Emil Staubmeyer, who falsely claims to be a professor, is the superintendent of schools in Fort Beulah (at the beginning of the novel) and Shad Ledue’s assistant (during the Windrip administration). Later, Judge Swan assigns him to take control of the Daily Informer from Doremus Jessup. Despite his powerful government jobs, Staubmeyer is really just an ignorant conformist, willing to flatter anyone who offers him power and recognition. At the Informer, he praises everything that Jessup does, fails to even notice Jessup’s anti-government editorials, and eventually passes control of the paper to Doc Itchitt rather than actually running it himself, like Swan wanted. Emil Staubmeyer’s career, like Shad Ledue’s, shows how fascist governments reward the most corrupt and incapable men with power.