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Show DESERVE GREATEST PRAISE. B Never was the consolidation light as H Her co as it was this jear, never were H University plans so well laid, never M had the friends of consolidation spent H so much money or carried their fight H with such terrible e fleet Into outsldo H counties, nover was such pressure H brought to bear on doubtful members, H and never beforo was such wholesale, villainous misrepresentations made. H That In the face of such extraordinary H o'dds Senator Itullcn made the magnlll- H cent light ho did Is highly creditable H to himself, and he has been the rctipl- H cut ot hearty congratulation from H democratic and republican friends of H both tho college and university. In H the house the Cache delegation was H ever alert to any advanlago they might H take and wcro diligent In checkmating H tho terrific onslaughts of the opposl- H tlon. Twice a day for two weeks they H wero In caucus witli avowed friends of H tho college, and by their activity and H the fearlessness of these members H themselves they kept Intact the niiin- H ber required to defeat thoconsollda- H tlon measure. Roth Mauglnn and H Hendricks were instant in season and H out, and In this legislature, as well as H two years ago when a member of the H third house, Rcprcsciitatlvo l'edeison H did exceptionally good work Though H they had lost, tho Cache delegation H would bo deserving of warmest praise, Hj for none could luvo been more cner- H gctlc, sincerely In earnest or effective H In their labor. The great mistake H mado in this Qght, If It may be said H there has bee , a mistake, was In un- H deresthr.V.lug the extent and probable H effect of University missionary work in southern counties. University alumni and piofcssors toned tho southern counties for months beforo and after election, spread tho most damaging misinformation and were Instrumental in Laving tho representatives represen-tatives from these counties deluged wltti petitions favoring consolidation. For college friends to counteract in a short time the strenuous work of far greater numbers carried on for months was all but Impossible. Yet the measure meas-ure was defeated and tho Cache delegation dele-gation and friends aro to be heartily congratulated. |
