People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-11-09
Appellate Court Decides Against the Governor

The regents depose1 from the agri-
cultural college by the governors
trumped up investigation committee
have been reinstated. If this had not
been done American justice and Ameri-
can educational institutions would have
been permanently disgraced.
Absolutely without cause, with no
scruples for the good name Of honored
citizens, and on the evidence solely
of Job hunters SANDER, the governor
of this great state, in March last APP
pointed a committee of politicians, held
a formal session, pretended count of
Justice, and turned out of Office two of
the most valuable regents ever appointed
to the management Of the agricultural
college. Everybody who knows any
thing about the case knows this to be
true. Everybody admits that the in
vestigation was the most blatant farce.
Even the partisans on the governors
side shook their heads. They wanted to
see the result, but scarcely one of them
could approve the means. To people of
more independence it was a moral abom-
ination; it was nauseating to the popu-
lar sense of justice, often characterized
as an Outrage against common de-
Cency."
This is probably the worst case in the
whole history of education in our coun-
try. The news of it has gone from
ocean to ocean. We have been gossip
ped about and laughed at for our lack of
sense and propriety in educational man.
agement.
At bottom the Republicans were de-
termined upon roofing out a large part
of the economic teaching from the col
lege. They insist that the agricultural
and mechanical classes, to whom the
college belongs, shall not have the op-
portunity for enlightenment on ques-
tons touching the distribution of the
fruits of their labor. They utterly ig-
more and are determined that the act of
congress in 1890 shall not be carried out,
especially in the K.S.A.C. This act
prescribes how the funds shall be ex-
pended and in these words: "To be ap
piled only to instruction in agriculture,
the mechanic arts, the English language,
and the various branches of mathemat-
ical, physical. natural and economic,
with special reference to their applica-
tons in the industries of life and to the
facilities for such instruction" The
previous Populist board instead of over
stepping the law, came short of its full
fllment in the direction of social teach
ing. Five or six terms of sociological
work for the student out of a possible
forty-eight or more, is surely a small
proportion in this age of unparalleled So
cial agitation. 1t is because the colleges
of our land do so little in this direction
that the social problems are so great.
As to the removals, "No unbiased
mind can regard the grounds of these
removals as otherwise than trihing,
even were they legal. Men of standing
and character in the state are, by the
governors act, declared not to be fit or
proper persons to perform the duties of
the offices to which a governor and
senate concurred i'll appointing them,
and the only reasons for this harsh judg-
ment are so far fetched and so trihing
as to shake the moral sense of all
men who value character" THE stat
utory grounds for removing are corrup-
ton, venality inefhciency, misconduct,
immortality, and inattention to duties.
Not a syllable on any Of these was