The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-25
EDUCATION ABOVE OFFICE.
President Movers Whole Ambition
Centres in Better Educational Facili-

ties.
Greensboro, n. c., April %, 1896.
To the Editor:-A few newspapers
in the State and a few Of my friends
have in their kindness and partially
mentioned my name in connection
with the nomination for Governor. In
Yesterdays News and Observer you
saw fit to quote from two papers cdr
toriial endorsements of this kind.
re Il were engaged in some other
field of labor than that of serving the
public in one of its educational instr
tutions, / should not consider it neces-
sary to publish this card as | have no
fear that the Governorship or the nom
nation will be forced upon me. But J
ann unwilling that the public should
think that / am candidate for any
political office or honor or that | am
seeking such preferment directly Or
indirectly through my friends, for the
reason that such supposition ca the
part of the public would make me less
efficient as a worker in the educational
field and as promoter of certain edu.
cational ideas in which for years my
heart has been thoroughly enlisted.
should prefer to see these ideas
adopted by the people of the State and
TO feel that / had been somewhat i'm
strumental in bringing about the re-
suit than to hold any political office
within their gift.
/ have no political aspirations what
ever, and my highest ambition is that
I may be able to hasten the day when
North Carolina shall open her eyes and
see that the question of free silver
sinks into insignifcance when COM
pared with the question of free edu-
cation for all the children of the State;
that the gold standard of money is as
nothing compared with high and in
telligent standard of citizenship,
which will permit discussion of the
money problem or any other without
intolerance or incorporate abuse,
that the tariff tax and internal reve-
rue tax questions are not half SO i'm
p0rtant to this State just now as the
question of additional local taxation
for public schools, which must lie
voted upon in about forty counties
next fall; and finally, that the solution
Of no unsolved problem of statesman
ship would do more for the present and
future prosperity of North Carolina
than a recognition of the fact that
wonen's education should be put
upon "a liberal financial basis as
that of men, and that improvement in
our homes and schools-the great and
conservative institutions Of civilization
must be slow, so long as women,
who make homes and schools what
they are, receive from State and fed
eral aid and from endowment funds
for denominational colleges only one
dollar where their brothers receive ten
to help them in their struggle for an
education.
Men viii continue to talk about
maintaining the parity between silver
and gold coined at the ratio of 10 to ],
but blind man can see that there IS
no parity in this 10 to / arrangement
ia appropriations for the education Of
men and women, even If it is all done
in the name of patriotism, statesman
ship, and religion.
Holding these views as / do, and de-
string, above all things, to see them
generally adopted, it would be unwise
for me to encourage, or to seem to en-
courage, the use Of my name in con-
nection with political honors. / APP
preciate none the less, however, the
kind and complimentary expressions
that have called forth this statement,
which / should not make but for the
fact that my silence might be miscon-
strued
CHARLES d. M'TYER