Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1875-09-17
TIE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC n

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srKuc11oN.-Mr.G Quinn, the Independ.
ent nominee for Superintendent of Pub.
lie instruction, has withdrawn, and Pro-
fessor Carr is now the sole opponent Of
Mr. Fitzgerald. Aside from any pOliti-
cal considerations. there is every good
reason why Professor Carr should be
preferred for this important Office. His
lifelong interest in and devotion to the
cause Of public education. and the many
responsible educational positions which
he has honorably and usefully filed,
would commend him to preference over
one whose indentifcation with public
educational interests has been very slight
indeed, and whose former incumbency
of the position for a single term failed
to show that he had any special fitness
for it, if it did not fully prove his unfit
ness. Besides, q denominational clergy
man should not be accepted for this po-
men can be had, to whom no denomina-
Professor Carr, through his labors In the
University, and in the Grange Associa-
tons, and Agricultural Societies, has
become favorably and personally known
probably. than any man that the people
have before had an opportunity of vot.
ing for; and We believe that on the third
Wednesday of next month they will elect
him to the Office they know he is so well
qualified to fill acceptably and usefully,
-MGrtinez (Cdl. tfa-etts. Sept. IL.
If the Protestants of California will
hold together and work in unison. they
can elect Carr. He ought to be elected,
certainly, for he represents the unsecta-
ran side of the public school question
the side which must be sustained, clearly
and fully if Professionals would have
any consistent grounds upon which to
stand in resisting the encroachments of
the Roman Catholic enemies OF our
school system. The advocacy of an I'M
sec:arian management Of our public
schools must be genuine, as far as prac-
ticable, or We lose the vital elemen: OF
consistency from which to start. With
this view of the case before them, the
Californians who are anxious to keep the
schools of that State out of the injuri-
Gus hands of any sect should vote, as
with one voice against Mr.. Fitzgerald;
and to maintain their side of the fight it |
will be quite natural and logical thing
to do il the Catholics support him-as
they doubtless will,-Nethodist (south)
though he is. To be consistent, We
must oppose the election OF the repre-
sentative of any sec. to the management
of our school system. The pretext for
their demand OF . share OF the school
is furnished to the Catholics by
the choosing of representative Protest
ants as superintendent and teachers
And while We thus enlarge upon the
principles involved in this California
election, We are aware that the Republi-
can party in Nevada has not pursued a
policy calculated to fortify this unsecta-
rian position. Our first superintendent
was Presbyterian clergyman, the next
elected fer eight years. was Methodist
and the present incumbent is
m Episcopal minister. If the fashion
thus begun is to be followed. and we are
going to be just and fair, all round, the
lime when Catholic priest is entitled
% his turn cannot be long deferred. For
/ won't do to say that we are maintain
ng Protestant school system. That
would justify the-Catholics in trying to ,
lestroy our public schools. We must
.ither exclude all sects and all religious
Influences from our schools. or deal !
airly and equitably with all religious I
1t is to be hoped that t
n the Republican conventions Of next
rear resolutions will be adopted taking
and unequivocal grounds
'gainst the linking of the school ques-
ion with religion in any shape-Prot- +
slant. Catholic, Mohammedan or Nor a
non, thus basing our rule of action
Ipon the strong and impartial ground Of =
especially to the Catho- T