The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-02-23
"Turn the Rascals OUT.

"Turn the Rascals Out.
Now that there are indicaions that
an effort will be made, il the near
future, by the members ofthe State
Board of Education, to ehct a sue
cessor to Prof. E. b. Prettman, Sup
erintendent of the Nornal School,
who has been holding the,ffice under
q Republican administrator for three
years, great hue and cy is raised
by the Democratic press IF the State
over the matter. TheseDemocratic
saints, who hold up ther hands in
holy horror, are always rady to close
their eyes to the situation when the
Democratic party was il control of
the public schools, AMI when the
whole system, from the district
schools to the highest public educa-
tional institution was pGmeated and
dominated by democratic rim g
politics.
Well do the voters of this county,
and for that matter all over the State,
remember how, in the campaign Of '95,
when the clouds of disaster were
growing faster and thicker, as the
day of election approached, the dem
ocratic orators were sent forth to pro-
claim to the people what a calamity
would befall the public school system
in the event of republican success.
They charged that the State would
be under negro domination, and that
we would have mixed schools and
negro Office holders in all the 4epar-
ments of the county and STAKE COY
eminent. All such tail. as i4his.~St
intended to excite the passi ~ pf the
people, and to deceive and w6t 5upon
the feelings Ct the ignorant. The
republican party has had control of
the Estate for over three years. and
during that entire time there has
been no negro domination, nor has
there been any mixed schools, nor is
there likely to be. The men who
made such charges knew when they
did SO that they were misrepresent-
ing and classifying the position of the
republican party on such questions.
The Cambridge NeaOS, in discussing
the proposed election of successor to
Prof. E. B. Prettyman, Superintend-
ent of the State Normal School, takes
occasion to remark that there seems
to be nothing above the greed of
republican office-seekers, either in
church or school," 1t also criticizes
Governor Lowndes and concludes it's
nonsensical article with turn the
rascals out"
Talk about greed in church or
schools! What party exhibits the
most greed; the democratic party has
been sucking the State for thirty
years, and complains and murmurs
because it is compelled to let go.
Suppose the Republican State
Board of Education does give Prof.
Prettyman his walking papers" bill
it commit any crime? He ought Ito
have walked two years ago. Why
was he put at the head of the Sttte
Normal School? He was put there by
Democratic State Board of Ed a.
ton because he was DemocraNW I'D
Prof. M. A. Newell, consxtsse
Republican, was kicked out. The
Democratic State Board did just what
it ought to have done and committed
no wrong. The Republican State
Board will only do its duty when it
follows in democratic footsteps. in
this respect and names a republican
successor to the present incumbent.
But the Ne1OS continues:
Under republican rule officers in
connection with the school system of
the State are regarded as political
plums to be bestowed for political
purposes, and Governor Lowndes,
despite pledges and the platform up
on which he was elected, is the leader
in the whole business. Turn the
rascals OUT
In the name of common sense, how
did the democratic party regard the
officers in connection with the school
system of the State? Didn't it regard
them as political plums, and didn't il
bestow them as rewards for politica
services? For thirty years the dem
ocrats enjoyed a monopoly of this
sort of thing. If it was right during
all that period it is right now, and il
must have been right then, becaus