St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-30
Quietly but Foreibly the In
cumbent for Two Terms
Was Dropped.
Minneapolis Business Men Are
Hustling for a Harvester
Works Fund.
T. j. Buxton Elected County
Treasurer Pending H. 0.
Peterson's Suspension.

matter was decided at the meeting OF
the board of education yesterday after
noon.
The members of the board were all on
hand promptly at $3.50. Somehow they
all found their way into the inner Office,
and once there they closed the door Oh
possible intruders. They remained in
secret consultation for just an hour,
then came out looking conscious and
paying no attention to DR.. Bradley, who
had come in in the meantime. What
passed during the secret caucus will
probably never be known. The board
took up the regular order of business
without moving a muscle, and the
dispatch with which the routine
was hurried through, so different
from the custom of this ariStocratically
slow board, showed that there was
something coming which the members
were anxious to reach and have over.
While the clerk was in the midst of the
reading of the bills of the month, Robert
Pratt dropped word into DIR. Bradley'S
! ear and the two sought the inner cham
Der. The superintende was probably
told that there was no help for HIM -
that the board had decreed his down.
fall. They came out just as the clerk
finished the budget.
"Any further business?" inquired
President Ankeny.
There was dense silence that lasted
almost full minute. Then Mr.. Jaeger
found small portion of his voice
enough to allow him to murmnr:
''Mr. President, move that we pro-
coed to the election of superintend-
emit"
II second the notion" said John
Norton, after another period Of painful
quiet.
MIR. Giertsen amended the motion so
that it should state the election of su-
perintendent for three years at an an
was accepted.
1.-THE clerk will prepare the ballots"
said the president.
The little slips were passed around
and each man wrote something on it.
Robert Pratt was heard to whisper
something to himself, as he folded up
his ballot, that sounded like zone for
Dr. Bradley" The ballots were col
lected, counted and the clerk announced:
"Charles NJ. Jordan, e; j. E. Brad
ley, l."
''Mr. Jordan, having received the
highest number of votes, is declared
elected superintendent" was the presi-
dents declaration. "If there is no fur
Their business before the board a motion
to adjourn will be in order"
The motion to adjourn was quickly
made and as quickly carried.
The members of the BOARD will offer
nothing but the most pronounced gen.
kIf... fAr hi Mi nE
the board in doing away with DR.. Brad
ley'S services as superintendent of the
schools of Minneapolis. They are GER
tain that there was nothing personal in
the action of the board.
sit was choice between two men,"
said President Ankeny, after the meet
ing. Zone man had the highest num-
Der of votes, and he was elected. There
is nothing so very strange about the
selection of Mr.. Jordan. He came
within an ace Of being elected Superin-
tendent six years ago. This selection
of some man connected with the school
system is not an unusual proceeding.
1t is done all over the country. L have
wide acquaintance all over the coun-
try with superintendent of schools, and
l consider that Supt. Gilbert, of st.
Paul, is one of the very best in the
country. How did they get him? Just
picked him out from their own schools
down there. Mr.. Jordan has been in
Minneapolis eight or nine years, and
the board seems satisfied that he is a
good man for superintendent of the
schools"
Rev. NJ. F. Gjertsen talked in the
same strain.
"There is nothing personal in the ac-
ton of the board" said he. "The
board has had both of these men in its
service-Mr. Jordan for eight years,
and Mr.. Bradley for six. 1t merely de-
cded to take the man it thought best
fitted for the work. That is all there is
to it,"
Robert Pratt, the only member of the
board who voted for DR.. Bradley, says
that he has never heard any particular
ization of charges against DR.. Bradley.
There has been more or less complaint
about some little matters. Some of the
board think that he is not quite a man
of sufficient decision of character. That
seems to be all that the members of the
board had against him.
One of the papers said yesterday
morning that DR.. Bradley had been
asked to resign. None of the members
of the board will admit that such action
was taken. President Ankeny says
that he was asked to be candidate, but
he did not know that the doctor had
ever been asked to resign.
DIR. Bradley says that he was asked tt
resign. He says a committee from the
board labored with him for several hour:
one day about six weeks ago. land he ha:
been approached several times since
then by individual members of thu
board.
But" said he yesterday. II could SEE
no reason why should resign. so die
not do it. When came to Minneapolis
came here to make this my home anC
to identify myself with the public schoo
system. [ think | have done that.
have never heard the slightest wore
that would indicate that there was an,
dissatisfaction with me. So long as M
one was dissatisfedwith me, land so Ions
as l was satisfied, there was no rea
son why should resign"
Further remarks of DR.. Bradley'S in
Dictated that the members of the boarc
had shown good deal of anxiety tt
have him resign his place. DR.. Bradley
has been at the head of the public
school system III Minneapolis for the
past six years. His successor has beer
in Minneapolis two years longer thar
| Lu0ls wi IOuolOy uhAs
to Minneapolis when Superintendent Of
schools, and ever since that time he ha:
been connected with the Adams schoo
in South Minneapolis. He is young
man, comparatively, not being over
forty years old. He has earned the
reputation of being hard worker anc
an excellent educator. He is Il modest
unassuming man, given to quiet way
of living. He is unmarried. DR.. Brad
ley'S term does not expire until June.
Before the board came to the election
of a superintendent it went through 6
mass of routine business. The German
American bank has donated $50 to the
North Side high school to be divided in
prizes among the members of the com
ing graduating class. John S. Pillsbury
has offered to do the same by the East
Side high school and Rev. NJ. f. Gjert
sen promises that some one will be
found to do likewise OH the South Side
The chances are that there will be nc
school concert this year. The rental OF
the Swedish tabernacle has gone ur
! and the board will probably decide thai