Saint Mary's beacon., 1899-10-19

had lined up against me felt that the
prayer Of our honorable, safnay School
Board had been answered, "May the mo-
bic army Of martyrs praise u.s. And
what compose this constellation Of
sparkling satellites that has so suddenly
burst upon Us. First shines the lofty
Judge Daniel, our high school e1Ecias OF
ST. Mary's county. Then pops up J.
Clement Cawood his growing ally and
John J. Bowles, the dupe OF our prophet
Daniel. VIM. g. Reeder, the great boss
of Maryland Springs. Last but not least,
my Waterloo, Geo. Wellington JOY, The
Brutns in this drama How could / ex-
pect to baiiie the venomous onslaught Of
this mighty hosts Of martyrs did not
feel that, "He is thrice armed who has
his quarrel just
Now, Judge, / have few more enc
mics in St. Ma-y's. Look them up and
ask for testimonial as to my teaching
qualifications-it makes interesting read
ing for The public. viii endeavor to
throw "the search-light of truth" upon
all the communications gotten up by Mr..
D. J. Payne. for "The voice is Jacobs
voice, but the hands are the hands of
Esau."
He makes the assertion that my faith
er like DIR. John ". Payne was q non
patron and says, mo complaint, how
ever, was made against his appointment
and retention As trustee by the teacher
Now, according TO his calculations,
what would be the whole truth. When
my father was first appointed q trustee in
'94 he had tro children that attended the
school. They did not go, however, un.
I'll the cad of his term for he served un-
I'll '9e. And just here let me explain
fully. In '91 Ireceived the appointment
to the Head of the Bay school, the board
OF trustees being John A. Russell, Lewis
B. Stone, ID. ]. Payne. Ny appointment
was not unanimous. The last named
gentleman has always been opposed to
me. Probably his great scheming mind
and read Tess to read human nature en-
abled Ii; n then to foresee that he would
some day be thoroughly convinced"
that / would not be "a success in the
school room" CD After the death of Mr..
Russell, Mr. Jno. T. Herbert was APP
pointed trustee. Aslong as Judge Payne
remained trustee of the school he kept
i. in state of constant agitation and
excitement. So my father in May '94
made manly and open objection be-
| fore the School Board to his being reap
pointed a trustee. He did not ask for
the appointment of himself or any par
ticular patron, but simply that Judge
Payne be removed. The Board, how
ever, turned down Mr.. Stone and ap-
pointed my father Ia patron) although
he had insisted that Mr.. Stone be re-
tanned. The Judge, finding that he
could not carry out any Of his ''schem-
ing designs" in this Board, resigned, and
his mantle fell upon that literary falsi-
fer, j. Clement Cawood, Ia Democrat),
who was willing and ready to take up
the fight against me. True, this was a
Democratic Board, but il takes tec0 trus-
tees to make an appointment. think
| Ii is well TO remind the above gentleman
of this fact as he seems to infer that his
| first appointment as trustee carried with
it the appointment of teacher, but it
was lot until '97 under Republican
Board that he was given his tool; since
then he has been enabled to carry the
appointment Of teacher around in his
coat pocket. '97 was the first year the
Republicans got control of the School
Board. Has there ever been n reason
why Mr.. Jno. T. Herbert was turned
dowa at this timer Probably Justice"
explains; If not, the reason can easily
be solved in this communication.
Has the public ever heard why Mr.. ].
Clement Cawood turned Republican
1t hes been reported that he said in
Leonardtown the two reasons were:
first, the Democrats would not give him
trustee so that he could turn Phil Dor
sey out of the Head OF the Bay school;
second, the Democrats took the voting
place away from his brother in Chaptico.
Having learned at this time, the spring
of '97, that Mr.. Cawood had boasted that
! would lose my school, request was
made to the school commissioners that
they appoint US patrons of the school
as trrstees. (Although a Democrat i
thought it no more than justice to make
this request.) did not ask for any par
ticular patrons, but gave them the whole
school district from which to pick
Gould Mr.. Payne have had much faith
in the complaints which he says were
made to him by the patronss No, but
they knew that their purpose could not
be accomplished BY the appointment of
patrons, so non-patrons were selected.
Now, she burden of his theme is 10
impress the public with the idea that il
was the Democrats who started the cru
sade against me and quotes Mr.. Wingate
with gusto "His report to me was au
Official one" Notice how he likes to
conjure with the word, Official Let me
repeat Il again in derision, Official will
state that was always treated with the
utmost respect and consideration by the
Democratic Board and / believe that
Republican teachers could say the same
And that Wingate explosion Let me
give an impartial account of the details
that the public can see what
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