Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-25
JOHN CoWNlE IN STATEMENT
SHOWS UP SUPERINTENDENT
OF GIRLS SCHOOL,.
SAYS WOMAN is UNTRUTHFUL
AND GUILTY OF cRUELTlES
cownie Declares Some of Her State
ments Are Deliberate FaIsehoods-
His undue Intimacy Was in Ex-
tending Sympathy to MotherIess
child-Judse Robinson Also Scored.

Special 10 Times Republican.
/ Des Moines, May 25.-J ohn Cownie
spares neither Miss Garrison nor
Judge Robinson in his treatment Of
the recent report given out by Gov
ernor Carroll trying to make a scape-
goat of the former chairman for the
troubles of the administration at the
Mitchelville school.
Miss Garrison is referred to as "a
viper warmed eager to strike down
the one whose only object and desire
was TO assist her OF Judge Robinson
it is declared that during the ten years
previous he had never evinced any
interest in the unfortunate girls
In reply to the industrial school
charges Mr. Cownie says:
In the report 10 the governor, by
the board of control of state institu-
lions relative to the recent outbreak al
the Industrial School for Girls at
Mitchellville. I am charged with being
the cause Of the trouble. and to sub
stantiate this accusation the most reck-
less statements utterly regardless Of
truth are made that l have hesitated
70 make reply. Even row, l doubt my
own judgment. in thus recognizing
such malicious and false charges. as
the so-called report contains instead
IF Ignoring them with the contempt
their character merits Heretofore /
have remained silent under gross mis-
representation in regard 10 my course
towards the government of the Indus
trial School for Girls al Mitchellville,
preferring 10 bear in silence The false
and malicious charges that have been
circulated against me rather than to
say one word in my own defense that
could be construed by the most evil
minded person as reelection on the
management Of the school.
Voted For Miss Garrison.
Il IS stated IN this report that ! was
opposed 10 the appointment of the
present superintendent. when, in fact
i; was on my motion she was APP
pointed, Mr. John T Hamilton voting
With me and Mr. G. :. Robinson voting
for woman residing in another state.
IN har Statement - the board Of
control. Miss Garrison asserted that
Was opposed 10 having woman as
superintendent. and urged her APP
pointment with the intention Of doing
everything possible to break down her
governm ent ruin the school, and then
boast that was right in my opposition
10 the appointment Of woman as
superintendent
Woman Is Untruthful.
at is not necessary for me to deny
such statement, but il shows the
character of the woman whom I so
unwiseIy urged for appointment, as
superintendent Of the school, for with
a mind 50 constituted that she could
coniure up such an unjust charge
against one whose every act in the
matter Of her appointment was honest
and sincere. what could be expected
but unjust and untruthful charges in
other matters.
ITO be elevated TO position as su-
perintendent Of state institution win
a salary of $500 per annum and an
vouchsafed to few. 20 make
for herself name as philan-
thropist was evidently not APP
preciated by this woman. and
like the viper warmed she is now
eager to strike down the one whose
only object and desire was to assist her
in making the school one of the best OF
its kind. and TO help the girls com
mitted to her care in getting an even
start in the world when they left the
school. with those more fortunate in
their birth and environment
Unqualified Faisehoods.
The charges that ! melted the girls
to riot and rebellion, that / condoned
their offense to disobedience Of orders
issued by Miss Garrison. that l criti-
cised the food furnished in the presence
of the girls of the school, that I accused
Miss Garrison OF being an impure wo-
man with an impure mind, that l told
the girls that she was mean and quar-
relsome and could not manage the in
stitution are unqualified falsehoods, the
of a disordered mind, that
has no regard for truth or veracity.
But it is said that spoke to the
girls of the riot of ten years ago, and
that l did not blame the girls for the
outbreak at that time but stated that
had l been a girl in the school at the
time I would have been ringleader.
The evidence taken after that out
break showed that the girls had been
com PEELED for the most trivial offense
to hold their skirts above their knees.
that they might be dashed over the
ankles, that in addition to being taunt- |
ed with their own shortcomings by the |
women in charge. the character of their |
mothers was made a subject of re-
proach, and with other cruelties both
by the lash and tongue that were in |
ficted on these defenseless girls, I re-
peat, mad / been q girl then il the |
school I would have resented these
brutal and innuman indignities and !.