The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-01

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taught every boy who has entered the
| doors of that college to love it,
Mr. Aycock denied the charge that DR..
Kilgo had received gifts from the Dukes
and added: He's poor man, Kilgo is,
| Poor as you or J. he works for every coat
| he wears, for every dollar he spends, for
every mouthful of food he eats.
| Coming to Judge Clarks part in the
| controversy, Mr.. Aycock said Il like
| Judge Clark l always have liked him, but
| he talks a heap with his mouth and writes
a heap with his PEN
FROM MOUTH TO MOUTH.
"And Joe Brown down here at Raleigh,
! do you know him? Browns a curious sort
of fellow, don't you go telling Brown Sc
! crets. he's not going to be a receptacle
| of any body's SANDER. Well, Judge Clark
| told Brown that Kilgo tried to put up
| Job on the trustees. Brown told Jurney
| and Jurney told Flowers and Flowers told
| Kilgo. Then Kilgo sat down and wrote
| to Judge Clark. / don't know whether I'd
| have done that or not, but DR.. Kilgos
/ preacher. You've seen me walking around
here with stick. l think I'd have taken
| nv old stick and gone to Raleigh. Laugh
| teri.
well Judge Clark charged that Kilgo
| had tried to sneak into his job for four
years. and failed. <ilgo heard about this
and he made up his mind that if he
could Mt hold his job and command the
respect of his employees he'd resign Sc
| he demanded a trial
THE time for trial came. Judge Clark
wasn't there Why? He had not been
notified No doubt he sat in the Supreme
court room wondering what these Method
| ist preachers were doing. Probably he
said to himself. they may know many
things about the law of God, but it's pre-
cious little they know about the law OF
man. Well they asked him to resign, and
| Judge Clark said: I've been tried and
condemned without hearing. He didn't
want a hearing.
Touching Prosecutor Oglesby. Mr. Ay-
cock thus excused his conduct Of the case:
"Oglesby got sick, and he went to see
| Judge Clark He told him he was going
off on vacation and asked whom he
wanted appointed in his place 20 take evil
dence Judge Clark selected Beckwith.
| DR.. Kilgo didn't select Beckwith, for
| Beckwith says he's as cold as frog, and
| know Kilgo we'll enough to know that
he don't want to have anything to do
with a man who's that cold
KILGoS CHARACTER DEFENDED.
Respecting DR.. Kilgo's character, Mr..
| Aycock thought the fact that he was at
the head of a great educational institu-
| ton was the best test of character. mo
| man who's worthy of the name of father
would send his son to a college that he
thought was presided over by a wire
puller and political trickster. And one
bow that know of, Mr.. Gattis' boy, went
| through that school without money and
| without price and Gattis' mouth is for
| ever shut from saying that Kilgo's char
| acter is bad for no man will knowingly
| send his son to an institution presided
over by a bad man
The speaker asked how Kilgo had been
| enabled to meet these attacks and re-
piled that it was because of the strength
of his character.
SOME ONE BEHIND GATTIS
"By whom was he attacked? BY Judge
| Clark, the strongest man in North Caro-
| lima the man who was voted for by every
party in North Carolina and elected unan-
| fmously. That's not all There's some
body behind this case. Who paid these
| seven lawyers? They are not here on
| contingencies Who paid Judge Shuford $
| expenses from Ashevlle? You say we
| were holding star chamber proceedings
| that night at Trinity. Why don't you come
| out from behind closed doors in this case?
There's somebody besides Gattis behind
this prosecution
Mr.. Aycock thought Dr. Kilgo had done
| right in not going on the stand He
| contended that there was no necessity for
it, that every charge made in his speech
| had been proved. Even to the solemn
twitch of the coat-ta
CDR. Kilgo said he was the original
| maligner / say it, too, for the evidence
| proves it, Gattis admits he told Judge
| Clark that Kilgo was a manipulation and
a wire puller.
They find fault with us for not putting
Kilgo on the stand. Where is Judge
| Clark? He knows whether Gattis is the
original maligner or not, but he's not,
here and the next time you hear from
him he'll not be here.
well, Kilgo said Gattis was a back
| bitter, a fellow that pretends to be
friend and yet talks about you at your
back. The evidence proves it, and as sure
as God lives the fellow that slips around
and talks about his neighbor has got to
| repent for it"
AS to the charge that there was un-
Christian gossip across Gattis' counter,
Mr.. Aycock said: I'm Christian gossip
does not necessarily mean cursing Mr.
Gattis INDUCED in un-Christian gossip
elsewhere and it does not appear in evil
dence that he had placard anywhere in
the store reading as follows, I'll talk UNI
Christian gossip on the train TO Judge
Clark and bred Peacock and others, but
I positively will not permit it to be in
dulged in across my counters (Laugh-
teri.
/ COMMENTS ON GATTIS' BANKRUPTCY.
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