Show AND SCHOOLS it the through its inana ger means by charging the democratic candidate for county dent anth partisanship that he is a democrat unreserved no one will digs the fact dispatch ins made no mention of MB partisanship what was said in a republican con bention can in no way ba accredited to this paper but since the democratic makeshift has been pleased to bring up the question wd may be pardoned for referring to a trait of mr WILSONS character char acler that has ions been observed with regrets by the gent lemans most intimate friends he is a most pronounced partisan so much so that his charity j for those of opposite views is very meagre he refrain from talking politics and from seeking to favor his political friends that his past administration is not fraught with acts of a partisan nature is due moro to the condition of affairs that have heretofore existed in the terri doiy than to mr WILSONS good judgment now if there is any one thing above another that should be avoided in conr schools in is politics the schoolroom should he kept from all such contests and a political fanatic ba he republican or democrat should never be granted the supervision of our public schools the citizen in trusted with so important a care should hold liberal views on all questions of political training oar public schools are not designed specially to make either republicans or democrats though wo will admit that good schools almost invariably burn out republicans but this fact comes from the superior position which republicanism occupies in the scale of reason and in tho history of our country more than from any special training ay the children of democrats as well as the children of of republicans are sent to conr public schools it would certainly be an injustice to specially bayor either po lotical doctrine regarding the characteristics of clarf we can speak from a nonpartisan non partisan standpoint and feel sure t hat tho public will accord with our sentiments ho is a gentleman of liberal ideas though p republican in conviction none can accuse him of being fanatical in his political faith it would make no difference to him whether a teacher were a republican or democrat enst so he found him proficient in his profession and right here it would not bo amiss to say that acor knows an able teacher when he meets with one his knowledge of normal training is in advance of that of any other person in the county he has made a special study of this branch of learning and all with whom he baa come in contact have not been slow to recognize this fact though not technical nor presumptions apor CLUFF carries conviction with him wherever he goes he is a natural educator aej disciplinarian |