The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1890-02-08
AN OPEN LETTER.
A Letter of Pertinent Inquiry from the
Principal of the weatherly schools.
T. A. SNYDER. ESQ,

LlfOugn LHe county allilS Lndt IL was 4 !
cowardly act, that You had Traced the maj |
Ter and that the circular Orlgma ell al
WeatheIly, and that | wrote il. Upon |
learning the facts at once addressed you
letter asking GU ia kindly retract the
statements aud 10 infOiin the parties lOl
whom you made them tnat you were mis-
taken. also stated to YOU that must |
have known the statements 10 be un rue
and unjust and that the could not be SUBJ
stanIiAted You have seen it not even 20
acknowledge the receipt of the letter,
though | know you received a duplicate of
IL from he official receipt YOU signed wtfen |
you received it, You doubtless glory in
he fact that that circular was sem out by |
its author anonymously Y The average |
American admires fair pla and you have |
had good opportunity TO appeal to strong |
aud Just sentiment. Undoubtedly you ave |
made good use of the opportunity. Had |
gu stopped there, YOU had done well. bul |
you have exceeded even JOul past efforts
You have done that which, if done by any !
principal TO any OF his subordinate teach i
ers, would bring about the speedy and de-
served dismissal of said principal. in your
blind efforts TO ind the author OF That cir |
oHlar you have falsel, charged number OF
persons with being interested in It's produc-
| tion. You doubtless brought into Iequisi- |
| tiOn all your abundant shrewdness and cun
ming as lawyer and detective and have
likely traced the circular lO-nObOdy You
are very learned in the law anl ust know
what constitutes proof You know very
well, Mr., Snyder, .hat If YOU were to Offer
| presiding judge, In a case at court, such
sJrong (?) evidence as YOU are Offering peo-
/ pie in this circular matter that the judge
would laugh YOU out of court. You are
evidently ready TO make any assertion, how
ever untrue, OF any one who has at al
dared to dissent from our ideas and me h.
Ods of administration Since you are too
cowardly 10 act the man, will now state
that did uoi wfite, indite nor cause to be
written any circ lar whatever, aud in par
ticular not the one entitled: IT fol ow
ing are some of the things said by the
teachers at our last county institute and
should be known also That did not mail
nor canse to be mailed anv such circular
Now, Mr. Snyder, let the ppnlic judge Who
is The liar. Again, r. Shy der, you came
TO Weal herly on Januar ~ and arranged
to hold a local institute in this town. You
were in the town FIVE hours and half that
day anc spent one and halt hours of that
time IN the schools. You asked several
teachers 10 take part in the exercises of the
institute. You did not come to INV room
or make any effort to see me. Heretofore
in such matters, the principal was the first
person consulted, Two da after YOU
r were here you wrote ne n note, profession
=. d(ty, (whatever YOU ma mean that }
P asking me to choose some topic aud pre-
e sent il at the institute TO be sure IL was
an easy matter for me to make a suitable
selection as you took good care | should
know nothing of what was already ON the
r program. Why did on not come to my
: room when you we're in the buidingp
N hen GU we've IN the building on Hlgbee
Memorial Day why diu you avoid the high
school room? Perhaps YOU were ashamed
= TO get into the company of The pastors and
y directors there present? Or is all this be-.
X cause on imagined that | had written q
circular and needed TO be disciplined by
's such conduct on your parlP You wer,
r. trying TO add irsu To injur If on gel
y an consolai ion ont of il. You are we come
suppose Wealhe is indebted for this
s. institute To the fact that e ectiou time II
g., approaching Two years ago OH refuse,
II US an institute because of the strike in thI
coal regions, though you were carefully in
-, formed that the strike dId not affect on
: town aud that our people were earning al
Nj unusual amount at money. Last year th
institute was held at Audenried becaus
that town had been so carefully ignored
a. each year since YOU are Ia office and, O
s. course. II would not have been right To le
el last year pass without no ding an inslitu
lnfIe4 j nave no uouub NOu VIII uc WIN
IT, 20 run special trains and work as hard fO
lis the success of tnis institute as YOU hav
for other iustitutes2 But, no. Mr.. Super
in inlendent, In spite Of your eOnCuct 80
& shall see that our people are Interested !
educational matters. And now Mr.. SUI
~, eliutendent, il YOUR work Is done a fail
M, fully and honestly as IL ought 20 be, VIII
do you become sO very muon excited jus
before the election? You frequently az
Ia, ..la Wrla oil.
on are not seen fol months. Why do 70
worry so? The truth certainly cannot narl
lin on, Il on are innocent of the things sal
as of YOU aud your administration. But, ay
here's the rubl A gully conscience neeC
ro ro aceuser. YOu stand cOnYlcted, mui
NJ aud trembling, before ours. An, indee,
YOU are faithful official For the da!
IA. on spent in the court room in Janual
ar YOU. of course. refused your pay from u
state; and so hose six schools ~ Lansfo
ON that you have not visited, though tia
have been open over five months, had
ar claim on your lime and at entlon III
tact that YOU are a lawyer does not part
. ulaily harm nor benefit ydhtOr an Que els
lts the tact that in trying to practice la
YOU consume so much time that you 81
. ceed in doing nothing else, that makes pc
- pie ask whether Coun.y Superint snde
should do more than draw his salary.
In COnclutlous MI Cu1ueft you III
think such conduct as YOU have recent
exhibited and are now showing, demon
trates your particular fitness for the OH
49, of Superintendent. There are a numt
for of persons, however, who are wonderl
whether consistency OF conducts uprig
q ness and honesty Of Administrations d
- cerning judgment; power of self cOnlr
knowledge OF the laws Of mInd,u of methO
:. of instruction and Of the organization
III schools, are in an, respect essential TO I
administration Of the dates Of the OH
n YOU now hold.
~ When yOu have read this, you need /
race up and down the county 10 tell geo
that | say these things because l want
office you hold. That would only be L
ma my another ialsehood, / am not q c.
md didate. This ielter means simply that
'HN tience has ceased 10 be virtue.
dD. Respectfully,
j. l.. PoTTEIGEH
WeatheTly, Pa, Feb. 4, $780,
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