The Ordway new era., 1918-10-18
Rhine's Statement
TO THE VOTERS
OF CROWLEY COUNTY.

In submitting my candidacy for
county superintendent of schools |
feel that the public is entitled to
know whether my experience has been
such as to qualify me for the duties
of that Office and whether l possess
energy enough and enough of the
sense of responsibility. The people
no longer blindIy and with partisan
lpredujice vote for a candidate simply
because he is running on their ticket.
The first requisite they demand of
every aspirant to public office is that
he possesses the ability to serve, the
energy to serve, and the willingness
to serve. A public official is nothing
more than public servant, employed
by the people whom he serves. and
so long as he keeps in mind who his
employer is he is likely to render good
service.
feel that my experience qualities
me for the duties of the office of
county superintendent of schools. If
l felt otherwise / could not be honest
and remain in the race. have had
twenty-three years of school work.
beginning in 1895. Eight years of
this, from December 1906, to De-
cember, 1914, was spent as county
superintendent of schools in Saline
county, Illinois, with nearly two hun
dred fifty teachers under my SUPER
vision. The schools of that county
range from the one-room rural school
to the city schools with nearly fifty
teachers and the township high
school. one of which has sixteen in
strnctors. That l performed the du-
ties of the office with some degree
of zeal and efficiency is evidenced by
the fact that in 1914 / was solicited
to become candidate for the office
again, among those soliciting me be-
ing more than three hundred men
who disagreed with me politically.
On July 81, 1914, the last day on
which petition for primary cleo
tion candidate can be filed in Illinois.
numerous voters in every township
IN the county. without my knowledge.
signed a petition and filed it in the
once OF the county clerk authorizing
MN TO print my name on the primary
election ballot as candidate for the
Office | was then holding. AS to the
correctness of these statements there
are a number of witnesses in this
county who at that time lived in Sa-
iine county. While profoundly CRATE
iui Tor these evidences of apprecia-
ton and good will, could not allow
myself to be drawn into the race for
the reason that at an earlier date 7
hau spoken encouragingly to the man
who succeeded me in regard to his
prospective candidacy. AS soon as
learned of the filing of the petition /
withdrew 1t from the county clerks
once, and l now have 1t. have made
no display of 1t since coming to Colo
rado, but some two years ago showed
1t to Editor l.. I. Giffin, Sheriff Work.
err Judge Woodbridge and County
Dalby, each of whom
examined it with the county clerks
signature and the seal of his office.
and know it to be genuine.
In conclusion, / solicit the yotes
and the assistance of all. and in the
event l am elected. pledge to the peo-
pie the very best service that is in
me. And If elected further promise
ever to bear in mind these two facts.
First, that the boys and girls of Crow
ley county are worth far more than
are all the houses and lands and all
other property. Second, that the per-
sonality of the county superintendent
of schools is reflected by the teachers
OF his county. and is felt in every
home from which a tot, or a lad, or
a lass attends the public schools.
II. E. RHINE.