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Regent Levi L. Barbour

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Parent Issue
Day
20
Month
June
Year
1902
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Regent Sutton has resigned from the board and Governor Bliss has appointed Hon. Levi L. Barbour to the position. It is entirely safe to say that the governor never made an appointment since his incumbency of the gubernatorial office that reflects more credit upon himself and the state. The friends of the University everywhere will be pleased with the appointment. It would have been impossible probably to name a man more generally acceptable or better fitted for the place. Mr. Barbour is a gentleman of culture and possessed of a deep and abiding affection for the University. He is a graduate of the University both in the literary and law departments. He has served on the board before and was an able and valuable member. Regent Sutton did the proper thing in resigning from the board. Whether his resignation was prompted by his sense of the eternal fitness of thing, or was dragged from him by the influence of public opinion or the advice of his attorneys, matters not, so long as he has retired from a position which under all the circumstances he was not fitted to fill. His usefulness in the place, if he ever had any, was gone and he has served himself as well as the public, therefore, in stepping down and out.

Judge George H. Durand has declared that he cannot accept the democratic nomination for governor. This will be a source of regret to many citizens, for thousands look upon him as the kind of a man for the democracy to name in order to pull the state out of the control of officials with a barrel, but with even less than mediocre capacity. There are many other democrats in the state as well qualified as Judge Durand, probably, to do this and it is to be sincerely hoped that they will be hunted out and one of the number placed at the head of the ticket. It will be discouraging, however, if the best men continue to decline to respond to the demands of the people in their efforts to redeem the state from the influences which now díctate the men who are to control its affairs.

It looks as though the Hastings Banner, or somebody else in that neck o' the wooks, has some influence in the interest of good government and good citizenship as opposed to present republican boodle methods of controlling the primaries. In the recent republican county convention resolutions were passed pledging the party against the use of money to control caucuses and conventions and also against candidates for office known to have resorted to boodle methods to secure nominations. They thus repudiate both bliss and Stearns as candidates for governor. The Barry county delegates will probably vote for John Patton. This declaration sounds well and if the delegates stand by the position taken in their surroundings they will deserve credit. Would that there were many other counties in the state to follow Barry's lead.