Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-06-03
(AsyIu.n-concIuded.)

was discharged and after a~pologizins
for his statements concerning the
management applied for reinstate
ment. He was censured by the man
agement for abuse to patients and for
the %uncleanly condition of his ward
These points stated by The Optic are
a matter OF record. There is no crime
in being a discharged attendant, and
a man may tell the truth, much as
he is likely to color it, for all that,
But this mar Dorbrandt goes out of
his way to insult the Mexican attend
ants. The Optic does not believe the
Mexican attendants of the institution
have eve numerically treated and
cruelty punished the poor unfOrtunates
OF the asylum. 1t is another SANDER
against an intelligent and kind,heart-
ed race, that the Ell Paso News is to
be ceusured for publishing. There
have been isolated cases of %harshness
to patients, no doubt, but the ire
sponsible attendants guilty OF such
cruelty have been promptly dismissed
when the matter had been reported.
The records show that in nearly every
instance the attendants thus dis
charged were Americans. This mali
cious and unfounded slap by Dor
brandt at the native inhabitants of
Las Vegas goes far to discount ev-
erything in his article.
Q. L. Gregory says that when Dor
brandt came to him with complaints
against the superintendent and ma
tron he pursued the matter far enough
to discover that the man wanted Su-
~perintendent Wards place himself
and the place of matron for his wife.
Then ne had told him, as had Presi-
dent Zollers, that he would better re-
sign if he didn't like the way things
were managed. After some difficulty
with the superintendent he had quit.
Later, Mr.. Gregory said, he came to
his place Of business when Mr.. Zol-
lers was there. He apologized for his
statements rejecting on the manage
ment and asked if there was no way
of getting back. He was told that if
taken back it must be on the recon-
mendation of the superintendent.
The management claims that COM
plant had been made against Dor |
brandt for harsh treatment of patients |
and a decision had been reached to
get rid Of him as soon as his place |
could be filled. The supervisor in Wis |
iting his ward found it inexcusably un- |
clean. The reporting Of the matter !
TO the superintendent made Dorbandt |
angry, and he had told the superin-
tendent that if such outrageous
charges We're made against him he
would quit. Mr.. Ward admitted that
he believed that would be a sensible
action on Dorbandt's part. The at
PENDANTS still show the marks on the |
asylum stairs where Dorbandt in his !
rage jerked his heavy trunk from the
top TO the bottom.
That Dorbandt is wrong on the bone |
question is unquestioned. He wasn't
at the Institution at all when the grue- |
some details were enacted. His state
ments in this matter as well as in ev-
cry other of which he speaks are op- |
posed 10 that of the other discharged
employees who have testified on the
matter, adversely to the management. |
Also Dorbandt in his unfounded
charges against Mexican attendants
contrary to the majority of the
grand jury, which believes one of
the weaknesses of the asylum man |
agement is the small number of en-
ployes Of the same race as the major
ity of the patients.
Dorbandt's statements are likely to
be extensively noticed. OF course
those papers which desire a fair hear
ing and a fair investigation of the
whole matter will do as The Optic
has done. give both sides of the case.
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Mrs Harric-T npvpr think ahOIf