Show iiJcii RULES COJIEciE Bad State of Affairs at Agricultural Agri-cultural Institution THOSE WHO DOMINATE IT General Authorities of tho Church Not Supposed to bo Actively Engaged I En-gaged m the Scheme but Serviceable Service-able Agents of the Church Have a and Insidiously Firm Grip on the College sidiously Are Making it Servo as a Branch of the Mormon Church The Pressure for Widtaoe Logan May 1Time s hUt of the Agricultural Ag-ricultural college trustees and their of the president new failure to name a institution has caused a general discussion dis-cussion of things connected with that Institution and gradually people in Logan nt least are becoming familiar with the peculiar conditions prevailing there It la i conceded lint had an election elec-tion taken place on Tuesday Prof John A WldUoxj would have been advanced ad-vanced to the position of president and for no other reason than that ho is a church candidate pushed into the iace by eccleslasts almost against bin own expressed desire and after he had Induced others to enter the light by pledging them his support Mr Wldtsoe is a scholar a gentleman gentle-man but hr Is absolutely lacking In the essential reriulsilos of a college president breadth of view and executive execu-tive capacity this Is the general estimate es-timate of him among those who best know him yethe Is being crowded in J M Tan to the race for nrcsldenl by ner and M W Merrill men whose connection con-nection with Iho college has always surrounded It with an atmosphere of Mormonlsm and whose relations there have been thost of dictators and who yet assort their right to rule there though practically apart from the institution in-stitution Merrill wants WIdtsoe and you know w hat that means was the reply made lo the writer when lie inquired in-quired ns to the probable successor of J M Tanner of a membai of the faculty fac-ulty Time decree has gone forth that no mallei what the cost may be a Mormon must be placed at the head of the college and ect loMasts here who have interested themselves In the matter mat-ter say that it must be one who can bo handled For years past the college col-lege atmosphere bus been humid with religious Inllucncc Influence so carefully care-fully hidden yet so skillfully applied that no one either In the faculty or out of St dared attompt to destroy it or even thwart the purposes of those who wielded It It has demoralized tho Institution In-stitution and above all it is essential that the man who shall be placed at the hmCIl of It shall nave some knowl nilrrr fT I lirt oniirl 11 InnK lionon I h thr silr OUgC UL lilt UUIIUIIIUIIS IMIUtl111 face Ability as an educator uxpe ilence good judgment vril avail him but little hr ridding the college of this blight unless ho has some accurate conception of the causes leading to Its establishment there Students have been graduated degrees conferred ii Ion I-on them that ihoy did not merit yet orders had been Issued by that mystic power thai no one seeS yet every ono at the college feels That game power stands at the back of John A Mcltfeoe today and In all probability will mako him president of the college to do the bidding of those who placed him there There Is nothing to Indicate that the heads of the great church are In anywise any-wise exerting themselves In this matter mat-ter yet those who ivear Its most saintly saint-ly livery and by virtue of that fact wield powerful lnllucnce are exerting themselves to their utmost Sometime the real Inwardness of conditions at the college will bo made plain and when it IB the State will bu startled |