Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-05
THE SCHOOL ELECTION.
CHARGES AGAINST A CANDIDATE
AND HIS REPLY,
Cards from DIR. j. r. Laine and
Garlic and Croly-Denials
and Explanations.

Charges having been made through
communications in the evening journal
against DR.. Lame, Republican nominee for
Superintendent of City Schools, the follow
ing cards have been submitted in reply
The card of DR.. Lame embodies the
charges made and renders any further
statement of them unnecessary. In the
interest of common justice and public
information, the RECORD UNION Yields
space for the two cards:
CARD FROM Dr.. LAME.
SACRAMENTO, December 4, 1885
EDS. REcoRD-UNIoN am compelled by
cards in this evenings Bee to ask the privi-
lege of replying in print, though as rule
l deprecate responses to anonymous assail-
ants as a method of defending character
shall ask the favor of reply also in your
contemporary. l find that l am charged :
Firstly anonymous correspondents
with having demanded $500 of Garlic &
Croiy for assisting in procuring a contract
for them, for the construction of the school
building at Tenth and P streets. And it is
stated that Directors E. X. Alsip and Frank
Avery say that Silas earle so told them.
Second-That l receive salary of s.. 700,
and 500 per annum for pay of porter
Third-That l presented bill for such
porter's or janitor's services for three
years and that the same is illegal.
In response to these anonymous commu-
nications, say in brief, never demanded
$500 or any other sum of Mr.. earle. or the
firm of Garlic & Croly. or of any one else,
for any purpose whatsoever. and thatneither
Mr.. Garlic, nor the firm of Garlic & Crolv,
nor any one else, ever offered me any sum
of money or thing of value for my infiu-
ence with the Board, or for any other pur-
| pose whatsoever. Furthermore, that as
Superintendent of Schools | have had no
| vote in the Board and no voice in the de-
| alterations of the Building and Repairs
Committee, composed of Directors E. X.
| Alsip and Frank Avery.
So far as my salary is concerned, il is
| fixed by law, and has been draw regularly
by my predecessors, both Republican and
Democratic, and will be accepted, doubt
not by my successors. The Superintendent
is paid 1925 per month, $50 of which be-
longs to the Truant Officer, and S25 OF
which is for office rent. In addition to
this, s. per month was allowed Rev. Mr.
Hill. Add. C. Hinkson and S. C. benson
| for cleaning their offices, and the records OF
| the Office show it. | discovered this after
time, and presented my bill to the Board
| for the same, reinforced by statement in
writing from Add. c. Hinkson and Judge
| S. G. benson, ex-Superintendents, that they
| had received the same during their entire
terms. Only one Director at first voted
against paying the bill, and he has every
month since voted in favor of paying it
My successor be he Republican or Demo.
crat, will receive the same. This brings the
value of the office to about $50 per month
| SO far, the office has been actually worth
| only 81 800 per year to me, and no more.
| have given the affairs of the department all
my time, and in every instance have sub,
! ordinated my personal affairs to the inter
ests of the schools, whenever such interests
| appeared in the slightest TO conflict. Should
be reelected, will do as well as | have
| done in the past, and protect, to the utmost
| of my ability, the interests of the schools
| the teachers, the pupils and the public con-
cerned, and at the same time defend myself
| from cowardly aspersion. With reference
to what Directors Aisip and Avery are re-
| ported to have said they were told by
/ Mr.. earle, | cannot conceive how il
was possible for Mr.. earle to have
ever said anything of the kind
| Assuming that Messrs. Alsip and Avery are
correctly quoted, might indulge in state.
ments regarding those gentlemen and the
pIODdDlc lllOllNeS ludl Incm
which might involve them in explanations
and raise issues of veracity. But | have
no disposition to do this. Conscious of my
own rectitude, do not propose to assail
| those not now before the people as candi.
| dates for public favor. If there were any
| possible ground or reason for the charges
| said to have been made against me- it will
| suggest itself to those who believe in fail
dealing, that the matter should have been
made public long ago, and have been
brought to the attention of the Grand Jury
| the Board of Education, OF
| other authority. | do not believe
| that the people will consent to Judge char.
| acter, maintained through long years Of
good citizenship, on eleventh hour election
| charges; | have greater confidence in the
justice of men. In conclusion, can only
reiterate as emphatically as language en-
ables me, my denial in toto of the charges
of wrong-doing, and to say that my past
| conduct must be the guarantee for my
future action. J. r. LANE.
CARD FROM earle & CRoLY.
EDS. RECORD MON: Having read the
cards and editorial in last evenings Bee re-
fiecting on Dr. j. R. Lame, and calculated
to injure him in his candidacy for City
Superintendent of Schools, we desire in
justice to ourselves to state, that so far as
the name of the firm of earle & Croly OF
myself personally, is concerned, the cards
and statement and reports are without
foundation in fact. No money has been
demanded of the firm by DR.. ]. K. Lame
or any other person, nor have we ever of
fered him or any other person money for
such purposes. earle & CRoLY,
By S. earle.
Sacramento, December 4, 1885.
MAGAZINES.