Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-10-24

4 Card TO the Public.
| MESSRS GONDER AND MCKAY: In the
| issue of the DdIy Times of the 18th instant
| | saw an erroneous advertisement OF
| yours, which | would beg leave to correct
Had such a report been published by hon
est truthful, trustworthy, and philanthopic
I men, or could ! for Il moment think the
community believe you to be such, | would
| decline answering your publication; but
! Mr.. Jessie Wilson, Commissioner, condemns
| your proceedings rs published in the Times.
| | hold Il letter from him stating there was
no charge of "immorality" either charged
or proven against me during investigation
of the case. can also prove by n witness
that Mr. Gender said he meant to make no
charge of immortality and he would cor
rect ii through the press if | wanted him to
do so that il was the mistake of i reporter
| Now, Mr. Gonder youa are trying to substan-
tiatc what you admitted to he false | will
only correct that part of your advertisement
that is SO shamctnlly false and was arttully
conrivcd by you, Mcssrs Gonder and
Mckay, to dcludc those who read only tnc
one side. The pj3n,a ti,rie charges contained
none of the dds, but now they find their
way into what | am charged with saying
Mr. Byrnc said, not Ion" since, made use
Of no protanc language at the time ! said
"NlclAay was making money too fast, etc.
MI Bvrnr also said the conversation took
place on Baltimore street, Cumberland,
in front of the City Hotel some time in
February or March. Now you make him
to say it took place on Smouse's corner,
| Centre street some time in December Some
hH' notwithstanding, gents. You better
call a meeting and all agree to tell one tale.
Charge second, as you first gave it to me,
read thus: THAT NJ c. lIcntrickson said
that Jesse Wilson told him that he WILSON,
knew Of rascality in the Board and would
expose it." But you seem to have forgot
ten this charge and why? Twas because
Mr.. Wilson, when asked by you if he had
ever said 50, replied II have told different
parties about the same" My, what fall was
there of eyebrows at this juncture, | tell
you, Mr.. Mckay, you didn't ask Mr.. Wilson
to speak again, did you? And at the sec
ond day, MIR. llughcy, (and you, too) seem
to have forgotten this charge, and Mr..
llughcy says: That | said Jesse Wilson
told me that he had been watching the
School Board, and that it was rotten to the
core, and that he would expose it, And
now you say, Mcssrs. GOndcr and Mckay,
\
had Teen watching YOU men, You know
that assertion to be false, for Mr.. Wilson
did not deny il but said he had told differ
cnt paltics 50 at the investigation on the
first day AS to charge third would mere
ly state that there was Just enough truth in
it to save il from beng like the old lady's
soap, all lye, Qic) And now gentlemen, in
my simplicity cannot see that it was im-
moral to crtiCise your official actions
Neither can l, in my "immorality"-IIcav.
en- save the mark-SCe how | have retro.
graded intellectually twenty per cent. since
last fall A"ain, how can you, Mr.. Mckay,
in the lame of truth and justice, try to palm
oil your blllingsgatc as though you We're adj
hitting what | said, you tried that game at
the time by saying you Sheltered So" But
Mr. W ilson Immediately said he did not I'M
dcrsiand you to say that you 6ciiered me to
be liar and rascal, but that | was one: Won
say, at this luncturc | wished the case post
poned TO produce witnesses, ] started in dis
gust from the room, saying as soon as |
could procurca body guard would be back.
And right then you adjourned the meeting
to keep me from calling Il policeman, as |
fully intended to do So, and you knew it
You say had no questions to ask Ircplicd
| was not trying the case as far as | was
concerned. But ON the first day You did
not allow me the privilege of asking ques-
ton. You say | charge YOU (Mr Mckay, J
| with working against me at Eckhart, so
do, and can prove it. Do Messrs William
son and Stcmcman deny that you did work
against me? Why did you not publish
what MIR. Williamson told you he thought
of your conduct toward ne? But, sir, YOU
could not finish your programme unless YOU
stopped to these ungcntlcmanly tricks 1t
Ayas patent to you that "A great many teach
ers were lcgitimatcly crilicising not only
your favoritsms and prcjudiccs, but many
0her things, and You could only stop it by
finding some one guilty and publishing him.
| What Mr.. Wilson admitted he had said 10
different parties was spreading like wild fire,
and some one else must bear that. 'Twould
not do to allow him Tone of the Commits
sioncrs) TO say so.
But, Mr.. Editor, is it not contemplate
when certain dignitalics cndeavOr to sus-
tain their own dignity by attacking teach
ers, when said teachers only express an
honest opinion as to the course of some who
had better cndcavQr to work for the good
OF the institution over which they are call
gu to preside, and for which they are well
pad, than to he trying 10 stop this clamor
against them by running out erejy teacher
who says word about them / can truth
| fully say | never was treated more uuvcn
| tlemanly or more disgracefully by any set
of men than have been by Mcssrs. G. G.
Mckay and Andrew Gender, and if YOU,
Mr. Editor, will publish the above will
feel under many obligations, as | see my
adversaries have their statement under the
head of advertisements" But no matter,
the county is rich. Frostburg J0urnM ard
Cieiljon please copy.
NJ. c. IIENDRIcKsoN.