Daily Republican., 1882-09-15
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10. 1852.
n.moorasv and MIxed SCHOOLS.

As indicated By the most nnprinci'
Fled organ of the Democrats of this
city, "mixed schools is to be one OF
the chief topics of discussion during
the present campaign, the charge being
that Mr.. Conrad advocated mixed
schools in his speech on Tuesday even
ing at the Republican ratification meet
ing. Those who heard Mr.. Conrad
know very we'll that he made no allu-
sion whatever to the coeducation of the
races and nothing except by an imagi-
mary and severe misConstruction of his
speech can be tortured into anything
that approached an argument in favor
of it, His speech was a manly arraign-
ment OF the Democratic party for neg.
lectiug and absolutely refusing to do
anythin & whatever for the education of
the colored children of the State. This
he declared to be an outrage and an in
telIigent and unpreiudiced people will
truthfulIy re-echo that sentiment. 1t
was the only desire of Mr.. Conrad, and
the only desire OF the Republican party
"a expressed in their platform that all
the children should be educated, and
though the Democratic party did not in
o State Convention held later
put that plank in their platform, in
their call for their ratification meeting
to be held this evening is the significant
lines: "Schools for all, the freest and
the best will be the motto" The young
Democrats who are engineering the
concern Ger ainly did not consult such
old heads as Col. Whiteley, George
Gray and Charles B. Lore, or they
would not have been guilty of such an
Inconsistency as to assert principle |
in call for a public meeting antago. |
mistic to the principles of the party. |
'tSchOols for all" That is good for the
Democracy, but do they mean it ? If
they do they have been long time
making up their minds in favor of it. |
Can it be possible that after Deing in
power thirty years they have only |
within the present week come to the |
conclusion that all the children Of the
State should be educated? Sudden con-
versions are as good as any, but they
seldom wear well. We are very much
inclined to think that the call for the
Democratic ratification meeting was in
the hands of the young and progressive
Democracy who really spoke out their
true sentiments in the call and de-
clared for schools for all, the freest
and the best" What! The freest and
the best? This must mean free for all as
much as schools for all" This is a
rapid advance on the past. Up to the
present time the Democratic party has
provided no schools whatever for the
cOlored children, but now, all at once,
If their call is honest they aresuddenly
CDuNcIOcu, d III uCbll0 W udFo Iuo very
best schools and the " freest" which
surely must mean free for white and
black. What else can 1t mean? II
only for white children why did the
call not say so? But there is no use in
further Criticising the call which is
more in favor of mixed schools than
anything Mr.. Conrad said at the Re-
pu blican ratification meeting. Mr.,
Conrad declared in favor Of the educa.
tion of all the children Of the Stata
alike. He did not say in tie same school
houses, and did not mean in The same
school houses and the papers that are
trying to make the people believe some.
thing different are wilfully deCeiving
them. Mr.. Conrad was sincere and he
but reached the sentiment of the Re-
publican party when he declared that
equal facilities should be provided for
the education of all the children of the
StaLe. The Democrats are insinCere
when they declare in favor of SCHOOLS
for all, the lreest and the best" They
do not mean to provide anything
of the kind. The past record of the par
BY shows that it has all along until
within a few years been inimical even
10 white schools. However as the
Den Ocrats have promised to elucidate
this chOol question this evening, we
w iii wait and hear what they have to
say.