The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-02-25
NECK SAYS THAT
C0RS0N IS BOSS
DAYTON SENATOR TEsTlFlEs AS
TO OHIO SCHOOL AFFAIRS.
THE INVESTIGATION HALTS.
Legislative Committee Of Probers Ad
journs its Sessions Until March 9,
After Hearing Testimony
From Eight Persons.

Columbus. o., Feb. 25.--The opinion
was expressed by witnesses who testi
fed Monday before the legislative
committee which is probing the
charges of Senator Neck against the
state school examiner and the school
commissioners office, that l.. ID. Bone.
brake. former state school commits.
sioner, has retired from the field OF
factional warfare for the control Of
Ohio public school affairs, leaving II
clear for o. r. Corson. According to
the testimony of Senator Meek, MIR.
Corson controls school affairs in most
Of the counties of the state.
After examining eight witnesses. the
committee adjourned to meet March g..
Senator Neck was closely ques.
toned by Judge Miner and M. A.
Dougherty, attorneys for the commit
tee, as to his reasons for raising the
grades of applicants for state school
certificates above what their papers
under him, as an examiner, entitled
them to.
The senator said II he had not given
applicants who got zero I'm some
studies under him 80 for grade, In
order to prevent their humiliation
their average would not have been so
high and therefore their passage
would not have been SO easy. He de
clared the committee could not under.
stand what tremendous pressure was
brought to bear on him by the other
members of the board.
Senator Neck said that when Super.
intendent Dyer, of Cincinnati, was
candidate for the presidency of the
State Teachers association he had
been promised the support of the Cor.
son faction if he would permit the
members to name the nominating
committee, which. he said, controls
the election of the officers of the as
sociation.
AS to how he knew this Senator
Neck said he had been told so by Su-
perintendent Carr, of Dayton. He said
that this year Dyer's friends had tried
again to get him in but failed and Su-
perintendent Shawan, of Columbus.
had been elected.
He said the faction was even getting
control of the Central Ohio Teachers
association. before which he made his
charges in the first place. He said
that twice, once when he should have
by rules of succession been made
chairman of the executive committee
and again when he was In line for pro.
motion to the presidency of the asso-
citation, he had been fought by the fac.
ton. He declared Dean Minnick, of
the Oxford State Normal school, and |
Superintendent Carr. of Dayton. had |
told him their influence against him
had been solicited by Corson.
He said, "There is no doubt that
every man appointed by Commissioner I
Jones so far has been a Corson man." |
Z He charged that J. S. Roland, an |
agent of the American Book Co., and |
others had accomplished the defeat of
l.. ID. Bonebrake for the presidency of
the State association.
Z He said that when Prof. G. C. Nal. !,
Ter. now of Lima, failed to get the su-
of the Toledo schools |
he had said to him in explanation, !
''the ring cut me to pieces"
In contradiction of the claims of |
Prof. w. w. Boyd that he had done no
political work since the Jones cam
paign, he said that Prof. Zeller, of |
Findlay, in letter to him had spoken
Of Boyd being in Stark county and |
talking nothing but school commission
ership. Also that Boyd had been to-
see him at Dayton to urge the candi- |
dacy OF r.. b. Cox, of Xenia. He
charged that the state board had so
conducted examinations that they
might as well have been decided be- !
fore the papers were graded.