| Show LIBEEALS ANU Tell UNiVERSITY To the Editor of THE HEnAH An article appears in yjur paper today entitled en-titled Liberals and the University In which you seem to assume the University i run on political lines and some intUents arc cited to orroborato your views As a rule I think It I letter 1 < not discuss such matters In the public journals but your article mar do great Injury to the university and I think you ue misln formed In regarJ t many of tho fats At the first meeting of the new board Dr PAIIIC was unanImously elected president of the faculty A t that time tho new members of the board hail no knowledge that there was such a oCt of harmony between hln and some of ths pjo fossors that changes must be made Dr P AUK did not recommend lh9 employment of two of the former professors and they were not employed em-ployed 1 his want of harrao ly was the sole reason assigned Both were understood to be Liberals who J a I voted the Liberal ticket t or years There was no question as to thiir apaclty and tho board i egre ttod th want of harmony har-mony prevented their employment A law of last inter made It unnecessary to employ tho librarian who was a Liberal and he was not retained One prolcssor a member ot tho Peoples party wa < not employed though his employment was recommecded by Dr PAine nd the recccimond was disapprove I by a divided vote No pel tical reason was assigned it tae meeting There was present ono regent a member of tho People party who did not vote and ho certainly would have voted had ho ndorstood the opposition was political In its chancIer Had te toted I should have given a casting vote t sustain Dr PAlms recommend recom-mend If I am right in these statements three Iberals and one member of tho Peoples party have not been reemployed I am not entitled to the creditor belle tho oaly member who has tried ta keep politics oui cf the University but so far as I know every m imber has avowed 1 o same purpose and lino of policy Of course it is difficult to CVU Jealousies mind suspicions of polttlcul bias and that Is one reason why I should like to have the University iudged by what shall bo done rttier than have It drawn Into a public discussion I regretted the mention of i In the Liberal platfom be c mao I foresaw It would lead to discussion which might prejudice It There Is no doubt that tho University owes to Dr PARK more than to any other man the measure of succcsj it has achieved and the only suggestion of his resignation has ccma from him He has been Intending to resign but wants to do It In a way that ho can continue to work in it 1 Interest and his only reason was that ho had wcrted in the Institution so many years that ho fell the need of relief He was urged to remain the year and I have personally asUcd him to not refuse to remain another year if the bar asks It I refer you to Dr PARK Prof STEWART and every member of the toard for a confirmation of the facts I state know THE HERALD and all parties wcrnYd I begIrd be-gIrd t sea this university built up 5 the territory terri-tory could feel a pride In It and you know the ilcu ties It baa had to meet In the past and must overcome In tho future and I hOp you will not regard this noto as In any senso controversial contro-versial but only written to show the boar has not parted from a njutral policy nnd thai if the Unl erilty is thrown as a football between the political pries It will bo supported by no party Very truly trulyR HAHKNESS The real points in our statement of what the Liberals have done for the University seem to havo escaped tho notice of Judge HAUKXESS They are that tho upport of the University has como almost entirely from tho Peoples party that Peoples party resents made no Inquiry into the politics of tho professors recommended by thc president for employment that they employed indifferently members of both parties that among tho Lib oral regents one of them inquired whether the professor of political economy was not a freetrader and voted against him as such that another nquiwd i a certain professor was not a member of tho Peoples party and voted against him on that ground and a thin asked what tho views of professor wen on the silver question Tnis much ve I know And wo may add that tho professor who was n decided member of the Peoples party had boon employed by tho regents had refused another situation because of the assurance of his employment from the president and tha chancellor and had worked a week into the now year before he learned of the action ot tho board in dismissing dis-missing him Nono of tho Liberal regents except tho chancellor had over inothlm and t this day ho knows of no charge made against him by the regents or any of them Below wo take up the points which Judge HAKKXEW mentions 1 We agree with Judge HATSKNESS that it would be better i this discussion had not been introduced Into tho public journals But it has been introduced We did notiu troduce tho subject though wo have been conversant with tho facts for some time and we hiivo retrained from any mention of these fuels for the sole reason that wc feared such mention might be prejudicial to the interests of an institution that has bee our pride in the past and in which we have great hopes for the future Like Judge HAIIKXKS too we regretted to see the mention of it in the Liberal platform bu When that declaration u to what the Lib orals have done for tho University wa made it was our imperative duty to meet that declaration with tho facts however unpleasant that duty might be And it wa with a merely natural pain that we refuted the senseless challeugoful boast In the Liberal platform The complaint In regard to a public discussion of this matter lie against tho Liberal platform adopted October Octo-ber S and not against TIc HEHALD Va kept silent for two days and then spoke out We also regret that Judge HAKKSES did not deem it necessary to spoak out when ho saw the Liberal platform instead of waiting till wo found it necessary to puncture the blatant boast of that document docu-ment So long as only the Liberals dragged the University into politics there appeared no objection When we refuted the statement state-ment the whole matter is deprecated by the II gentleman Whatever disagreement there was between be-tween the president and two professors had occurred two years before the now board took action on that disagreement so that this is rather a slim excuse for the radical change that was suddenly effected 3lt is incorrect that three of the professors pro-fessors who wero not reemployed wore Liberals One of them was neither I oit zen nor a Liberal Another was an active worker In the cause of thp Peoples part The Liberalism of two others began and ended with voting for I part of the Liberal ticket in February One of the latter ha since been elected t office on the People ticket But i therewere any doubt a t the politics of the discharged professors there Is none n to that of the new ones employed They are l entire strangers to this territory which means that for ate a-te at least they will be considered a Liberals The librarian whom Judge HABKXESS mentions was not ono of the professors pro-fessors at all nor even a member of the faculty Tho reason that the Peoples regent re-gent did not vote was that this being the first meeting the board ho had attended ho did not really know what was being done 4udge RAnKNESS Is right in assuming that if the Peoples party should withhold their support of the University through n knowledge of the fact that the board has departed from its honorablo custom of a neutral policy to ono of Liberal partnership the institution will bo supported by no party But the Peoples party trill not withhold their patronage of a worthy In itution simply because ot tho partisan ilpof a Liberal board of regents unless that policy shall become so Indecently pa rtdcd as we seo for a beginning in the Liberal platform I the board manifests a disposition to be fair the Peoples party will support that institution in the future as thoy have dOD in the past THE Hit ALa knows that the only way for the Gal versity t thrive will be to have it nonpartisan partisan Wo had hoped that tho partisanship partisan-ship which commenced this year would go no further and kept lent for the very reason that i the action of the board should havo been made public and particularly before the beginning of the school yet tho patronage oC tho institution would have been unfit orably affected But when in addition to the partisan action of the board was added his gratuitous insult to the Peoples party itt tbo Liberal platform we were comp com-p led to state the facts coccrning what tao untruthful party had really done for the University And we say again that partisan polities must be and will be kept out of tho Un varsity Wo advise members of tie Pee es party and of all other parties to support that institution fully assured that nonpartisanship will soon again prevail no with t indlng the partisan deviation the Literal regents hove tried to iuroduc Anti It Is wit h pain that wo have been bilged by the Liberal platform to state I Cow unpleasant facts concerning it Sue cess to University |
