The age-herald., 1899-06-06
NEXT OFFICIAL
 ORGANIZATION Scheduled for Meeting of Auburn Beard
 Of Trustees. SAID DIR. BROWN WILL 60 IntimatGd That Two Professors and Treasurer Arc Also On List. WORD POLITICS EXPLAINS IT ALL Dr. Brown Has Been at Head of the Schools for Seventeen Years
 One of Foremost Educa-
 tors of the State
WORD POLITICS EXPLAINS IT ALL

 l William Leroy Brown, two professors, and l the venerable treasurer of the states great l college at Auburn is understood to havo 1 been decreed.
 l Prof. Thaeh and another, whose name at l this time is not ascertainable, are those
 members of the faculty who are to share
 the fate of their distinguished chief if | Governor Johnson succeeds in carrying out his plans.
 Four vacancies on the board of trustees of the famous college are to be filled. l These are from the First, Second, Third 1 and Ninth districts. The appointments will
 not be made public until the new trustees take their seats on Wednesday of next l week, June II.
 | The commencement exercises of the col l lege begin next Sunday with the custom l ary sermon. On Monday there will be com- l petitiye drills, and an address by Superin- | tendent of Education Abercrombie. Tues l day there will be a long programme car 1 rier out, and on Wednesday there will be | meeting of the board of trustees as newly constituted and the comforting of degrees. Meantime the names of the new trustees will be kept secret
 Politics Behind It All  The sole cause for the contemplated re-
 moval of President Brown and the pro-
 fessors is said to be of a political nature. It is understood that no reason at all will
 be assigned in the board meeting. Upon
 the motion to elect the president and the
 faculty, action will be taken identical with that followed when President Reynolds
 was removed from the charge of the Girls
 Industrial school at Montevallo.
 Some trustee will nominate Dr. Brown as
 his own successor, whereupon some other
 trustee will nominate another man. So with the professors who are slated for exc cution.
 Undoubtedly the names of the proposed
 new president. professors and treasurer, have been agreed upon; but they are kept
 as secret as was Eager's name at Monte
 vallo. But the slate may not go through
 the board, even by the one majority that
 turned Reynolds out. Hints of what is in
 the wind have reached members of the
 board and others, who favor Dr. Brown
 the professors and the treasurer, and while
 they have succeeded admirably in keeping
 the matter to themselves, it IS known that feeling of intense bitterness has been aroused
 It is claimed that six hold-over trustees are determined to protect Dr. Brown at all
 hazards.
 It is thought to be not improbable that they will also stand by the threatened pro fessors and trustees. But at best this can be little more than a surnlise
 One of the hold oyer trustees is a son
 in-law of President Brown. He is Tan
 pral RattS of fhp Einbtb diGtr f i,
 alleged that the governor would consent
 to the retention of pr. Brown il hc felt
 any assurance that MT. Betts would vote
 to turn out the two professors and the
 treasurer
 The board consists of twelve trustees, as
 follows: President, Governor Joseph F.
 Johnston, ex-officio; Superintendent of Ed
 ucation, J. w. Aherecombia, ex-offcio;
 James G. Gilchrist, Hope Hull, Second
 district; Jonathan Haralson, Selma, Fourth
 district; Thomas Williams Wetumpka,
 Fifth district; Walter c. Whitaker, Tus-
 caloosa, Sixth district; J. A. Bilbro, Gads-
 den, Seventh district Tancred Betts,
 Huntsville, Eighth district.
 The trustees whose places the governor
 is now called upon to fill are T. H. Frazer
 Mobile, First district I. F. Calyer, Union Springs, and H. Clay Armstrong, Anham, both of the Third district; R. H. Duggar, Gallion, Ninth district. The college being in the Third, that district is entitled by law to two trustees.
 The treasurer is D. T. Glenn, and the surgeon J. H. Drake. The college at An ham, familiar for a generation as the "A. & M," and now legally designated as the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, State Ag- ricultural and Mechanical College, is not only the greatest institution of learn ing the state ever had, but it is easily the first college of it's kind in the south. President seventeen Years For seventeen years with an interval of one year spent elsewhere, William Leroy Brown, president and professor of physics | and astronomy, has been the head of this | college, and he has been the chief spirit in building it up from about a hundred l students to the 363 of this year. Under his leadership it has expanded and developed | to remarkable degree and to-day no great school of the south ranks it. Dr. | Brown, who is now by common consent | accounted the ablest and most successful | educator the state has in forty years, had a distinguished career at the Uni- yersity of Georgia, and subsequently, at Vanderbilt. From Vanderbilt he went to Auburn.
 Charles c. Thach entered the college as
 a boy of fourteen twenty-six years ago, and
 as boy and man has been in service there
 ever since.
 Treasurer E. T. Glenn has been connected
 with the college more than thirty years.
 The governor declared at the last com-
 mencement that he would like to MT. Glenn removed. His reasons were not given; but it was understood that a kins-
 man of his was a prospective candidate for
 the treasurership.
 It will be remembered that the governor
 appointed Robert H. Thach, of Birming-