The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-24
Prospects in the Fourth.

The Democratic committee of the
Fourth precinct, through Chairman
Dale, has issued its call for a. mass
convention to nominate a member of
the school board for Tuesday evening
al the burlington school house The
alacrlty with which candidates were
belng named yesterday suggested that
the democrats feel confident of carry
ing the precinct That it is still Dem
ocratic is shown by the result of the
vote cast for mayor, treasurer, record
er and police justice, all of whom led
thelr republican opponents by last
years figures. The fact that two city
councllmen of that party were chosen
is very well known to have been due
to personal reasons, which will not en-
Ter into the school campaign. The can
dldates named are Professor j. B. To-
ronto. whose term is about to expire;
George Romney, Jr., Oliver Tfodgson
and c. l.. Hawley.
Mr. Dale, chairman of the precinct,
SAID yesterday: I'VE were sincerely
sorry that our Republican friends could
not agree, with us to send Professor
Toronto back on a non-partisan basis,
and thus avoid all the expense and
feeling sure to result from bringing the
schools into a political campaign Mr.
Toronto was elected as a non-partisan
and he has never comported himself
IN any other way. Had we agreed in
the Fourth precinct l am confident it
would have eXerted an influence on
other precincts, and 1 believe the five
retiring members, all of whom have
done such excellent work. could have
been returned without a contest, and
the board kept as it is now, equally
divided between the two parties This
mas proved most satisfactory in the
past, and the arrangement, to my idea,
should have been continued Now that
we must fight, however, [ trust that
every Democrat in the Fourth precinct
will come out and do his duty; to
nominate the strongest, best man we
have got and then to elect him to the
school board"
There is considerable amusement
among people without regard to politics
over the course of Mr.. Launcelot Earl,
who, with sublime Indifference to the
question of the school boards finances
known to be at the lowest ebfb-and
the public taXes-known to be at the
highest-froths at the mouth because
the Fourth precinct hasn't three school
buildings instead of two. 1t will prob
ably astonish Mr.. Toronto not a little
when he learns from the oracular Mr.
Earl that due diligence on his part
would have erected a fine brick struct-
ure in the Eighteenth ward: it will
probably astonish Messrs. Dooly, Alff,
Westerfield Woolley, Hanson, Bywater
Baldwin, Thomas and Cotton, Mr.
Toronto's fellow board members, to an
equal degree. Mr.. Earls resolution,
pledging the Republican nominee to
work for a new school house for the
Eighteenth ward, in view of the press
ing needs of a high school, and the
feeling over an increase of taxes, must
be regarded as pure clap-trap. 1t is
all of a piece with his totally unwar-
ranted assertion that when r. W.
Young was nominated, it was with the
understanding that Republican
should be elected the following year,
and that the Democrats broke faith
when they nominated Professor To-
ronto instead of Governor Thomas.
There is not the remotest scintilla of
truth that any such 'understand' was
had. Mr.. Youngs nomination was
made by Liberal; no word of Repub-
lican or Democrat was spoken; no.
body mentioned the following years
election, and nobody was authorized to.
and when the following year rolled
around, Professor Toronto was chosen
on a non-partisan ticket solely because
of his pre-eminent fitness for the posi-
ton. Mr.. Earl should keep his hat on
his head, and not use it for conversa-
tional purposes.