| Show BARKIS IS WILLIN ila having vi ng been informed that mr air joseph E wil wilson son of this city had been named for the position of county superintendent of se school bools in an irre irregular ular it manner and without his consent after sir apperley Apper lcy had refused to run THE JOURNAL as asked ked him tile the following questions 1 do you oil desire to be elected superintendent erin of schools 2 are you a school man I 1 3 if elected till ill you present nt and devote your time to t ane ile du duties es of superintendent 4 jiow how long is it since you ni ere cra in a se school honl 5 la Is it your intention at your time of lite life to become an all educator you ol 01 one e it to the pu public mr aileon to newer these questions at once we esteem you as a friend and citizen but nie ne desire to know whether you approved appi oved and desired the use that lias has been made of your name by the republican committee attee the 0 gentleman replied and his answer is here given to the public EDITOR JOURNAL I 1 see ece it in i your last issue my name has been i given i ven considerable prominence owing to its position on the county republican ticket you ask me to answer certain questions cunningly devised with the apparent object of forcing me to open combat it at unequal advantage with editorial acumen or by my silence to a acknowledge c a supposed weakness in in my position with a result in either case to my injury at the polls that other pens liens than minnif mine if necessary shall speak of my iny qualifications for the office of county superintendent of schools to which I 1 have been properly nominated if not done in convention I 1 will but briefly reply the first three questions I 1 can answer in the affirmative As to the fourth I 1 have not been an infrequent quent visitor it at our schools and might have been seen in two of the leading schools but a few days a ago 0 As to the fifth the be beginning 0 annin ad of my career as a teacher or educator if you please should be spoken of in the past terise I 1 beg began tea teaching ebing at eighteen years of age 1 in in salt lale lake county count having 0 received a first class certificate over the signature of dr J H R park I 1 attended two summer institutes for teachers at salt lake city and have since been tau taught a ht in that cit city y and in this valley my last certificate taken out in this county is open to inspection even my r respected opponent on the democratic ticket I 1 believe would not be ashamed of it t the immediate cause of my leaving caving the school room was the al lure ments of a newspaper life but my iny interest in education has never waned and I 1 do not expect it shall hall until I 1 become older than you seem to tb think ink I 1 am i in n re fering ng to in my v time of life isyou if aou have been de deceived in in my age affe za on account of the mane as 0 de whiskers ekers has named it I 1 I 1 suppose you would have retired at least one county official from office long r ago ago 0 as superannuated duty to my daiy family alone its has prevented mo me from contin continuing clug studies in tho alio cast arid and again entering the field of education the hope of which has not yet died out oven even at my present time of time of nothing as an occupation that would give giro me more pleasure than to devote my best energies to forward the cause of education in this county should the voters s see ee fit to elect we mo to tho the office of supt bupt of C chooks but why so EO much odds about so EO trilling 0 a a matter surely tim THE JOURNAL ca can n not fear that I 1 w will ill be elected while I 1 never dever in my life sought after after public office when my name is is proposed on a winning ticket for an office to io congenial to my feelings 1 I 1 am just about the right ap age 0 to know enough to accept with this much said I 1 will trust the rest to election day very nery truly yours J E WILSON no it is of no importance mr wilson but inasmuch as you are not engaged in school work and have not been for meyeral years we had bad a right to question your qualifications for the place As iou answer casts a personal per ronal n eflee t tion ion upon a county official vie me will not dot comment comi cont further ns as we ae will not lie be drawn into any personal in this campaign |
