Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 137, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1911 — Kentland Enterprise Pays High Tribute To Supt. Schanlaub. [ARTICLE]

Kentland Enterprise Pays High Tribute To Supt. Schanlaub.

W. O. Schanlaub, a Rensselaer boy, was re-elected school superintendent of Newton county Monday. He is a democrat and the republicans had half of the trustees, with a republican auditor, but there was no republican candidate. Mr. Schanlaub is a young man pf superior qualifications and has given the best satisfaction during his tenure of office. The Kentiand Enterprise has the following to say about the election:

Measured from political battles waged in this county over the office of superintendent the elction Monday was a tame affair. Four years ago wfyen the democrats held the balance of power in the Auditor the fight was prolonged for seven months. This year the trustees are equally divided, politically, with a Republican Auditor, yet the contest lasted less than ten minutes. After reaching Kentiand the republican trustees held a conference and ascertained that no Republican had announced his candidacy• for the office, and voted to support Mr. Schanlaub on the grounds of efficiency. Trustee Hazel of Jefferson township nominated Mr. Schanlaub and a ballot was cast as required by law, jen votes being recorded for his reeleetion. But republicans may have some consolation in this, that while a democrat earns the salary, a republican will expend it. Mrs. Schanlqub is a royal blue republican who counts re-, publican ancestors back to the formation of the party. She refuses to surrender her political beliefs on the family alter, and we surmise she but mildly congratulated her husband upon his election. Laying politics aside all will agree that Mr. Schanlaub has made a good superintendent, that his qualifications are excellent, and that, he has labored faithfully for the advancement of education in Newton county. Tq those who believe that the office of County Superintendent should be removed as far as possible from politics his election will be sitisfactory, and it will likewise be agreeable to those who have an interest in tlfe welfare of the public schools.