The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-25
sen.eless and Malicious Twaddle.

SenseiesS and Malicious Twadd1es
Several weeks ago, We made allusion to the
White Cloud schools, and especially the princi-
pal, which has stirred up the bile of some strk-
er for the dominant clique, to wonderful de-
gree, and who appears in q two-thirds of q col
umn communication in the last Repablioan, (snon-
ymous, of course,) devoted wholly to abuse of
the brother of the editor of this paper. We on
ly are responsible for what appears editorially
in these columns, and are able to fight our own
way. Let the anonymous scribbler attend to as,
and not take his spite out upon an unoffending
person, who is absent, and beyond the reach of
making defence-ons who is not responsible for
what we say, and for whose shortcomings We
are not responsible.
What we said about the certificate of the prin-
cipal Of the school, We did upon the information
of one of the persons who examined him. That
information was to the effect that he was mis-
erable botch in everything he attempted and
that it required heavy draft upon leniency to
grant him even q seeond-grade certificate. The
anonymous scribbler must think the public are
FOOLS to try 10 stnffthem with the assertion that
persons with second grade certificates are usual
ly better teachers than those having first grades
He (or she) also makes & precious lot of fools of
several County Superintendents, q number of
prominent educational men, the attendants Of
Teachers Institutes, and large portion Of the
most intelligent people of White Cloud, all of
whom pronounced the White Cluud school, un-
der its former management, one of the best in the
State and credit tothe town. The anonymous
mslice-vender destroys his ("r herr own cassidy
unreasonable and uotoriousy false statements.
IL L. 4. L..
by many citizens who appreciate good schools,
was not an applicant for the White Cloud school,
as he well knew that IA set of Directors had been
elected, under intense excitement and false is
sues, pledged against him, not for any fault OF
his, but the only means they could think of
to spite Sol. Miller-as they are now throwing
mud at him out of revenge for what we have
done. Such is the reasonableness and justice of
the men who run the machine up there.
For ourself, say that, as long as we
were the School Board, (and We were kept on
by the people until we voluntarily resigned, to
remove from the town. there was a eredtable
school maintained. The money we squandered
was to keep up the school, and not to pay bills
for our personal extrayagance, to establish
newspapers to blow for political clique.
der to spite the people of White Cloud, rented
his house to u woman of reputed easy virtue. 1t
seems that the owner of the house was a poor
man, who had spent all his means in improving
the town, and could not afford to give the house
away. Rather than rent it to one or swO dead
beats who never pay rent, he rented it to wo-
man who would pay. This woman had for sew
eral years been residing on an adjoining lot; SO
that, if she is of easy virtne, We fail to the
outrage upon the community in her removing
from one house to another a few rods distant.
1t is generally believed that the woman is not as
virtuOus as Caesars wife, and that the men who
have debanched her, aud are her most regular
customers, are the leading men of the ring who
control the town, and some of whom have noto-
rously, for years, had houses of their own devot-
ed to the same purpose.
Mrs. Dey left White Cloud, because she was
not willing to live when the leading men in
controlling the town made it their highest ambi-
ticn to slander and scandalize women who en-
deavored to earn an honest livelihood. The very
leaders of the party who elected the present
School Board have made it business to scandal
ize every female teacher who has ever Taught in
White Cloud. Not one has escaped their veno-
nous tongues. Mrs. Dey has been no exception
to this rule; and one or two of the members of
the Beard has taken part in this scandsl-one of
them being notorious for his low-down, dirty, |
cheap-priced debaucheries. If the anonymous
scrihbler is a man, we have no doubt he belongs |
to the same class; if woman, she will not es-
cape the slmy tongues of those in whose inter-
est she writes. We think the writer's name |
would not measure over 36 inches He talk |
about sqnandering the school funds!