The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1905-05-25
COUNTY noARDs OF KDuCAT1ox
AND COUNTY srrKRISTKNp
xxrs o. SCHOOLS SHOULD
ne Hi.KCrED ~ THE

HE xLKCTED ~ the
PEOPLE.
More than twenty counties IN
North Carolina are Republirau. and
elected oil Of their county officers st
the last election. excep, the County
Superinteudent Of Schools and The
County Board Of Education. and
these important officers are appointed
In these Republican counties by the
Chairman Of the Democratic Execu-
tive Committee la each OF these
counties, and these appointments
confirmed by the Legislature over
the protest Of the people.
/ There are over $4,000 white Re
publican voters In this State, who
contribute largely and willingly 70
the support Of our Public schools. yet
there Is not single Republican APP
pointed on q board of education In
any county in the State. and all the
county superintendent Of schools
are Democrats and so far as we are
able to learn, practically every school
committeeman in the State Is q
Democrat.
In order to bring about such 4
condition, the Democratic party has
had to abolish one plank In their
creed, and that is local self govern.
ment. In their greed for Office,
they have trampled upon, and ig-
nored the most sacred right in our
form Of government-the right Of
the majority to rule AMI the right
of the people to elect their own off.
Gals.
The public schools are very near
to the people. They are more heav-
lily taxed to support them than any
other one branch of our government.
These schools should be popular
with ell Of the masses, and they
should be run by impartial, compe-
tent officials and teachers who are
the choice of the people who support
and patrOnize them. 1t Is safe to
assert that no other state in the I'm.
ion permits the chairman of on e po-
lltlcal party-tO name the County
Board of Education, who in turn
appoints a County Superintendent,
and all the school committeeman in
his county. and this too in u county
where there are thousand or more
white majority in the opposite par
ty, which furnished more than two.
thirds of the school children and
pays more than two-thirds of the
taxes.
Our Democratic friends claim to |
be in favor of public education, and
they call upon the people to vote
special taxes for schools, and at the
same time deny the people the right
to elect the officers who are to man.
age these schools and select the
teachers, who are to teach the chill
dren OF the taxpayer.
Do you wonder that the State is
still In the low grounds in educa-
tional matters!
Mr.. Geo. E Butler, one of the
members from Samp-
son county, introduced bill in the
last Legislature to elect the County
Board Of Education in every county
Ia the State by direct vote of the
people, in the same manner that
County Commissioners and other
county officers are elected, but this
measure was promptly killed by the I
Democratic members in that body.
several Of the Democratic members.
however, saw their mistake. and
we're unwilling to return to their
'eople, without making some I
'mends for their vote on this meas
Ire, and afterwards introduced bills a
or their own county, under decep- /
i've titles, and managed to get several Z
# taem passed without detection bu 9
UGH as were detected were amended 8
y Republican members adding Re- t
ublican counties which amendments e
ad the effect invariably to kill the I
ill, consequently no Republican a
ounty and only two or three Dem. 8
cratic counties, now elect their &
'hool officers by a vote of the peo. II
lie, but the idea is growing rapidly v
nong the people, irrespective of o.
arties. and in defiance to Democrat q
politicians, and it is most proba-. "
9 that both political parties will T
sclare in their next State platform "