The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1901-07-12
ADMINISTRATIONS EoUcA-
TIoNAL PROPAGANDA.

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things to pounce upon the most sacred
possessions Of the territory for am
muni.ion I'm order 20 inculcate In the
minds of the people that territorial
Institutions should not be made part
and parcel Of the political machine.
I'm his inaugural address, Governor
jenkins was anxious to convey the
idea that the educational interests of
oklahoma we're sacred and that the
management Of Normal schools and
universities would be entirely non
political and non-sectarian. Yet even
before naming his official family i'm
fact. before thoroughly warning the
executive chair, Governor jenkins has
undertaken a course so at variance
with his recently expressed views that
even politicians gasp, by n stroke
he has shaken and demoralized the
educational interests OF oklahoma so
o~utrageously that discipline and or
ganizatlon among school faculties and
pupils will go for naught for years to
come. with a dexterity. that would
do credit to a politician Of the Quay
school. he has cracked the whip over
the heads Of the Normal regents, re.
moved those regents whom he sus
pected would be r%ecalcitrant, appoint
ed those whom he presumes can be
moulded to his wishes, and then hay.
ing reorganlzed the whole board Of
Normal regents, he resolves himself
into the board using the bready re
gents as voting manlkins, and car
ries out a set programme at once alb
horent and outrageous.
BY the action OF the board" Of re
gents at Edmond yesterday, fifteen or
twenty teachers are removed without
cause. Among them is President Muir
daugh. Because Murdaugh was indie
pendent in thought and action, refus
ed to be b~ull-dozed and protested
against the appointment Of two in
competent sons Of territorial officials,
to his faculty, he was marked for
slaughter. Charges Of drunkenness
were preferred against Murdaugh but
they we're not proven. Murdaugh is
a Democrat.
He never came to Guthrie and fawn-
ed and b~ellyached, and pleaded for re-
appointment. A man named Tim
hoitz was given M%urdaugh's place be
cause, it is said, he disliked Mar
daugh.
For weelb territorial educational
interests have been stirred to the
depths by the stories of scandal in
the faculty in the Northwestern Nor
nal school. Charges and counter
charges were made. Principal Ament,
who was appointed by Governor
Barnes, forgot his creator aud sud
denly became a strong jenkins sup
Coming to Guthrie he poured
long, wormy, lachrymose tales into
the ear of Governor Jenkins. His
phnlipics on Barnes doubtless souno
ed sweet. and the afidaylts Of Prof.
snowden and fifty teachers, refuting
the statements OF Ament were ignor-
ed, Ament threw the bull con into
the governor good and strong. AZ
ndavits had been made by Miss Hen
rietta Barnes and Miss Maude dc Cou,
teachers at the Normal, respecting
the questionable actions OF two other
members OF the faculty. AT Ament's
suggestion, the governor ignored the
anldavlts, rebuked Prof. snowden
and fred d., p. Marum aud d, d
Leach as regents. There is no sean.
dial, only short accounts, observed
Ament Yet 200 anidayits are ready
TO prove %rottenness in the faculty
What did the board Of regents do at
Edmond? Fired Murdaugh from Ed
mpud aud retained Anauf M ALVIN