Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1896-02-14


ter to you as board, mailing a copy
to each member. The division of
public sentiment regarding the man
\ agement of the hospital for the in
Spe is no more apparent than diff
@nce OF opinion existing between
'gselves. Individually and collec-
VI you have assured me of your
Us to do what is for the best in
IA of the institution. There
to be no likelihood Of the gen
olic acquiescing in the policy
hy be pursued by either fac
sw eontending for supremacy.
s% there is concert of action be-
Nh the trustees add the heads of
Marious departments, the efficien-
(which has characterized the insti-
buttons cannot be maintained and a
failure to maintain it means a loss of
Sgonfidence throughout the state and
opportunities for making changes of
mismanagement. After careful con-
sideration have been forced to the
conclusion that harmony cannot ex-
list between the executive officers
lwho are now, or may hereafter be
selected) and the board, and the best
interests of the state can be better
advanced by board Of trustees to
whom contentious now existing are
unknown. Without ony discrimina-
tion between parties into which you
are now divided, or passing of judg
ment upon the course pursued by
either, / believe it my duty though
an unpleasant one, to ask for your
resignation, to the end that the reor-
ganization may be undertaken by
persons who are not now parties to
this controversy. 1 will expect to
receive replies from you not later
than the. 10th inst. Asking you to
give the matter careful consideration
before replying, l have the honor to
subscribe myself. Yours respect
]. fully, .
Y Roger Allin,
i. Governor.
Trustee McG iunis has resigned.
Some others are buoted as saying
they will resign if the governor will
also. -
The trustees that opposed Archibald
!. claim that they can reduce the ex-
pense of running the asylum $1,000 a
month or so, and perhaps $4,000 a
year.
If they can do this it is source of
wonder why they have not done so.
It seems strange that DR.. Archi-
bald or employees should alone re-
ceive censure for extravaganza.
1t occurs to us that the trustees
are also directly responsible for any
thing of that character. They are
placed over the institution as safe
ty valve, to guard against reckless
management and useless expendi-
lures, and if a superintendent is a
man OF luxurious tastes and does not
know the value OF public or private
dollar. then those trustees should see
that all .extravagances are kept down.
The trustees have escaped nearly
all censure thus far, but the facts are
they should receive cop.ous allow
anoe, and now that there is a ventila-
ton and cleaning out it would, per-
haps, be we'll to make 1t general and
get in a new set of deck hands. trus-
tees who go from the start and keep
down expenses from the tap of the
bell until they pass under the wire at
the end OF the last heat. 1t is not an
age of fossils, so we do not need any
fossil trustees out on the track, trot-
ting and snorting around and keep
ing off good entries. We have men
that will keep down expense on the
first quarter as we'll as on the home
stretch. Promises of retrenchment
in the future are not the stuff wanted.
1t has been a matter of comment
as to the whereabouts of Gen. Harri-
son Allen, accused by DR.. Archibald
of undue intimacy, socially and Grim.
inally, with Mrs. Archibald. The
general writes at length to the Argus
from Chicago. We make a few ex
tracts.
In reference to tho doctors lettey
Allen says.
'It simply shows to what depth O
heartless and unblushing meannes.
he will go in trying to screen himself
from condemnation for his own mis-
deeds. While / always urge forgive
ness for mistakes of all; yet in a cas-,
like this Of such fragrant perversior
of truth, of such deliberate and stud
led purpose; of unfairness aud inius
tice as purposed in his statements
would say Of him as the world will
let him go down as he deserves, a
the victim of his own purposes. A
one who has with utter heartless nes
and premeditated purpose of wron,
taken advantage of friendship t
destroy the innocent and deserving
The world has little respect for Q
confidence in the man who turn
against and tries to disgrace his owl
child and attempts to put the resul
Of his own misdesds on those VIII
would have gladly saved him fror
his present sorrows and the nature
result Of his past and persistent foil,
= The whols Christian worl