The Detroit times., 1909-02-22
SOLDIERS likely
TO DOWN GANG
IN TWELFT TIL
the MARTiNpALE CROWD SEEKS
DOUGHTY INSPECTORS SCALP
BUT MOST OF THE VOTERS ARE
WITH HIM.

~ WIKI q GOluDerB cluD III every PiS-
cinct and Richards organizations COM
batting them in every election dis
trict, the school inspectorship fight In
the Twelfth ward may be said TO he
the hottest ever known in that local
1ty. Each side is holding many quiet
meetings. A public anti-Martindale
meeting was held Friday night in Or
likowski's hall. at T!llman-ave. and
Llnden-st.. which was we'll attended
and enthusiastic and in which the
friends OF Inspector Goldberg urged
al voters to get out and slam the
Martindale forces by renominating
and electing the man who has been
most obnoxious to the organization
The fight In this ward is not based
on personal issues as far as the "antis'
are concerned, although the Martin
dale workers are using everything
they can dig up against Hiram {.
Goldberg. the present inspector.
DIR. Richards. my opponent, is
good man but he Is in wrong" says
Goldberg. Il have nothing TO say
against him personally. but he Is be-
ing used by a corrupt ring that is
trying to drive me out Of the school
board SO that 1t can put through its
deals with less trouble.
The Webster school is being used
- q political headquarters and the
telephone Is used 20 bring in citizens
school board. The supervisors force
has been laid of and is working
against me. I am told, and | have not
heard that their pay was cut of while
they are doing It.
Miss Katherine Flanagan is not the
only teacher working against me.
understand that other teachers have
been delegated TO cover certain dis
tricts, making a house-tohouse can
vass. The gang is out TO beat me but
- finding that my friends throughout
the ward are inclined to stick by me
and some OF the teachers have re.
ceived cutting rebuffs"
Goldberg is very anxious TO have
James A. Robson, former assistant
prosecutor. make good his offer TO pc
tition that the grand jury investiga-
ton testimony be made public.
III they will publish IL all. | will be
satisfied and more than satisfied" de-
clares Goldberg. But | would not
want to have only portions printed.
They must give out the testimony Of
Supt. Martindale and Inspector Hely
~ any Is given out. The testimony
that was taken would open peoples
eyes"
whether Prosecutor Robson had
friends and relatives employed in the
schools or not. am convinced that he
Was not the proper man TO prosecute
that investigation"
IL develops that an effort was made
at one time to have Robson removed
from the position OF inquisitor during
the grand jury hearing. Two men who
had taken an interest in the case saw
q member OF the school board stop 4
witness who had testified before the
grand Jury and after accusing him OF
lying. strike him twice in the face in
IN ef0rt to make him tell everything
that he had said In his testimony.
Complaint OF this lack OF protection
TO witness was made 10 Prosecutor
Yerkes and the latter was asked TO
detail another man in Robison's place,
hut he did not do so.
The men who have studied politics
IN the Twelfth ward for years say
that Goldberg Is an almost certain win
0er. The cry that has been made
against him. that the ward is practi-
cally unrepresented by having an anti
0artindale man, Is said TO be making
very little impression.
DR.. w. II. Mariner who Is running
against Inspector Henry Meihm, Mar
findalist, In the Eleventh ward. is max
1ug q quiet campaign in that he is
not holding meetings, but is going
from house to house and personally
telling the voters of his beliefs in re-
gard to management OF the schools.
He has met with assurances OF sup
port wherever he has gone so far He
A. irdorsed by the Women's Independ-
emit Voters league.