The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-04-08
WILHELM AGAIN.

lard names; you call me "your dear
Wilhelm. which would I've much NOR
ignificant, aud certainly more acceptable
/ II came from n handsome young lady
MT coming, as 1t is supposed to do, from
'ou. NJ. Editor. IL Is In one sense of the
word. at least, comparatively meaningless.
But yet you do me great wrong you
.new very well that the "notc" nc.
my communication was
moi intended for publication. and
in publishing it you are certainly
guilty of a breach of trust for
which an apology would I've acceptable.
did not mean to call the election a
city election; meant to speak oft merely
so far as it concerned the city-to call the
,of the directors TO the will
of many influential citizens. as expressed
at the polls. and TO humbly beg them to
be more merciful to the already indignant
tax payers. That's all. Mr.. Editor.
think can dispense with the services of
Prof. Alyord In this instance.
had no idea of being called upon to
explain that T.. -. but a. II seems TO
trouble your massive brain considerably,
I shall attempt TO give you a satisfactory
key to the conundrum. Perhaps you
don't know tlsit 1t j. customary among
editors to always demand the name Of n
correspondent: more especially when his
communication touches other per-
sons, but il YOU could DC induced
| 10 learn of Col. -. l.. Davis OF the Sun,
the embodiment ot theatrical and base
ball news a. Inc i. called by some. yon
| might he taught that ''in order to Keep
ont of trouble a. an editor YOU must
make il a rule meyer 10 publish word
be it ever 20 insignificant, without first
having obtained the writer's name. ]
did not withhold my name because ]
lacked the "noral courage TO grnmblc
before some peoples faces have said
or Intentionally in.inuatcd nothing that
is not true or well known by some. and
by which ! am not willing TO stand
against any opposition.
BY my dissertation upon the political
corruption of to-day, iacant exactly
what ,;id-notiing more nor lcs. than
that elections nowadays were always
attended with clcctionecring which.
being almost without exception carried
10 far Nv 10 he IN many instances
. violation OF the laws governing olce-
ions, is only a milder term for votc-pur-
'hasing. This being true. and not be-
ieving that our elections are an cNcep-
ion to the general rule, ! conclude that
he majority OF really honest votcrsis
iard to get at. did not charge bribery
upon any one OF the candidates; have
too high AN opinion OF all of them for
that. You say that Mcssrs. Stafford and
StrattOn are not politicians, q did not say
the. wcre) and that they are a honest
and as careful OF the poll. as Mcssrs.
harrcll and Metcalf.' did not say that
they were not. believe TO the contrary.
that they are most estimable gentlemen
both of them. and SO tar as their charac-
ter is concerned. nothing can be said
against them. They are honest, straight
energetic undergraduates OF
size and perfect symmetry OF form. good
looking men-a most excellent team. tor
what the one lacks the other can supply.
You wish to know Of ''what ] COM
plain Strange indeed, II seems 10 me
that after having attempted TO answer
nv complaints you ought TO know what
they are. Yet il seems you do not, and
| win therefore repeat that ! object: first,
TO paying nearly five thousand dollar per
znnum for the teachers Of one room III
the high school.
secondly: object TO teaching higher
branches than are necessary 10 a COIN
mon school education"
Thirdly I object to the change Of text
books oitener than once in every four
years, rs provided by law.
Filth object to paying large salary
to teacher OF photography. a s'ndy
which ten out Of every one hundred
scholars DO not learn and which i. con-
trary 10 law.
These are some OF my objections and
the existence OF these wrongs was urged
against the former board Of directors U
which Mr.. Stafford wa- a member.
II. however, any OF these objection
should prove groundless-if ii should b
shown that any Of the above mentioneI
wrongs do not now exist there. indee
would the cy Of the board meet
ings and transactions appear slmOi
: criminal, and 1t Is 10 the interest Of n
: present board to publish the facts for
was very generally believed at the poll
and II i believed to-day that every OF
Of the above objection were and are We
n founded.
You expires, hope that the prc.c
board of directors will he more ccouol
~ ical. ! do not know Mr. Slrattol
Is opinions, but If lac believes
ef Mr. Saflorl does, and IL that gentlcm
a' has not changed his opinions since I
b election, it is not at all probable that
L. will know amy more OF the doings Of ,
I'D board in the future than Nc did in I
" past, or that one cent OF school tax y
er DC lifted from the shoulders of the y
M pie. WILHELM
be - ---
ne IDIG OENIENNIAL
~ The principal Of the exhibition bti
W tugs is now practically finished, the ol
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