Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-03-04

er in the college. divulged the status
Of college affairs as they related to
the wet and dry election. lie said
that pressure had been brought td
bear TO force him To- abandon his ace
uyities In behalf of the drys I'm this
connection he introduced q memoran-
dun of conversation which occurred
with President Ladd of the college.
~ have been told To stop your ace
tlyitios It lis alleged l.add informed
Hooklpnd
"But this Is not political cam
paign.' lookland replied.
yet it is a question OF how far u
person can GO persisted President
Ladd
81 am holding back said Hook
land. III II we're not for my position,
would be In the thick of the fight
| expect 60 continue attending the
prohibition meetings
"Welhn finished AIR. Ladd that is
for YOU TO say how FAR YOU dare go.
10 the First state hank and to
Morgan .. Llewellyn, Mr. Hookland
attributed the launching OF the rumor
that he had been neglecting his du-
ties and that he was intending to re-
sign The witness called this but am
other form of intimidation. lie ass
serted that President ladd refused TO
advise him regarding this rumor
According To another witness, W. 4.
Sutherland, President l.add was also
the subject of some intimidation. Mr..
sutherland asserted that President
Ladd had half promised the drys that
he would speak for them, but that the
First state bank had been the means
of preventing it.
smith Wanted Economy
The fine hand of one r. r. III.
smith president Of The bank, is very
thmN disguised ns the one reaching
forth from the bank to control the
town aud college politics. Too much
Smith" in the affairs OF the college.
especially its financial policy, as wen
as ON the paper hQld by the bank,
seems tn be the impression. smith 1t
was whe attempted to eonfiue the dry
tendencies OF the college professors,
and ID was smith who told the college
officials not to spend so damned
much money, inferrug that the bank
could make better use of Il. 1t was
( Senator sutherland who affirmed that
( the wherewnhal to finance the wet
fight and the brains necessary To con
/ duct the campaign came from the
I bank
/ Ii appears that Mr. Ilcwellyn was
somewhat responsible for the fact
/ that the former president was too full
of "peruicious political activities In
regard TO these activities, Mr. Suth-
I erlaud explained that Mr. Garrison
was made "a member OF the eonstitu-
tional convention after an illness had
prevented Mark B Thompson, the
regular member from attending, and
/ chat Mr. Garrison did not accept the
honor until he had been given q sixty
day leave OF absence.
Hold Up acquisitions"
The holding up of requisitions was
again brought out In todays testt-
mony by some of the members of the
college faculty. who declared that II
| had been difficult TO secure supplies
/ that they Had asked for such and had
[ been assured that they were ordered
/ but for some reason were slow in ap'
pearing. Mr. sutherland testified
among other things that Mr.. Wet
/ laufer. registrar, had informed hin
that President Smith Of the bank hat
! said mot 10 pay SO damned many o
/ the college bills and to hold some Vi
/ those requstiOns'
Eleventh hour efforts which wor,
made to save the bank from insol-
vencv were described 10y w. K. Brad
ford. local merchant who said that
the day before the bank was closed
Morgan Llewellyn had given him ST.
coo to place in the bank for the pur-
pose OF building up public confidence
and Of other efforts along the same
line. The merchant said that he be-
lleves $4,000 would have saved the
bank at that time.
While rumors have been afloat
that Francis r. Lester secretary
treasurer of the county road board,
was short $4,000 IN his accounts, the
evidence cf Mr.. Seihcrt, an account
ant who has gone over the books,
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