The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-08-06
Auditor Nipples paper, the Parksto

ana talkS his one having knoWleuRe anu
authority. 1t claims that many repub
lican papers have been talking i'll -advis
eddy in criticising the governor as he is
in the right and not doing what he Is or
has done for political reasons.
That the governor is right we have no
h~esitancy in saying. lie has charged
that one act at least was committed by
the regents was wrong. He could go
still further and :say that the regents,
the trustees and the president Of the
college had attempted to divert money
from the state treasury in a manner
never contemplated by the Legislature,
and lind abundance of proof to sustain
him. 1t is not a political fight which is
at the bottom OF this deal, and the soon.
or the republican papers Of the state
realize this and demand an overturn ng
Of the present situation the better. The
advice of the democratic Argus Leader
can be needed in this respect with good
grace, and no doubt with good results.
Many Of the papers which have accused
the governor with only political motives
in this disgraceful tiasco, will rue the
day hat they attempted to restrain a
proper renovation Of this never to be
forgotten coterie of d%estroyers of public
welfare. For years the Brookings col
lege has been the cause Of disgraceful
quarrels, and frequent sensations-and
one whitewash Investigation. At the
bottom Of the whole trouble is money.
That Is the cause Of the present trouble.
Money does 1t all. During the past year
that institution had over $4,000 to ex-
pend, $1,000 being a state appropriation,
the balance was received from the gen.
eral government and remained in the
hands Of the regents to spend as they
saw tit. The state appropriation was
divided into various items and had to be
used for such purposes only. the other
$4,000 was spent as the regents direct
cd, and to the farmers, the agricultural
classes-people who conduct farms, il
not others it may be interesting to read
the following figures taken from the re-
port OF the public examiner just made to
the governor. The following amounts
were a%pportioned and spent for the var
ious departments out of this $4,000:
odlaries.. .S24,O95.OS
Agricultural department. 475.26
Dairy department. .......... 3l434
horticultural department.. 457.2o
Veterinary department. ....... 1888
industrial Art department. 69.6l
Or the balance $1,000 was spent for
labor, $1,000 for printing, and other de
partments were apportioned amounts
corresponding with the above. 1t is
said by members of the trustees that
800 was apportioned for a silo in the
agricultural department, and that after
the hole was dug for the same, those in
authority changed their mind and con-
cluded they could not spend that much
money Cd the agricultural department
and the hole was filled up. Besides the
$4,000 above noted there was $1,000
paid from the state treasury for salaries,
making $4,000 for salaries in a school
with la students enrolled, $l81 per
capita for teachers. 1t is only a question
among the governing boards and the
faculty how much each professor and his
department shall get, and the depart
ments Q to Come out at the little end
OF the horn, il S415 is to represent the
amount a%pportioned to the agricultural
department Of a state school. Besides
this the regents collected over $4,000
from Incidental funds from the various
institutions the first six months of thus
year, and this money is not turned into
the state treasury but expended as they
see mt. or this amoun they can make
up shortage OF ~defaulting regent treas
urers, liquidate judgments which the
court renders against the regents, there
being one for Sl,OO5 to pay at this time
Tor a d~efaulteu contract. This thing
must be stopped and the interminable
row ended. 1t mas been going on until
the only thing to do is to clean the col.
lege out as was the university a few
years ago, dismiss every one, governing
boards and all. and put the government
aid In the state treasury and let the ley.
stature have some control OF the funds,
and not let it be parceled out to a few
who quarrel il there is not an equal d,vy.
The shameful and d~isgraceful language
which has been directed towards Gov.
Sheldon may divert the attention Of
some people from the direct cause of this
trouble, but there still remains the fact
that some q must weed out this ever
discordant crowd of spcilsmen, and il
Gov. Sheldon can't do it the law alone
will be to blame, and il any event the
whitewash and excnse era must end. and
the republican papers IAN aid in i. il
they will.
Hon. Geo. s. Engle, of Aberdeen
formerly attorney general of the terri