Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-12
PARTY PERSECUTION.
STANLEY DISTURBING ORDER AT
THE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
He Is The Narrowest, Most Partisan, Vilest
Politician Ever at The Head of Kansas
Affairs

The blood thirsty vampires that
infest the Republican party are fight
ing desperately for official gore.
The assault upon the State Agricul-
tural College at Manhattan is now
on aud the qniet of the institution
! ia to be disturbed. 1t is ruinous to
college to have change of regents
or instructors forced upon it during
term, and all know it. The voters
of Kansas ought to take note of how
this administration disregsr6s public
interests for private profit and ex-
press their opinion of it as soon as
possible at the polls.
The board of regents met on
Wednesday, March 20, 1899. The
two new Republican regents, DIR.
VIM. Hunter of Blue Rapids, and
j. NJ. Satterthwaite of Douglas,
were present. Just before calling
to order, the president of the board,
J. n. Limbocker, and the college
treasurer, G.. r. Hoffman, were
>erved by Senator Hessin with notice
of suspension from the board of
regents. Governor Stanley has sus-
pended them pending investigation
of charges preferred by H. A.
Perkins, local editor whose paper
has teemed with abuse and vitupera-
ton since the change in the college
management two years ago. The
charges are of trifling nature,
namely ~ that Hoffman paid and
Limbocker received SIS month for
Limbocker's services as purchasing
agent for the college dining hall an d
other similar business on behalf of
the board; and (2) that they had
transacted business of the board of
regents without quorum, secretly
aud unlawfully." There has never
been a ses sion of the board at which
any one raised the point Of order
that there was no quorum. and for
the particular meeting referred to in
he charges, the minutes were at
the next meeting of the board ratified
and confirmed in full, by yea and
nay vote, with five regents present.
The trial will be before a committe
chosen out of the legislature. No
date has yet been set. The govern
or can be as long about it as he
chooses. Meanwhile not dollar of
college money can be paid out for
any purpose. All the Manhattan
people IS we'll as others, to whom
bills are owing, will have to wait for
payment until the governor sees tit
to unlock the college treasury.
The board adjourned till Thursday
morning, when resolution offered
by Regent Vrooman was adopted,
reciting that the two suspended
members are of such Importance in
the management Of. the college and
the consideration of business by the
board, that the board does not want
to go on without them, and therefore
adiourns. There will not be another
meeting until HoffmaL and Linn
booker are restored or until other
regents are appointed in their places.
The Investigation" will of course
be narrowly partisan and a false
conviction certain 1t is necessary
to discharge tie Populiat regents
in order to operate the State college
as school of Republicanism, as 1t
was to within two years.
This party persecution OF public
educators is disgusting, and des-
tructive to the interests of the people
Of the state. Let us have a law
that will take the state institutions
out of politics.