Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-07-15
Renominate Sabin.

The republican state convention is but
six weeks ahead. Amid all the dust oil
political strife and the omnibus growl OF
threatened revolt against the renomina.
ton of Governor Drake an office OF far
more Importance to the welfare of Iowa
than even the governorship is in danger
of being lost sight of. This Office is that
of the superintendent of public instruc.
ton. For eight years that Office has
been filed by one whose name is not
confined to the state Of Iowa, a man
whose reputation as an educator is as
wide as the nation, man who stands as
high as any American in the national
councils of the educational world; whose
judgment is sought after, whose scholar.
ship is known and respected, whose per.
'sonal worth is exhalted, who is wise
without pedantry, conservative without
ibigotry, and progressive without rash.
ness. AS leader in education, he
stands unique and supreme in Iowa.
This is the Hon Henry Sabin, under
whose guidance the school system OF
Iowa has fourished as never before. He
has not drawn his wisdom in school mat
tiers so much from books as from actual
contact with things that are. He is "ot
the earth earthly" in an educational
sense, and this is the secret of his great
strength with leading educators of the
United States. He holds to that which
is old without dogmatism, he welcomes
the new with discrimination and always
and everywhere, he has an eye that is
single and heart that is true to the
best interests OF the common school in
the country districts-the real univer.
sity OF the common people. Now do the
people of the state OF Iowa desire that
this office-which affects their real vel.
fare, present and future, more closely
than any other Office within their gift
should become the football of party poll
tics and the prey of the practical politi
clan? If this be the case Iowa citizen.
ship is either careless or degenerate.
Why should not the real friends'of the
school system demand the denomination
of Mr.. Sabin? OF course it will be urged
that he has already had the office four
terms; this very good reason why he
should be retained. Have his personal
worth and official value been tested for
nothing? Now that we know him for
what he is-the leading educator of the
state-shall we cast him aside for some
unknown and untried quantity? Be.
sides the circumstances this year are
peculiar. The laws of our state have
been revised and remodeled; many
changes have been made especially in
that part relating to the school system,
and in all Iowa there is no one so capa-
BILE of plotting us through this transitory
period OF putting off the old and putting
on the new as Henry Sabin. His exper,
fence makes him the wisest guide and
safest counselor we can have School
officers in every county in Iowa have
reason to work and hope for the renomi-
nation. AS candidate Mr.. Sabin has
never been burden to his party. For
five successive campaigns he has been
the party nominee and in each and
every one his vote has surpassed the
vote for the head Of the ticket by from
three to five thousand. This is not the
record of barnacle, it is the evidence
of Mr.. Sabin's strength with the school
teachers of Iowa, "A strength based on an
affection that has never wavered, and
is laboring today for his denominations
Webster City freeman.