, 1907-07-23
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devoted considerable time and space
to the university investigation mat
ter. Only three papers SO far have
reproduced the report in full-The Lar.
annie Republican, the Rawlins Repub-
lican N the Cheyenne Tribune. The
two democratic daily papers used only
such portions as suited their ideas and
n democratic weekly, the Rawlins
Journal, says republican pagers should
not make politics out of the report,
because the finding and report of the
committee practically prove hat the
charges were well founded, despite the
fact that many of the witnesses would
not go on the stand for fear that it
would hurt their business"
Generally the one of the editorial
utterances of the state papers is fair
to the institution, showing a vast
amount of pride in the university. The
following clippings are among those so
far encountered:
Rock Springs Miner: THE commit.
tee appointed by Governor Brooks to
investigate h management of the Wy
oming university has handed in its
report and finds no more serious faults
than would probably be found should a
committee of outsiders investigate the
workings of any business institution.
The affair proves to be a tempest in a
teapot. A little more news and a lit.
tie smaller headlines in some of the
state papers would probably be as &C.
ceptable to many Of their readers"
Evanston Press: "The pleasing re.
port made by the non-partisan commits,
sion who investigated affairs at the
state university, p%ronouncing the
charges without foundation, should
serve to allay all carping criticism
against the institution and officers,
and clear the matter in the minds of
the people. The Wyoming university
is one of the best institutions of learn,
Ing in the west, and should be C
aged rather than discredited by the
citizens of our own state. Some peo-
pie have queer ideas regarding home
enterprises"
Evanston News-Register: st seems
to us that all fair minded persons will
agree after reading the report of the
investigation committee sent to Lara
ME, that this work was not lone with
a whitewash brush. The commission
was composed of representatives from
10th political parties. The men ON
posing this commission made a thor
ough examination of affairs at Jul
state university. They inspected the
experiment farm and all of the build
ings on the campus. They called in
many witnesses and carefully question
ed them. The editor of the Laramie
Boomerang was upon the stand but his
knowledge was largely hearsay. 9th
ers refused to appear as witnesses INT
yet some Of them were the very ones
who had been most carping End injudic-
ious in their criticisms
Rawlins Republican: IF there ever
was q uiSuollSSl dSlu uuldll newspaper
in Wyoming it is that degenerate
sheet in Laramie established by Bill
Nye. That paper has circulated more
stories of graft, given publicity to
the bellowings of more political sore
heads and otherwise injured the insti.
tuition to an extent that no other pub
lication in the state has, although the
Cheyenne Leader has tried hard to be
a close second.
Now that the investigation is over
neither paper has the honesty or cour-
age to publish anything like a decent
account of the proceedings, the find,
ings were in the most condensed form
and lines selected to give a wrong i'm
preston of the real utterances OF the
commission, n recommendations dis,
torted editorially beyond recognition.
A least three papers in the state
are publishing the story in full, and
numerous others will be respectable
enough to give the public an unbiased
view of the matter. What such ran,
tankerous sheets can hope to gain by
showing their yellow in this fashion is
hard to conceive. Their conduct in
giving publicity to the blatant utter
ances of a few pinheads and then re-
fusing to give their readers the true
facts which show these attacks to have
been both false and malicious indicates
a shameful lack of fairness and the
lowest order of political trickery. 1t
is the worst Kind of treachery to the
institution behind whose interests they
hide. They have claimed the institu.
ton was 1hampered in its usefulness,
pretending all the while that their only
interest was its protection, yet when
it is shown to be free from these
things which hampered it they refuse
to help the institution by publishing
that report in full, all of which proves
their purpose to have been political
Gain-the dirtest and most ill-conceiv,
ed jobbery eve perpetrated in this
state"