The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-06-05
THE INTERFERENCE GANG.

trustees Of the Agricultural coIleg,
who have been trying to wreck tina
great institution have worked out
new plan of Generalization. Havinz
failed to force out President Kerr, the,
propose now to have Governor Cutler
remove all the trustees, appoint a new
lot and upset the management of the
coilege-not because there is any neces-
sity for it. but because it would enable
minority to achieve its scheme for
making the college a part of the Smoot-
Cutler-CaIlister-An political ma
chine.
In all the various efforts to GUST
President Kerr and install political
management there has not been one
word Of criticism of the presidents
ability as an instructor or as an execu-
tive; there has been nothing but praise
Of his personality, and the results he
has achieved in the institution render
successful criticism impossible. The
fact that he would not retain men who
were hostile and insubordinate brought
down upon him the dislike of some of
the trustees who had been quietly 70
menting rebellion by their attitude
toward the president; and now these
trustees have the unspeaI1able nerve to
suggest that the entire board should
be removed and a reorganization eff
fected.
Now mind the sequel Of this prepos-
ferrous suggestion: Governor Cutler.
Pussy Jimmy Anderson and E H. Cal
lister hold q conference on Agricultural
college affairs. Mark the qualifications
Of this heavenly trie- for their self
appointed job. the supervision Of the
supervisors of the Agricultural college.
Cutler is a successful wool merchant:
Pussy Jimmy n a brOken-down poll
ticiaH; CaIlister couldn't teach a pri-
mary school without assistance. Not
8ne of the three has had any training
emitting them 10 pass on educational
questions of the least Importance: not
one of them is big enough or has brains
enough 20 know an educator when he
rOmes in sight. All three Of them have
raCked their little brains ever since a
political accident gave them some
power, to punish the men who refuse
20 get into the Smoot band wagon and
hail the apostle-senator. as a sort of
sacrosanct, inspired leader of the com
monweaIth-
Possibly this plot Of the peanut poll
tiCiaHs may carry through; possibly
they may succeed IN deposing Kerr and
putting in one of their own followers. |
If they do, il goes without saying the
Institution viii be wrecked so far as
educational influence goes, because no
self-respectiug man of ability would
accept q job as president of the college |
from the Cutler Anderson-CaIIi
Smoot crowd. knowing their methods. |
Further, the people of Utah are about I!
sick and tired of having the same old |
sang bob up in the same old way, |
using the educational institutions. /
The usually independent positions, the /
small opportunities, and social, relig- /
ious and political occasions Of every /
sort to thrust forward their particular /
grievances and demands.
CaIlister and Anderson ought TO be /
kicked out. hguratively and literally. /
every time they attempt to interfere in /
The Agricultural college matter; the /
r-reckers in the board ought to be COM /
PEELED to retire, and whether they get /
out or not. the majority of the board /
ought to meet as soon as Mr. MCCOr-
nick returns, and sustain President
Kerr in every particular Of his admin
Istration, unless something more can
DC produced than has hitherto appeared
against him.
In line with the attempt TO democrat
lie the college is the deliberate OBJ
struction 10 the good roads movement
Dy the same everlasting Smoot-Ander-
son-CaIlister interference committee.
Ex-Governor Wells is state vice
president Of the national associa-
don. and president Of the CONNER
rial club. which promoted the state
conversion. He was the natural
choice for president of the state
association. and was named by
the nominating committee for the
place The Smoot aggregation. in de-
nance or decency. good taste and ordi-
nary courtesy, out-vOted the nominal
ton and elected Pussy Jimmy Ander-
son, the same Pussy Jimmy who has
contributed 50 much 10 the causas
which have kept Utah in a constant
turmoil for two years past. Anderson
probably didn't want the place until
he heard il might be given to Wells. {
he represents nobody but himself and ,
the Smoot politicians; he has carefully
his public spirit, if he ever
had any. except such as would lead 7
him straight 10 the political trough. -.
and he is no more TO be compared with
Governor Wells as the head OF a public {
movement than is CaTister to be COM
pared with Kerr as an educational ex- g
ecutive.
The two eDisodes-the attack on the t
college, and the disruption of the
good roads movement-both show prAt- n
y clearly the animus and methods of
he SmOot combination. They mean y
o carry their personal animosities into
very public or semi-public gathering n
md institution in this state. to punish .
my man who dares differ with them. v
much less oppose them. and TO organ s