The Elbert County tribune., 1915-09-03
nttSn IS CHALLENGED
Y. OF C. CHARGE srIRs ExEcu.
TIVE OF COLORADO.
Gov. Carlson imputes Faisehood to
Industrial Chairman on His
Law School Report.

"~Htsfh Newspaper Union News Service
Denver.-An official statement chal.
ienging the veracity of the charges
involving the University OF Colorado
mace IN the report of the Federal
Commission on Industrial Relations
was issued by Gov. Carlson.
The report charged among other
things that the capitalistic interests
OF this country have acquired control
over many OF the educational institu-
tions OF the United States, and set out
specifically that an instructor OF law
In the University of Colorado had
been dropped from the faculty be-
cause he had appeared as counse. for
the United Mine Workers during the
Colorado coal strike
The reference in the Federal Com
mission report to the dismissal of
member OF the State University fac
ulty. according to Gov. Carlson. was
to the recent dropping of Prof. Jas.
Brewster.
This. he declared he would show,
was in no way connected with the
Colorado industrial situation.
Il note with amazement that the
slandering Walsh and his puppets
have not spared from calumny and
false imputation the good name of
Coiorado's State University" says Gov.
Carlson. "Walsh's Unsuitable gluttony
for cheap publicity has caused him to
utter baseless and wicked charge
against an institution endeared to the
entire state and in total disregard of
truth easily ascertainable. Had he
made an honest investigation he
would have found that the charge
had foundation only in the mind of
disgruntled professor who failed of re-
appointment. lie was not reappolnted
because he had no contract or prom
ise for reappointment and as part
of plan to reorganize the law school
faculty He was appointed to fill the
vacancy caused by the accidental
drowning of Prof Pease for the rest
of the school term and no longer. 1t
was the right of the board OF regents
of the university to continue or sever
his official connection with the uni
versity as they saw fit If his child
ish and unmanful action since his
failure to secure reappointment are in
dicative OF his conduct while mem
Der of the university faculty the re-
gents we're amply justified
'Walsh's statement may be given
temporary credence in other states but
not in Colorado This state is proud
of her university. 1t is supported by
| the taxpayers, controlled by board of
regents elected by the voters, open to
the humblest OF our boys and girls.
and an imputation of wrongful control
is an insult to the entire citizenship
OF the state. In a score OF years 1t
has risen to a position with the best
| schools of the nation. It's graduates
are representative citizens in every
part of Colorado and the United
States. The poorest boy in the state,
II he has the ambition and determine
tion, can work his way through the
university. Amid the chickering's of
capital and labor and sectarian dis
pute it has held aloft the torch OF
truth and high citizenship despite the
criticism and pressure of those vino
would have perverted its beneficent
influence to their selfish ends. Colo
rado will take the true measure of the
creature who would drag one of our
most cherished institutions into the
slime OF his deliberate falsehoods