, 1907-06-06
CRAWFORD
Is PLEASED
NEWEST MEMBER OF BOARD OF
TRUSTEES SPEAKS ENTHUs-
IASTIcALLY OF UNI.
Says it Came Through Fire Like Pure
Gold from Furnace, and That PEG.
Pile of State Will Love it More and
More-Goes Home With Different
Views of Situation.

Colonel j. F. Crawford of Saratoga,
the newest member of the board of
trustees of the University of Wyoming,
who attended his first meeting Of the
board here this week, goes home bet
ter pleased with the university thar
he supposed possible when he left his
sanctum in the office of the Saratoga
Sun to attend the meeting.
Nothing in Morton Attack.
My appreciation of the university
is $50 per cen heartier than it was
before I came" he said this morning,
land my observations while in the
board rooms have broadened my views
almost beyond words. l was prepar-
ed to meet some ~disgruntled men and
m over the charges recently
made in some of the papers of the
state by a man who had been a mem
Der of the faculty of the university.
and could not wonder that they wouiti
feel badly. l expected to find at least
a shadow for the charges, but / now
confess, and my heart swells as | say
it, | never found anywhere less ground
for an investigation The Morton
charges are left absolutely without c
single leg to stand on-not even 4
broken wooden leg"
Commentator of Gramm.
Colonel Crawford did not hesitate 10
commend President Gramm and pro-
nounced him one of the most patriotic
citizens of the state. He found that,
were the services of Gramm to the
university IN the debt of the univer.
sity to Gramm weighed in scales with
dollars and cents, there would be more
coming to Gramm than Morton has re-
ceived in salary, to say nothing OF the
amount he has earned.
Enemies of Institution.
81 believe the attack was political,
an attempt IN the part of a few selfish
democrats of Laramie n he stale
to gain a few votes. These men, to
down Gramm in d political campaign,
would willingly wreck the university
to accomplish the purpose. Some OF
them live here, and the people of AL
bany county ought to frown so hard
upon them as to drive them from their
nefarious fight on the state university.
Purified Like Gold.
"In my opinion, both Gramm Il
the university have come through the
fire like pure gold from the furnace.
You know gold has to pass through
some terrible heat, and n would
think to look into the furnace that the
auriferous metal would be consumed,
but it comes out purified and resplend-
ent. more valuable than before, not a
particle of it's composition consumed
and every atom vibrating with a sense
of duty to man. So with the unlver'
sity. 1t will be purged; it will be
cIeansed: it's splendid buildings and
efficient equipment will place it so
firmly in the love of the people that all
the Mortons and Boomerangs ana
Leaders on earth cannot harm it,"
Praiseworthy Institution.
Colonel Crawford believes that the
| University of Wyoming is an institu-
ton that is bound to shed lustre upon
the people of the state. 1T is a splen-
didly equipped institution, with an eN'
cellent faculty and everything needed,
and can give the students the person
al care and attention they can receive
at no other university in the United
| States, where the number of students
is greater"
Ornamental and Useful.
Mr.. Crawford said he expected 10
find two women members of the board
highly ornamental and somewhat IN
the way. q have my mind d~isabused
on that subject. The lady members
did as much hard work as the men
of the board, and did it as well and as
! willingly. Mrs. Stone, the democratic