Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1907 — Not Apt to Elect Superintendent. [ARTICLE]

Not Apt to Elect Superintendent.

Goodland Herald: lu accordance to a mandate issued bydudgc.il auleythe Of Newton coupty ,\yilj . again meet at Keqtland on Oct. 28th for the purpose of voting fpr a Couuty ’Superintendent. Because the five Republican trustees have failed to heed the repeated urgent invitations sent out by auditor Purkey to meet and ‘elect a superintendent, the live democratic trustees petitioned the court to issue a mandate com pelling their fractious brothers to march up aud stick their nose in the traugh. This fight has been purely a political one trom the start and it looks like it would be so until the fiuish. This is entire y wrong, but under tl e. circumstances it cannot be helped. This lolly of spending days and days at Rentland simply vpUug, .will cost ibe. couuty about 130 a day. The couuty has a Superintendent and the tax payers cannot t-ee the use ot spending hundreds of dollars of their money where there is no possible hope -pi reaching, a conclusion. You cpn lead a horse up to,..the traugh but you can be macie to attend the meeting but they caunot be compelled to vote tor any certain -candidate. Later developments reveal that the Republican trustees have taken ant appfat. This will delay the matter for probably a year and iu ths meantime,, Kellenberger will keep ou “sawing wood.”