Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-09-17
|AAS Jones BEEN ELf|'TfD?|
Evidence That the Announcement Was
q Trihe Premature.

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A QUEER PROCEEDING ON THE
PART OF A COMMITTEE OF THE
BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE coll
ORED STATE NORMAL SCHOOL.
SELECTION WILL PROBABLY BE
MADE-PROF. JONES HAS RE-
CEIvED NO INFORMATION ON
THE SUBJECT.
A Charleston telegram in yesterday S
Intelligencer stated that Prof. ]. McH.
Jones, of this city, had been selected
as principal of the State Colored In
stitute at Farm, w. Va. 1t appears
that the publication was trifle pre-
mature, although 1t is probable that
Prof. Jones will be offered the place.
]. D. Hill is the present principal, and
Prof. Jones was told some weeks ago
that he could have the place.
1t appears that there was scheme
on the part OF Republican members OF
the Executive Committee of the
Board of Regents to GUST Hill and put
Jones in as his successor, but the
scheme went off half cooked. The
committee is composed Of Messrs.
Hanen, Turner and Wilmington. Mr..
Wilmington received no notice of a
meeting to be held Thursday, and was
attending a Senatorial conference in
Charleston on that day. Messrs. Han
en- and Turner went to the school, and
at noon the statement was given out
that Prof Jones had been chosen. Mr..
Wilmington, feeling that he had not
been courteously treated and knowing
that the proceeding was irregular,
called up the other members of the
committee by phone, and was told
that the report was all mistake.
They hedged when they learned the at
titude of Mr.. Wilmington. 1t is prob
able that the majority of the committee
will make this selection at another
meeting, but it must then be ratified
by the full Board. -
The Charleston Gazette, comment
ing on the action Of Messrs Hanen
and Turner, says
In the meantime, ]. McHenry Jones
hog been requested not to be uneasy,
but just to "lay low" If Jones is Sc
lected it will be against the intent and
genius of the institution. 1t will be a
slap in the face, direct and hard, of the
colored people Of this part of West Vir-
ginia, a slap the sting Of which will
smart for many long day.
A large number of these people fer
whom this slap is intended will won
der why they are to be slapped. They
are wondering why the Board of Re
gents should go to the Panhandle for
a man when the position belongs and
has practically been promised to a man
from this section.
Be it known, then, that the fine Ital-
ian hand of Chairman Dawson and the
JOull IIdnCOCh VI tnc dONcluOI 10 III
the transaction, though they will say
OF course-the Board did it. Ohio
county is going to cut quite a figure in
the contest for the United States Sena-
torship. Too many plums cannot be
distributed in that section.
Prof. Jones' when seen by a Register
reporter yesterday, stated that he had
not been officially notified of his selec-
ton, and, in fact had received no COM
munication of any kind bearing on the
subject. The position had not been Of
fered to him, and his acceptance OF it
would depend upon a certain contin-
gency. There would be more honor
and a larger salary attached to the
position than to that which he now
holds, but he is very well pleased with
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