The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-17

Watson. Where was the testimony
which would not make the Kilgo
speech relevant?
They say he "guffered" people. Did
he "guffer" DR.. Brooks, who wrote
that excellent book on Sanctifcation ?
The only way that anybody could
'hoodoo" DR.. Brooks would be
through living a holy life.
They say he slandered everybody;
that he slandered Mr.. Beckwith. Mr.
Beckwith went to South Carolina and
started his testimony by saying he was
cold as a frog. DR.. Kilgo did say that
he Jumped off a tussock into
Shiny pool" but that was in reply to
Mr.. Beckwith's suggestion as to him
self
What was the way this South Caro-.
lima evidence came? 1t came like the
Yankees write Southern history. Go
through on special train and know
more about the negro question than
we do.
AS to the charge that Gattis was the
original maligner, Gov. Aycock stated
that the evidence showed he was the
man who started the stories in North
Carolina.
He did not care to attack Gattis.
There has been enough traducing of
men by the other side without NV
joining in it,"
"Some men cannot bear to see men
arise to heights in younger age at
which they in older years have not
attained. The old passion of envy
comes in and makes tattleTs of them!"
TO get to a height man must
climb over rocks, go through branch
es, fall into gullies crawl on his
hands and knees and pull out his
finger nails to get to the top. "And
when he gets there, where those who
| havn't been able to endure the strug-
gle and stand the pain cannot follow.
| God forbid that there should be those
! to stand below and try to drag him
down!
THANK God that my client can
| stand on top and reach down Il help
| ing hand and raise men up. Gattis
| knew that Here he comes speaking
| of a great ovation of the giving of a
silver service. They don't give silver
| services and ovations to ward politi-
| clans!
even an envious man praises at
| first. Yet when one starts to do things,
| he commences to criticise. When a
man does things he meets opposition
of course. Men who do things al
ways do The threshing floor winnows
| out the chaff, leaves the golden grain
| Got faults? OF course! If he didn't
! have them, when he listened to the liV-
| ing flame of elOquencc coming from
| his impassionate lips he would feel he
| could never get close to him.
He went on to declare that DR.. Kill
| COS speech was a reasonable Inference
| from the facts before him. He took
up the charge of unchristian gossip.
defining gossip as idle rumor. Dr..
| kilgo knew the truth of the charge.
Referring to the speech and the evil
| dence and the way in which it could
be proper inference, Governor Ay-
cock said: He stuck mighty close
| to the testimony. lie didn't get half
so far away from the track as VIC have.
1t takes skill and practice to get as
far away as we do-and he was un-
skilled
He went on to talSeaup. Judge Clark s
letter about F<ilgo and referred to the
fact that it was printed in the pam
phlet as evidence against the idea Of
malice. &i3s5
Very humorously and caustically he
went over Judge Clark,s expressions
and said:
when a man prints what Clark
says about him when he doesn't like
him, he doesn't lack in recklessness
but he certainly ought not To be made
TO respond in damages,
Judge Clark is a smart man. lie
can speak and write. "Hc knows
everything lcetlc on the rise"
Governor Aycock continued at
length in argument on the question Of
malice. of reasonable Inference from
the testimony, defended the justifiCa
ton by DR.. Kilgo in his answer.
In closing he said he was not afraid
to "go to the country but when he
felt he had the law with him he didn't
want to go. He preferred not to take
chances.
Judge Moore said: II am very
aversc to withdrawing the case from
the jury, but after a careful consider
alton of the case / fail to End any suf
ficient evidence of malice and will
therefore sustain the motion of the
defense and nOn-suit the plaintiff