Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-06-30

FURL that chestnut, for it's hoary
Weeks ago it lost its glory,
And the man who sprung the story
Soon should hear its funeral chimes;
'TIs that tale SO duh and dreary,
Coming on its journey dreary
From the School Board and the Times.
-!SpakeshcdTt.
The Cumberland Times of Tuesday
undertakes reply to this paper of last
week. With an affection apparently
surprising its love of orders nisi, that
ought to be published in Frostburg for
obvious reasons, it cGngs to its idol of
| official against 400 citizen petitioners.
But as Mr.. McCulloh is rot an issue
in this controversy, aud never has
been, there are but few points in the
Times imprrtimcnt effort to engage at
tcntIon ut this stage Of school affairs
One Of these appears in pet meta
phor entitled "Leveling Shaft"
Let us see whether the last one, said
to have been trained on the unassaia-
bic bench. struck anybody.
Six or seven years ago a Cumberland
paper-the NcrS, we think stated at
IA time when the appointment Of a
board of school commissioners was
under extra judicial consideration that
"the Judges were seeking men without
personal interest IN the schOolS.' This
is the language as remembered. AT
any rate, they were found then as in
every similar cXigency before and
since. All school administrations with
which we have been contemporary
have been dominated by men, or a
majority of men void of parental in,
tercst in popular education. They
have been conducted by the childless
and by those who, having children,
were too "touy" to expose their silken-
haired progeny and blue-blooded prod
igies 10 association with the bristles
and Drawn of plebian offspring.
The puJHc %hools Of 1Hegany county
hare necer been MHehandscf their friends
This policy, strange and illogical as
it is, has held on under the ipSe dirit of
two Judges Of Il bench Of three the
chief Justice declining to exercise a
prerogative which he deems unconsti
tutional.
SO that while the propriety and wis
dom only of the judicial policy have
been questioned in these independent
columns, Ju,.ge Alvey practically i'm
peaches the right of his associates to
appoint commissioners at all.
There is ne judge at least whom our
"shaft" did not strike, and there are
two unhurt since Judge Alvey's stroke
has had no visible effect.
As to the matter of ''proofs." The
Times has become so gangrened with
dislike of the people Of Frostburg and
correspondinglY infatuated with Mr..
McCullOh that it would not know a
"prOOf' if it were to meet one in the
narrow path between the gate and the
pump. 1t did not recognize William
r. Percy's "intmation" (Which it re
CARDS as the "mcanest kind of Il way")
of Mr.. McCulloh's completely in the
Purnell appointment. Nor did it
delgn to observe the difference of
statement which sprung up between
Owen Hitchins and Mr.. McCulloh, the
odds being against the latter. 1t did
not even apologize for its protege when
the prolongation of this trouble was
charged by Mr.. Hitchins to Mr.. Me
Culloh's denial OF the right of petition.
What guarantee have we, then, that
the Times would know Il 'proof'' if it
were offered one! !
But this is not the time to make
matters worse for the Times by citing
''proofs." The JOURNAL was favored
Tuesday with voluntary assurance
from the examiner that, with patience