The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-24
SCRIPTURE HAD NO EFFECT.
HOARD DELIEVED REISER HAD
"FONDELLED" THE TEACHER.o

without Declaring Him Guilty of the
Charges 1t simply ''NOted Him out"
of OGIce as school CommissiOner a.
observation-disclosures CInim That IL
Is Persecution ON fhe Part of the
POpuIists for Political Purposes.
Evidence Very Conflicting
Throughout - 40 Appeal to state
school Commissioner Glenn.
There seems to be no due regard by
the members of the board for the prfncl-
pies of law recognized in this state, but
hope there viii be some regard for the
inspired words of the Bible said w. b.
Stubbs, Esq, as he began his argument
al Springfield in the Relser case. Solo
mon, that wise man, whose words we al:
regard as coming from higher than hui
man wisdom, said, He thai answereth a
matter before he heareth, it is a folly
and a shame unto him. l viii leave that
remark from the scriptures for some 3of
you TO ponder over"
Some of the members of the Efingham
County Board of Education got red in the
face. They did not appreciate bouquets
of extracts from the Bible, The chairman,
Rev. w. A. Nease, is Methodist miris-
ter, and another member Mr.. William
Canuet, is a deacon ofithe Baptist Church.
Mr.. Stubs charged that they had cen
clusively shown tfat they had made up
their minds against Commissioner Reiser
without giving him a hearing, and il was
well unders God for whom che scripturai
passage was intended. He told them very
plainly that "In any properly conducted
court they were debarred from sitting as
judges, they having already assumed the
role of prosecutors of a biased charac-
ter"
Mr.. Stubs arguments were Of no avail
though and Messrs. lNease and Canuet
along with Messrs, 8. n. Met2ger and J.
]. Heidi signed the following unique YER
diet in the case After hearing evidence
in above case we hereby vote ID. e. Reiser
county school commissioner out of Office
as county school commissioner of Effing
ham county, and order tnat the action of
this board be served on State School Com
missioner G. r. Glenn"
The verdict, II will be noticed, does not
state that the Board OF Education finds the
school commissioner guilty of all or any
OF the charges made against him. 1t
merely leaves the public to infer from its
action that it did consider him proved
guilty. An appeal will be taken by Mr.
Reser's attorneys, Messrs, Ggnilliat Il
Stubbs, to Commissioner Glenn.
This case, some of the testimony OF
which has been published In the Morning
News, has pretty wei stirred up Efing-
ham county. -Four Of the members or
the board are Popullsts, the only Demo-
crat, 1t is stated, being Mr.. Heidi. Com
missioner Reiser is a Democrat. A stiff
fight is on between the POPS and Demo-
Gratis for the legislature and certain county
offices and the friends of Mr. Relser
claim that the attack on him was part
of a scheme to help The Populistic cause
along by besmlrching the character of
prominent Democratic ofiice-holder HUI
nnors, 1t is claimed, were set afioat for re-
venge and political motives. ascrbing I'm
moral conduct to the commissioner. With
any charges, the board held a caucus and
demanded his resignation.
The school commissioner refused il. and
demanded an investigation, with specific
statement of the accusations made against
him. The indictment which followed dNeit
especially on his alleged conduct with
regro girl named Narazene Goldwre, by
whom, 1t was claimed, he had had
child. ana j school teacher named Rener
Mason, who, the charges said, Mr.. Reiser
lad "fondeled" at the school house on
several occasions, and once before the en-
tire school The defense introduced
number of pupils of the school who swore
that the statement Of another pupil was
absolutely false, and that Mr. Reiser had
iACt PNNh StiAAAg VI Liz NOiAlldtl dSEIlDGI
10 him.
The testimony in the case of the Gold
wire girl was also of very conflicting
nature, the girl herself discrediting her
own testimony, 1t appears, by her frequent
deniaas of what she had previously stated
on the stand. During the examination the
fact was brought out that the infant had
been brought to Savannah and placed In
the hands of a coloTed woman named Rose
Newton who subsequently, gave IL to an
other woman as yet unknown. The case
has aroused much feeling, and there Is
probably no one in the county who has
not taken sides for or against Mr. Reiser,
political feeling having large part to do
with the leaning of most citizens, It Is
said.
MIR. Reiser's friends claim that the in
vestigation showed that he was a much
maigned man, while tho adherents Of the
board are equally as Strong in their con-
trary views. d. H. Clark, Esq, the well
known Populist represented the hoard