Show THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS The school election being over it is directly in order to state a few truths which immediately concern the future of those schools It is proper in advance ad-vance to state that the dearest thing to all real Americans Is the public school system No church claims an affection command a so general i no party can love so absorbing thing upon which the It is the one freedom of the State leans more than upon all else Henco the schools should be the absolutely ab-solutely unselfish concernment of every good citizen It is needless to state ablest and that only the very best and most energetic citizens should ever be named as members of the school board that any man who accepts It Is right to say cepts that trust and does not make a special effort to fulfill the duties of the position dishonors himself and perpe the community trates a grievous wrong upon munity The election Is over and the schools are yet safe If the men In control will perform their duty and no one has a right to assume that they will not they can greatly advance the schools in the coming year But they will have to work they will have to watch the schools and consult with the teachers and when If ever they become satisfied satis-fied that any thing Is lacking In the conduct of the schools or In the attributes at-tributes of teachers they must have the firmness and courage to enforce a N change Right here as a guard forthe future it should be 1 repeated that the election of a school board ought to be nonpartisan nonpar-tisan But to make this effective the claim must he in gopd faith and must be carried out in good faith It has not boon so heretofore The rule with the Democracy has been in Democratic Wards to elect two Democrats In Republican Re-publican wards for Democrats to claim half the candidates to make it nonpartisan non-partisan and thus to secure a nonpartisan non-partisan board which shall always have a strong Democratic majority The old and the new hoard l was and Is Democratic Demo-cratic The former stood seven Democrats Demo-crats to three < Republicans the present stands six Democrats to four Republicans Republi-cans This has done no harm up to date Some Incompetent men have been I elected but they as a rule have handled I han-dled tho trust in no offensive partisan way wayWe refer to the matter to claim in advance that eheraftcr a real nonpartisan non-partisan spirit shall rule for the chief est essential of a public school system is the putting aside of nIl partisan or religious domination For the masses the schools arc the most sacred public institution in our land and they must be as untrammeled in management1as they are free and as they are all embracing in their blessings |