The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1895-08-02

Middle in a Lengthy Article.
President McLouth of the Brookings
college is the last to make his state
ment OF his side of the case and it re-
quires nine columns of space in the
HurOnite to do it. He commences
from the time he was called to the
presidency of the college to the present
time, the latter portion of which is
produced.
In reference to factions in the faculty
Mr.. McLouth says: Three members
OF the faculty, two Of whom had never
likely seen the inside of college be-
fore they became officially connected
with one, the especially avowed friends
of Governor Sheldon and his confidants
and associates, for their own purposes,
were within six months creating cliques
and factions in the faculty. Prof.
Shepard, one of these men, began
spending much more OF his time in his
favorite work of holding secret COM
mittees and conferences than he spent
in the legitimate work of his chemical
laboratory. This for year and half
at least has been notoriously true.
Although indebted to the president
for honest effort to aid him in many
ways, he became ambitious to supplant
the man whose warm friend he pro-
fessed to be. Members of the govern
ing boards and either nfluen tial citizens
were approached in the interest of his
ambition, either by himself or his sup
winter OF 1893 or early in 1894, Cover
nor Sheldon appears to have become a
supporter of Prof.Shepard for president
as opposed to the incumbent. At least
Prof. Shepard made such a statement.
AT any rate by the middle OF 1894 the
governor seems to have been thoroughly
alienated and his former often-profes-
sed friendship was converted into dis
trust and even pronounced dislike. l
believe the change was wrought in him
by persistent and planned misrepre-
sentation. Early last summer l began
to hear of his promises to remove me.
demonstrated with him for saying
such things in the publicity of hotels
and passenger cars, and 1 said to him
if he found his friendship for me any
hindrance to his ambitions I would
find no fault with him for abandoning
me. In my last conversation with him
he said I had become unpopular with
the people Of the state. I reminded
him that the thing for which l had
been most blamed was what he himself
had forced upon me. There was no
reason whatever for his change of at
titude.
I had never thought him great
man. but believed him to be man of
good impulses, and never had an un-
kind thought about him until l knew
he had become bitter personal enemy
and with profane emphasis was pro-
missing to decapitate me. Even at this
moment believe he is more the victim
of malicious misleading than of any
unkind impulse in himself.
[ think it became evident to Prof.
Chilcott about the time of the last sum
mer meeting of the regents at Water
town, that his own tenure of Office was
likely to be brief unless some break
could be made in the ranks of the
board of regents. Anyhow, soon after
that meeting unusual activity in the
way of visits and conferences was OBJ
servable.
And at any rate, after these confer
ences or institutes" 5" late in December
Regent Henninger resigned and F. D.
Adams was put in his place. When it
came to be time last winter for the
governor to make his nominations TO
the senate he is currently reported to
have eXacted promises of those who
werl to be nominated as regents, that
they would protect certain of his favor
ties in the agricultural college and dis
miss others. DR.. Finnerud refused to
make such pledge, and so he was set
aside and another was named for his
place.
Last year it came to my knowledge