The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-07-05

Board of Trustees that Juuse N"it't
Clark ought to resign as trustee Oh
Trinity College !
If was not on trial, then without a
triIl vou deprecate and condemn me.
one OF your associates. and find that |
have been guilty of being unfair ana
"uncharitable." If you did not find me
guilty upon what was it that you based
your other resolution that ought
10 resign | would like to ne informed
If only DIR. Kilgo was on trial. the res
buttons expressing your satisfaction
with him would have ended the matter
Rut when YOU 90 further and condemn
me Won either did 50 by trial without
notice (as | complained or without any
trial. as YOU now assert. Whlcn i Hldh-
ing the matter worse.
notice YOU deny none of the material
points of my complaint.
ID Though the telephone III the bulld-
ing in which our committee sat IS I'M
mediatelyp connected with the telephone
in the court room III Raleigh. where |
was. and three trains n day went from
Raleigh to Durham. no summons. nor
even Il whisper ever came to me. III
/ that or any other way. during your Ses
sionS Of three or four days. thar i was
being investigated and condemned. 1t
will not do to say that because ! knew
the board would be in session that | was
"constructively'' fNed With notice that
DIR. Kilgo'S threat to lay the matter be-
fore the board would be followed by my
trial and condemnation. AS well say
that because every citizen Of the county
knows when court will meet. that when
one man says to another Il VIII lay
the matter before the grand jury. that
the latter can be tried by the jury and
sentenced by the judge. without notice
- - aA 70 aJfAr. nIA or
argument.
ca You give no excuse why. on my
application. after Judgment, YOU refused
me even the limited information You
now give the public.
CD You nave shown no jurisdiction III
your board to sit in Judgment on me.
And if your only object was to endorse
Or. Kilgo, did he van 4 "whitcwash-
inc" only. for it IS nothing more when
no one is given q chance to be heard
in opposition.
% II your board is empowered to sit
in judgment on the views of its meI;-
bcrs. YOU do not answer why it did not
try your views on matters of public
Importance as we'll as my private views
as to DR.. Kilgo.
% You say nothing as 70 the lauda-
tory declarations Of Or. kilgo that the
poSscSSor of wealth. who gives money TO
the college which pays his salary, is the
greatest possible object of respect. These
degrading views are not proper to be
taught college students in North Caro-
lima without rebukc and ] know the
board by its silence would not be taken
us endorsing them.
These things YOU do not answer.
As to the new matter, that after DR..
/ kilgo, introduced the recommendation
fn. u foIIJ. ynnJS' form that in rpnlV
TO my objection he stated verbally that
it did not embrace himself. | solcmnly
aver | never heard it. The written
word abides,' and proves the fact | as
serted. The recommendation i'll hiS re
port, is broad enough to embrace the
t President. and if be- did not wish 10 in
clude himself, why did he not exclude
himself. If he made that verbal eXclu-
sion of himself why did he make no
reference to it in all his correspondence
with me and leave it unassertcd till
now?
In my first letter to him [ stated that
the conversation was ~miSconccivcd for
{ my remark was not as to his motive,
but upon the fact that it would have Civ
Ell him a four years term, and that we
were wise to vote his suggestion down.
: To Mr.. Browns query. | had said.
didn't think he intended to leave him
self out In 4 desire to avoid a SQUAD
Bile with him | wrote him it was Il pri-
vate conversation and that he did not
have it reported TO him exactly right.
: 1t is his own folly that he misunder-
stood my repugnancc to controversy as
awe for his Importance.
In reference to the advertisement of
f the matter by the Charlotte Observer,
the information did not go from me, it
{ must nave gone from some one cOgnl-
xant OF the action of the committee; who
k was it? | recall to your attention il
f statement III that publication which
f throws a 1ood of light OH the true i'll.
Wardness' of this matter. Says the
Charlotte Observer article. DIR. Kilgo
laid the correspondence before the board,
asked for an investigation Of the charges
brought by Judge Glars and stated that
r il they We're sustained his resignation
K would be forthcoming. The invcstiga-
T. ton was made, the result being that
Y Or. kilgo was sustained and that the
/ resignation of Judge Clark was reQues
Il ted. Now look. without prejudice. a,
h the letter of July II. 1897, which is tht
II only letter which can be construed tc
e make any charges. What are they,
Read it again, | pray YOU. /. That DR.
y l\ilgo seemed to think it an offence fol
It me not to have as high an opinion Of hin
as he had of himself. >. | admitted
had said that owing to DR.. Kilgo's
growing appropriately it was cause Of
thankfulness that the Trustees had de
q feated his recommendation which would
e have made him irrcmovabIe for foul
years Gas any lawyer looking at the
report Will say would have been its lega
effect and that | inferred that he inten
ded Just what his recommendation would
have accomplished, if it had passed. 3
That his q~uarrels with DR.. Kingsbury
Key. Mr.. Page and others and his repor
< ted speeches aSSailing the honesty d
silver men would shorten his stay unles:
he was protected by Il -four years tern
or some influence other than public eS
TEEN. and that if he progressed further
along that line. wealthy syndicates nigh
give him money, but the public woulc
not send him hoys. Read the letter ovc