Raleigh, March 27—Rev. W.S. Shacklette, the only prison chaplain who has ever been known to make the front page of North Carolina newspapers twice in one week, yesterday reiterated his declaration that Commissioner H. Hoyle Sink had, in his presence, declared all ministers “damn fools.” He added that the statement had been made in the presence of Dr. R.K. Adams and Dr. H.B. Bracken, of the staff of the State hospital for the insane at Dix Hill.
His first accusation was made more than a week ago in an address before the Kiwanis Club at Scotland Neck and drew from Commissioner sink a sharp denial that he had made such a statement or that he had any such attitude toward the cloth. “The only explanation I can think of for this peculiar charge on the part of Mr. Shacklette is an interchange of reparks I once had with the chaplain in what was, on my part, at least, a wholly friendly mood,” Mr. Sink said yesterday.
“We were arguing some point in connection with pardons and the chaplain remarked that ‘the trouble with you lawyers is that you’re too hard-boiled.’
“Yes,” I countered, ‘and the trouble with you preachers is you’re too damn radical.’ I believe I laughed when I said it. I know I wasn’t either serious or angry. I presume that my alleged ‘damn fool’ remark is simply a garbled version of that statement.’”
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, March 27, 1926
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