The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-26


single employe his politics before giving
him an appointment, nor have 1 cared
what was his politics. There are . num-
Der of persons now employed in the in
stitution whose politics I do not know,
but I do know enough to prove that
during the last two years there have
been employed more Republicans than
Populists. There are two or three teach
ers whose partisanship is stronger than
their friendship-these may not regard
me as others do, but have the confidence
and good will OF the teachers as a body,
l have never taken a pupil-nor per-
mittsd a pupil to be taken--to ally politi-
cal meeting.
Fifth-Stewart should be removed for the
manner in which he has traf1cked i'll favors 10
secure his retention. This high moral man was
not above securing appointment of favorites
upon guaranty that he should have their best
efforts for his retention rather than stand upon
their merits in competition with the other EN-
pIoyes. He has fed Pop politicians. at the ex-
pense of the state. to the number OF thirty at
county. He has fed his visiting relatives there
to the number of eight or ten for days at time
this Summer.
Every word. syllable and letter is an
abominable political lie, except as to the
last sentence. Expecting to leave the
institution permanently in few days
after the last commencement, l invited
an uncle from Missouri with three of
his family to be present at the closing
exercises. A widowed sister living in
Baldwin had not seen this. uncle for
years, and paid her expenses to Olathe
that she might meet him Three Of her
girls accompanied her. If I havs robbed
the state in this transaction l am ready
to pay the bill!
Seventh-Stewart should be removed because
he persistentiy misStateS facts He endeavors
TO represent that the employees were nearly all
Republicans under Pop rule, one notorious in
stance OF misrepresentation being the case OF
1rlckeCt the printer, who for the past fifteen
years has been publishing Democratic and Pop
papers and received his present appointment as
his reward for such services. There are several
notable instances of 'merit0rious Democratic
teachers VINO nave De6n retained through former
Republican admins tratlons on their merits
whom ne represents WiifulIy and knowingly to
be something else.
knew nothing and cared nothing for
Mr. Trickett's political history and faith,
when l appointed him foreman of the
printing Office. l gave him the place
because he was good printer and deaf
man. He is an unusually intelligent and
worthy man, of national reputation
among the deaf, and if he is removed
as is demanded by this local political
cliQue-there will be protest IN every
one of the fifty papers printed for the
deaf in the United States. have mis-
represented the politics of no one about
the institution
The sixth, eighth, ninth and tenth
charges are purely politicAI-not alto
gether true, but not worth denying and
not worth reprinting.
Many of the things charged against
me are commonly reported to have &C.
Cured under the administration of my
predecessor, Mr.. Carter. The editor of
the Mirror is a new man in Olathe.
These stories have been told him as con-
sc III 4 \
those who want to organize a fight
against the state board of charities and(2)
those about the institution whom l have
been ompelled-though regretfully-
to antagonize in the discharge of duty.
Every honest man, no matter what his
politics, will condemn the Mirror for
publishing such libslous personal
charges without diligent painstaking
inquiry as to their truthfulness No man
should take pleasure in printing such
accusations against his brother man.
Only loyalty to truth and a stern sense of
duty to the public can justify such publ
cation.
The position which now hold came to
me without solicitation, and have ever
been ready, at a moments notice,
to surrender it to the proper
authorities. have sincerely tried
to lift the Kansas school for
the deaf out of the slough of bitter par
tisan politics and put it alongside the
higher institutions of learning. Public
sentiment will not permit political
changes in these institutions, nor should
they be permitted in our charitable in
stitutions The people of this state of
all parties do not care a fig about the
politics of those who serve them in these
institutions. What they do demand is
that these sacred trusts shall be dis
| charged by honest, child-loving, God
fearing men and women.
have learned to love the deaf chill
dren of Kansas, and night and day ]
have endeavorsd to do my full duty to
them. to their anxious parents and to the
state. l am not now lighting for an of
| feel am defending the institution
represent the little family which God
has given me, and the good name which
sis rather to be chosen than great
riches" from the disgrace which at
| taches to such serious personal charges
unanswered.
for II the political sm to views US T'mG Rol6
and prudently veil while in the public
! service, let that fact be known, but dc
not seek my removal by false charges
against my character and work, for these
are invaluable to q man who has no other
capital, and what shall be said if they
may be destroyed in a moment without
remedy by an unfriendly hand.
In behalf of justice, for less partisan
ship and better citizenship.
A A. STEWART,
Superintendent Kansas School for the
Deaf.
OIArHE, Kan, Aug, 90, 1895.
D. C.METSKER GIVESS2OOOO