Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-04-16
THE ARGUS, THURSDAY. APRIL Is. 1895.

one in anyway attached to the
No, sir; it has not.
I'D. Poison.
Mr.. Folsom. during the time that
you served as member of
the board Of education did
THI ARaUs either to suggest or
otherwise seek to influence you in
behalf of any applicant or candidate
for q position rs principal or teacher
in the Rock Island High school or
other building?
No, sir.
Has The ARGOS sought to influence
you either for or against any one in
any way attached to the schools?
1t has not.
MAS. W. A. Norri-.
Mrs. Norris, has THE ARGUS during
the time that you have been . mem
Der of the board Of education. either
by suggestion or otherwise sought to
influence you in behalf Of an appli-
cant or candidate for q position as
principal or teacher in the Rock
Island High school or other build
ing?
was not on the board at the time
teachers were engaged, and The
ARGUS never spoke to me.
Has The ARGUS sought to influence
you either for or against any one in
any way attached to the Schools?
The ARGUS has never talked with
me on that subject.
So much in refutation Of this con-
cocted yarn about The ARGUS hav-
ing any personal feelings toward Mr..
Ament as to the result Of chagrin
over failure to control the appoint
ment Of teachers. Now as to the as
sertion of his having had to encoun-
ter the hostility of THE ARGUS from
the first. No one knows better that
this is not true than MIR. Amept him
self. The ARGUS will not ask him to
say why. but it will defy him to deny
through the columns Of the psper
which is devoted TO him, that he was
not only accorded proper courtesy,
but that due consideration which he
sought at the hands of THE ARGUS
when he came to Rock leland. Mr..
| Ament knows that is shown
every possible evidence of friendship
at the outset, and he has been chal-
lenged to show proof to the contrary.
His Own Acts Condemn Him.
1t was not until he had displayed
his manner of dealing with teach
ers. and had sprung his high
| strung notions that TEE ARGUS
criticised him and then it was with
out malice. THE ARGUS has held
that he addressed tho teachers in 4
manner unbecoming gentleman.
that his language was at times, until
The ARGUS began to comment upon
lit. unbecoming any man to use in
the presence of ladies, much less to
escape from the lips of one who was
expected to command their respect.
The ARGUS has the evidence to
prove, aud the names of teachers,
which are only withheld in Difference
to their wishes. but they can be had
at any time the board wishes them for
its own investigation. that Mr.. Amen.
was rude in his early dealings with
his corps OF instructors and that the
feeling is 40 intense in consequence
of his conduct that large percent
age of the teachers can never be rec.
onciled to him.
The ARGUS can present the names
of citizens 10 whom he boosted that
Rock Island was not big enough
town for him and that he was only
here temporarily, and yet ht
ran up gas bill of e26 in house he
was paying $50 a month rent for, the
first month he.was here, and expected
the landlord to pay it. How many
times he blew out the gas in that
time is of course not known. THF
ARGUS can give the names of wit
nesses to prove that he went about
ridiculing s. S. Kemble. the long
time superintendent of Rock Island
schools and his immediate predeces
sor as ..jay." THE ARGUS has
witnesses to prove that Mr.. Amen
enlightened his teachers by telling
them that there were shop girls il
Chicago better entitled to the salar
les they were getting than they were
But these are but few of the evil
dences of the disposition of the SUI
iperintend the board feels it is to th,
interest of the schools to continu,
another year-and the Union say