The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-09-16

erned by a self-perpetuating board Of
thirty trustees, of which the State has
only four ex-offcio members, and
while the officials and trustees appear
to be amply able to take care of them
selves, still, as this is a semi-public
just and the misstatement of facts so
gross and inexcusable. 1 feel that it
is due the public to know the truth.
Mr.. Littleton says the national gov
eminent has given to this university to
establish and maintain an agricultural
and mechanical college $1,5O0,0O0.
The treasurer, himself a distln-
guished Republican, says 1t has re-
ceived from the national government,
through the MorrelI fund and the
Hatch fund, $685., 500. The gentleman's
statement appears TO lie in round num-
bers just 81, 0o0,0 G0 from the truth. He
says 1t receives annually from the ma
uonal government $50. 900. The treas
urer says it only receives $40, 1000. He
says in addition to this sum the State
Of Tennessee has regularly and often
appropriated out of our own State
treasury thousands of dollars for the
use and benefit Of this school.
The fact is, the State of Tennessee
had never given one dollar out of rs
treasury for this school until the last
session of the legislature, and it then
gave $4,000 TO buy more land for ag-
ricultural and experiment station pur-
poses. He says that the trustees sold
the farm the federal government
bought for them. The treasurer says
the federal government never bought
or gave a foot of land to the college,
but that as a condition on which the
fund was given. the university had to
furnish farm, and that the land sold
was outlying ridge land, unfit for ag-
ricultural purposes, which was owned
by the college before 1t received gov
eminent aid, and the proceeds were ap-
engineering and the mechanical arts
could be taught.
He says the money appropriated by
the national government has been and
Is being diverted from the purpose pro-
vided by the act of congress The
tre2 Surer says not one dollar has been
So diverted, and that reports of how
the money is expended are sent annu-
ally to the secretary OF agriculture at
Washington and by him passed upon
end approved. He is 4 distinguished
Republican official.
My competitor says the experiment
station is mere pretense and fraud.
Mr.. Wilson, the Republican secretary
of agriculture, says it is one of the best
equipped and best conducted stations
In the country, and that 1t Is doing
great work for agriculture and THO
farming interests of Tennessee and
the South. And there are thousands
OF progressive farmers over Tennns-
see who have received its bulletins
and reports and its aid and sugges-
lions who are ready to give like tes-
timony.
But for fear you may think do the
gentleman an injustice, listen to what
the Knoxville Journal and Tribune,
the only Republican daily paper In
Tennessee. and a supporter of Mr.. Lit
Teton, says:
where Mr.. Littleton got his in
formation. we are not prepared to say.
but his statements concerning the Uni
versity OF Tennessee are as erroneous
as they well could be. We regret that
Mr.. Littleton did not seek information
where accurate information could be
had before making statements that
are so directly In conflict with the
facts"
Did Mr.. Littleton know the facts
about this institution when he made
his speech To say that he did not
would be to reflect upon his intelli-
gence. and this I would not do. Then.
what was the motive that made him
ignore facts, that he might strike Mt
this great institution OF learning?
Every officer in the board Of trustees
is a distinguished Republican who
has dared to think for himself and
who has resented the dominating boss
ism of Mr.. Littleton's sponsor, the
Hon. Boss Brownlow.
Judge o. p Temple is chairman Of
the board; the Hon. William Rule. edi-
tor of the Knoxville Journal, is secre-
tary; the Hon. James Maynard, the
son OF the distinguished Republican,
the Hon. Horace Maynard. is treasur-
er, and the Hon. E. T. Sanford. who
Rad the audacity to run against Mr.
Littleton for the nomination before
Brownlow's convention, is chairman
of the finance board. If there has
been any Misrepresentation of funds.
these are the men who are RESPONSE
lie for it, Why did Mr.. Littleton at
tack them through the university?
Was he ordered to do so by his 'bosc,"
or was it because Sanford dared to op-
pose his nomination on the grounds
that he did? leave him to answer as
to these gentlemen, but as to the uni
versity. protest that any candidate OF
any party who will, for some fancied
partisan advantage to himself, run
down, decry and misrepresent one of
the great institutions Of the State,
which offers such advantages and is