Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-09-07
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 7. 1910.
REPUBLICAN OPPORTUNITY.

Next Tuesday is primary day.
There is but one important issue be-
fore the republican voters, The
democrats have no issue. The re-
publieans are to decide whether they
will Join their democratic friends in
an effort to take the public schools
out of politics. On the republican
primary ballot there will be eighteen
names under the head, For School
Commissioners" Nine of these
eighteen names will be the present
Board of Education consisting Of
five democrats and four republicans.
These men are for the public schools
of Perth Amboy first, last and all
the time. They have no political
schemes to carry out. They do not
have to consider what is the best
for their party before they can take
up the question as to what is best
for the schools and the taxpayers as
a whole. They are known as the
non-partisan board. That they are
all capable men is freely admitted.
The only objection that is raised to
them is hat they are divided as
equally as possible between the two
parties.
Certain republican leaders place
their party first and the welfare of
the schools second. Accordingly,
they have placed nine other men on
the ticket for the nomination for
school commissioners In an effort to
have all the commissioners of one
party, thereby making a political
issue out Of the. public schools.
We believe that a majority of the
people Of Perth Amboy favor keep
ing the public schools out of politics.
1t is plain that the democratic voters
do. They have only the non-partisan
board on their primary ballot. This
means that four republicans have
got to be placed on the democratic
ticket this fall. Because there are
but four republicans and five demo-
Gratis, certain narrow-minded repub-
Hcans are opposed to 1T. They
simply cannot see the welfare of the
public schools stand ahead of what
they enormously think is the well
fare of their party.
They seem to forget hat when
the present board was appointed it
was within the power of the demo-
cratic majority in the Board of
Aldermen to name a school board
composed entirely of democrats.
Had they done so there would have
been some reason for the republl-
cans to nominate a full board this
fall to oppose them. Realizing,
however, that the people were dis
gusted with school boards in which
politics was the main factor, the
aldermen took the first step to elm
mate politics and accordingly named
nine high class men who would be
above petty quarrels and who had
the business ability to give the tax
payers what they were paying for.
The fact that there were five
democrats named and but four re-
publicans is not the question. The
feature is that there are four lrepub-
licans where the democrats might
have had them all. Such a condition
as this has never been known il
Perth Amboy before. 1t is a big steI
in the right direction.
OhCS tuS0S nluS men SOl 70 WOIk
the fact that there were FIVE of one
party and four of the other wa:
promptly forgotten. Politics Ia.
not entered into any of their trans
actions. This is shown by the fac
that while a democrat is presiden
of the board, a republican is chair
man of the most important commit
tee and as such, perhaps, could DE-
more for his party. if be so desired
than the president could do for his
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The democrats started this move
ment and they are backing it up b!
nominating the board as It stand
regardless Of party affiliations. 1t +
a pity that there are those in th'
republican party who are SO short
sighted as to deny that party tn
privilege OF showing an equal viii
ngness to remove the schools from