| Show contemptible PRACTICES the plan adopted by certain principals of the schools of this city alty to aid the election elect lom of their preferred candidates in the contest today is thea oatlie odith e heelers and toughs of the great bolties of the country ft is a plan that has been worked here before but to do jus jua itice to those who have practiced it here and elsewhere their operations have generally been confined to campaigns rather to school elections A fine picture ure truly those thoe who are in charge of the tuition an and d i early grul danoe of the rising generation gener atlon plunging into the political pool like so many swashbucklers rs obeying the behests behesta of a huge boss boas bind and actually in this busi ausmees mess out herod ing herod and it is adt the first time the sarnie e practice with perl perhaps caps a dlf ferent has been engaged in el either ither as la Is now partly shown by what is 19 slowly arising to the surface ot of af ba clairs flairs I 1 rs the whole matter to be plain without being criminal Is inexcusable to the very verge of criminality involving as it dices pleases of bolth extortion and a nd corruption an assess assessment of three dollars per capita was levied upon each of the teachers for the purpose of creating a fund to be used for promoting the election of certain talin candidates we are told one of those assessed had the manliness to mithat and the imposition and was threatened decapitation the suggestion being made that all who refused to stand in would afta under und er the displeasure of the ithe gang 1 it must have been an effective proceeding for the campaign seems to ao have been going to t o the art inep who conceived and nd ered ft i the news Is not as to the personnel of tho th soga 1 so long as they am ait d and aind honest which H 11 hag aul of the cund a aye ye it ly object however to such meana be ing employed to elecia any one as thing e referred to or any others as bad an ele election etton of the kind going on today should of all ail things he be free freiri even the suspicion of wrongdoing wrong doing and aind this one oine is Is not free from lit and the worst part of it is the unsavory work of those who of all men should keep their hands clean |
