The Columbus weekly dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 1902-1905, 1906-05-31
CHANCELLOR FULTON
DENIES RUMOR THAT HE Is TO
RESIGN AT THE END OF
THE PRESENT SESSION.
OF SCHOOL.
Faculty Divided In Their support, So
Says Special From Jackson.
Doubtless There Are Inter
esting Times Ahead.

Jackson, Miss, May 2S.-The ef-
of the board of trustees TO bring
about the retirement of Chancellor
r. B. Fulton, of the University of
Mississippi. is very lively subject of
comment around the State House
and in the educational circles of Miss
issippi.
While the belief prevails that some
of the trustees want to elect DR.. W.
| B. Murrah, of Millsaps College, TO the
chancellorship, it is learned from a
| reliable source that several of the
trustees also have in mind a plan to
offer the honor to Judge Edward
Mayes, of this city, district counsel
for the Illinois Central Railroad and
former chancellor of the institution.
This plan also embodies a plan for
Judge Mayes TO take charge of the
law department at the university as
the successor of Hon. G. ID. Stands.
com mbining the Offices of chancellor
and dean of the law department, with
a salary sufficiently large TO justify
Judge Mayes 70 resign his present po
sition. Whether he would do so.
however, is quite another question.
There has been some talk of Prof.
Paul Saunders, of Laurel, in connec-
ton with the chancellorship, but this
Prof. Saunders is a former member of
the university faculty. resigning two
years ago to engage in the banking
business at Laurel.
While this maneuvering is in prog
resS, however, it is to be borne in
mind that Chancellor Fulton is by
no means an amateur in maneuyer-
ing, as has been very strikingly
shown by the history of affairs at the
university during the past few years.
and since he has announced that he
does not intend to resign, it naturally
follows that his friends on the board |
of trustees will keep up a stiff fight |
in his favor. In a word. two factions |
have developed in that body. and il I
remains to be seen which will be the |
victor.
Coupled with the gossip relative |
to the reported resignation of Dr. II. /
b. Fulton from the chancellorship OF /
the University of Mississippi. which.
by the way, is all speculative. with 1
nothing authentic in regard o il.
comes the next suggestion, which fol-
lows the first quite naturally, and that
is as TO the succession. About the
first man who comes to mind as be-
ing particularly we'll fitted TO be the
executive head of that institution is
the man who has made a signal sue
cess of the position which he occu-
pies and the institution over which
he presides-President Andrew A.
of the Industrial Institute
and College at Columbus. BY those
who know him, and who have kept
informed on his work at the Double
and e., Mr. Kincannon is declared
to be just the sort of man TO be at
The head of Mississippi's PRINCIPAL
seat of learning. But TO suggest
n@n is one thing; 10 induce him to q
change is another, and it is under
stood that President Kincannon is
lutte we'll satisfied with the excellent
institution at Columbus, the destinies q
md work of which he has guided so .
we'll and so Loyalty since his connec- :
ion with it. There are those who !
lrmly believe that Chancellor Fulton
will retire, basing the belief on the q
maxim that where there is unmistak-
bile smoke there must of necessity d
e fire behind it. The rumor and talk
las been cropping out continually :
Ver since the last meeting of the
oard OF trustees, and is a develop
nent, it is said, of the proceedings z
I that meeting. Meantime the man b
1ost concerned in the matter is keep v
ng his own counsel, and, so Tar as "
nown, has expressed no intentions. p
ither for the present or the future. " p
In an interview which appeared in
esterday's paper, Chancellor Fulton
ays that there is no truth in the ru- c
Tor that he would resign at the end II
the present session of the Univer c,
ty. III