The Gainesville star. [volume] (Gainesville, Fla.) 1903-19??, 1904-02-19
SnEATs AND HOLLOWAY.
Fair Play Goes for Holloway MarIer
Praises Sheats.


EDITOR STAR: In your issue of last
Tuesday, Mr. Holloway reprints in his
column the following over the signature
81 L. Allen" from the Pensacola News
In answer 10 your question, whats
the matter with Sheats9 will, IL you
please, make the following statements
which cannot be controverted;
The first and only time | ever met Mr.
Sheats was at teachers association held
at DePuniak Springs, several years ago,
Mr.. Sheats in his address said all the
education, wealth and refinement was in
East Florida. Now Just think of a state
superintendent using singular verb with
three subjects, education, wealth and re-
fnement, leaving out the fact that he
threw out an insult to every other section
Of Florida. Still further, in his ques-
tons for teachers, he put the following
questions:
Elbow are waste material eliminated
from the bloodl' Material are why
are each Of the following celebrated in
history" Think Of Il, leach are"
Again, "What effect has alcohol and
tobacco on digestionl" See the two sub
jects, 'alcohol aud tobacco" ''has'
instead OF have,
Such glaring errors from state super
intendent in this enlightened age, are
enough to make Kirkham and Murray
turn over in their graves, Let us, by all
means, try Mr.. Holloway, hoping he may
know enough about grammar to recoS
nize the fact that 1.-TWO or more nouns
or nouns aud pronouns joined by and
must have verbs, nouns and pfonoun'
agreeing with them In the plural mum
ber.h
Now If the writer Is not mistaken, Mr.
Holloway attended that meeting at De
Funiak. II he did, he knows that Mr.
Sheats made no such remarks rs he 4
here charged with. He knows also tina
at that time report was sent from De
Funiak TO the Pensacola papers that Mr.
Sheats had made such a remark, bu
when the papers continuing the charg
reached DeFuniak, the State Teacher
Association, before which the state men
was reported to have been uttered
promptly and unanimously passed res
olution declaring the report to be falls
and utterly without. foundation. If Mi
Holloway was not present he Is, however
knowing to the facts above s,rtsd an
stands convicted of circulating repcr
injurious to his opponent, knowing ina
it is false. If that be honesty, the die
tionaries are surely at fault,
The writer of this wrote and introduced
the resolution above referred to, ant
knows whereof he is speaking.
Mr.. Allen has found three ggammatica
errors in the Sta,e Examination ques
tions in twelve years. Mr.. Sheats is l.
be congratulated. A man as busy as he
who, in preparing so many questions
slips only three times In his grammar
must be something Of prodigy or hav'
wondrous run Of luck ] am afr. :,
Mr. Allen has not searched closely. Ttre'
grammatical errors especially such 1t
tie ones--is poor catch for twelve years
fishing. Maybe Mr.. Allen would say
"ARE poor catch" Poor fellowl
Maybe Shakespeare was not writing
English when In Anthony and Cleopatra
he makes Cleopatra ask as Octsria a,
tall as mef or Asrippa ask Of Cesar,
"Who does he aecusel" Mr.. Allen has
studied A grammar, not grammar
Who is Mr.. Allen, anyway BY his
own confession he has not seen the State
Superintendent for twelve yeas, and
never saw him but once. Now Mr..
Sheats has attended every meeting Of the
State Teachers Association for over
twenty years; Mr.. Allen has therefore
attended only one in that time. Does he
belong to the progressive and wide awake
element, or to the die-backs In the pro.
fessionl Let his own statements place
him-and there let him lie-sone more
IL he wants 10.
Pair PLAY.