The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-11-24
THE CANDIDATES.


board are now in the field save only
the "non- partisan Mormon in the
Third ward. who will no doubt be Mr.,
Newman, the present member. He is
probably the most stubborn foe of the
really free public schools that can he
found in that ward. and he seems to
suit the people there on that account.
OF all the members. he is the one who
invariably knows whether or not a
teacher or employee is or is not Nor
mon, and he is always for the Mormon,
no other qualification weighing 2 festh-
er IS tip with him. At his last cleo
tion he was openly tho church candi-
date, the bishop speaking for him and
urging his election.
In the First ward, the America rs
have put in nomination Mr.. Alden E.
Payne, a man Of active interest in the
free public schools. earnest in zeal to
bring them up to a higher standard,
His opponent is Byron Cummings, whose
duties as professor al the University
are such, and his employment there in
such relations, that his Independence is
smothered; he cannot give the school
work of the city the attention which
il requires, He has been heard of in
the Board only through the scandalous
job which he secretly put up and which
the tools Of the church helped him to
carry out, which put his brother-in
law in as clerk OF the board, ousting
without complaint, hearing or notice, a
clerk of proved integrity, high ability,
and undoubted popularity, 1t was as
disgraceful a job as any political plot
has ever worked in Salt Lake. 1t is
now due to Mr., Cummings that the peo-
pie should rebuke him for that dirty
bit of scandalous nepotism.
In the Second ward, Mr. Theron
Geddes is named by the Americans: a
man of high standing In the business
aud social world, and of deep interest
in the free public schools. The OPP
position have nominated Mr.. Cheesman,
who has served four years on the Board
in an utterly insignificant capacity.
If he has ever been heard from as
doing anything, the public is not aware
OF it. He has not even objected when
the church roller was rolled over him,
accepting everything with placid non
chalence which has ben of no help to
the schools, It is time that more ac-
tive, earnest, efficient man represented
the great Second ward, and the man to
do 1t is Mr.. Geddes.
In the Third ward, the Americans
have nominated Mr.. Samuel NJ Barlow,
a man earnest in his love of the free
public schools and in his desire TO build
them up. He is the candidate whom
all should support, Even the opposition,
if they are in earnest for nonpartisan-
ship, are logically bound to second the
nomination of Mr. Barlow. They nom.
mate on Monday night next; it Will
be seen whether or not that nonpartisan
convention will insist upon partisan
nomination, as was done in The Fourth
ward nonpartisan convention of last
Tuesday night
In the Fourth ward, the American
nominee is Nh W. n. Tibbals, a man
of quito unusual qualifications for the
position. \ school man of experience.
thoroughly posted on educational needs
and educational work, he is an ideal
candidate. The partisan opposition
Mr.. James T. Hammond. late
Secretary Of State, after a display of
that belied all prctense of
actual nonpartisanship that would have
disgaced Tammany caucus. Mr. Ham
mond was not the first choice OF the
that nominated him, but the
second choice He was taken because
the first choice, Capt. Il. A. Wedgwood,
was not partisan, and the nonparti.
sans demanded that a man must be a
partisan or they would have none of
nim. Mr.. Hammond does not compare
with Mr. ribbals in qualifications for
effective school service; and he stands !