Judson Threatens The University

If the Faculty Do Not Support the Republican Ticket.

Says He will Control the Next Legislature and will Knock Out the Mill Tax if U. of M. Is Not in Line.

Senator Alger, in a recent speech in Ann Arbor is credited with saying that Judson, whom he designates as the manager, goes everywhere and arranges everything. And he is quoted further saying that what Judson says goes. Now, if this be fact, is it not time the voters understand how much is included in what Judson "says" and what he is aiming to "manage."

The Argus is informed by reputable citizens that Mr. Judson has said to them that he has called on people connected with the University and told them that he had named ninety of the one hundred republican candidates for the state house of representatives and a large majority of the candidates for the senate, that he had a pride in having a good showing for the republican ticket in his home town and that he proposed to have it. He is alleged to have said farther that the University people are now in line.

The Argus is also informed by one of the most prominent men in the faculty that Mr. Judson said to him that if the vote was not what it should be, or in substance, if the faculty members do not support the republican cause, he will have the University mill tax law repealed. This member of the faculty says he told Judson that while the repeal of that law would injure the University it would not reach the men whom he (Judson) was desirous of reaching, that the loss would fall upon the laboring men, as the salaries of the members of the faculty would remain the same as now in any event.

All of this but goes to show the extent to which the boss control is aiming to go. It has already scandalized the state by practically putting up the governorship to the highest bidder, and in doing this boodlized the primaries and the conventions, overthrown in some of our principal cities the right of local self government and subjected legislation to the control of nineteenism, but is now demanding that members of the faculty of the highest institution of learning in the state submit their votes to boss control or suffer the loss of the necessary revenues for the proper conduct of the University.

It is a shame and a disgrace that such a threat or statement, or whatever it may be called, should be made to any one. If our highest institutions of learning must bow to the political boss, then independence of thought and action so absolutely essential in educational matters must necessarily be a thing of the past. But it can scarcely be possible that such threats will intimidate anyone. It has not been forgotten how the people of this city rose up in their might and crushed the attempt to Judsonize our public schools a year or two ago. The same fate should be in store for this attempt to Judsonize the University. Every graduate and friend of the University should know the threat that has been made by the "manager who goes everywhere and attend to everything."

Knowing the fact the voters will undoubtedly take care of the rest.