Bisbee daily review., 1914-01-29
.UNLOADs ON WORSlEY
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was nc, basis of fact on which to found any of them was stated as his positive belief, but he also said that if there was any reason for any of them toe board wanted the facts.
 In speaking Of the matter, MT. Hereford said:
 "I hope it will prove that the sena- tor has been misquoted. 1 credit him with more sincerity of purpose, espe- cially in public matters. and with more common sense than is indicated by the published interview. Accord ing to the interview. the senator said, the specific charges that make are based largely on hearsay, r have not had time to investigate yet 1 but I will As it is rank scandal to talk first and investigate afterwards ! I shall for the present assume that ' by some misunderstanding the sena- tor has been misquoted.
 The honor of the university Is not only part of the public honor. hut by reason of the institution's being de- voted to the education Of our children
 1t is the part that should be most iealously guarded. It can be dishon- cred by baseless islander as we'll as by actual wrong doing. Whether the charges Senator Worsley is credited with making are true or false, if they
 ara made without investigation on
 hearsay they are equally dishonor.
 Ok 1..fNs flNag fa laa a fFEftf
 and to the person against whom they are made. If they are unfcunded the
 harm 10 the university is short lived.
 while if they are supported by facts.
 their full force and remedial effects
 are in advance discounted and cloud
 ed. as is already being done in tsis
 case by discussions that tend every
 way but the right way,
 As a lawyer Mir. Worsley knows
 that the board of regents and the . board of regents alone has power tc i remove pr. Wilde. If h. or any other citizen has cause to believe that pr
 Wilde has been guilty of any wrong
 doing. and fails to present the mat ter to the board for action he is nct ) performing his duty as a citizen. And ! if the board of regents does not act
 or acts wrongfully it is then time tC try the board as well as Dr. Wilde be f fore tEe bar Of public opinicn. 'The regents for some time hay, n been considering the rearrangemen
 of some of the affairs of the univer v sity. Among other things, they ar' |, Investigating questions bearing upoi r the number of educators employ ed i, their occupied hours and their neces a sity. Not because or any charge made, or because of any abuses fl
 that line. but because periodically re ', arrangements fin all businesses ar, |, necessary 10 prevent waste of tim v and money.
 No one has presented to the boart a cf regents any Of the charges sug gested in the interview with Senate n Worsley. or they would have beel |, promptly acted upon. I sincerely trus
 that teere is no foundation of fac |, to base such charges un
 T am the only member of tn, a board at present in the city. but a have no hesitancy in saying that th ~ beard is at any time ready to con
 slider any FACTS bearing upon mis , management or dishonesty in the un - ivsrsity. 1 should have preferred tha , such matters be first submitted 10 us = but nothing searches the infirmitie n Of the body polite like square, opel
 fight. Senator Worsley's political as 's pirations make him a public charaC
 ter. l trust that the fight will no
 end until Senator WI rsley ha
 proved his charges, or proved that h has been misquoted, or proved that h ~ has been peddling scandal. The ur 'n iversity must be purified either b D disproving the charges GOT by riddln ', ", itself of their cause.
 n "The board of regents. like all go, " erning boards, has troubles rf 1t ' own, but am glad to say that SO Ia
 none of these troubles arise from act 7" of dishonesty or of anything of a D, " litical character"