The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-01
THE CASE WILL GO
TO The JURY TODAY
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nut them on the stand and they say I'M
der oath that not one word have they
ever heard against Mr.. Gattis charac-
ter. They have never heard that ms
place was one of unchristian gossip, until
John Kilgo charged it.
..Kilgo sat here and heard that evidence
and he opened not his mouth.
Mr.. Watson spoke of how DR.. kilgo
had induced the Dukes to endow Trinity
until cit has become the richest col
lege in the South, and the trustees nave
been blinded by the glitter of gold"
'How things have changed since the
days of DR.. Craven.
GOD AND MAMMON.
They have taken on the tinge of gold,
and we are confronted here with the gos-
pei truth that we can't serve both God
and Mammon.'
He told of old Trinity and its grand
work under DR.. Craven.
Those were simple ways, those of DR..
Craven. He had no endowment, but out
from his doors. from among those stately
oaks around the old building, went out
strong men, men who wrought nightly
for the Lord and were not blinded by
the glare and glitter of gold. What a
change has come over the spirit of the
dream of North Carolina Methodism
since them
The circumstances attending the re-
quest for Judge Clark's resignation from
the board were recounted, also the pro-
ceedngs of the meeting preparatory to
the Clark-Kilgo investigation were read
and Prosecutor Oglesby's part in it
sharply commented on.
Whatever they may say of Judge
Clark, he's a man of iron nerve and back
bone. The people of North Carolina have
learned to know him. From the days
when he wrote those famous Mud-cut
articles to the day he exposed Kigo's
betrayal of Trinity to Mammon, the peo-
pie of North Carolina have learned that
they can safely lie down and sleep when
Walter Clark's on guard
Then he took UP DR.. Kilgo and called
him 'the man from South Carolina"
Ellis presence here, and his acts, re-
call other days to me-days of sadness
and bloodshed-and somehow amid the
sadness there's a coon song keeps run
ming through my head:
I'm Mr.. Johnsing from South Carolina
And I'm selling kindling wood to get
along
a GREAT FIRE KINDLED:
"And this DR.. Kilgo, gentlemen, comes
here and collects kindlng wood, and then
he sets it off. and the flames have not
yet ceased their terrible work. And in
this comes the sadness. More than q
quarter of a century back South Carolina
collected lzindlng wood and started con-
fagration that leaped up and roared and
spread and cracked and destroyed until
it licked the very stars, and my young
body broken and bleeding was thrown
in its way with thousands of others. This
was South Carolina from which DR.. KilgC
comes"
Touching the method adopted in tn,
Clark-Kilgo trial. Mr.. Watson said
I'VE find them going into a trial o
Judge Clark without giving him notice
The trustees had no right to try Kilgo
nothing in the discipline gives them thi:
authority. Such trial could only have
been held before conference and in oper
session. But they tried him.
"Kilgo knew perfectly we'll before HAND
what the result of that trial would be
and Judge Clark knew, too. Did they no
have their own prosecutor. their owr
stenographer and their own jury? WHO
could doubt what the outcome would be?
THE CHARGE TO BECKWITH.
but that's not all. Beckwith was in
structed to take evidence from anybody
that would testify in behalf of KilgC
without giving notice to any one, bu
when It came to Judge Clark he mus
give ten days notice. Then on trial The
issues were purposely so changed as t
throw out Judge Clark's evidence.
Governor Aycock: | didn't know tina
Clark offered to testify"
Mr. Watson mo. he didn't offer t,
testify, but he offered to put in evidenc'
and it was ruled out-ruled out under ex
actly the same circumstances that Kilgo
was admitted And / tell you the mos
serious charge that Judge Clark made was
that Kilgo had received gifts from Duke
That is the charge that the Methodist:
in my section wanted Kilgo to reply to
and reply to under OATH Did he reply
No, neither in the Clark trial nor in The
Gattis trial
THE CHURCH'S QUESTION.
Its the only charge made by Judg,
Clark that he didn't make some sort o
answer to that time, and it was the mos
serious charge of all. But in regard t.
it Kilgo is silent though the Methodist
OF NOrln Carol.na ueIHdnu dH answer
Have you bent the pregnant knee tina
thrift may follow fawning?' the Method
list church is asking Kilgo and he opens
not his mouth. Have you been TOSSED
gifts from the horns of the golden calf
(Laughter) Kilgo answers not, and VIII.
because he IS aware that nobody knows
it but the receiver and the giver. NJ
brass band was summoned on such occa
sions to call out the boys to see old maj
Duke deliver the goods. Uaughter)
That's Kilgo. The receiver of gifts
the header of brass bands, the maker 0