Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1893-06-29
CARD FROM DIR. GUINAN.
He Takes Issue With the Central
Committee on the Question
Of Pledges.

Chedic, Wylie and Noteware. DEAR
SIRs: Your resolutions as Central
Committee have come to my notice
and it seems to me that the situation
calls for reply.
l can hardly think that you gen
tIemsn would subscribe your names
to statement, which you knew to
be wide of the truth, and will
therefore accuse you Of being very
much mistaken.
You accuse Mr.. Olcovich and me
of having made pledges to the Cen
trail Committee, at the time of our
appointment, that we would make no
changes in the corps of teachers dur~
ing our incumbency i'll Office, as trus-
tees. This is not your exact Lam
guage, but DO other inference can be
drawn from your accusation. This
charge is not founded on fact or any
thing that could be SO misconstl ued
by the dullest comprehension.
1t is fact that Mr.. Davis, and |
think Mr.. Wylie, were present when
Mr.. McGowan appointed Mr. Olco-
gich and me, as trustees
We discussed the question, rs to
whether it would be advisable to
make any changes in teachers this
term, and we all agreed that it
would not be wise to do so. | went
further than question of policy,
which now seems to be governing
the Central Committee, and stated
that it would not be fair treatment to
disturb any Of them, at that time, as
they had already begun the term.
No one could possibly understand
fro that conversation, that we
M. pledges to make no changes at
SON. future term.
] therefore, feel it incumbent on
me to emphatically deny that | am
pledge breaker: and further that |
am not such an idiot as to enter
upon a term of office, for two years,
with the promise that | would make
no changes in that time.
In the first place | would regard it
as an insult for any one to ask me
for such a pledge. What right
would anyone have to ask it, Was |
not the choice of the nominating
convention! Did the convention ask
such a pledged Did | not receive a
majority of the votes at the polls2
Then, when it became the duty of
Mr.. MCGOWAN to appoint two trus-
tees, why should he not appoint me
as onel
In doing so he only complied with
sense of propriety. You accuse US
of making this matter of politics.
That is very funny. l can only CON-
pare it to the purloiner, who, finding
himself hotly persued, sets up the
cry Of 'stop thief"
You are the gentlemen who are
turning it into politics. | cannot
close this question without calling
your attention, and that of the pub
lie to the consistency of Mr.. Nc
Gowan.
Mr.. Olcovich tells me that few
weeks ago Mr., MCGOWAN spoke to
him and said that his friend Mr..
WOODBURY., told him that Miss Olco-
vich was the brightest young lady,
whom he had seen in these parts !;
and that Mr.. MCGOWAN finished by
advising Mr.. Olcovich to try and get
his daughter into the school.
A couple or three weeks since, Mr.
MCGOWAN asked me what the chances
we've of Miss Olcovich getting into
the schools. | replied that she was
going in. Mr.. MCGOWAN appeared
as pleased as looks and words could
express.
And yet MCGOWAN stated before
your Committee Monday night, that
he would not have appointed Mr.,
Olcovich if it had not been under>
stood that no attempt would be made
to appoint his daughter as a teacher.
Consistency, thou art jewell
Furthermore, l have been told by
several, that Mr.. MCGOWAN volun-
tarily pledged his word to Mr.. Bru-
lin that he would appoint him as
one of the Trustees. If that be so,
while he is unjustly accusing US Of
breaking pledges, he finds himself
inpaled on broken pledge.
AS | do not wish to encroach too
much on the valuable space of the
APPEAL, l will hurry to conclusion.
l will only add that it is quite posi-
BILE that my knowledge of school
matters will compare favorably with