The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-11-02
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URDAHL ANALYZES HESTON'S
REPLY.

REPLY.
In my reply to Heston's article,
published both in the Sentinel and in
The Daily Leader, / shall have to be
exceedingly brief, for the reason that
wartime prices for advertising space
are high and / have no one but my
self to pay the printer.
DR.. Heston and all his associates
r trying to impress on you that I
have forced a fight on him, This is
not SO. Way back, in the early part
of July, / had reliable information
that DR.. Heston was planning an in
dependent candidate against me for
the senate. Until then / had taken
no person into my confidence as to
the financial conditions of the Board
ing club at the Madison State Nor
NAL. When / became convinced of
his plans of putting up an independ-
ent candidate against me, l immedi-
ately took steps to defend my posi-
ton. Not until then did / ask any
person to come to my office and ex-
anime the affairs of the Normal
Boarding club. In August he organ
ICED the so-called Madison State Nor
NAL Booster club for the sole purpose
of bringing out a new candidate for
the state senate.
Less than two weeks ago the Doc
tor assailed me in an open letter ask
ing me to retract. In answer l gave
him the facts as / had them. He has
before and since, secured the country
for the purpose of arraying against
me every person who happened to
have a grievance against me, public
or private. Knowing DR.. Heston's
plans and being reliably informed of
his political activity against me, did
the Doctor expect that | would re-
main inactive until 1 was bagged and
he had pulled the strings?
In his said article he makes the
unqualified statement, While l was
east attending a meeting of educa-
tors in February, and just about two
days after l left here, Mr.. Urdahl
proposed to Mr.. Golf, in charge oil
the institution, that an auditing BIZ
made of the club accounts, and went
at it,"
What are the facts? l never pro.
posed to Prof. Golf, and Prof. Golf
never proposed to me an investiga.
ton of the Madison Normal Boarding
club. The accounts of the club seen
to have been checked up on the 18th
of February, 1918. My first knowl
edge of this investigation came to me
about two or three days later. How
the investigation came about, l have
no direct knowledge. l have an in.
formation, however. and / believe c
correct one.
According to this information, the
Investigation referred to was limo
Gently brought about by Miss Clors
M. Baker, who was then the account
ant of the Boarding club, and in &C
cordance of such information, this II
the way ii happened:
About the time DR.. Heston wen
east Miss Baker had the clubs pas
book balanced. On DR.. Heston leav
ing for the east, he turned over Il
Miss Baker all of the unpaid checks
described in my answer to DR.. He's
tons open letter. Comparing tn,
amounts of said checks with the bal
ance shown on the clubs checking
account plus the money she had Oh
hand, she discovered that the clul
was short of funds to meet all of tn
said checks. She Immediately called
in Prof. Golf, who was treasurer o
the Boarding club. Prof. Golf di
rected that the checks be temporar
lily held, and asked Prof. James, VIII,
was then acting secretary of the Nor
NAL proper, also Miss Dahl, the pri
vate secretary of DIR. Heston, ant
Miss Baker, who vas then accountan
of the Boarding club, to check up tn
clubs accounts from the beginning
of the school year, September II
1917, with the results as stated ii
my answe to DR.. Heston's open let
ter. If l am wrong in this, l wan
the parties above named to correc
me and give us the full facts.
If i am substantially correct in m,
above statement, and / believe ! am
you will see that in place of tn
Boarding club accounts being exam
ined by me, or by Prof. Golf, or b
any of DR.. Heston's private enemies
as he seemed to think we were, tn
investigation and the checking up 0
the accounts of the said Boardin
club was done by DIR. Heston's ow1
employees and personal friends.
AS to my statements in referenc
to irregularities found in the han
ding of the clubs funds, DR.. Hesto,
in said article admits that tn
FS453.85 had found its way into hi
private account, but explains 1t wa
by mistake of the accountant.