The independent., 1903-07-02
POLITICS ON THE oAnrus

organ and apoiogist for Regents Won
Forell, REMOVER and Teeters. In a
recent issue it said:
1.-TWO OF the fusion regents,
Messrs. REMOVER and Won For
ell, will go out of Office on jan
uary /, unless they are renom-
mated and elected. Mr.. REMOVER
does not ask for a reelection, as
he is no longer a party man. Be-
coming disguised with all parties,
he has declared himself an inde-
pendent The local fusionists who
take the most interest in the uni
versity say that they would like
to see these men renominated.
These local fus.onists" are doubt
less Charlie Morrill,, Will Owen Jones
and Charles H. Gere-men who have
made graft" of the state university
Gsince the memory OF man runLeth not
tc the contrary" The Independent
would like to see the color of the hair
OF any Lincoln democrat or populist
who approves the course OF these re-
gents They have been the willing
tools of the worst gang of republican
pirates that ever infested state uni
versity.
And then the official organ of Won
Forell, REMOVER and Teeters goes on
tc say:
when the people of the state
hear that T. H. Tibbles has been
denouncing the fusion regents as
men who have 'disgraced. dishon-
ored and sold out the party that
elected them, they will feel sat
isfied that the university is in safe
hands. At the time the fusionists
secured a majority on the board
of regents the friends of the uni
versity feared that politics would
be introduced on the campus. 1t
was the idea of the leaders that
the most prominent republican
professors should be bounced and
their places filled with radical pop
ulists and democrats. Fortunately
the fusion regents saw that this
would ruin the university, and did
not even go so far as 20 remove
Steward Dales, although dozen
of their party friends were drool-
ing for the place and insisting that
Il was a political and not an adu-
cational Office. When these facts
are remembered it is easy to Il
derstand what is the matter with.
Tibbles."
The friends" of the university
feared that politics would be intro
duced on the canpus!" God save the
mark! So is louise the friend" of
the man it sucks blood from. Doubt
less it, too, would fear the introduc-
tion Of politics on the campus"
Who were these "friends?" Every
man jack of them had lis graft"
larger or smaller. One as an "instruc-
tor of journalism" perhaps; another
making a fortune juggling with agri-
cultural college and state universit"
lands. Naturally they feared the ad-
vent of fusion board of regents
or pretended to fear it, for it is now
apparent that these. republican grafters
knew from the start ' at sort of men
they had to deal with.
It certainly comes with bad grace
from any republican paper-and worst
of all from the Journal-to talk about
introducing politics on the campus"
For years and years the university
was in the control of a republican
board of regents. Every time new
Instructor was installed, republican
politics was introduced on the cam
pus. either directly or indirectly, with
the single exception of Chancellor
Canfield's appointment. If the ap-
pointee were not actually communl-
cant in the republican church, he was
at least very quiet and inocuous sort
Of member of some other political or
ganization.
And how about Garfield? AS soon