The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-07-06
WHY NOT NORTH NEBRASKA MAN

spect or his felloW'belngs.
WHY NOT NORTH NEBRASKA MAN
At last good deal of the animus Of
Governor Mickey toward DR.. Alden, as
superintendent Of the state insane hos
pital here, has been accounted for
The Lincoln News, which stands close
enough to the governor to be consid-
cred a reflection of his ideas, has this
to say:
"The governor has received no word
from DR.. Alden since the investiga-
tion and the only knowledge he has
of what is going on at the institution
is what he has gained from the news
papers and from the letter of Dr. Mich
olson. This, according to the govern
or, is not the plan of procedure pur-
sued at the other state institutions,
where the chief executive is kept fully
in touch with all that is going on. DR..
Alden is apparently bent on running
the institution to suit himself as long
as he has the power"
The reason, then, why Governor
Mickey has declared that he will dis
charge DR.. Alden, regardless of the
findings of the state board which lis
tened to the evidence brought out in
the investigation, is that DR.. Alden in
ssts on being superintendent of the
hospital and does not allow the gov
ernor to run things as he would like.
Is 1t merely a matter of wanting to
assume control of everything in the
state, from the executive Office down,
that prompts this complaint on his
part that at is evident DR.. Alden is
running things to suit himself?"
What do we have superintendent
for If they are not to run their own
institutions? And is a man who at
tempts to be genuine superintendent
to be punished by discharge, because
he doesn't ask the governor every
time he wants to take drink of wa
ter?
AS matter OF fact, 1t is well known
that the political appointment Of Dr.
Alden did not suit the governor in the
first place, because DR.. Alden is a
north Nebraska man.
Governor Mickey appointed Dr. AL.
den because north Nebraska men who
had materially helped the election OF
Mr. Mickey, insisted that this section
Of the state was entitled to the ap
pointment.
The personal animus of the govern
or in first urging DR.. Nicholson to spy
on DR.. Alden, and in encouraging the
feeling against DR.. Alden among sub
ordinates, and now in complaining be
cause DR.. Alden does not allow the
II governor to assume two Official duties
at once and be both chief executive
an superintendent of the Norfolk hos
pital, is shown by the Lincoln News
article.
;. The governors desire to run the in
stitution in his own peculiar manner
is further shown by the fact that II
choosing new appointees, instead o.
consulting the northern Nebraska med
ical profession in the matter, he select
ed two subordinates in the Lincolr
hospital to come up out of the soutf
Platte country and take charge of the
Norfolk institution.
Is there no physician in north Ne
, braska capable Of running that hospi
tai? Or is there none who would b,
willing to surrender his own indivi
duality and bis own brains, that the
governor might know what is goins
on, as is the procedure at other insti
tutions?"
, Regardless of the merits of the Alder
case, and granting for the sake of ar
gument that the governor has a righ
TO put out the superintendent, is /
not a little unfair that the northern
Nebraska physicians should be disre
garded absolutely, in favor of thos,
of the south Platte country, in con
nection with the only state institution
we have north of the Platte?
; WHITE WAS WHITE AND BLACK