The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-08-04

= FINAL Word.
EDITOR NEws-DeaT Sir: Permit
me in your paper to make one or
two explanations as final words In
the Normal School controversy.
The vulgar persoual abuse eharac-
terizing the last issue of the Ledger
renders IL inconsistent with self-re-
spect to contribute any thing furth-
er to it's columns.
An inadvertent error was made
in the pamphlet, in the basis of cal
culatjon in the case of apportion-
ment made to Mrs. Morse and Miss
Sprague. Their receipts were SOL
more, instead of SO less, than TWEEN
ty per cent, as reference to the fig
ures will show. This correction is
due in justice to the Board of Re-
gents.
To the one point, which Prof.
Carmichael strives to make to re-
lieve himself from the odium of his
violation of his written pledge, I
have only to call attention to the
statement of the pamphlet. The re-
striction concerning that paper on
my part concerned only the public
use Of the original document. That
this view is correct, is proved by
the fact that the same day I stated
the substance of this paper to Miss
Gilbert, and REQUESTED her to go to
Prot. Carmichael and Mrs. Morse
and learn from them the grounds of
their change of views. From Mss
Gilbert and not on the street, Prof.
G. knew 1 had stated the substance
of this restriction. Had Prof. Car
michael given my second and third
letters 10 Prof. Norton, 1 should have
desired no better evidence than this
correspondence, to prove the up
rightness of both my intentions and
acts in this whole matter. No cruel
pressure was brought to bear upon
them to secure their signatures to
that paper, excepting the assurance,
in case of refusal, that they would
be called before the Board of Re-
gents for an official Investigation
an issue which an innocent, honest
man should court rather than shun.
These evasions of the main issue by
Prof. Carmichael are pitifal. The
grave, condemning fact stands out
in bold relief, that convicted, and
confessedly convinced of a0ro1ag-
thinking and doing, which had
wrought great aud grievous injury
to innocent parties, he had not the
magnanimity voluntarily to offer to
make reparation, and even when
compelled by the fear of an investi-
cation, to promise such rectification,
he not only failed to fulfill his
pledge. but commenced and carried
out a systematic and dishonorable
course of still grosser caIuwnies
and more fragrant acts of hostility.
The narrative of facts in the pamph-
! let Glands undisputed and irrefuta-
BILE. They can lead the candid and
; unbiased reader to but one conclu-
sion-a verdict of severe but just
condemnation of Prof. Carmichael
in his relations to the Normal from
the beginning to the end of this
difficulty.
Permit me here, also, in leaving
finally this whole controversy, to
answer S. N. Woods queries.
The bill of $3.50 for travelling ex'
penses to independence, is correct
It was paid on order of executive
committee from contingent fund. ]
went to Independence solely in the
interests of the Normal, having nc
other business there, and the pay
ment of expenses was in accord
ance with all precedent in similar
cases, and perfectly legitimate. Th'
bill of 81 for photographs is too
small by one-half. The pictures pur
@ chased and framed, of the gradu
ating class, now hang in the Norma
parlor. The bill alluded to for thu
Philadelphi Society, I know moth
ing of whatever. It belongs to tina
al izyfatum class of original crea
= tons for which some men have
genius.
. These explanations terminate M
relation to this public controversy
While remain in Emporia, my la
bors henceforth, shall be, as they
have been in the past, to maintain
in every respect a first class Norma
School = one in which all student
shall find every facility for thorough
: culture in every thing that pertain
to genuine scholarship.
G. r. PoMERoY,