To an additional charge of our con
t temporary's that we have displayed an
y interest in the opening of the town
e schools and advocated the payment of
good salaries in order that the services
it of competent teachers might be pro
it cured, we plead guilty, and ask that
judgment be passed upon us for this
d offence by the citizens of Donaldson
ville whose children attend these
.s schools. But we most emphatically
deny the insinuation that we proposed or
the appointment of either of the teach- d
ers employed, or that we had any cc
knowledge of one of the positions be- ti
ing promised to any other person than
the lady now holding it. This insin
uation reflects only upon the Presi
- dent of the Parish School Board, and
does not concern us in the least. c
In this spiteful discharge of bile in ti
s regard to school matters we recognize u
the work of the real-not the nomi- f,
nal-editor of the Leader, though it ti
was only very recently we discovered a
that we had unintentionally incurred d
his ill-will in this direction. IIow- j,
e ever, our only public controversy is t
with the journal, and we shall not
enter upon a subject concerning only t
the personal affairs of its hired editor. c
If that individual has the bad taste
to air his private spleen through the
columns of a newspaper, and then,
too, under a cloak of irresponsibility,
we we shall certainly accord him the
n pleasure, if it is one, well knowing the I
littleness of the action will be its own
f condemnation in the eyes of the public.
