The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-12-04

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asked:
Does Mr Gattis. who has gone up and
down this land Is a minister CT the Cos
pei, lear the spirit o. an assassin? DR..
kIigo charges i. Answer that issue
Yes, If you can. kiIgo says Gattis'
store was a place Tor unchristian Cos
sip. IS that the TRUTH Gattis says on
oath that it is not. Kilgo and his Wit
nesses sat here and heard him say il.
Do they deny TT They are silent as the
grave. Answer that yes then. if you
can
OPENED NOT HIS MOUTH.
Original maligner. the speaker de-
fined as the man Who maliciously in
vents false stories And he added: DIR.
Kilgo charges this. Mr.. Gattis comes
here under oath ard denies it. Or. kilgo
sits here. listens to the denial and opens
noJ his mouth. Now answer that issue
yes. if YOU can.
had a loud Of witnesses. a ma
jority OF them Methodist preachers. We
put them on the stand and they say IN
der cath that not one word have they
ever heard against Mr.. Gattis' charac-
ter. They have never heard that his
place was one OF unchristian gossip, until
John kilgo charged it.
hltSO sat DtI1 anu ISdIQ l.4GI tA NltItt
ana he opened not his mouth"
Mr. Watson spoke of how DR.. Kilgo
had induced the Dukes to endow Trinity
until lit has become the richest col
lege in the South, and the trustees have
been blinded by the glitter of gold
How things have changed since the
days Of Or. Craven,
GOD AND MAMMON.
They have taken on the tinge Of gold.
and We are confronted here with the Cos
pei truth that We cant serve both God
and Mamnon.'
He told OF old Trinity and its grand
work under DR.. Craven.
Those were simple ways, those Of Or.
Craven. He had no endowment. but out
from his doors. from among those stately
oaks around TIE old building. went out
strong men, men who wrought nightly
for the Lord and were rot blinded By
the glare and glitter of gold. What 3
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-
ceodirgS 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 q 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 kilgo'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
His presence here, and his acts. re-
call other lays to me-days of sadness
and bloOdsbed-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 kindling wood, and then
he sets it eff, and the flames have not
yet ceased their terrible work. And in
this comes the sadness. More than a
quarter of 4 century back South Carolina
collected kindling wood and started a con-
fagration that Ieaped up and reared and
opI SA1ii 4 = oIid tSSIi W ~ dhti
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 the
! Clark-kilgo trial. Mr.. Watson said;
I'VE find them going into a trial 0
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 hello before conference and in opel
session. Blu they tried him.
"Kilgo knew perfectly we'll before ham
what the result of that trial would be
and Judge Clark knew, too. Did they no
have their own prosecutor, their owl
stenographer and their own jury? WIZ
could doubt what the outcome would BE?
THE CHARGE TO BECKWITH.
But that's not all. Beckwith was in
structed to take evidence from anybod,
that would testify in behalf of kilg
without giving notice to any one, bu
when It came to Judge Clark he nus
give ten days notice. Then on trial tn
issues were purposely so changed as t
throw out Judge Clark's evidence"
Governor .Aycock: l didn't know tina
Clark offered to testify"
Mr.. Watson: NC 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 We
that kiIgo nad received gifts from Duke
That is the charge that the Methodist
IN my section wanted KilgO to reply (
and reply to under oath. Did he reply
No, neither IN the Clark trial nor in tn
Gattis trial.
THE CHURCH'S QUESTION.
It's the only charge made by Judg
Clark that he didn't make some sort c
answer TO that time, and it was the mos
serious charge of all. But in regard I
it Kilgo is silent, though the Methodist
OF North Carolina demand an answer
Have you bent the pregnant knce tina
thrift may follow fawning?' the Method
ist church is asking kilgo and he open
not his mouth. Have you been tOSSe
! gifts from the horns OF the golden calf
; tLaughter) Kiigo answers not, and Wh
, because he is aware that nobody know
it but the receiver and the glver. y