Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1879 — COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS. [ARTICLE]

COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS.

The superintendent of public instruction, during an informal talk with a Journal reporter, the other day, stated that never before had he noticed so much political wrangle over the election of county superintendents as at present, and he had grave apprehension that it would work disastrously to the public school interest. Some of the best men had been kicked out, and, under advices from fifty-seven counties, only twenty-two had been re-elected, the remaining thirty-five being new men. The superintendent felt that politics must not be allowed within the schools, for a superintendent or a teacher, to be successful in his work, must have the cordial support of all, irrespective of partisan feeling. While the professor didn’t so say it, the . same sentiment applies to the benevolent institutions. —[lndianapolis Journal.