The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-12-05
SHOULD ELECT
NON-PARTISANS
Voters Have Chance to Keep
Politics Out of the
Public Schools.
UNFAlRhESS IN THE FIFTH
Americans Not Willing to Abide by
Honest Ruling Of Caucus in Case
Of Nominees.
NnN-rARrIsNN rIcINET.


The action u faction or inc
american" party in the Fifth precinct
Lcdyard NJ. Bailey Tor the board OF
education is resented by many citizens
Of the precinct who attended the cau-
Gus AZ which W. !. Barrette was nom
mated for the long term and Dr. O.. T.
FfOufz Tor the short term.
The caucus On the Fifth precinct at
which Barrctte and Pfoutz were nom
mated was similar 90 those held an
over the city Americans Democrats
and Republicans joining On non-partl-
san caucus. The partisan caucus
in the Fifth precinct was first suggest
81 By Arthur rarsons. the secretary or
the ~Amcrican- party precinct commit
on the part OF tho Republican and
Democratic rhairuen. and W. y. Adams.
american party chairman. Joined IN
the Joint call 90 the voters which was
advertised fin AN the local newspa pers
just as were the calls IN the other
precincts.
Mr. Barrctte wur nominated Tor the
long term. Mr. Bailey and Dr. pfoutz
were named for tlo short term. and
the latter received the majority Of the
votes I'm the cnucur- Those present
arGuicsced in the decision Of tire eau
Gus. and 90 was iufercntiaIy binding
upon an who participated in D. Friends
uf Bailey however. not content with
tho fact that be was honestly beaten
lu the non-partiTan caucus. are maSins
40 political matter and. engineered
by the Tribune. have called caucus
DR. rfoutz.
charge Against FfoutE.
A. part Of cine plan. the Tribune
charges ur. rfuutZ. along with Cover
nor Spry. with accepting milk from
tne state prison. ON whose board both
are member. free ~ charge. which. of
course. ir not true. To being Tribune
ef,le 10 graft or steal anything That
ISN'T nailed down. 20 appears to them
chat ~ n man has o. chance to graft hc
receeaarilv does eo-
THE inriuuation iu tho Tribune that
Ur. rfoutz want- on tnc school board
so fc can bo official ocuiiet Tor school
children with defective sight, was WRITE
ten. 81 course. hv some ono ignorant
rie shore ~ Tho practice arnonE ths
children Of the public schools. hut viii
He unable to do eo tt ne becomes q
ravmhcr % the board ~ education. as
Dr.. pfoufz last night declared hi,
Intention Co stay on the ticket. although
che Fiftn precinct is american hT
considerable majority Having beer
nominated iu partisan caucus. PIG
feels that DO should remain IN the con
test TnarmuCh a0 AIR. Earrcfte ig ar
American the friends Of Dr. Pfouts
feel that this ncn-Dartisnn ticket shoril,
carry. Tho Tribune idca ~ "a uon-par-
tisan board would be q board compose,
OF "AmsricauE' alfovcthcr-thc kind of
Americans" that DO can control.
should Elect Non-Parti-nus.
Nor-p partisan candidates have beer
nominated in every municipal DrcCirc
fro salt Lake. and the nominees rep
resent the choice of mass voters " The
Republican. Democratic and American
parties.
This ticket which represents the do
mand ~ nublic-s plritcd citizens Co keel
politics out 81 The school system. should
De- elected. and these candidates eloul'
De- sent to serve upon tine board of edu
cation.
The people who have the interest o
-he school system at heart have made
known their desire that politics h
Kept out OF the school system. tina
partisan strife be eliminated. and Chi
desire har resulted iu the nomination
of men of superior staudiuE in tho com
ruuuitv. who rise above party affiiia
tiou fn the effort 20 make clean
uon-Un rfiEan organ iraflon which direct
tho methods of cducafiuE nearly $500
children iu salt Lake.