The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-02
Mr.. PADDOCK TALKS
Likelihood That the High
School Troubles May Be
Ventilated in Court.
CHARGES OF FALSEHOoD
The Discharged Professor Scores
Messrs. Cowles and Allen
His Contract With
the City.

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not likely to be allowed to pass without con-
test. Principal Sweeney yesterday declared
that if the einbers of the board considered
they had done what was right in removing
him, on the charges preferred, he was salts
fled. There is a well founded rumor, how
ever, that he and Prof. Paddock have poole
their own differences and will make the Di-
reetors of the Board of Education defendants
in a suit to show cause why they should not
be ~reinsteted.
There is also a possibility of Prof. Pad
dock fighting the case alone. He smarts
under his removal, as may be perceived by
reading a statement made by him yesterday.
The following is Prof. Paddock's statement
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Mr.. PADDocK's STATEMENT.
''They removed Mr.. Sweeney for cigarette
smoking, and since a rule was made two
years ago that there Should be nc smoking
about the building. Mr.. Sweeney has not
only complied with that rule, but has not
even smoked a cigarette in sight of a pupil.
About his drinking an occasional glass, they
know what his intimate friends have told
them.
with me, 1 was not able to get any reason
assigned. l went before the board prior to
the meeting at which | was removed and
read a carefully prepared plea for a hearing,
IN which l stated my grounds as being ac-
cording to my contract as a teacher. l COM
planned of their method of sending out let
tiers requesting designations. l told them
the sending of these letters was equivalent
to voting first, and then bringing the cases
of the teachers slated for removal before the
Board for discussion. l represented also
that the use of the letters prevented the
members of the board who wished to defend
me from having al opportunity. After l
had made my request for a hearing on such
charges as were supposed to have been made
against me the directors went I'D stairs.
''rheir method with Mr.. Sweeney was TO
ask him if he had anything to say. Having
heard nothing officially, he very properly
replied in the negative, until he had heard
the charges against him. There were three
resolutions prepared before they entered the
room. One removed Mr.. Sweeney. l in
terrupted them when the clerk began read
ing the one removing me. l charged then
that their action in the matter had pro-
duced an apparent lack Of harmony in the
High School. Mr.. Cowles got up and re-
peated a lot of stuff he said to me-, but at
1irmed that | had said it to him. He de-
clared that | had talked against other teach
ers to him, and had showed him how they
could be removed, when really he talked
that way to me. Assuming l had talked
against teachers, l asked him if that was
Just cause for removing me. l declare that
1never initiated a conversation with him
against teachers or critiSed them. He has
not only talked to me against teach
ers but against Ex-President Jones,
Dr.. Allen and the two boys. Degnan and
O~bergfell and Mr. Simpson. Not more than
two or three weeks ago he called one OF
hem-name. | withhold-a liar.
GOING FoR D R L
sDr. Ulamor Allen affirmed that he had a
pile of letters from me a foot high. He had
three or four and | have a like number from
him. All but one are on business matters,
W hen / think of DIR. Aliens affirmation l
think of Lay Judge Kenny,s famous reply
to him. He later declared that l had
wearied him coming to his house to com
plain of teachers. If the Doctors assertion
was true l would like to know if going to
his house is sufficient to remove me. The
truth about my visits to DR.. Ulamor Allen
is that 1 have been to his house twice-once
on my own business and the second time he
wrote for me to come, In this instance the
Doctors statement brings Judge Kenny's
famous remark conspicuously before me for
the second time.
when | was at DR.. Aliens house he told
me quite distinctly that he and Mr.. Cowles
put me in the training school to teach, and
he distinctly said that Mr.. Jones did not put
me there. At the meeting of the board L
referred to this. DR.. Allen at once said that
he always said he and Mr.. Jones had me
placed in the training school and that Mr..
Cowles had nothing to do with it. l re-
affirmed his original statement, and he re-
denied it. 1t demonstrated to me that he
didn' know what he was talking about, and
now, when | think of it l think of Judge
Kenny's remark to him for the third. DR..
Allen next reSurrected al old squabble in
which he declared that if L had not been
guilty l would not have gone to see him. |
asked him if l had not been wholly exon
Grated. l then turned to Mr., Beach, who
had told ne that Mr.. Jones had exonerated
me. and asked him to affirm what L
said, and. to my surprise, he refused to be
my witness. The trouble l had been
sxonerated from was IN connection
with the cooking school difficulties. Mir,
Jones knew something that was not intended
to reach him, and the A, b, & (Alien. Beach
and Cowles) wondered how he came TO know
it. One member said Paddock objects to
girls leaving class or staying out at reclta-
ton time, and as he goes to see Jones, it must
be that he told Jones that the young ladies
were out of school on the streets getting sig
natures to the petition to retain the cooking
school. Allen then said, i will bring Pad
dock to nv house and give him a hauling
over the Goals As a matter Of fact, l didn't
know the young ladies were getting up the
petition nor had | spoken to Mr.. Jones on the
subject. Subsequently / wrote to DR.. Allen,
characterizing the thing as a lie, and asked
him il he thought it worth while to try and
find out who the liar was. ! received no re-
ply, and later, upon learning that 1t was one
Of nv intimate friends. dropped the mat
fer. The inability of DR.. Allen to boss me
NAV be one of his reasons for removing me,
ssThe only hearing [ had was one governed
by Allen and Cowles, composed principally
Of abuse. of me. 1t was q bearing interjected
into the rule to remove me.
II leave it 10 the public to characterize
this ouoaddm friend of mine VINO stood up
before the board and me and repeated a lot
of stnf he said to me and declared [ said it
to him, in order to make people think me a
nuisance.
ssThis man has the greatest confidence in
me YOU ever saw. He will say anything to
me. If | were to go and sit down by him
today. I presume he would tell me a lot of
stuff about the board. He knows l never
vet told a thing, though he has been regular
" Cabling everything have said to him,
and probably attributing his own remarks to
me. Two weeks ago, when he was up to
the High School, he greeted me with efful-
gent sweetness, told me Simpson had lied to
him: heard me respectfully urge that be
given a hearing now that Mackey was taken
out of the trio; tenderly tore himself away
from me, and going home, mailed the second
letter asking for my resignation, which ! got
a few hours later at my home Here IS a
o,tonddnln friend for you, eh!
tsBut to hear him, standing before that
board, repeat his own gossip as mine, was
Che cap sheaf of all. The audacity of 1t
made it successful. 1t was some minutes be-
fore l saw what had been done. and then Dr..
Allen was getting off his lingo which was
equally surprising. / am now waiting Tor