Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-10-31
VOTERS!
What about the public schoolsi

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Shall 1t be politics or no politics7
This is the real issue In this cam.
paign as far as local affairs are DON
cerned and, after all, local affairs
are the things in which you are the
most interested. You have had many
years Of experience with schoo,
boards in which politics have beer
an important factor. You have hat
but nine or ten months Of a non.
partisan school board. This is toe
short a time, we admit, for the non.
partisan board to show what 1t car
do, but it has been able to give you
an idea as to what can be expected.
Which kind of a school board dc
you prefer?
The election is but one week from
tomorrow. 1t then will be up TO You
to say whether the present non
partisan board shall continue in Office
for a full term, or whether you will
place men in charge of school affairs
who were nominated purely for
political reasons.
The present n~on-partisan board is
made up of the highest class of men
in the community. They are men
who have a good education them
selves; they are men of much bust
ness ability and men who have made
a study of what the most progressive
cities are doing along the line of
training children. Not one of them
Is a politician. They are the class
Of citizens that most communities
are trying to get interested in public
affairs, but who either do not relish
the turmoil of politics, or who have
not the time to give to the public.
These men were appointed by the
Board of Aldermen in response to q
| demand on the part of the voters
last year for something better in the
way of handling school affairs. Can
anyone find fault with the selections
made, except for political reasons?
But politics are just the thing we are
trying to eliminate.
AS the law says the board shall
consist of nine members, it is neces-
sary that one party shall have at
least (one more member than the
other. The aldermen divided it as
nearly equally as possible. Here are
the men they named:
John X. Sheehy,
Charles r. Fletcher
Julius Klein,
Louis NJ. Rossi,
Edward l.. Gridley,
Henry w. Jones,
Carl c.. Christensen,
James J., Harrigan,
Frank X. Urbanski.
Can you distinguish the democrats
from the republicans? If the dis
tinction had not already been pub
lished could you tell, either by per-
sonal knowledge or through their
actions on the school board during
the past few months, to which party
the different members belong?
Politics is the last thing these men
think Of They are interested only
in the public schools.
The democrats have placed the
names of all these men, republicans
and democrats alike, on their ticket
this fall. Those who vote the demo-
cratic ticket will vote for the nom
partisan board without change. The
republican voters can administer a
well-deserved rebuke to their party
leaders for nominating a straight re-
publican ticket, for the Board of
Education and thus dragging the
public schools back into politics, by
using pastors Ito substitute the
names of the nine men named here
for the nine men named on the
straight republican ticket.
You should do this much for the
sake of the schools and the children.
Dc it for Perth Amboy.
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