The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-03
THE PRECISE SITUATION.

| The election of members of the Board
in this city, will be held on Wednes-
day. 1t is an important occasion.
Added to the interest which should or
dinarily attach to such an election is
the contest that is on, between non
partisan and intensely partisan candi-
dates. This is especially the issue in
the First, Third and Fourth precincts.
In the First precinct the Democrats
have nominated Professor Kingsbury,
with the distinct understanding and
pledge that he will be non-partisan in
all his official acts if elected. His OPP
ponent is nominated as Republican
and partisan, who claims that ITO
the victors belong the spoils," and
therefore Republicans are entitled to
control the schools.
The same may be said of the Third
and Fourth precincts, except that the
candidates nominated there by the
Democrats are the present incumbents.
They are John E. Hansen and Joseph
Toronto. Each of them has been a
competent and capable member of the
board, against whose official acts moth
ing can be alleged. The efforts to sup
plant them proceed from partisan mo-
tives. They have been bipartisan in
the past, they will be in the future if
reelected. But the Republican en-
deavor to put Republicans in their
places is a partisan movement for par
tisan ends.
In order to make an issue outside of
this partisan question, it has been
falsely stated that two of the gentle
men named are opposed to the high
school, That is of Tribune manufac-
ture. Garbled and untruthful reports of
their views have been published, and
Notwithstanding the fact that they
have been corrected by statements of
the gentlemen themselves, corroborated
by others, the Tribune persists in max
ing editorial comments for the pur-
pose of deceiving the public and if
possible defeating those candidates.
Neither of the gentlemen whom We
have named is opposed to the high
school. Messrs. Toronto and Kings
bury are not prepared to vote for
tax to raise from 100000 to S150,0O0 for
a high school building; that is their po-
sition. The attempt is made to con-
found the school with the building, and
thus prejudice a certain portion of the
public against those two candidates.
1t is paltry and spiteful piece of
work that no paper but the Tribune
would stoop to.
The people of the First, Third and
Fourth precincts should make it their
business and determination to elect
Messrs. Kingsbury, Hansen and Toron-
to, as a rebuke to the promoters of the
movement to force partisanship into
the school question and to the authors
of the false attack on Messrs. Toronto
and Kingsbury.
The gentlemen we have named are
not nominated as Democrats, but as
capable men, eminently fit for the posi-
ton and pledged to bipartisan official
conduct. The Democrats had to act as
a party because the Republicans re-
fused to join with them in a non-parti-
san election. The real issue, then, is
between partisanship and non-parti-
sanship on the Board of Education and
therefore in the conduct of the public
schools of this city.
Vote for Messrs. Kingsbury, Han
sen and Toronto, and thus pre-
serve the Board of Education from
having majority of Republican mem
bers. Their election will preserve the
present balance of the board, and that
will be for the best interest of the
cause of educat ton in this city. Every