Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1906-11-02
Superintendent of Schools.

The argument is being used that ".
Ii. Greenhalgh, republican candidate:
tor school superintendent. is now
getting as principal of the jackson
school, 800 per month, the same
salary as the school snperintend-
ent receives; that therefore his.
election to the Office would be no,
benefit to him financially. This pYo-
cess OF reasoning is misleading. The
school superintendent is employed for
term of four years, and therefore
as superintendent alone, draws $500
during the term. A teacher in the
public schools is employed only for
the school term, which usually lasts
nine months. Therefore the pay
amounts to but $500 per year. There
is therefore, a decided difference in
favor of the county superintendent
Mr. Greenhalgh, however, does not
desire the office solely, or mainly,
because there is more money in it,
but rather because it's duties would
be more conducive to his health. A
few years ago he was compelled to
quit school teaching for while on
account of his health. The work of
strain upon the mind. Whereas the
work of superintendent calls tor Gun,
siderable travelling and outdoors exer :
else, a few years OF whicho would.
greatly assist in establishing his
health upon an enduring basisya As
| he has made first class teacher IN
the active work of instruoting the
rising generation, which is acknow-
lodged by trustees, parents, and
scholars in every school he has
taught. and none more so than in
jackson, the scene of present labors,
so he would make an equally efficient
superintendent of public instruction
in Amador county. A respite from
the strain of school teaching is
necessary in his case. The voters
will remember this next Tuesday, and
elect him as head of the educational
department by decisive majority.
Dodgers are being distributed,
printed in Sacramento, and claiming
to be from the Union labor party,
designed to lnjure the candidacy of
q. H. McKenney, by showing how
he voted on number of bills intro
duced in the interest of the labor
organizations during the two sessions
in which he was member of. the as
sembly. The Ledger believeslin fair
ness in political methods. and cannot
see that the record on bills rreciteu
in the dodgers should furnish any
reason for any intelligent voter cast
ing his ballot against the republican
nominee. These circulars are nc
doubt sent out to help Camlnetti.
We do not think they Will have that
effect. Certainly, they ought not to
have that effect, if Mr. Caninetti
is committed to vote, if elected, for
every measure introduced at the
instance Of labor union. Some of the
proposed laws mentioned in these
dodgers are out of all reason and NO
representative anxious to do his duty
to bis constituents could afford to
vote for them, g. ga. ~.
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1t is amusing to note how the CRY
of mudsllnging Is raised In some
interested quarters, whenever the
,, record of democratic office holders
are held up to public view in the
press. The Ledger has no apologies
to make for its course in this regard.
1t has ventilated the record OF
officials of its own party, when its
duty to the public pointed that way.
1t would be untrue to itself, and
recTeant to its duty to Its subscribers
and the people generally, if it failed
to expose official negligence or
wrong. When an Individual en-
ployer engages the services of
another, the conduct of the party
engaged, is matter of private con-
Germ between the two, unless criminal
conduct brings the public into the
case. But when the people generally
employ a servant in an official capac-
ity, the record of the ottice-h holder is
public property. 1t is the peoples
right to know how that man has dis
charged the duties of his position;
whether he has been true or false to
his trust. And it is the duty of the
press to inform the public on such
matters. The Ledger has always
adopted this course, and is not dis
posed to back down from its old-time
record at this juncture. ga
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The blanket sheet sample election
ballots, all printed outside the
county, are being distributed from
the clerks office. Not only the
sample ballots, s;but the regular ballots
were obtained from printing offices
outside Amador county, involving a |
pretty steep bill which the taxpayers
will have to foot to keep going in,
dustries beyond the county s,Ilmits, \
and which MIGHT inst. as maxi hora