The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1870-10-13
pEMocRATIo TYRANNYi
THE WAR ON FREE SCHOOLS
OObIsiENOEDI!l
POOR MAN, REAII!
DEMOCRACY EXPOSED!

> ~ 80
ling document will explain itself. Unhi
Ire 6rst Of September lasf tie Trustees0f
School District No. 8. in Lewis Township
consisted of two Republicans and one
Democrat. A short time1before the first
tog September they contracted with Mr.
Joseph Loguc, n young 'nahOf good moral
gcbaractor Of exemplary habits, and well
qualified for the purpose, to teach The dis
tict school for tho full term Of SIX months
He opened his school on,t tile 9th ,cf Sep
Ftcmbcr, and continued to teach until the
5tb Of October. 10 tho meantime ono Of
the Republican Trustees retired from the
board andra Democrat, Thomas A. Lemas.
Ter, was appointed in bis place. BY this
change the now hoard was composed Of
two Democrats, and but one Republican;
and on tho morning oflbc 9Th Of October,
this newly appointed trustee, byVhat al-
! tlority is not certainly known, it appears,
forcibly entered and took posscssisrof the
sOhool.hopse, declaring, that. Mr., Lcguc
should no longer teach in it. Nocpuse was
assigned for his unlawful act. The dis
lricti snow without school and without
any prospect ofono, unlo,s the Board of
Education, as it is their duty to do, will
cause tho possession of,hd sehool-house to
DO restored.
Those who know The trustee referred to,
feel assured, that he has not acted cxclu-
siycly on bis own responsibility, but that
he acted in the matter as the supple tool Of
bogus member Of tho Board of Educa-
ton, who is now stumpiug the State as a
newly converted Democrat, for high
State Office, sndassumes the dictatorship
of the Board. We have called him bogus
member, because he is not eligible to tie
Office, but office, however insignificant,
has its charms for a political dcmagoguc.
To him little brief authority is sweet.
THIS is but a foretaste Of the designs of
the Democracy in regard to our free
schools. AS 10 party they have always BIT
tetly opposed thom; and now, there is not
| a single Democratic candidate, stumping
| the State for Office, who dares to proclaim
an unqualified approval Of our free school
system. Itwoun be,trcason,tc his party,
I For free schools and Democracy are an
tagonists. One or the other must 60.
down, Both cannot live and prosper in
the same community. AS the Doctors
would say, they are "incOmpatiIlcs. :
The one lifting up-elevating the human
race, and the other pulling it down. In
this county, for instance, who arc the
leading and influential men in the Demo-
cratic ranks? Reader, pause aud reflect
before you answer this and the following
questions. Is not every man of grca
lccala, in tho county, either Deniocra
or a Conservative? And is no not al
! ayowcd enemy to the free school law? d.
you know among that powerful and inau
entail class a solitary exceptiOn2 Be hon
est, don't dectivc,5ourseF. Answer can
didly, after q careful observation. if ther
is one man of great ,redlh in the county
who is not Democrat, and also, who
not an enemy to the education and eleva
lion Of the masses Of the people?
What has been done in the second dis
trict, will DO repeated whenever, an
wherever Democratic sysophants can b
found to accomplish the object.
We have reason to hope however, Tho
in this instance, the Board Of Educatio
. will respond favorsbly to the memorial {
+ the district, which you are requested
Q read and make your own comments on il
P. S. Since writing the above, the hop
) expressed therein has proved delusive.-
n The members of the Board Of Education
: being all Democrats, have declined to in
d terfere, and therefore, the second district is
9 and will remain without a school indcf
s nately, to crafty the. spleen of the Dem
: ocratiC Trustees.
Q To those who have children to educate
: this is a matter of grave Importance.
d The memorials in the following words
n To James CapelQrt, Charles g. Miller an
John H. Phnlps, School Commissioner
of Letpis Tolonship, Mason COUNT
. Vest Virginia;
: This will inform you, that the Trustee
n.,k.sak -