The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-11-29

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nest of wasps that he hadn't noticed ou.
as he proceeded with his sermon ana
told his hearers of hell and damnatlon
the wasps warmed up and began 10 drop
down on his legs and sting and the ora
preacher began to slap. Finally, IN oes-
peration, he exclaimed:
Brethren, the glory of God is IN my
soul, but I've got hell in my breeches.
Great laughter by everybody in the court
ROOM including judge and jury.
That's the way that Clark-Kilgo in
vestigation strikes me, opening 1T with
prayer and closing it with Kilgo's infa-
nous speech
SPEECH OF MR.. T T. HICKS.
Mr.. T. T. Hicks followed his brother,
Mr. A. A. Hicks, but on the opposite side.
He denied that the object of the pamphlet
was for aught else than for the vindica-
tion of the college, and he contended that
this question of motive was the point in
the case.
by this action Mr.. Gattis sues the
Methodist church, in that it sues John
Calhoun Kilgo, its agent. This is the case
of Gattis VS.. the whole church and it
will go down in history as SUCH
The speaker thought the board did right
in turning Judge Clark out:
Judge Clark wouldn't eat the hay HIM
self and he wouldn't let anybody else
eat it in peace"
Further discussing the question of
malice in the publication:
"You must take the publication as
whole. If it was for the purpose of de-
flaming Gattis and for nothing else, then
you'll give him verdict. But if it was
to set this great college right then
you'll find for us. l tell you here and
now that it was to let the world know
the charge was false that Trinity College
had been sold to the devil and Kilgo was
the agent who negotiated the trade"
WHY JUDGE CLARK OBJECTED.
Accounting for Judge Clark's objection
to DR.. Kilgo, Mr.. Hicks said:
"Dr. Kilgo made a little speech. The
report of it got to Judge Clark repre-
senting Dr. Kilgo as saying that the man
who had given $780, 900 to Trinity was
greater than man who had climbed the
heights of Gettysburg. This made Judge
Clark mad. He had climbed the heights of
Gettysburg, but he hadn't given 100000
and so he got mad and proceeded to paw
up the earth. The reason John Calhoun
Kilgo didn't climb the heights of Gettys-
burg too. was that he was born after
the second Manassas"
Mr. Hicks quoted plenteously from
Byron and hoped the attorneys for the
plaintiff would take their eyes off that
500, 600 for a moment and soften up their
hearts to ''that great and good man.
Kilgo.'
why gentlemen" he continued, the
Savior didn't drive Matthew out of his
fold because Mark and Luke called him
a manipulation and -puller."
GREATER THAN VIRGINIA DARE.
The speaker referred touchingly to Dr.
Craven, Trinity's first president, and
added
Are you not going to believe Prof Pc
gram, the man that married DR.. Craven's
only daughter, when he tells you DR..
Kilgo did not say that Mr. Duke was
greater than Virginia Dare or any other
man." Great laughter).
In concluding his speech Mr.. Hicks TOOK
up the question of damages and argued
that the Kilgo speech neither caused the
bankruptcy of Mr. Gattis nor injured him
in his ministerial calling
But" he added. 'it does teach the
lesson that we ought not to talk too
much. This case ought never to have come
into the court house. 1t has no place
here. The law can do it no good, it
can only make it worse.
IF man was a bad man six years ago
down in South Carolina we ought not to
bring it against him now, especially when
the man is the guardian of the youth of
the land. It's an attack upon the church,
it's an attack upon the college, it's an at
tack upon these good men; and it's all
brought about by this man Gattis."
GREAT SPEECH BY MAI GUTHRIE.
For the first time during the trial
there were a number of ladies in the
court room last night. They came to hear
the argument of Major VIM. A. Guthrie,
who spoke for more than three hours
and made the strongest argument and
most powerful appeal yet presented in
the case He spoke in favor of the plain
tiff
First he took up DR.. Kilgo's speech,
read his accusation that Gattis was the
Original slanderer" and said:
There is where Kilgo dropped his
watermelon, gentlemen.
Respecting Mr.. Gattis' unwilingness to
testify against DR.. Kilgo, Major Guthrie
said:
mo martyr ever marched to the stake
with purer motives than those that rested
in T. j. Gattis breast as he went upon
that stand. He knew what it meant, but
he went and he got the consequences. The
Bible says the upright man is one that
swears ito. his own hurt That's what
T. J. Gattis did, and he got hurt
The recommendation of DR.. Kilgo to the
board of trustees, to the effect that mem
bers of the faculty be elected for four
years instead of one, was read and COM
mented on
"And when Judge Clark defeated this
recommendation. it stirred DR.. Kilgo's
blood. Why before the board, Kilgo
prided himself on being one of the old
blue hens chickens. He didn't say it in
so many words, but he did boast of his
Scotch Irish blood Now that's sometimes
a bad mixture. | know because I've got
it in my veins. but I've got enough Dutch
blood on my mdthcr's side to sort of tone
it down.
Now an Irishman is fellow that car
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