Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-30
THE SCHOOL ELECTION.

On Wednesday the people of Salt
Lake will fill the vacancies in the
school board. A non-pnrtisan ticket
has been proposed by non-partlsan con-
vchtions, and If this is successful, the
board will remain as 1T is composed
now. Tho candidates for reelection
are c. s. Martin, Arnold G.. Giauque,
Oscar w. Mosle, Mahtonihah Thomns
\ and Joseph Obendorfer.
1t is needless to say that the board
has given entire satisfaction the
schools are among the best in the coun-
& try. The experience the members hay,
gained during past faithful services
which extends, in the case of some Oh
them, over period of many years, IS
a valuable asset to the City that should
not be thrown away.
The citizens of Salt Lake have SO FAR
Z wisely kept the schools from the control
Of the extreme partisans for whom the
Tribune claims to speak, though with
regard to the city government they
have not been so fortunate. They
have deemed 1t the best policy to MAIN
tain a non-political school board But
they nre again appealed to to turn the
schools over to the so-called "Ameri-
cans" Why? Because, they are told
the schools are now under Church con-$
troll.
Everyone knows that this wilful
4 mlsstatement. Everyone knows that
the Church neither does control, nor
seeks to control the public schools
There is not a shadow Of proof of such
control. Nones is offered.
Further, the voters are told that the
schools must be turned over to the
Americans" because these are the
only, ones who know anything about
schools; they are the only ones who
care for education. This Is, OF course,
sanSnsult to. the majority. of the people
here, "Normons" and non" Mornions.
We have already called attention to the
fact that the excellent school system OF
Utah owes it's existence to the 14egisla-
ture and neither to the so-called An1-
erican party, nor to its miserable pre-
decessor, the Liberal party. And now,
FOR the Tribune to appeal to the people
to turn the schools over to party politi-
clans on entirely false representations!
What can be the opinion of a newspa-
per concerning the intelligence OF it's
readers when it hopes to influence them
TO vote this way or that way, by bra
zen falsehoods!
The only reason why the Tribune
wants the schools turned over to men
8 Of its own political faith, which, by
the way includes some very rank
feresies, from an American point OF
view, Is that It hopes to make of them
part of the political machine for which
it supplies the steam. For that rea-
son men like Oscar w. Moyle, Arnold
G. Gipuque, Mathonihah Thomas, and
I c.. S. Martin are to be turned down.
Their opponents, it is said are also
non nTtisan, which Is utterly impos-
sible, IL they are Americans" of the
Tribune brand.
It'll IL the6Noters want to continue in Of
flee the efficient members who are can
didates for reelection; II they want to
maintain non-partisan schools, they
! must, on Wednesday,, come out and
vote for the non partisan candidates.
School elections too often fail to inter-
est the majority OF the voters. We
hope this will prove an exception. Let
the voters, come out this time III force
and declare themselves on the question
whether the schools are to continue
free aud unbranded or whether they
are to become "Ane,icanized" accord
ing to the pattern Of the selfish pollti-
clans who speak through the Tribune