Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-09-19
LOCAL CORRESPONDENTS.
Thinks He Was Eu chred by All Sill

FRosTBURG, MD, Sept. 16, 1896.
To the MINING JOURNAL.
Many persons in all parts of the
county have shown so much condem-
nation of the unjust manner in which
| was stealthily discharged from the
principalship of Mt. Savage public
school, and as those people have ask
ed with no small degree of interest
aohy | received such treatment, | feel
that it is incumbent upon me to make
this public statement.
There was no one connected with
my removal that had the honesty to
make frank statement of the affair.
If there had been good and sufficient
reasons to remove me surely there
could have been no wrong committed
by so informing me. But the whole
proceeding was carried on under
cover and is appropriately described
by Occasional" in the JOURNAL of
September 9th when he says:
Too long has Star Chamber diplomacy
been potent in dealing with our schools.
q take this opportunity to thank
"OccasionaP' for his defence of teach
ers and his just condemnation of the
treatment given me.)
1t is this condition of management
that compels me to relate the mystic
campaign that was conducted to &C
complish my discharge and from
which the people may draw their own
conclusions and place the response
bllity where it justly belongs.
desire, before beginning the his
tory of the affair, to make few per-
Sonal statements.
| cherish no egotism whatever on
account of the interest manifested by
so many for me on this occasion, but
view this manifestation of sympathy
as All expression of the public feeling
for anyone who is the victim of unjust
treatment.
| do not consider it egotism to say
that am a citizen Of Allegany county
in good standing; that have taught
for 16 years and that | can teach, fair
ly well, almost any branch that is
taught in the county.
do not consider it a crime to say
that there is no one teaching in the
county who needs employment any
more than do.
About the LIST of last March two in
dividuals strolled into Mt. Savage
school one atternOon-neither patron
of the school. One of them, the larger
seemed to have the smaller one along
to carry his brain, | invited them tc
go through the building and listen to
the recitations. They moped around
for an hour or so and then departed
This was their first and only visit tc
the school in six years.
On a bright Sunday morning abou,
the last of April, after consulting with
his confederates, So in all--56 to sym.
bolize the signers of the Declaration OF
Independence-mlght be seen the mar
with the big brain, heart vibrating
with christian fealty to equal rights tC
some, bearing his cross of ardent de
votion to some Americans up the hill.
and down the hollows of Mt. Savage
and carrying under his coat three fee
of paper for signatures to overthrow
the principal of Mt. Savage school be
cause sit is right and just that oul
Confederacy should be faithful to tine
cause of Americans Prosecuting Amer
icans.' For three days and nights
this petition was carried around behin(
buildings and railroad hoppe,s fol-
signers. When this paper was brough
before the ''Confederacy' for the 81
to sign the man with the big brazil
said
We must pause. To make misstep at thi
hour would be fatal to our cause of hatred.
find that we cannot have So names of on
"Confederacy" on this paper; we must leav
Oft one who should not have declared his IN
dependence-Charles Carroll, of Carrolton
Is was this would-be signer who in
formed me that such a petition was OF
the. rounds. The trustees of the schoo
were, informed of the petition and cam'
te-he and said that while the petition
PRAYED the School Board to remov,
them yet the real object was to ge
| me i and that / should attend thu
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