St. Paul daily globe., 1892-12-27
TO INDORSE KIEHLE.
The Teachers Of the State
Will Be Asked to Do
This.
One Of the Wires Now Being
Pulled by His
Friends.
Normal School and Univer-
sity influences Behind
the Superintendent.
Campaign for Speaker to
Open in Dead Earnest
Ao This Morning.

During the next few days st. Paul
will be the scene of more political
scheming and wire-pulling than has
taken place since the senatorial cam
paign in which Senator w. ID. Wash
burn triumphed over Hon. ID. Nj. Sabin.
The contest for the Office of speaker of
the lower house of the state legislature
will warm up gradually until the end of
the week, when it may reasonably be
expected to reach almost a white heat
The candidates for minor places in the
two branches of the law-making power
will also be working with all the ardor
and vigOr possible, and. in short, there
will be no end of fine work and careful
figuring among the boys who do not OBJ
ject to the titles of worker" and
practical politician"
But the warmest and hardest and
most unprincipled Wire-pulling viii not
be done by the so-called practical poll
tcians," and the lobby of the Mer-
chants will not be the scene of the OPP
erations of the men who will do the
hardest work. AS is well known, the
present superintendent fpublic lnstruc-
ton in this state. Rev. David l.. Kiehle,
after having held the office for IL years,
is again candidate for reappontment.
He has vigorous and strong opposition,
and were he to assume the dignihed
position expected of man holding such
a position there would be no possible
doubt of his failure TO secure another
lease of power.
But Supt. Kiehle is as clever pOiti-
clan and wire-puller as will be found at
the Merchants during the present week,
and he is not neglecting any move that
will aid him in securing the favor of
Goy.-elect Knute Nelson. Ever since
the election he has been away from his
Office pleading with the politicians who
are supposed to have pulp with Mr..
Nelson. This work he has reason to be-
lieve will not save him. and he is now
about to have his principal log-r0ller
execute the supreme move OF the cam
paign, which, by the way. he anticipates
will insure him the appointment he so
much desires.
School teachers and educators of all
classes ana grades, are, as rule, not
politicians, and prefer not to be mixed
up In any unpleasant contests. Their
tastes do not run that way and their in
terests do not demand anything of the
kind. Today upwards of 500 of the
leading educators OF the state will meet
the state teachers ASSOCIATION. Their
professional, and such they always
have been in the past. But
this annual meeting is to be turned into
a new channel. with the design on the
part OF Supt. Kiehle and his managers
for managers he has just as the candi-
dates for speaker of the lower house of
the legiSlature-that the five hundred or
one thousand teachers shall by resolu-
tion indOrSe David l.. Klehle for reap
pOintment as superintendent of public
instruction. FOrewarned is forearmed,
and the teachers of this state Will doubt
less see to 1t that no resolution of this
nature is adopted in the midst of
excitement, or at the fag end OF
some meeting. Whether there is
normal school ring as well
as a charmed university circle in educa-
tional work in this state as alleged or
not, the fact remains that the fight for
Mr.. Kiehle before the state teachers
association will be made by representa-
tives of these two cliqnes. President
Irwin Shepherd, of the Winona Normal
school, seems to be the Kiehle leader,
and has already proceeded to remarka-
BILE lengths in his opposition to Prof. L.
Kiehle. From the teachers who have
already arrived in the city the inforna-
tion comes that President Shepherd has
covered the state with letters in the
state superintendent's interest.in whlc h
he makes several assertions which are
not only unfOunded, but calculated to
injure Prof. Kirk.
Of course this political contest for the
office of state superintendent has no
right to be injected into a meeting of
the teachers of the state, and the friends
of Prof. Kirk and all other candidates
will strenuously object to the passage
of resolutions indorsing any one. With
a large attendance, such resolutions
would be defeated in all probability, for
the reason that the educators of the
state, with the exception of those who
are under obligations to Supt. Kiehle,
believe that he has held the post long
enough. and that lie ought now to give
way to a new man. This feeling, aside
from from other important objectionS.is
very strong all through the state. The
result of the educational wire-pulling OF
the past few months and the next few
days will be awaited with interest by
great many citizens.