in Durham, that he heard the speech
made by DIR. ]. G. KilgO at the residence
of w. Duke on the evening of June T.
1898, when the Richmond Band, the
Faculty of Trinity College, some students
and others went there for the purpose
of serenading Mr.. Duke and thanking
him for his liberality; that he reported
the proceedings for the Durham Sun and
the words appearing in quotation marks
in the following clipping:
AT the conclusion of the address the
student body, headed by the Richmond
band and faculty, marched down to the
residence of Washington Duke, and sere-
naded him and gave three cheers for
Kilgo. Duke and Trinity. Short speeches
were made by George Humber, DR.. Rob
ms and DIR. Kilgo, all expressing their
appreciation and thanks to Mr.. Duke for
his liberality. In the course of his re-
marks. DR.. Kilgo said, "Ihe first white
child was born in North Carolina, the
first Declaration of independence was
signed in North Carolina, the hrst