The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-09-29
COMPARE TIE CANDIDATES.

| superintendent had been made, the re-
cipient was called before the assembly.
Charles J. Mackey of Clearwater APP
peared, for he had received the nomina-
ton. AS the young man went on with
| his speech, thanking the Republicans
for what they had done, his glowing
face and bright eyes spoke quality and
a volume of gratitude that all the words
in the world could not equal In SIM
plicitv, force or directness. He was
not known to a large number of the
delegates. and they wanted to see him
with their own eyes and verify the
opinion that his friends had claimed.
| When the delegates heard the true
ring in the young mans voice, and saw
| his face. and observed his intense and
yet gentle manner, there was not one
man among them who was not con-
WINGED that there was man who was
| without guile; "A man of sturdy honesty,
a man who was the creature of inn
pulses, and was possessed of only good
| impulses.
The countenance and intense warm
manner of the young man proclaimed to
| the men that he was honest to the core,
enthusiastic. and master Of himself.
| The men who put him under this examl-
nation at that instant were men of
shrewdness; men who judge other men
| quickly as the press of busy life
| neceSsitates.
The practiced detective knows thief
by his face; the general can tell a good
soldier by his gait; the sharp employer
can pick laggard applicant from the
information of his voice. The man who
has listened to political speeches all his
life and has measured public men, and
weighed their utterances can catch the
demagogue in half dozen sentences.
But every man who sat in that conven-
ton listened to Mr. Mackey with an in
creasing conviction that his predomi-
mating, most potential, all-pervading
element was sincerity. There was ring
TO his voice that dishonesty does not IN
herit, and fraud cannot acquire; there
was a warmth of gratitude in his eyes
and glow on his cheeks that deception
cannot affect or initiate.
The men who saw him then for the
first time liked him. The citizens of
Sedgwick county who will meet him in
this campaign will like him, not mega
lively but positively. When they know
him they will not simply fail TO dislike
him. They will like him strongly and
the impress ion that he will make will
inspire his new acquaintance with an
irresistible impulse to say that he likes
him and say it often and forcibly.
That is the kind of young man the
Republicans of Sedgwich county have
nominated for the Office of superintend-
ent of instruction. The position is an
important one. 1t requires executive
foresight and Judicial fairness and
judicious management. The county
super intendent must be without preju-
dice and ready at all times to weigh the
claims and the charges of each side of a
controversy, fairly and without par
ticipation IN the dispute, other than in
the capacity of an adjudicator.
He must be a thorough organizer and
the master of the system upon which he
conducts the schools Of the county, quick
to act when the discipline is imperative,
certain that he has not taken false
grounds, and resolute when he is sure
he is in the right.
To obtain these things and to reach
perfection in them and maintain that
perfection, any man can see, that the
county superintendent must be alert al
ways. He must be active and intensely
wrapt up in his duties. Inditfere nee or
carelessness will inevitably result in the
decline of the school system, the schools
themselves, if not Generalization.
The best man then for these duties is
the man who thoroughly understands
schools and school management. He
must be capable of anticipating perls as
well as being capable of meeting them
after they have presented themselves.
There is only one way to become
capable and thoroughly capable in any
thing. 1t makes no difference whether
it is in the law office or on the bench or
in the shop or in the school. \ man to
be capable in any hing whatsoever,
must have mastered al the details. He
can completely have those details in
hand only after beginning at the bottom
and working up to the top.
In the management of schools this is
what Charles Mackey has done. He has
devoted his whole life to the study of
schools. Born on farm near Iowa
City, Iowa, October 90, 1866, he spent
his early life there, at the same time get
ting an education in the common
schools. At the age Of 16 he entered the
Iowa City Normal school and was gradu-
ated at 10 years. Immediately he began
teaching in the country schools of Iowa.
He came to Sedgwick county in 1885
and has been teaching in the county
| ever since. At all times he showed
marked ability and it was only short
| time until he won promotions. and after
gaining them, improved the higher
office and gained esteem and commenda-
| ton for himself.
After being in Kansas for a very short
time he became the principal of the
| Clearwater schools. He has held that
position three years and there Is not
citizen of that little city who will not
own that under his management the
schools there have vastly improved.
He soon became known among the
teachers ami gained great popularity
throughout the county. Only last year
I no uaS alartai ,,,-a-,iant IF thu SaIr~iol-