The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-12-01


tees of Trinity, and showed how at
| Trinity he later proved this by Rev.
Ogleshy and Rev. Bishop.
Major Guthrie then read the events OF
the meeting in June 6, 1898, when the
ISilgo-Clark correspondence was read,
and when, on motion of Dr. Oglesby
Judge Clark was asked to resign, and
when Rev. Bishop moved to declare
Judge Clark's seat on the Board to be
vacant, and wanted to put another man
| on top of him and mash the life out of
| Judge Clark as member of the Board.
The committee was appointed, on the
Kilgo- CLARK correspondence. Cglesby
and Bishop-were on the committee, and
the next day a report was made en-
dorsing DR.. Kilgo and asking Judge
Clark to resign, the report being signed
| first by Oglesby. then Dy Bishop
Major Guthrie told the further story CT
Clark Kilgo events. reading from, the
| records. He followed this with the state
ment that the only thing necessar, to
have published to the world was a sim
pie statement of the finding of the Board
without the Kilgo speech.
Here Major Guthrie picked up a Bible
and read from the 18th chapter of the
acts of the Apostles of the contention
of st. Paul and St. Barnabas about TAX
| ing John Mark with them on the second
| missionary Journey, and st. Luke wrote
| that the contention was so sharp between
them that they separated, but it was
deemed best by st. Luke sufficient to
unite only two or three verses about 1t
in the acts of the Apostles, and thus
| dismissed the subject of that contention,
while when the Trustees of Trinity Col
lege met and reached verdict in the
Kilgo- Clark controversy. they resolved
to publish ten thousand copies of the
whole thing in pamphlet form, and in
| yited the newspapers to take what they
! desired and publish it broadcase
| After describing the manner In which
| the Board of Trustees conducted .le
| Kilgo- trial, he set out against it how
the Schley court of inquiry was conduct
| ed saying that there should have been
| demand by DR.. Kilgo for an investiga-
ton by the Board, changes formuted,
notice given to Judge Clark, impal tial
members of the Board selected. etc,
/ and an orderly and fair trial had
do YOU wonder that old man Cattis
| has said that he could not get Justice,
and appealed to this court of the Statc."'
| He then sought another view of the pic
ture and told of DIR. Swindell and others
! approaching Mr.. Gattis for a settlement
J and of the final refusal of Mr.. Gatlis 10
! sign the paper presented to him. when
he was not to be allowed to keep !, copy
| of it. Keep this in mind and then re-
| member that DR.. Kilgo sent word To Ir
Kingsbury, I've got the Methodist
| preachers at my back and it seemed shat
| he did.
Now do you wonder that Gattis le-
| fused to sign his name to paper he
was not to keep and which was to be
kept by the man who ad spoken of him
| as DR.. Kilgo had spoken?"
| Speaking of Judge Shuford aul the
statement he made, Major Guthrie said
Docs it not look like this man. DR..
Kilgo, who came over here from South
Carolina and "hoodooed' the trustees
and then went on to a review of the
four year election of faculty at
Trinity, and the remark later OF Iuu,e
Clark 70 Mr.. ]. G. Brown, which started
the controversy.
After telling how DR.. Kilgo and Mr..
Duke and Mr.. Odell could have tiscov-
cred the falsty of the charge above un
Gattis' store, he said the second issue
| should be answered, YES" and thas as
| the motive of malice had not been denied
on the stand; that it seemed that the
defendants the were read at Judge Clark
and Mr. Gattis.
is Mr.. Gattis the only preacher who
could not get justice in a church tribun-
al he said and then told of Tie ex-
perience of st. Paul before the Jewish
council and of the appeal of St. Pal
to Caesar and of the nal death Of the
Apostle in Rome.
Paul was afraid of the ecclesiastical
council, and this old man is Being
handed down from the mountain TO the
sea-" because forsooth he answers here
in court he does not believe he could get
Justice before his Church Conference
AS to the question of damages. il the
three previous issues were answered
yes" Major Guthrie agreed that 6 man
had property in his character "A good
name is rather to be chosen than great
riches" Talking of the money value he
related Gattis' condition in 1898 when
he had passed the days of cent cotton
and tobacco not worth the handling to
the warehouse floor and from a business
yielding good living it fell in a year
from $24,5OO to but $4,000 gross receipts.
His place characterized as a den of
vice no one wants to enter it or purchase.
The codportage of the Western North
Carolina Conference taken from him
while due money to him, was it strange
that he should think it hard and say So
When he saw the speech in the news
papers, when he saw the pamphlets in it
wonder that he tried to break the
force of the blow about to be struck
against him, ready to be spread about in
pamphlet and sufficient 1--WE got tire
medicine for him and I'll spread it all
around" says Kilgo.
Kilgo usually so talkative is not here
on the witness stand. 1t is flash in the
he is dumb as an oyster and talks now
to this jury through his counsel ana
again develops his powers as a manipu-
lator and wire puller. At this state
of his speech Major Guthrie described
Gattis mental condition and insomnia
torture equal to it, which this trouble
brought on him, and said $50
Here is an old man, thrown out of
business, his character gone, too old to
start it anew or to strengthen it as he
comes before you and asks you to again