The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1904-09-02
CLIQUE lie on SCHOOL BOARD.

If VI pemocr correctly Two mem,
bers - present school board wers
elected On both political party tickets.
DR.. D. P. Morgan was on both the Re
publican al, Democratic tickets in
1902, and DrS y. n. Flowers was on
them both in 1908. Both were elected
and both are members of the Clari1s-
burg school board today. There is but
one other member and he was elected
last spring on the Republican ticket by
a big majority. The two members that
were elected on both tickets may abso-
AteIy control the board, ii they 30 de-
! sire. because two is a majority OF three.
Vow, in this connection the Clarks-
burg News in an untruthful editorial
at a time, when the teachers institute
Is being held in our midst, attempts TO
make the impression that the schools
Of this city are being run in the inter
ests of the Republican party, and es-
pecially the Republicon leaders, and in
this connection it uses these words,
@the Republican parent who is sending
a teacher must first seek the favor Of
his son or daughter to be trained for
the Harrison county ring if he wants
them to have a good job" and the
above expression is made in connection
with a statement about the hiring Of
teachers for the public schools here. The
fact that there was sufficient confidence
in two members of the board as to re-
suit in their unanimous election gives
the. lie to the statement made that
these two men, who are among the
most honorable of tine county and state,
were elected for the purpose OF promot-
ing the interests of any set Of men or
any political party and especially the
Republican party. and shows to what
+, desperate things that sheet will resort
to, and how loathesome it is. Despica-
BILE, indeed, is the attempt to prejudice
the teachers OF tine county.
Again, any one of common sense
knows that the Democratic party would
not have nominated. or rather indorsed
these men, if it had thought that they
were being elected to promote the inter
ests of the Republican party at tine ex-
peIlSS vi Jie ftAA - sihi s'i''
in this connection may we not call at
tention to the fact that there are Demo
Gratis employed in the schools mere ?
Why bless your life, the highest school
officer we nave, the superintendent OF
the city schools is Democrat and
never professed to be any thing else.
Did the board of education put him into
that position TO promote the interests
of the Republican party at the expense
of the Democratic party? The answer
comes that it did not
Also. is it not fact that several Of
the teachers in the schools here are
members of country families. young
people who have been sent by their par
ents to school for the purpose of max
ing teachers of them? Since this is
true, and no man who has any regard
for the truth will deny it, is not the
unwararnted statement made by the
News along the line of misrepresentation
and deception the Democratic clique has
employed all through the present cam
paign? The very circumstances in ibis
case prove it to be an unmitigated fall
sitter, colossal fool. and an ignoramus
of the deepest dye, to say nothing OF
the nature of a villian it reveals to the
public. when it wilfully studies mp and
publishes such brlzen falsehoods