The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1897-06-26
THE SCHOOL QUESTION.
WADsyoErH, June 2iih.

seen ht To devote II great atilount OF
your space to articles relating On this
School Board collectively and on myself
Individuality, am sure your love OF fair
play will compel you TO publish the
other side OF the question.
To begin with, Il stranger to read your
''lurid" articles would think that a great
crimina. act had been committed-some-
thing as bad us murder. The facts, cold,
nnadorned facts, viii prove the CON
trary, to my unbiased mind.
A meeting was called for the purpose
of selecting teachers. The members, in
obedience to this call, met at Mr.. Eslen's
residence. After the usual common
routine OF such affairs | produced all-the
applications and read each one aloud.
there were a great, many of them and 1T
took some time. Immediately after that
[ nominated Mr.. Game in II short,
although exceedingly warm and earnest
plea, giving many reasons Tor my choice
and wishing 1t understood that it should
not be construed as rejecting upon any
person. concerned. Mr.. Esden then
favored Mr.. McDiarmid. After a little
talk about my remarks | called for a
vote and cast my ballot for Mr.. Game,
Mr.. Bridges following by a vote for
Caine and Mr.. Esden for Mr.. Dorm
berger. The thing was done. Not a
word or influence OF any kind used by
anyone on a single member OF the Board
us to whom they should vote for.
In gathering these applications made
it my special business to have every one
in from every person who was at all In
terested. | did this with the very best
and purest of motives, viz to give every
one a fair show, not knowing what the
outcome would be. 1t seeins, however,
that some very singular views have been
taken as to that action of mine. In adj
dition to other reasons, | will add that l
wanted to hurry things up for the sake
of everyone as regards time in making
other arrangements. Surely ii anyone
was so unwise as to misconstrue my mo-
tive it is a thing to regret. Suppose,
just suppose, that didn't ask for these
apple atoms, and we had our meeting
and resulted as it did, what q howl
would arise! What bitter personal
charges wonld have been made OF TAX
ing advantage" Stealing a march" and
many other more personal, and ailow me
to remark that in that view OF the case
there would have been a color of %justifi-
cation in these remarks.
l repeat it firmly that there has been
nothing personal, nothing wrong, un-
~derhanded or out of regular order in the
whole proceeding.
On the contrary, there was nothing
but complimentary remarks made dur
ing the entire meeting; no trickery, no
loud talk; all Business transacted in a
low conversational tone.
Now, Mr.. Editor, you have the history
of how this great "wrong" was perpe-
trated, and l will proceed to pay my at
tention to the other features in the case.
For instance this petition-it certainly
is a curiosity, q are one. Look at it
from any point of view it is something to
wonder at. Take the last sentence of
the headlines: 1--WE request and insist,
etc." then follow the names. Know
ing everyone in the district as l do, it is
very amusing. People who have no
children, nc property, no vote, have
signed it freely. There are others who
oven don't know Mr.. Dornberger, and
others who don't live ,here-perfect
strangers. l note one person from Ore
gon, one from Butte county, California.
and another from the Cannibal Islands
Still further down the list ] find school
boys and school girls who belong in CAL
~ifornia, and others who never went to
school and never will. Then, again, l
have had q score of people assure me
that they were scared into signing it,
and others who seleinnly declared that
they never signed it at all, although
their names are down,
The investigator Of this affair pays no
taxes further than u poll-tax, and the
person who carried. il all around the
town for signatures pays no taxes of
any kind.
Now l can assure yon, Mr.. Editor,
that this Board, while it may differ on
many things, that we are thoroughly
loyal to orr decision in any case after it
has been arrived at. So it will be in this
case. This Board represents eleven