The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-11-29
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words puDllSneQ ABOUT me loI al ShO
money Duke, Odell and Kilgo ever mad.
They call this man slanderer. per-
jurer and an assassin and then say ne
mustn't open his mouth. / wouldn't have
that published for my children to read
and my children's children, for all the
wealth os the Indies.
And they publish it in book form. But
it is said to the credit of the people of
North Carolina, only about Ave thousand
copies were ever distributed. The good
people of the State didn't want literature
of that sort.
Then they tell you old man Gattis
ought to have settled the trouble in the
church. A number of witnesses have tes-
titled that he tried to do it, and DR.. Swim
tell told you why it wasn't done. Why?
He said DR.. Kilgo wanted Mr.. Gattis to
sign the paper without ever having
copy of it, Kilgo wanted to take the pa
per and stick it down in his pocket-and
the world never know what 1t contained.
Whatever becomes of my poor old
friend, Mr.. Gattis. the evidence in this
case has exonerated him. 1t may be
thrown up TO him that he is bankrupt,
but it appears here to his honor, that in
stead of piling UP dollars he has been
building IN a character that the almost
efforts OF the other side has failed to
shake and that will be standing when
wealth has faded away.
Mr.. Boones argument was evidently a
very effective one with the jury. He was
followed by Mr.. r. 0. Burton.
BUTTONS STRONG SPEECH.
His was the speech of the case up to
this point in the argument. 1t was logi-
cal, eloquent and effective. No other
speech has been made in the case that
approaches it in effectiveness.
Before discussing the facts in the case.
Mr.. Burton briefly argued the law gov
erning it. He contended that the publi-
cation was a privileged one. and that it
was justified on account of the gravity of
the charges of Judge Clark.
'Mr. Gattis says he published his state
ment of the matter that his friends might
know the truth. Why can't the trustees
publish their version OF it too. that the
friends of the college may know the
truth? In that publication you find every
thing that was brought out on that in
vestigation whether It is in favor of or
against Kilgo."
NO MALICE AGAINST GATTIS
He read the names of all the men who
signed the verdict acquitting Kilgo, "And
yet these are the men whom they say
maliciously libelled and maligned Gattis
Why, don't you know that's not true
Don't you know they had no malice against
Gattis, but simply published as an Incl
dent of the trial? Don't you know that t.
have failed to send out this pamphlet
would have amounted to closing the col
lege doors?
Judge Clark walked out of that trial
with his speech in his pocket and the
next morning it was in the News and OBJ
server Should there be no reply? Must
his accusations go unanswered" Mr.
Burton pictured DR.. Kilgo as "a youns
man frail in body. but with mind en-
titling him to stand among the great mer
Of the world"
Respecting attacks on the Pew. Ogles-
by, who was prosecutor, Mr.. Burton said.
Judge Clark was the natural prosecutor
but he declined to prosecute; then they
appointed Oglesby and Oglesby went Of
TO Virginia on a visit, and why shouldn't
he. when he had appointed Boz Beckwitf
as his assistant? Now Boz was sent down
to South Carolina to get up dispositions
and when he failed to get dispositions
Boz stored his mighty mind with gossip
and came back and belched it forth
"Why is it that when Boz and Gattis
go to South Carolina they can hear only
gossip? DO healthy minds of men dwell
on gossip and scandal when there's
healthy talk sweeping over the fields OF
human thought"
Commenting on Mr.. Gattis' testimony
Mr.. Burton said: 'You heard him, gen.
tlemen, he said: No, l didn't ell Judge
Clark about Kilgos record, but / gave him
a good many sources from which he could
learn it. He was asked. What were
these sources, Mr.. Gattis?' Well, l just
told him to go to South Carolina? replied
Mr.. Gattis. And gentlemen of the Jury
an angelic smile played around his face
as he said it, but right there in that word
sources the truth cropped out"
The speaker, who is a Methodist, spoke
in reverent and loving tones of his
church, and added: I'VE love it's insti-
tuition, its ministry, its communion we
love; at its altar We are married, out of
its portals our dead are carried, to wait
till night IS over and the morn of ever
lasting day is born. But here is man
Gattis. who has worn it's robes and min
istered at it's altar forty years. He
comes here and saws: L couldn't get JUS
tice in the Methodist conference
This part of Mr.. Burtons speech was
delivered in most eloquent terms anC
effective manner He then read Mr.
Gattis' card in the News and Observer
in which he declares his belief that Xii
go would destroy any one in the worlc
to carry his point.
Mr.. Burton added "He says. as al
excuse for publishing this, that he want
ed to let his friends know the truth. Blu
later he thinks, letting the truth b,
known is not sufficient. He says: i be
lieve I'll take little cash, too?' And b.
Tushes into suit.
KILGO CAN'T BE DRIVEN OUT.
Gentlemen, you may crush this prou,