The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-09-15
COY. IVNDES AND THE PUBLIC
SCHOOL SYSTEM

The second article prepared by the
Maryland Democratic Editors Asso-
citation shows the fallacy of the claims
of Governor LownGes and his friends
that he has eliminated politics from
the public school system of the State.
70 a Baltimore Sun reporter, as
published in that paper Oh May %,
1898, Gov. Lowndes said:
Il believe that it is of the highest
importance that politics should be
eliminated from the practical manage
ment of the public school system"
Governor iowndes must be Judged
by his actions rather than by his
words, and the wide departure he has
made from the commendable senti-
ments expressed above is shown in
the article before US.
The record is given in each county
of the State and it is conclusively
proved that Governor Lowndes has
invariably chosen Republicans to
succeed Democrats, as the terms of
the latter expired. The article adds
From the above article it will be seen that
the political complexion of every School
board in the state has been changed. Because
some Boards that were composed solely OF
Democrats prior to 1896 now have Democratic
minority representation. il cannot DE inferred
that the Governor intended 20 have them so.
He could not have done OtheTwi e, for the
terms of the minority Elemh ers have not eY-
pred. ire GOJsTIOr EJUde eCtfg cdhye he possibly
could. and having done so, il Is fair to assume
that his inclination to make every school board
soiidly Repuh lean rus OHty limited 6Y his 9ppOr
fuDttteS In Carroll only was Il Democrat ap
pointed to succeed himself and he Is the only
Democrat in a board Of six commissioners. In
all other instances throughout the State ke-
publicans have invariably been appointed to
succeed Democrats whose terms had expired.
III will bv seen, too, that in a majority of he
counties experienced Examiners and assist
ANTS have oeen replaced by inexperienced Re-
publicanS, and in several other counties efforts
10 make changes failed because Of disagree
meuts amrnZ Republicans rs to candidates.
Look at th- changes in baltimore, Calvert,
arrOll-Chdfles, Dorchester. HarfCrd, Howard,
monty merry, Prince Georges, Somerset and
Washington counties. Note the reason no
ehungc was made i'll Anne Arundel and
Charles.
The Republicans seem to have regarded the
Public School system part of the sp0ls
of CjGce, and it has been so treated in
Il number OF counties, where everything in
EIght was eagerly seized upon to make places
for hungry Republican Oftce-seekers, even
local ira tees being changed in order to secure
the employment OF Republican teachers. The
school examiner III Prince Georges county re-
signed ABOUT the middle OF August, but the
e!cc1iOn OF successor was held over until
after the Republican primaries on September
Z, 80 that each uspirunt could he kept in line
for the Mudd faction. In Il number OF the
counties the school boards as partisan as
the RepJbliCan central committees, and the
school SUSTAIN is run exclusively IN the interest
of the party first, with educational interests us
4 secondary consideration.
Coy. LoWndes made all this possible by turn
ing the school boards over to partisan Repub-
Leans, and his in erview III the SIM was the
rankcst hypocrisy.
The TraDsvaa, consul in London
gives the gratifying intelligence that
there will be no war in South Africa"