The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1892-07-23
SKELETONS
Brought From College Closets for
Promenade.
Lincoln Institution at jefferson City Mo-,
all Torn up Over Some Bunting
Mass Meeting of Indignant
Citizens.

Jefferson City, No., July Is There
was mnss meeting of indignant Colored
citizens in Jefferson City last night, in
which resolutions were adopted request
ing the Board of Regents of Lincoln In
stitute TO reconsider their action in fail
ing to reappolnt Profs. Delaney, Clarke
and Lawton.
The President Of the institution is
Colored man, Inman E. Page, graduate
of Brown University, class of IT. He
was class orator and is a remarkable
man, exceedingly popular with legisl;-
tors and successful in securing legisla-
ton for the institution be represents to
a wonderful degree. OF last years
faculty he was the only member of the
Board Of Regents retained. And there
by hangs the tale.
Mr.. Page is wonderful man. + e has
those indefnable qualities of p esence
and address. His supply of tact is mex.
haustible. And yet he has wife.
Mrs. Page is clever woman, gradu
ate Of Wilberforce in Ohio, and has, eyer
since her marriage to the President ii
years ago, been connected with Lincoln
either as an instructor or matron., She
has occupied the latter position most of
the time and claims that she was so Wig
liant in the discharge Of her duties net
one girl attending the institute was ruin
ed in that Interval. This claim is denied,
with specifications. Yet it is not denied
that Mis-. Page has been vigilant niatron.
Her vigilance in:the interest of morality
begun before she became matron and
while she was student at Wiberforce.
Since she has been in Lincoln she has
been so vigilant that nearly every lady
teacher employed there has left under
charges. Old teachers remember of but
one who was not dropped, though there
might have been others, and that one
was Miss Shore, who married Pro-.
Yates of the Kansas City Colored High
School. While the charges have not in
every instance been of immortality
specifically alleged or uspected-they
have impaired her efficiency elsewhere.
There Was Miss Alice Graham, now
married. She was charged with receiving
calls from members of the faculty in her
room. The institute had no parlors at that
time and all the ladies received callers, if
they had any, in their sleeping rooms.
Then there was Miss Callie Jordan of
Kansas City. She was accused of sweet
hearting with Rev. Preston and dropped.
Miss Smith of Harrisburg, Pa, was
charged with having Immoral literature
which she permitted the girls to read.
One of the books, indeed the one on
which the charge was based, was "The
Hidden SIM" After she was dropped
Secretary Burch of the Board of Regents
read the book, and, in spite of it's title,
he found it disappointipgly chaste. Miss
Smith claimed she had not purchased or
read this book, but that she had taken it
away from one of the girls.
Miss Anna Jones was dropped for in
subordination. She is new lady principal
at Wilberforce.
Then there was Miss Dovie King of
Cincinnati, who is now the wife of Ed.
ward A. Clarke, one of the professors
dropped in June. She was music teacher
and assistant in English, and was drop
ped because she was too high-strung."
But the latest and greatest case was
that of Miss Georgia NJ. DeBaptiste
This lady is the daughter of one of the
best known Colored ministers in Chicago,
Rev. Richard DeBaptiste, and is cult.
waited woman. She was educated in the
Chicago public schools and before her
employment at Lincoln she was private
Secretary to the President of the
Kentucky University. She won the
hearts of the students and the foculty at
Lincoln and all the towntolks with whom
she came in contact.
She was competent Instructor and
did great deal of charitable church
work outside ofschool hours. She did no.
win the heart of Mrs. Page and in April,
when she become sick. their relations
were decidedly hostile 1t was then she
learned that vague charges had been
made to the Board of Regents through
Prof. Page. She demanded to know
their nature but could get no satisfaction.
She informed her father, who came at
once, and with Prof. Clarke visited the
members of the board, demanding to
know the nature of the charges and
demanding trial, no matter what their
nature.
| There's hard feature about the posi-
ton of the ladies in the institution.
They are not entitled to trial. Their
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