Show SPOILS IN THE SCHOOLS TT JT IS BETTER to be the 1 w of a member of the board of when you are seeking a place at Ut the te of the board than to be personally At itt for or the position to which aspire This is l the doctrine laid down by a ax majority x of the board at a meeting I fid Tuesday night when without a cf of warning and as cc a remit of a ajob ajob job put m lm Ia a secret eret caucus J B who bac Ms been clerk cerk of the board for acre m than thirteen yare was discharged to make room for forthe forthe the of Byron Gumming one of the members front from the First ward The Tho only theory by which the j action can be accounted for fr lies flee in the tact fact that I R TX Judd the beneficiary of tot kI outrage that the people wilt will bej be and rebuke at their earliest ia b the of Ou li linings Only one member of the board borl Mr who OK a has been stated h connected with the family of M Mudd Jodd udd by marriage apparently ha has any Accurate knowledge of hIn We except Mr N Neiden W n who knew Judd in a tartness way anti and who voted against hint him for the clerkship My business relations with Judd have me that he is no more fit for position then than I am m and andT 1 am ant not Mid Mr M Nelden in h ble ot Mr Giauque who was one of oL Judda n porters acknowledged that he had known knon the new clerk personally for a f few vr da days It is inconceivable in so short a period even a man f Mr superior order of in intelligence n could ascertain positively that Judd is a lit fit person to be clerk of the th of education Mr Newman is in another member of the board voted for Judd and Mr Newman de e to answer Mr question as to how long h had bad known him Surely if Mi r Newman had bad able te to tet t iivo ve sound reasons for his faith in Judd he would not 1 e such a favorable opportunity The Herald has no xo interest ia hay hav having ing kg Mr Moreton the discharged clerk He tain his position other than the In Interest interEst terest alt all of us should have in securing ni nl in keeping competent public sill isis That Mr Moreton I Is hornet and and competent not one of the hoard board members who voted against him hka will deny If he had hazl not all 11 of ef these he could hardly have hae held the clerkship for a period DO i ring more than thirteen years In Indeed Indeed deed no charge of any kind has been preferred against him bun although the Judd men mc to make charges The conclusion that Own Cum Cummin min gs has deliberately used his official to further the interests of a relative 10 Is irresistible If Judd had not been he would no more have been bec considered in connection with the clerkship than the Maharajah of We cannot regard the action of other her than as a betrayal of the Deposed in Iii him by his constituent And the members member who joined MInt him in grafting the spoils system upon th I oo are equally guilty |