The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-06-16

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Sober" which was read bodily in
the House by Col. H4llowell, and
with telling effect against the Nor
mai School. Eskridge may call mt
the "Chase county what is il" ant
may imagine he has been skInpine
me, or may call me skunk, or any
opprObrious epithet, but this will
only iniure him among all decent
and respectable people. 1t is now
generally understood, that the skin.
ming was done last winter done by
the Legislature. that the skunk that
got skinned lives in Emporia, that
his bowling since, is caused by the
smarting of the wounds. The PEG.
pie of Chase county are satisfied
with my course on the "NormaI
School If the people of Emporis
are Satisfied with Eskridge's course
L, of course have no complaints tC
make. 1t was Eskridge's attempted
trickery in the Legislature that los
to Emporia and South Western
Kansas the University. He voted
half million in bonds to other
parts of the State, he voted to use
the 100000 acres of school lands fol
bridges, he had enough votes tc
have secured the University. Yet
not satisfied, he must tamper will
the Docket, in order to give his bill
precedence he must try to sell ou
the Atchison delegation. After al
was lost, someone to quiet Eskridgt
told him to go for a"Normal SCHOOL,
ga Normal School," said Eskridge
"what's that ?" When told he com
menced figuring for it, and in 1868
Normal School" was established
at Emporia. Now if your readers
will read the Act of 1863 establish
ing that Normal School, also thu
Act of 1854. organizing it, and re
aIize how your board of Regent
have departed from the Law,
think they can see what is the mat
ter.
Last winter did not champion
the fight against the Normal School
In fac t, I was accused of favorins
it, my vote was considered doubtful
I was accused of going back on M
friends. It was Click, of Atchisor
HalloWell, of Cherokee, Sneed,
Saline, Hackney, of Cowley, that
really made the fight. Had Es-
kridge been able to have met their
charges on the floor instead of re-
sorting to individual abuse, he
might have saved the Normal.
1t was charged that your school
was run by ring, that President
Pomeroy has driven Professor
Norton, one of the best instructors
you ever had, and one the State
could not we'll afford to loose, to
make room for his wife, aud that
the State had paid her SLIGO a
year to instruct three students in
Latin. 1t was charged that Pome-
roy was monopoliZing and running
the institution for his benefit, that
his private residence was turned
into a boarding house, and the
professors were required to board
there, and students did the work.
It was charged that over grown
boys and girls without q common
school education, were being put
through ths higher branches, and
that our poorest teachers came
from the Normal School, that SEINE
OF the graduates could not procure
teachers certificates. 1t was claim
ed that half your students should
be in the common schools, and OBJ
tain o thorough common school ed
ucation, when in the Normal School
or Normal Institute, they should
be drilled in the art of teaching
But the last Normal School you eV-
err had was when in the charge of
Profs. Kellogg and Norton.
1t was claimed that if the author
of ''Phillip Drunk and Phillip So
Der" was sent adrift, and such men
as Proesfsors Carmichael and Nor
ton put st the head of the Institn-
ton, the languages aud higher
mathematics, never taught in our
common schools, were excluded,
and $1,000 or $4,000 appropriated
until the lands are sold, and the
Normal made self supporting, that
it would do more good.
Now to those points the friends
of Emporia and the Normal School
must turn their attention.
If Eskridge can only indulge in
abuse, then l advise the board of
Regents to employ another champf-
on. Let brother Eskridge yield the
pen, and return to his favorite pas
time of skunk skinning, but let him
remember the fate of Haman and
his gallows to hang Mordecai the
skinning, to avoid the Legislature.
He called it "Sam Woods House"
as q reproach. Granted the same pa
pers before we met said 'it was the
ablest house we ever had" Es-
kridge entered that House with a
of trumpets. If such q
House became even as q reproach,
t'Sam Woods House" it seems that
Sam Wood must have had influence.
But from Eskridge having stolen
away in the night, Aldrich 'sdogger-
ell was too much for him. Now
this personal contest with Eskridge,
so far as am concerned is at an end.
If the Normal School can meet the
objections urged last winter, let
some one step forward. Eskridge
failed in the Legislature, he has
failed in the NEWS, and 1 appre-
bend that q continuation of this |
is unprofitale, to both
writer and readers. Adieu.
S. J. WOOD.
While the question of Jurisdic-
ton in the Belknap case was under
discussion, Chandler said that If
the Senate decided that it had iur-