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


on earth That's Kilgo.
"A mighty man is Kiigo He's not sat
sfied with small things. steam piano
must prance up and down the streets an
nOuncing his great deeds. That's Kilgo.
No widows mite for him, but the millions
of the Dukes. No tiny riyuet flowing
through the land carrying JOY and life
and freshness and joy is Kilgo. He's the
turbulent flood, destroying everything in
it's path and sweeping aside all opposi-
ton
Had he been snake he'd not be
small harmless garter snake. he'd be the
terrible boa constructor, crushing and de-
stroying it's enemies. That's Kilgo.
| AVOIDANCE OF GATTIs.
"Have you noticed that not since the
DAYS of that trial have one of these
trustees darkened the doors of Thomas J.
Gattis' store, they have avoided him like
a contamination-a thing hated and
sourned.
Il don't believe there is another man
in the Methodist church or any other
church that would have dared make that
speech in the presence of ministers of the
Gospel. They would not even have sat
there and listened to it, and yet when
l
to it, but they endorsed it. They heard
it come kissing from the mouth of Kilgo,
hot from his fevered brain-a mad brain.
No other man in the church or out of it
would have dared use such harsh words
in such presence about an humble min
lister of the Gospel. But Kilgo did it, and
Duke and Odell sat there and heard it and
straightway. went away and published.
do you say there is malice in this
matter? They were trying to destroy
Clark and in trying to destroy Clark they
found Gattis in their path and they turn
ed upon him in fury and they have de-
stroyed him. Do you say that this is not
malice? If it isn't malice and is allow
able, then under such cloak the char
acter of any man in North Carolina can
be absolutely destroyed.
~ would call your attention also to the
fact that these proceedings were never
published in the church papers. The secu-
lar press was chosen because through that
could the character of Gattis be more
effectualty destroyed and Judge Clark at
tackled. But they reasoned that the man
who reads the papers might forget and so
they put Kilgo's words in permanent form
that will last as long as Trinity College
lasts. We'll put it in form that will last
for ever-that Thos. j. Gattis is liar,
a slanderer, backbiter and destroyer
How much would you ask to have that
said about you and published in book
form? How much would you ask to have
that printed about your father? There's
it? there's it? There isn't enough money
in Granville county to induce me to per-
NIT such a thing.
'If knew that somewhere there was
a book with such words in it about my
father, I'd go get down on my knees to
the owner of that book and pray to him
to give it up. If he refused, I'd sell my
self to him as a slave to get it; I'd give
him the best services of my life for it.
, How much would you ask to have this
said about your father?"
3 TEARS IN JURORS EYES.
AS the words came kissing through his
Z teeth, Mr.. Watson paused for a moment,
and the tears sprang to the eyes of at
least two of the jurors.
! 1T was no child-man that uttered these
, words about Thos. j. Gattis. 1t was no
, children that published it. They were
uttered by the president of a college; they
, were published by its trustees. They
made the awful charge and they put their
! names to it."
The speaker told of the decline of Mr..
\ L GdlllS DuSlu6SS uuuSI Tic NllhVilhS III
auence OF Dr. Kilgos words; how he went
back to a little Methodist circuit and
was then crowded on to the superannua-
ted list.
81 say TO you, gentlemen, of the
, Jury, that from my earliest childhood I've
been on the side of I. j. Gattis have
never seen a fight between the great and
the small going on around me that /
didn't take the part of the weak. Be it
for veal or for Woe you always will find
me there"
II have never known SANDER equal
D to this. How oo'.'1 these men calling
themselves preachers sit there calmly
and hear these words and coldly resolve
$ to forever perpetuate them in print? They
t were sent out for the purpose of crushing
$ and destroying him"
Mr. Watson concluded his speech at
5 1890 having spoken just three hours.
!. Court then took a recess till o'clock
; Speech of Governor Elect Aycock,
At that hour Governor elect Chas. B. Ay-
cock began his speech and finished it at
a 80. He began by referring to some
: criticisms that had been made of his ap-
+ pearance in the case.
, II want to say" he explained,
: that I've been in the case from
the beginning and I've received my
+ fee SO long ago that I've forgotten how
much it was. l am not in it because I've
recently been elected Governor of the
! State, but I'm here as the representative
, of the law firm of Aycock & Daniels
Y EULOGY OF DIR. KILGO
$ The speaker then paid glowing eulogy
D to DR.. Kilgo, told of his humble origin and
early struggles, of his mental endow-
4 mentsand great achievements, of his cleo
ton as president Of Trinity College and
it's prosperity under his management
+ They sent a committee to South Caro-
lima to see Kilgo. 1t can't be said that
this committee was then under his influ-
ence. for the other side would have you
believe that as soon as Kilgo looks you in