The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-02-04
PROMISE 4 OF A SENSATION
= The l' Brooklng's College Muddle
Will Be Investigated.
resident Mcloush Charged With Mixing
Politics With Educational Matters.
Asserted That Hsslers are
{ Teaching.

tul scandal which has appeared in
south Dakota politics for many years
ss about to be unfolded to the world in
the Investigation of the Brookings col.
lege trouble. Earnest efforts have
been made to suppress the publication,
but the matter has now gone too far to
keep hid The enemies OF Professor
Frost in their efforts to persecute him
have opened Pandora's box, and the
escaped spirits are likely to make it
isgery lively for them.
tuesday the report of the Investigate
ing COMMITTEES came up in the senate.
! " lncluded the memorial of Brookinrs
people, and was in effect sharp ar.
alignment of President McLouth and
{ ne Old board of regents. While tho
ssom1mittee : N did not express an opinion it
declared that u full investigation was
z saeInanded, and the senate promptly
ordered one.
Ibis -tfouble has been brewing for
more than two years. lis not unlike
me 1nsurrection. which nearly wrecked
( [ me state university at Nermillion a
year or two ago. The whole trouble
seems TO have arisen from dragging
polltlcs into the schools. President
hici4o4ths1s ;-.s 1s a very close friend of Gov.
tician la9sl and tho people of BroolSings
charge that he has been tryinp t, mack
the faculty there in the interests OF the,
Watertown statesman. They CHARGE
that he has turned off able and iutiuen-
tial professors who possessed a vide
influence and power for gooa for
The school and has substituted for them
!ncompetent political heelers. 1t is also
charged that he has successfully pulled
wires to control the board of regents
and has used his power over them 10
install at the college strikers for the
governor. The dismissal OF Professor
/ Kerr is said to have been accomplished
m order to make room for |. certain Mr.
Martin. who the Bookings people saw
! IS not qualified for the job, kerr.s re-
moyal is declared to have soangered the
students that, fearing disruption of
the institution, DR.. McLouth trans
terred Professor Dawson to the elected
professors place against his will and
then attempted to load the blame onto
him.
II is also said thnt Frost was dis
missed from the faculty to mike room
tor Ed Hewitt, of Ipswich one of the
regents, and there are lively charges of
sseEy grave offenses touching, the IN
tegrlty Of certain regents. So far all
the charges have been on one side.
= he friends of DIR. McLouth came here
to secure Frost's rejection, but when
that gentleman accepted the challenge
and offered to prove all the charges
against them they folded their tents
and silently left. Brookings people
claim that several attempts have been
made to have this matter sifee,i to the
bottom. but the regents abetted, thcy
say by Governor Aleilette, have al
ways hushed the subject up They
hoped for a different course from Gov
ernor Sheldon, whois ANYTHING but a
political friend of his pre;eces
sor, but his appointments last week
sadly disappointed them OF the tive
regents nominated two are members OF
the old board and are closely impli.
Gated in the trouble, while the other,
Shannon, of Huron, is one of DIR. Nc.
Louths most intimate friends. The
general impression prevails that the
governor sought to keep the matter
quiet and the Broolings men are conse
quently more determined than oyer to
air 1T thoroughly. There is no aues
tton from the complexion of the SEN
Rte committee, that the true inward
ness OF the scandal will now see day
light. Lieutenant-Governo Herriei
was member of the board Of trustees
during the Nermillion trouble and he Is
determined, SO far as his power goes,
that the Breolsings fight shall be looked
into into aud cleared up. To that end he
appointed strong and experienced
committee. The latter will send for
persons and papers and viii thoroughly
examine the ground