, 1907-05-27
MIR. ~CORTHELL'S LOGIC.

ness. AS a newspaper man, Mr.. Cor
thell criticises and condemns the uni
versity; that is politics.
Some sample sentences from Mr..
Corthell's newspaper follow:
Monday evening. May 10: Exposes
graft at university. Prof. Morton in
signed letter discloses rotten condi-
tons existing at state institution"
Tuesday, May IA: "The people of
Laramie were not surprised that such
conditions as described by Prof. Nor
ton exist at tie university"
Monday evening, May 20: Hot shot
for grafters. Cheyenne Leader in
scathing editorial tells some facts
about U. r. political machine" And
then follows the Leader editorial so
cordially endorsed. Sample paragraphs:
1t will be a matter of deep regret all
over Wyoming that the state UNIVERSE
ty has been found to be a hotbed of
graft and political jobbery, and what
Is still worse. that the gang of cheap
political shysters who have run the in.
stitution in the interest of the Union
Pacific party machine have succeeded
in destroying the educational value OF
the university until it is now little
more than an annex to the Laramie
public school system. This Is SO well
understood that the best people of Lar
annie who are financially able send
their children to other parts of the
country for an education, in this mat
ter following the example of Governor
Brooks, Judge Riner, Judge Potter and
scores of other leading citizens of the
state THE educational
system Of the university is not only
demoralized by financial jobbery and
partisan politics, but it has democrat
lied the public school system of Lara.
mic as we'll" ITS a
standing remark in Laramie that no
professor or employe of the institution
can hold his job without being branded
OK by Miss Secretary Hebard, and
whenever she DEGREES 1t the presidents
head will fall in the basket" =
And there you nave it. 1t will never
be investigated properly until there is
a radical change in our state politics,
n after the disruption of the ma
chine"
Again, in the same issue of Mr.. Cor
thells paper: AT a meeting Of the
board Of directors Of the state univer.
sity held this morning, RE. Hyslop, an
associate professor at the experiment
station, was discharged without recon
mendation." This was n falsehood
from whole cloth. No meeting of the
board of directors was held and Mr.
Hyslop was not discharged.
Saturday evening, May 25. Mar
row ideas and INSCRIPTIONS partisan
manipulation Of Otto Gramm has KEEP
Wyoming's leading institution of learn
ing from Observation-Disclosures are
disguised with imperious dictation o.
BOSSES" , .nG
This is the kind of friendship Mr.
Corthell is dealing out to the universit,
with his political hand, while his bust
ness hand is into the Golfers of the in
stitution for legal fees to the extent o
many hundreds Of dollars. This is tn,
kind Of a friend the university mus
feed and foster and fight. After quot
ing with approval the statement from
the Leader that the university is littl,
more than an annex to the Larami,
school system, and that our school sys
tenn has even been impregnated will
the rottenness of the higher institu
tions, Mr.. Corthell's paper, in an effor
to hedge, says: "The faculty as a mel
and women is not excelled in characte,
and ability in any similar institution
yet the incubus Of narrow imperious
ness that seems irridicate in OFT,
Gramm is a barrier to the university
growth" The foregoing is quoted jus
as it appeared. We leave to the reade
the task of interpreting its meaning
1t is presumed to be a feeble effort t,
crawfish from all the v%illainous attack!
upon the university as an institution
and to sum up in a cowardly, illogica
and ill-conceived assault upon Hon
Otto Gramm. That is the sum total 0
Mr.. CorthelIs newspaper fight. Their
appears to be no length to which b,
would not go in his political antagC
nism to Mr.. Gramm. Everything mus
be sacrificed to that end. The goo,
name of the state university, the wei
fare of the city Of Laramie and tn
unity of u people are as nothing
when placed in the balance against hi
partisan politics and his e~ndeavors t,
secure political domination. To prov.
his contention that Mr.. Gramm is ur
popular and that the people have no
endorsed his public acts, Mr.. Corthel
points tt the fact that some democrat
were elected on the county ticket
Isn't that logical? Because, forsoott
Mr.. Gramm is not liked by the peopl
OF Albany county, they take it out o
Mr.. Reals, Mr.. Hicks and MI. Jacob:
II MI. Corthell's contention is correct
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