Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1855-08-11
[For the Bradford Reporter.1
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT.

COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT
Mr.. EDITOR: wish to say few words
through the columns of your paper upon the
subject of the late School Directors Convention
1t seems a convention of the school directors
of the County was called for Saturday, the 2Sth
of July, to consider the proprety of increasing
the salary of our county superintendent. The
peculiar season of the year at which it was
called, and the very peculiar weather of the
season, prevented at least three-fourths of the
directors of the county from attending. Whe.
ther there was any design on the part of those
particularly interested in this increase of sala.
ry, in getting it fixed at this very hurrying time
we do not pretend to judge-certain it is how
ever, it has resulted in taking one thousand doL
lars out of the school fund of this county and
placing it in the pocket of our county supern-
tendent. No one can for moment suppose
that such would have been the result, had there
been anything like full attendance of the di.
rectors. The State superintendent, in his no.
tice, stated that majority of the directors Of
the county, had signifed their desire toincrease
the county superintendent's salary The desires
of this majority must have been made known
to the State superintendent in a very private,
yet with much concert of action, for nanv Of
the boards of directors of the county never
heard of any such thing until they receivedno
tice of the time and place of the meeting of the
convention. In fact, l doubt very much that
any who were opposed to the movement knew
anything Of the matter Is it not fair then to
infer that the whole thing was gotten up thro
the influence of Mr.. GUYER for his especial
benefit? At all events, he was very active in
the convention-urged his suit with all his in.
genutv, and advocated his cause in a most
egotistical and bombastic speech Enough Of
his personal friends had been pressed into the
convention, Notwithstanding the extreme press
OF harvest business, to constitute majority and
place cool thousand in his pocket
In his speech (?) before the convention, he
did not ask the tcO thousand dollars because
his services meritcd it, but because there was
money lying idle in the State Treasury which
the state had once appropriated for the pur
pose of paying county superintendent, and he
might as well have it as to let it fall backinto
the general fund to be squandered by those
hawks about Harrisburg He said there were
hawks there, watching opportunities for plun
der and peculation. Are there not hawks this
side of Harrisburg watching for similar chances'
He urged his demand on the ground that
would cost the people Of Bradford County moth
'ng-that it would not increase their tGles CIT
ccnt nor take anything from the school fund q
the sercrot districts of the county-but that, on
the contrary, it would bring money into the
county to her great benefit He said, if he
thought it would burthen the people of Brad
ford one cent, he troald not accept one doLiar Of
IL. What patriotism and what detestable
principle to act upon! Is it possible Mr. GrY,
Err would ask the directors to vote him fifteen
hundred dollars out of the State Treasury,
merely because it would cost them nothing
and is it possible thirty school directors Canbe
found who would vote him that amount mes,
because it would not come out of them? Il
Mr.. GUYER's services be aoorth that sum, it
should be given him for that reason, and Brad
ford County should bear the burthen, or at
least her proportion of it, for all the benefit Of
his services as superintendent, is confined to this
county Nothing but gross sefshness would
accept of those services, and then attempt TO
shirk the responsibility of paying for them
But SO it is. Now, how stand the facts? lf
stead of this increase of salary costing thepeF
pie of Bradford County nothing, and leaving
their school fund undisturbed, the law declares
that the superintendents salary as fxedby'n
school directors, shall be paid out Of the ta"
appropriated TO the Sererai school districts q nv
county 1t was with great astoniShment 'D''
many heard Mr.. GuYER and bis hackers argue
the contrary of this. When they allege 'H''
the money comes from the State and not OD'
of the County, the reply is immediately 'us
gested, that the people Of Bradford o0OD"