The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-02-22

The voters and patrons of the
public schools who put up and
elected A. C.. LeDuc and Rev. John
G.. Schaibly to the board of. educa-
ton would not so keenly resent be-
ing betrayed and double-crossed II
those two Christian gentlemen would
not pretend, up to the last minute,
to stand with their fellow Demo
Gratis and Commoners on the School
board and then, at the very last
minute, go over to the side with
the most financial and social pull.
Directors LeDuc and Schaibly
were put up and elected by the edu-
cational Democrats, the Commoners,
the men and women who furnish the
great majority of the children for
the public schools.
LeDuc betrayed his constituents in
February, 1918. In time, he began
to snuggle up to the Commoners on
the board of education. He again
admitted the correctness of the posi-
ton of the Commoners and pretend
ed to be with them to all intents
and purposes. When he again had
one of his famous brain storms and
again went over to the autocrats,
! very little real surprise was felt.
Rev. John G.. Schaibly was put up
and elected solely by the educational
Democrats and Commoners. His
candidacy was bitterly resented and
opposed by the Autocrats. His cleo
ton was a sad blow to them. Up
to the last day, almost, before Feb
ruary 7, the reverend gentleman pre-
tended to stand by his campaign
platform and his constituents. When
it came to a showdown, like Peter.
he not only denied bis masters, lie
people, but, like Judas Iscariot, he
betrayed them.
You demand proof, do you, gentle
reader? Then read what comes.
On Sunday, Feb. 2, at about $50
p. M, directors Firoved, Amundson,
LeDuc and Schaibly met in the study
of the latter at Grace M. E. church,
| Twenty-second Ave. w. and Third
st. The meeting was held to dis
| cuss the case of Supt. Kremer j.
Hoke.
The sense of the conference be-
tween directors Firoved, Amundson,
LeDuc and Schaibly was that Supt.
Hoke was not the proper man to
head the public schools. LeDuc sug-
! gested that the poor fellow be let
down easy; that he be elected for
another year; and that he be re-
quired to resign before the close OF
this school year.
Rev. Mr.. Schaibly stated that he
had talked Hoke's case with over
twenty principals and over fifty
teachers. Those who did not
frankly express their dissatisfaction
with the Hokian superintendent
and system, shrugged their Shout
ders in silence, plainly indicating
that they were not satisfied but did
not wish to commit themselves to
spoken words.
At that conference, Rev. John G..
Schaibly plainly expressed the opin-
ion that Supt. Hoke should be dis
missed because he was not making
proper Roadway or getting needed
results.
Both previously and at that con-
ference, director Schaibly told his
colleagues that when Prof. Coffman
was here to attend the opening ex-
ercises of the U. S. Grant school,
he frankly stated that Supt. Hoke
and the Duluth schools under his
supervision were the laughing stock
of state educators. The distin-
guished educator and head Of the
educational department of the State
University, declared that Supt Hoke
utterly failed to grasp the situation
in Duluth or to prove equal to its
requirements.
At the meeting in the pastoral
study, director LeDuc rather mys-
teriously intimated that he was form
;; ing a plot to be sprung year hence,
to the confusion and elimination of
the educational vine that clings to
Duluth's educational structure.
"Let them get off their guard and
| we will begin to plan right after
wards" remarked the Machiavelliah
LeDuc.
BY 'Cney IL was UNDERSTOOD tnat
LeDuc meant Supt. Hoke, the Auto
| Gratis of the school board and "Big
Influences" in the city.
-LeDuc pretended to sympathize
| with the educational Democrats, the
Commoners, the anti-Hokians, but
he expressed fears that they were
beaten. He thought that four mem
bers were not strong enough to
eliminate Supt. Hoke, although fonr
votes against the Doctor" with d.
rector Davis absent, would have
! ended the gentleman's connection
| with the schools.
"Can these four votes be depended
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