Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1893-12-22
AN INCOMPETENT OFFICIAL.
The Removal Of r II. Thlelmanr. Dsnaand-
ed. and tho Reasons and Proofs Given.
From tho ssuthwest sentIneI.

that he was honestly and impartially
doing his duty, the Southwest Sentinel
has had very little to say about Mr.
Thielmann or his Official acts, notwith-
standing that Mr.. Thielmann is a
republican and that strong pressure
has been brought to bear on this pa
per to criticize and attack him; and it
is in no partlzan spirit that we now
bring some OF his acts to the bar Of
public criticism and arraign him Of
incapacity, deliberate official untruth-
fulness and malyersation. We propose
to show that he has not been doing his
duty; that he has deded, overridden
and broken the law; that he has arTo-
gated to himself powers aud authority
that do not belong either TO Mr.. Thiel-
mann or to the County school superin-
tendent; that his continuance in office
will be detriment to the public; and
that If the County commissioners do
their duty he viii b2 promptly removed
from ofIice.
We will for the present pass over his
attempt to illegally handle school
funds, his absence and consequent ne
glect of the duties of his Office, and
other charges which can he proved
against him, and will in this article
refer to two matters only; one Of which
shows fooishly sp!toful attempt to
injurc the Independent School Dis
trict of Silver City, coupled with a
deliberate, officlally-stated untruth
(which we will prove over his own sig
nature); and the other a matter which
has illegally taken large sums from i'm
purtant precincts such as Deming,
Lordsburg, Central, Silver City, Pinos
Altos, etc.
The attempt to injure this district
and the falsehood are as follows; The
County school superintendent is re-
quired to apportiou the school funds
semi-annually among the districts. In
his last apportionment on November
%, in which he divides up all the
school moneys, he gives Silver City
nothing, this is foolish spite) and in
the spacelef for this district he writes
d" No enumeration;" this is tho, we
leave the public to Ill in the suitable
word. The enumerations of the vari.
Gus school districts are required by
law to be fled by September 10 Of each
year. When this date came Mr.. Thiel.
mann was absent from his Office, being
out of the Territory. But the day be-
fore, September II, the enumeration
required by law was put in his post
Office box by the postmaster, who i;
one OF the board of education OF the
Independent School District of Silver
City. He car successfully deny thi:
nor the fact Ia he afterwards got it,
as the following letter of his will
show:
Office of r. II. Thiclmann,
Lperintendent of Schools
of Grant County.
SILVER CITY, n. NJ, Oct. 6, 1893
II. II. Belts and II. w. Lucas and g.
Il. Wood,
Silver City, n. NJ.
DEAR SIRs,-I return the enumera
tion you sent me purpOrting to be from
the Independent School District O
Silver City. There is no such district
within the Jurisdiction of this office,
: nor in the County that / know of
Hence l return IL for your correction
Please attend to the matter at once
, and forward same to me and great.
oblige, Yours very truly,
Signed: II. II. THIELMANN,
> Supt. of Schools.
What is the name applied to MAI
who says he did not receive a docu
ment when over his own signature h
admits that he did? Mr.. ThielmanI
cannot get out Of this excessively un
pleasant position in which he has de
iberately placed himself on the trick,
plea that the district was misnameC
IN the enumeration. The name is cor
rect; but even II it were not, tina
would not in the least particle affec
the fact that there was an enumera
tion of this precinct and that he re
ceiyed It, The enumeration that Mr.
Thielmann got, and which he says h
did not get, shows that there are 90
y children OF school age here, and ther
; are now no funds with which to edu
cate them.
The second matter is as follows
The law is plain that liquor an
gambling licenses belong to the schoC
4 funds of the district in which they ar
collected. Mr.. Thlelmann has see
llt to refuse TO be bound by this la'
: aud has turned the money cOllecte
from these licenses into the generi
: school fund Of the County, thereb
deprlving the most important scho'
= districts Of large sums of money whlc
= they need to carry on the educatlOn'C
their children. TO show that the la
is as we state, and that there can |