The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-15

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 same, you will do us the justice to use this letter in connection with yours.
 Tn the first place you say: You first showed me petition which had been presented to Hon. W. c. Crump- ton asking for his resignation This Is not the fact You must remember that we offered to show 1t to you. and you said that Mir Crumpton had shown you duplicate and it was not neces- sary for you to see the original.
 The Big Stick that you speak of is as follows. to wit:
 Evergreen, Ala, May g, 1908. " To W. W. Hall President of the State
 Agricultural School at Evergreen.
 Ala:
 We. the undersigned citizens and patrons who are interested in the Ag- ricultural School at Evergreen, Ala, do most respectfully ask that you resign your position in said school. and assign the following reasons. viz.: It Is ap- parent that your policy is, and has been to carry out the wishes of W. c. Crumpton, the local member of the Board of Control. who has been using the school through you for selfish mo- tives. and who has been petitioned to resign his position as member of said
 
 rops. but who stoutly refuses without giving any reason for his refusal.
 It Is apparent that the school is not what 1t should be and much dis satisfaction is the result. Something should be done to save our school which was the pride of it's patrons and friends. before YOU and MIR. CRUMP- TON assumed to run 1t to suit YOUR SELVES regardless of the wishes of its patrons and friends. It appears that your resignation and that of MIR. CRUMPTON Is the only method of saw ing our school from DESTRUCTION.
 Respectfully submitted
 We feel confident in saying that at least two-thirds of the patrons and friends of the school stand ready to sign this petition.
 When circulating the petition asking for Mir. crumpton's resignation, many of the signers of the same wanted your name in the place of MT. Crump- tons: others refused to sign it because the petition was not directed to you.
 "In your letter above referred to you say. The reason Mir. Crumpton has made such an excellent member of the Board of Control is in a great part due to the fact that he has instructed me to carry out my own plans and policies and then has had the manhood to sup port me in their execution This is exactly what we complain of. We think that you sh ould nave gotten your instructions from the entire Board, and not from MT. Crumpton alone. We stated to you our griev- ances and asked that you correct them. This you refused to do. Then we went to Mir. Crumpton and asked for relief. and he stoutly refused to grant the same. His reply was that he would stand by you. There seems to be an understanding between MT. Crumpton and yourself. You stand by me and will stand by you, and we will run the school to suit ourselves. The patrons do not like this and have decided that they will no longer be dominated over by two young men who are scarcely acclimated and have no children to send to school.
 Since receiving your letter we have received a letter from Hon. W. C. would meet some time in the future, about two weeks hence. and we could carry our grievances before said Board, thus granting us what we asked for in the beginning, as evidenced by letter directed to you March 31, last A copy of this letter was presented to W: c. Crumpton. and he now offers to do what we asked him to do then.
 I've are proud of this opportunity of appearing before the Board and vim dicating ourselves. and those we repre- sent, and we are very thankful that the scales have fallen from Mir. Crumpton's eyes and that he is now willing to do that which he once refused.
 Tn your letter which Is the subject of this reply you say: You are will ing to accord me fair play and that you would allow me to resign without permitting the public to know of the facts in the case" intimating that we are afraid for the facts to be made public. Now we invite you to be pres ent at the meeting of the Board. wh en this matter is presented, with all the facts and documentary evidence at your command, including this letter, and we will show you that we are not afraid of the facts. for that is just what we have been basing our conten- tions on. Respectfully submitted. (Signed-) I. F. Goodson.
 P. c. Walker,
 s. P. Dunn.