The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1914-05-07
VOTERS WERE NOT FOOLED
Barrett anl Fischer Win By Nalsr.
ny Of "a and II IN School
Dlreetsr EIeetleu
voters STAMP Their DisapPreyaI On
Methods Of WOuld.be Politicians

Never have the voters of Julesburg
SO completely expressed their con-
tempt for petty politics as at the cleo
ton for School Directors on last Mon
day.
The statement in the Julesburg News
of G. E. Hendricks and Mable Frances
Rook pointed too strongly to Back
room, Petty Politics for the average
voter to stand and when 1t became
known that the SO loudly proclaimed
Mass meeting of 40 or so representa-
tive citizens was In reality nothing
but a gathering of few of the TOWN
Election Citizens Party and that the
liatform was not adopted and the can
dijates named until number of these
had gone home; That the platform
was written by only two or three and
that less than rs per cent Of the vot-
ers had notice of this meeting the in
te!ligent voter, the voter more inter-
ested in good schools than in who was
to be County Candidates this fall got
busy.
Barnum said, "You can't fool all the
people, all the time," and this held
good in the school election. The mis-
representations and the absolute
classifying of by Order of the Com
mittee" in last weeks News was SO
completely answered by Messrs Bar
rettnnd Fischer on last Sunday morn
Ing and the follow up of the absolute
~ iAane unsigned article that was in
the mails Monday morning showed the
4 I, S56fpls - 49, u h mean II our
schools were placed in the hands OF
these parties and they showed by their
ballots on Monday just how they felt
about this matter.
We are and always have been
strongly opposed to mixing school
questions in politics and we found as
soon as Messrs Barrett and Fischer
announced their candidacy that there
were many others who felt the same
as we did, and the selection of these
gentlemen was made by Republicans
Democrats, Progressives, Prohibition
lists and Socialists, and we trust that
the disapproval of such methods as
was used for the first time in many
years this spring has been SO COM
plete and genuine that the parties
who attempted it will in the future
remember this lesson and never again
attempt to bring our schools into poll
tics.
To those who labored SO hard last
Sunday to write the article that was
in Monday mornings mail we want
to agree with them. We want no u
riah Heep on the School Board, we
want no Uriah Heep behind the School
Board and the Community could sur
vive without a Uriah Heep in the
Community.
Our School Board in District No.
So is now composed of Edward Fischer
President, R. E. Barrett Secretary,
Earl Harris Treasurer These men
we've elected by the people without
regard to National, State or County
political affiliations and are men of
good sound business judgment who
will conduct the affairs of the District
on the same high plane that they have
been carried on in the past. They are
men who have been elected without
making any prediction pledges; they
have no personal axes to grind, they
have no political favors to bestow
and they have shown that they can
npot be bought, bribed, intimidated or
coerced They are just the plain SER
wants of the majority of the people
and as such will conduct their Offices