Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1890 — Claude Matthews and Public Schools. [ARTICLE]

Claude Matthews and Public Schools.

The Newport IT osier State Journal co’d .i .$ the following: “Hon. Claude Md thews. the DemocHitic candidal. ’. r Secre tary of Stat.*, is on * of '.ljoso line “haired krisimrni j,> f: Ij m -r: . v>ho has n) loyP for our R.mm n schools. He lias Im-n a r sidmit of this county about twenty-five years ami *l:o . :g that time he has lived within two hundred yards of a country school, but the shadow of none— -of his- child uen ever darkened the room, lie was too tony to permit his offspring to mix with the common children of the neighborhood. He preferred to hire a governess to instruct his children. Do the people of the State of Indiana want to electa man to such an important office who is too lofty to patronize the schools of our county? It is said oil and water will not mix, and we guess Kentucky blood will not mix with Hoosier blood.”