The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-06-28

State Superintendent r. H. Wilson,
who is asking for denomination at the
hands of the democratic party Aug.
4, 1914, was born in Kentucky in 1873.
At the age of IS years he moved with
his parents to Texas, where he com
pleted his college education and en-
tered the teaching profession to
which he has devoted his life. After
a residence of twelve years in Texas,
during which time he alternately al
tended and taught school, he moved
10 Chickasha, Oklahoma, where he
taught in the city schools until the
coming of statehood, when he was
elected county Superintendent of Gra-
dy county. In that position he show
ed superior ability as an executive
and organizer and placed the schools
of that county upon plane second to
none. During his administration as
superintendent of Grady county, he
placed his county in fourth rank so
far as the number of first grade teach
ers employed was concerned, with the
average term of school longer aud
the salaries paid to teachers higher
than those of the average counties of
the state, despite the fact that Grady
was a newly organized county, and
the entire educational system had TO
be built from the ground up.
Mr.. Wilson's broad experience as a
county school teacher, city teacher,
principal of schools, county superin-
tendent, member of board of educa-
ton of the city OF Chickasha, and
president of the Oklahoma School Of
ticers association, eminently fitted
him fer the office of state superin-
tendent, when he was selected four
years ago.
In addition to these qualifications,
he now has had one term of expert
ence as state superintendent and he
has given the state as much service
as has been given by any other Of
ficer in the same length of time.
In view of this, his friends do net
hesitate to urge his reelection to the
office which he has filled so well. The
schools under his administration have
developed as they never developed
before. The work done during his
administration has received national
the state has increased fifteen per
cent in number and the efficiency has |
increased in greater proportion. This |
is demonstrated by the fact that all |
of the increased number of teachers |
have been of the first grade certlfi- |
cate class and college graduates.
Oklahoma cannot afford to take a |
step backward educationally, and the |
reelection of Mr.. Wilson guarantees |
to everyone in the state a continua-
ton of the progress made in the past
with increased efficiency due to his
increased and ripened experience as
an administrator of large school af-
fairs.
Mr. Wilson is in the prime of life;
a young man, six feet tall, brown eyes
and black hair, sprinkled with gray,
and weighs 200 pounds. He is hale
fellow well met and his friends all
delight to call him Bob" He never
stops to ask the question whether
or not thing can be done, but only
determines whether or not it is right
A kind father, a devoted husband,
model citizen with the white rose Of
clean and noble manhood upon his
breast; man fearless, serene.y
poised calm and patient under the
calumny of false and slanderous en-
emies, evenly balanced alike in defeat
and victory; kind and accommodate
ing, ready and willing to forgive those
who oppose him: enc who never takes
the time from his work to worry over
what those who oppose him may say;
devoted to his duty and to the peo-
pie who elected him; strong execu- /;
tive, loved and respected by all who
know him. natural leader of men; {
such a man is Robert H Wilson, state
superintendent of public instruction
of Oklahoma, in whom the boyhood [
and girlhood of the state have their ,
hopes.