The San Francisco call., 1896-10-23
TICKETS OUT
!. WITHOUT PARENTS
SeVentY-Five Thousand Cir
= Culated From the
Schools.
Yet No Teacher Can Be Found
Who Knows of Their
Origin
WHAT WAS SAID AT LUNCH.
Morality of Collecting Assessments
Discussed and Pro.Charte
Meeting.
WHAT WAS SAID AT LUNCH.

Seventy-fve thousand tickets bearing
the names of twelve candidates for School
Directorships were issued yesterday by
small coterie OF lady school-teachers.
Those twelve gentlemen represent their
choice, and they, the aforesaid teachers,
will electioneer for their candidates from
now until the sun will have set on the
Sd of November.
Il The ticket was printed in a Clay-street
establishment on a plain card just large
enough to contain the twelve names in
the same sized type as they will appear
upon the ballot. At the top are two
AMERICAN flags with crossed slaves just
above the words Teachers Ticket" The
list of names and register numbers are as
follows:
200, Darlington, Charles L.. 208, Byrne, NJ. !;
219, Dernam, William A.; 224, Gallagher
Ed; 227, Hammond, Phi; go, Head Ed;
2S4 Kemp W Al PAP: Ma MsttReF; Dr., a E. H. H.;
T.: 257, Shumate, DR.. Thomas E.; 264, Waller,
Sam L.
Not teacher could be found yesterday
to admit that he or she had the slightest
inkling as to the paternity or maternity Of
that or any other one OF the tickets IN the
field.
at the Franklin School yesterday dur
ing the lunch hour a discussion arose
among several of the lady teachers rela-
tive to the question of the expediency and
morality OF public school-teachers dab
bling in politics. 1t was suggested that
politics was two-edged sword which cut
both ways, and that those who handled it
might get hurt.
1t was also suggested that it was wrong
in morals and against the letter and spirit
OF the purity of elections law TO ask any
candidate for $40 or any other sum to de-
fray the expense of printing rs, 600 or any
other mum Der of tickets. Whereupon one
OF the ladies contended that there was no
wrong either in law or morals to ask q
candidate to help defray the expense OF
printing tickets.
The statement was hotly controverted
by one or two other ladies, who remarked
that if those who were getting up the
ticket were afflicted with so great desire
to have their friends elected they should
themselves pay for the printing. The
ladies were too well bred TO descend to
blows, but they stabbed one another with
angry glances and sharp words.
R. D. Falkner, principal of the Franklin
School, did not know anything about any
of the tickets save what he had read in
The GALE. He had not heard that any
ticket had originated from the teachers
. under his supervision.
Mrs. Parolini of the same school had
seen one or two of the tickets that had
of their authorship.
Miss Mollie L. Brown knew nothing of
any com bination of teachers or of any as
sessment having been levied against the
candidates. She did not meddle with
politics, she said.
Miss Ahearn made statement to the
same effect.
Miss Edith Crowley, principal of the
Stanford School, said that she knew moth
ing about the matter except what she had
read in THE CALL.
"I am positive" she added, ''that there
has been no combination among my
teachers and that no ticket has been put
up. The Stanford School is not in poll
tics"
C. L. Darlington, whose name heads the
list on the 75, 600 tickets and whose name
appears on about all the tickets that have
been put UP in the School Department
thus far, denied that he had been asked
by any one to pay an assessment.
When asked whether there was any
question of religious intolerance in the
department. MIR. harrington replied that
during the last cam paign ticket had been
made up by some of the teachers and
some one had com planned that there were
too many Catholic names upon it, and for
in the field. But" added he, There
does not seem to be anything of that kind
in this cam mpaign.
81 know" continued Mr.. Darlington,
''where those stories to the effect that [
paid $40 TO one of the teachers originated.
They emanated from a woman whose hus-
band was not put on the ticket, and she is
noted for the length and agility of her
tongue