, 1908-03-27
Petition to Governor.

To His Excellency, B. B. Brooks:
We, the undersigned, citizens of AL
bany county, state of Wyoming, would
respectfully represent:
That we have a deep interest in the
welfare of the University of Wyoming,
to which the people of this great state
have committed the higher education
of their children and through them the
interests of the state in the years to
come;
That we are restless under the i'm
putation that this, the most important
of Jul state institutions, is so conduct
ed that the state, after having spent
care, is not realizing from it all that
might in reason be expected;
That, according to the opinion of the
commission appointed by Your Excel
lency to investigate its affairs, and
that of the majority of our thoughtful
fellow-citizens, this failure to realize
our just expectation is largely owing 70
the fact, we'll known to Your Excel,
lency, that the administration of the
institution is numbered with WORKOUT
and, in other successful universities,
long-discarded methods in which re-
sposibility is improperly scattered
and the officer chosen to preside yer
the institution is hampered in its ad-
minstration;
That it seems to us that all attempts
r. ran,aIH- t.;- condition will ha frrtft
less until a complete and full divorce
is obtained from any political control,
as recommended by the late commits
sion, and full responsibility is placed
upon the president of the institution,
to the exclusion of any divided author
ity, and he is held strictly accountable
for his trust;
And we would respectfully urge Your
Excellency, a court of last resort AMI
the most eminent representative Of the
power of the state and the authority
whence the members of the board of
trustees derive their appointment, to
take this matter into your hands and
at the earliest possible moment SO act
as to remove the difficulties under
which the University of Wyoming now
labors, and give to the people Of the
state that which they have a right 70
ask, the fullest service from an insti-
tuition in which all are equally Interest
ed and from which we have properly
hoped so much.
List of the Signers.
C. ]. Wagner, Frank ]. Terry, John
w. Ernest, R. G. Kleeman, c. e. Blair,
w. H. B. Jacobus, John A. Kunkle,
E. J.. Lehman, John Watt, Alfred
Cook, C. NJ. Tegner, H. Maisen,
James NJ. Christensen, Fred N. Fish
err, Ed E. Fisher, VIM. Cordiner,
Geo. T. Powell, j. E. Winslow, Thos. H.
Gibson, Lemuel l.. Laughlin, A. B.
Hamilton, A. H. Cordiner, B. F. Miller.
N. E. Corthell. R. E. Fitch, E. d. Carter,
J. F. Towson, R. L. George, VIM. H. Is
berg, H. E. McCollum, P. C. Coolican,
H. G. Welch, C. H. Bennett, P. C. Nc
Mfr, A. W. Augspurger, G. E. Eggie.
ston, A. N. Hasenkamp, w. D. Trout,
Arnold G.. H. Bode, H. Cummiskey,
Carl Nydegger, James A. Ballard, Oscar
Woods, T. H. Simpson, Willis Jensen,
james Naismith, H. Maynard, Jno w.
Stryker, w. H. Holiday, Herman
Hegewald, H. R. Ingham, Thos. J.. Day
ton, l.. S. Bartlett, R. Addison Lans-
dell, A. E. Miller, John l.. Thompson.
J. H. Merriam, R. X. Graham, G. ].
Erne, John Baillie, Angus Sutherland,
Clarence Hansen, Alfred C. Hogbin,
j. w. Johnson, Frank H. Eggleston,
John McGill e. A. Wilkinson, S. A.
Crawford, G. A. Crawford, Ferd Brueck,
ner, Richard Butler, c. S. Greenbaum,
c. L. Houston, Jas. Weightman, C. H.
Hopkins, NJ. C. Brown, j. R. Cordiner,
d. N. Rogers, w. H. Lovett, Gus John
son, Chas. H. Harris, j. I. Holiday,
w. L. O'Neill, A. T. Foster, j. c. Burns,
j. M. Hoge, AL Andrews, James Atkin.
son, sr., Michael Erne, F. Patrick, ]. E.