Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-09-13
4ancaster fnteIliqemrer.
TUESDAY EVENING, SEPT. 10. 1881.
MILLERSVll.LE.

Secretary Frantz Explains Why Messrs.
Myers and Witmer Were Expelled
tine Normal school Grounds.
g f." in the New Era.
On Saturday night your neighbors of the
INTELLIGENcER INDUCED in one of their
characteristic, intermittent discharges Of
filthy matter, directing the nozzle of their
machine, as they did many times before,
when they INDUCED in their dirty work,
right in the face of the Normal school and
its trustees. 1t is the settled policy of the
Normal not to notice these squirts, and l
do not intend to notice them on her ac
count, or on account of the trustees,
taking upon myself personally whatever
odium may attach to such notice.
Your correspondent has been actively
identified Will, the Normal for more than
twenty years, almost from its very in
fancy. He had an opportunity for learn
ing its history, helped to make a great
part of it, and, thank God, he is ready to
exclaim ( and thereby only echoing the
public sentiment of Pennsylvania and the
world }, Millersville Normal, first in the
battle, and its flag still flying alOft in the
vanguard of popular education and ad-
vanced methods of teaching" Thy brGw
is screathed soith laurel!"
The only excuse for the editors Of the
1NTELLIGENCER writing about the Nor
NAL as they do, is that they are absolutely
ignorant Of what they write about. This
is a pretty good excuse for errors and
mistakes. But should their local reporters
begin that kind of business, either manu-
featuring from the whole cloth or report
ing upon such authority as the editors
write upon; they would be furnished with
passports. Chiefs, of course, can do as
they please. If they make themselves re-
diculOus or silly il may be said it is no.
body's busin ,ss. am sure it is none of
mine. But, rs to the matter Of infOrma-
tion, don't think any living man that
ever was Or now is friend Of the Normal
ever entered the Office of the INTELLIGEN-
GER to give them any information.
The best evidence of disloyalty to the
school, in those connected with it, is lOiter-
ing about that Office, where congregate the
disaffected, the iLceEdiary rebels, nihilists
law-breakers, infractOrs of rules and regu-
lations, those who after failing to accom-
plish their wicked designs at the school,
by the ever watchful eye Of the master,
and perhaps expelled or suspended or put
under some other form OF punishment for
They are received with open arms, aud the
chiefs ever ready to minister to their wants
or redress their grievances with open COL
umns, by inserting windy and venomous
communications, backed by large surfaces
of editorial. These disaffected spirits make
this Office their roosting place, where, DUR
ing their sickness, they spew out corrup-
tiOn and tho editors serve it lip for their
raiders. But, all the manipulation Of
these deft gentlemen cannot deprive it
of it's Inherent and inseparable fOulness.
Nothing would be regarded :by me as a
more noble act in the interest of the Nor
NAL than the exclusion Of the editors
themselves from the grounds and build
ings, while they seem to think it would
be horrible. think man has no bust
ness anywhere unless he has legitimate
objects in going there. To so to 4 place
or send an emissary, to annoy or embar-
rass the welfare Of religious or educational
work, is highly reprehensible. am now
speaking alphabetically.