The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-07-28
MRCRANFORD TALKS
He Explains His Differences
With Dr.. kiIgo.
Says He Would Not Make Further Statements
But For Misleading Statements Sant
- Out on Other Side.
Greensboro Record.)

evening from Granville county with MS
family, and spent the night with his
father, Rev. L. W. Crawford, D. D., going
to Winston this afternoon.
A Record man called on Mr. Crawford
this morning and asked for statement
from him, to which he replied:
Il prefer not to make any further statet
ment In regard to the unfortunate mat
ter between DR.. Kilgo and myself, which
very much regret, and would not do SO,
but for the fact that misleading state
ments have been sent out by the other
side and / desire all the facts to be
known by the public.
First of all, I want to say that this
was matter solely between DR.. Kilgo
and myself My father had no intimation
of it till it was all over and the effort
OF DR.. Kilgos friends to drag the North
Carolina Advocate into it is simply an
other evidence of their hostility to the
paper. And want to say right here that
/ challenge any man to produce a single
editorial written by my father in the Ad
vocate that is an attack on DR.. Kilgo
or Trinity College 1t can not be shown,
for it has not been written. On the other
hand my father has never refused to pub
lish any correspondence sent for publica-
ton either by the president of the col
lege or its authorized correspondent
stHe has always upheld Trinity College,
the property of the two North CarS.ina
Conferences together with the smaller
colleges, which are the sole property OF
thr Western North Carolina Conference,
and it Is the impartial upholding of these
small colleges that DR.. Kilgos friends
have magnified into hostility to Trinity
THE editorial out of which the diff
Guilty grew was published in the Christian
Advocate OF May 18TH | ask any UNI
prejudiced man to read it and see whether
or not it is a complimentary notice and
advertisement Of Trinity College. | then
ask MIN to see how DR.. Kilgo regarded
it and how bitterly and unjustly he at
tackled my father for writing it, give
below the editorial in the Advocate and
also what DR.. Kilgo said about it.
DIR. CRAWFoRD'S EDITORIAL.
THE editorial in the North Carolina
Advocate for which DR.. Kilgo so bitterly
abused DIR. Crawford follows:
1--WE have received catalogue of
Trinity College for 1900 and 1901. 1t con-
tains 1856 pages and is neatly gotten out.
We note the following.
1.-The catalogue shows eleven full pro-
fessors, three adjunct professors, two in
stfuctors and eight assistants besides
other officers. The catalogue shows cuts
of the most important administration
buildings There is also given cut OF
the handsome library building which is
to be erected on the college campus by
MIR. Buck Duke OF New York. The stand
ara OF admission is high and each de-
partment Of instruction is thoroughly
equipped The graduate work is a marked
feature OF the instruction given. This
year the catalogue shows that eighteen
graduate students have been in attend
ance.
= In addition to the scholarship already
In existence the trustees have established
twelve graduate scholarships, ranging in
value from fifty to two hundred dollars.
These scholarships are open to graduates
Of Trinity and other colleges There are
also fifty scholarships offered to under
graduates ranging in value from fifty
TO seventy-flve dollars. Forty are offered
to the freshmen class, five to the sopho-
more class and five to the junior. These
scholarships are awarded for merit. Ex-
aminations are held at different points in
the State for the accommodation of stu
dents applying for these scholarships.
There have been enrolled during the past
two session eighteen post graduate stu
dents, eighteen seniors, seventeen Juniors.
twenty eight sophomores, forty-nine
freshmen and seventeen special students.
Total, 1877.
THE executive committee is composed
CT six members, viz J. H. Southgate,
j. c. Kilgo, V. Ballard. A. r. Tyler, B. n.
Duke. w. G.. Norman. These are ali in
the North Carolina Conference
DIR. KILGO.S SPEECH.
"Dr. Kilgos attack on DR.. Crawford
for writing the above editorial:
"Dr. Kilgo said he thanked God that
Trinity College had some enemies When
certain men realized that they could no
longer use the college as political foot
ball. their wrath boiled and they set
about to cut the threats OF the men who
made such condition possible. Refer
ring to what he termed a yelled thrust
at Trinity in an editorial paragraph In
religious paper which mentioned the fact
that all the members of the executive
committee of the college were members
OF the North Carolina conference, he said:
THAT looks like an effort to poison the
minds of good. honest people in the
Methodist church against their institution.
The author doesn't stop to ask where the
executive committee resided when the
college was located in Randolph county,
though he knows. That looks like type
of politics that has gone out OF fashion,
even among crossroads politicians. He
then explained that the members of the
executive committee were selected by the
trustees from the two conferences with
view to convenience.
"This attack is the thanks that DR.. Kill
60 gives my father for his complimentary
notice of the College.
LETTER TO DR.. KILGO. HIS REPLY.
when saw the attack several days
after it was published in the Raleigh
Post, l wrote DR.. Kilgo the following let
ter and received the following reply:
2 Winston Salem, N. c., May 81, 1901.
"'Dr J. G. Kilgo
. Durham, ~ c.,
Dear Sir-The Raleigh Morning Post
of Saturday, May the 18th, contained Q
report OF your speech made in Greensboro
on the evening of May 18th and also
reference to an editorial in the North
Carolina Advocate of May 10th, on the
catalogue of Trinity College AS gradu
ate Of the college and as president of the
Advocate Publishing Company, will You
kindly write me whether or not the Post
quotes you correctly? / enclose stamped