The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-12
Friends Of Free Higher Education
Are Very Active,
AND MASS CONVENTIONS
WILL BE HELD IN EACH WARD
ON WEDNESDAY.
Committee Formulating the Address
viii Meet Tonight and Then Turn
the Matter Over to the People
Candidates Talked Of.

Appearances warrant the assertion
that those of Salt Lakes citizens who
are opposed to free schools are thor
oughly on the defensive, but those oc-
cupying middle ground on the great
question at issue are in an apologize
attitude that BODIES no good to the
cause of free higher education. But
the work set in motion yesterday by
a committee of public-spirited citizens,
whose interest in the welfare of the
public. schools has prompted them to
act for the common good, is sure to
yield the best results. The copies OF
proposed address to the people of
this city were put in circulation yester-
day for signatures. and when the lists
appended to the declaration are sub
mitted to the committees meeting in
Mr. H. G. McMillan's office this even
ing they will reveal that several hum
dred of the heaviest taxpayers and
representatives of all classes of people
have declared by their signatures their
friendliness to the cause of free higher
education.
1t will be shown also that the sign
ers have pledged their support to
maintain and advance the high stand
ard of efficiency of the grade schools
and the unimpaired perpetuatiOn of
the High school. The hosts of signers
unite in calling mass conventions to
J.! be held in their respective municipal
wards next Wednesday evening to
nominate candidates for election to the
| board of education on Dec. l. 1t is
proposed to nominate only capable,
trustworthy citizens, irrespective of
party politics, who will stand pledged
on a. platform embodied in the senti-
ment expressed in the address. The
| lists will be passed around for addi-
tional signatures today, and after to-
nights meeting the address and names
of the signers will be published in the
daily papers. A sub-provisional COM
mittee, among whom are Mayor-elect
Clark, G. S. Varian, James H. Moyle,
H. P. Henderson, r. W. Young, w. F.
Cotton, Louis Cohn, H. w. Lawrence,
George NJ. Scott, Warren Foster and
John Dern, is attending to the circu-
lation of the lists and providing ways
and means until the mass conventions
in the various municipal wards are
held.
The plan of holding a mass conven-
ton of Fourth precinct citizens favor
able to the cause of free higher edu-
cation at Taggart's hall last evening
WOulu nave DttII sSuCCtSSlull
mated had not the idea prevailed to
defer definite action until next We'd
nesday evening, the time named in the
address and call for mass conventions
which circulated yesterday and will be
passed around again today for sigma
lures. IN the First ward a similar
plan was started, but is held in abey-
ance until next Wednesday evening in
order that there may be no friction,
DIIT tina matters a IOncr va
monious lines throughout the city.
The popular plan now working for
the naming of candidates for election
to the board of education will assure
the conserving of the best interests of
the public school system, if every
citizen, taxpayer and parent attends
the mass conventions next Wednesday
evening and expresses his or her sen
timents on the paramount issues in the
school campaign.
In the Fourth municipal ward B. H
Schettler is leading an opposition to
the High school. r. r. Anderson, an
/ ether large taxpayer, is not expected
to join forces with his neighbor Mr.
Anderson is, however, reputed to be
an ardent champion of the excellence
of Salt Lake Citys free school system
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President Dolly of the board of edu-
cation is Indifferent to accepting a
nomination for reelection. Notwith-
standing that he has rendered splendid
service to the schools and likewise to
the people, he is said to not wish to
run the gauntlet of opposition from
! certain elements that, however, are de-
sirous of not undermining the excel
lence of the public institutions.
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Mrs. ]. T. Gilmer of the First ward
is being talked of among her many
friends as representative woman
who possesses the requisite qualffica-
lions for membership on the school
board.