New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1894-05-30
KOCH STILL H0LDSTHEF FORT
The Recount Of Ballots Dos Not Change
Matters Any.
No Fraud, No Ohicanery on the Part Of
the Judges as was claimed.
The First Step in the Contest will Proba-
bly, be the Last. .

The First Step in the Contest will Proba-
bly, be the Last. "
The long looked-f recount of votes
cast for mayor at the last city election
was made on Friday at the city clerks
Office. c. w. H. Heideman, G. Silverson
and L. B. Krook acted as referees while
Attorneys Lind g.. Eckstein on one side
and Somerville and Baasen on the other
inspected and took notes on the lrreyu-
larities in the ballots. Nothing sensa-
tional developed. The third ward was
the first to be gone over, and here Koch
los: two votes from what was given him
by the judges. There were three ballots
however, that were evidently intended for
him that the referees refused to count
owing to objections raised 5y the con-
testant's attorneys. Tho first ward count
remained unchanged. Neither Koch nor
Peterson gained by the referees figures.
but as was the case in the Third ward
three ballots were found where the voter
had clearly intended to vote for Koch
but owing to ii failure to completely
erase the cross made afterPeterson's name
by mistake the judges and the referees
| would not count them.
The second ward recount was expec-
ted to expose fraud and trickery of the
worst kind on the part of the judges. In
the complaint it was stated boldly and
with ring of defiance that votes plain
| ly marked for S. D. Peterson were coun-
ted for Koch, but to the complete sur
prise of the contestants, the closest scrut-
ing on the part of their lawyers failed to
reveal even the slightest errors, while,
on the contrary, the count of the refer
ces gave Koch one more vote than the
judges had given him. Two more there
were that most anybody would have
counted for him, so plain was the voters
intention, but even these the judges pre-
ferred to consider doubtful. so conscien-
tious were the; in the performance OF
their duties.
The result is gratifying. It refutes,
b :tter than argument could, all the char
gcs that have been made against people
who are honestly trying to do what is
right 1t does away with credence 70
rumors of fraud in the future. It proves
that the contestants did not know what
they were about That they were ready
to believe everything that was bad of
their opponents and to take to themselves
more honesty than was possessed by their
neighbors. The contest so far has cleared
away the d;sgraceful defenses which have
enabled certain individuals to inculcate
these absurd notions in the minds of the
people and to embitter them against
their neighbors, and should the contest
proceed further, we are confident that
even still more light will be brought to
bear upon the falsehoods that have made
life IN this city a burden for two wears
past.
Education is subject on which it is
easy to give lecture that will nightly
please the average audience; few men
but can do this acceptably. But when
it comes to the Columbus work, who is
bold and skilful enough to s:il out into
new educational seas? .. The prepara-
ton for teaching should include practi-
cal training ID some competent normal
school; to limit it to scholarship only is
to cheaper teaching, is to oper the doors
to all - almost. Cheap preparation
makes costly teaching; the children 90
to cheap schools at dear rate; wears
roll by and they know how they were
sacrificed. Those who d. not see that
a new order of things is sure to set in or
has already set in concerning the rela-
ton of the teacher to his work must he !
partially blind. Once the men and women
who read educational books were exceed
ingly few in number, and had NO in
fluence whatever; they were considered
as dreamers, Missionaries. Teaching was
looked at wholly as business; man
got access to higher place not by
understanding education, but by under
standing the school board. While these
discouragiag days have not wholly
passed, there are signs in the sky. It is
safe to say that the ruling lace 1900 in
educational matters will be those who
enter IN the new century as students Of
the principles and practice of Education.
The normal schools are increasing and
obtaining force; schools of pedagogy are
springing up: it may safely be said there
is double the amount of earnest studv
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