The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1894-08-25
GIVES PEOPLE A BAD PAIN
COUNTY NORMAL INSTITUTE
RUN INTO POLITICS.
TEACHERS GROW MAD AND RESOLVE.
Sarah Dosworth, Candidate FOR County
Superintcndent, Makes Holy show rf
Herself aud Causes Tired Feeling
to Tcrmeate the school Room
Normal Teachers Hoist Mr..
Stryker rs Candida.e.

70 all appearances the county
normal just closed was used as a polt
ical machine by "A certain faction Of
ham faced pedagogues who let not
the glinting grandeur Of education
pc rmeate their sluggish minds Taken
as whole the institute was a success
and the 1870 teachers in attendance
wero greatly benefited by the in.
struction received. Up to the last
week the sessions were unmarried by a
ripple OF trouble, bat three days pre-
vious to the close, large, buriy bunch
OF politics was quietly injected
into the proceedings Logging for
different candidates was openly care
ricd on by a certain faction much to
the disgust of the intelligent teachers
then, suddenly Miss Sarah Bosworth,
candidate superintendent, swoopcd
down on The assembly and. coUily out.
lined the program She NSould pursue
as county superintcddent Miss Bos-
worth Is a woman, and a good woman
for all that, but what business had
she to appear before the con nty nor
nal and spout like a sperm whale to
the teachers. She addressed the as.
sembly several times aud on Thursday
and Friday dispossessed t9rsolf Of re-
marks substantially as follows:
Now propose to bring about Il
change as soon as take the Office OF
superintendent, which will be not
Flater than December. am glad that
| have become acquainted with you
teachers aud hone oar relations will
prove pleasant | propose to have eX-
aminations every four weeks and will
place Logan county schools to the
front."
From her remarks one Is led to sup.
pose that Miss Bosworth regards her
election as a mere formality. There
are any numbsr of prominent educa-
tors in both the Democratic aud Popu.
list parties and neither of these parties
have held converticr.a
70 say she caused tired feeling
among the teachers is putting il
mildly These expressions directed
toward II woman may not appear
elegant, but in a political campaign, 4
woman is supposed to hold her owl
with the men; il not, Thy woman
suffrage?
But the Bosworth sensation Is moi
all. The female teachers have kicb
coming. 1t appears that Superntend'
ent Stryker made at least one poor
selection when he employed norma
| instructors The instructor in ques
ton selected is n pompous, hair
Drained, squirt gun monstrosity
possessing theoretical c}ucation
without common-sense. lie assumed
charge Of one or two branches Of study
and by his oyerbearing manners
caused his pupils to groan. Ia plair
language, he made an slime plea ass
of himself.
At the close of the normal several
estimablc lady teachers held meet
ing and passed resolutions compli
menting some instructors and ignor
ing others These resolutions were
printed in The LEADER Saturday
shortly after the resolutions were in
type a number Of gentlemen teachers
called at The LEADER Office aud re
quested that the resolutions be sup,
pressed, saying they were spurious
But suppression is against the rule il
TmE LEADER Off 'e and the resolutions
went
Yesterday evening Robert B. Hayes,
lcilius Mann, James Jacques and
| Henry a. Decker, broughtto this oilic,
some resolutions which they termed
were official, but are too voluminous
for publication this morning. How
ever, the resolutions compliment al
the normal instructors, ministers, lee
turers, etc, ana wind up endorsing
Superintendent /. II, Stryker as an in
dependent candidate for county super
intendent. Mr.. Stryker will receive
tne support of every teacher in the
normal
The upshot of the whole matter &
that a factional fight was preoipitateJ
in the normal by lot of one-hors,
candidates porading before the teach
ers their respective merits and virtues
Fifteen Young lady teachers called OF
THE LEADER last night aud denounced
the Republican politicians who werl
instrumental in bringing about the
trouble in the institute. All the teach
ers in the institute. Democrats, Re
publicans and Populists are justly in
dignant ana they will be heard frou
in no uncertain tones this fall