The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1888-04-20
TON DIXON STAND UP
AND ANSWER THE CHARGE MADE
AGAINST YOU!
Mr. Collier Cobb Replies to Rev. Tom
Dixon AID Makes ~ Suggestion in Re-
gard to Our Surplus Boys.

Dixon AID Makes n Suggestion in Re-
gard to Our Surplus Boys.
Especial Cor. STATE CHRoNICLE.l
CAMBRIDGE, MASS April 10, 1888. From
what my old friend, the Rev. ThOs. Dix
on, Jr., says about the Democrats of Bos-
ton and the horse car manners of the Bos-
ton men in his letters to the STATE CHRoN-
ICLE, | fear that he has gotten into bad
company since he left the Old North State
He speaks of the Democrats as ''the riff
raft, rag tag and bOb-tail of creation, led
by Ben Butler or men of much smaller
and neaner pattern" and adds, II have
not had the pleasure of meeting single
Democrat since have been here. hope
AT least for the sake of the name that some
OF them are members of the church, but
II there Is one in the church with which |
am acquainted | haven't heard of him vet
in the three weeks Eve been here and I've
been looking for him" Poor man. If he
Will just run out to see me his eyes will be
opened on the horse car question, for he
will see no ladies standing in IA Cambridge
car unless the car is very much crowded,
and | will promise to introduce him to
some Democrats who live far removed
from the ''ragtag and bobtail of crea-
ton"
No school can be more Democratic in
her teachings than Harvard College. Every
one who knows the literature of the sub
ject is well acquainted with the Free Trade
books of Mr.. F. W. Taussig, Professor of
Political Economy, and old Professor
Francis Bowen is the only noted protec-
zionist in the faculty. The Daily Crimson,
in commenting on Henry Cabot Lodges
lecture on Protection given here few
nights ago, says: "We are essentially the
disciples of Free Trade at Harvard, and
it is only fair that the other side should
have right to defend itself. Such an
opportunity was given last night, and
though we may still cling to our free trade
dOgmas, we are at least gratifed to hear
a manly and independent exposition of the
doctrines of our dissenting brethren ~
And the Boston Herald used as head
line to its report of the sam, speech, seed
Sown on Stony Ground"
Most members of the faculty are firm
believers in States Rights, and regard the
Blair educational bill as most iniquitous
measure, though the Professor of Colonial
History takes exactly the opposite view.
This Professor opposes the States Rights
decisions of the Supreme Court, though
the law school endorses most of them. In
the college aboat three fourths of the
freshmen are Republicans, two thirds of
Juniors and seniors. In the graduate de-
partment there is small majority of
Democrats and mugwumps, aud in the
professional schools the men are equally
divided. When first came to Cambridge
a club of young Harvard instructors were
so kind as to invite me to join them at a
table in Memorial Hall. We did not know
one anOther's political opinions until after
the club was formed, but now it turns out
that of the fourteen men who formed the
club, there is only one straight out Repub-
lican in the lot.
In 1880 the students had Republican
torch light procession. In 1884 there were
two Democratic professions and one Re-
publican procession. In the mugwump
procession of 1884 in honor of Carl Schurz
there were four hundred Harvard men,
three hundred from the college and one
hundred law school men, who marched
around Boston for hours in the rain OF
the corporation, President Eliot is a
Cleveland man, but no one knows whether
he is a mugwump or a Democrat, and John
Q. Adams, Endicott, Agassz, and Hooper
seers, c. F. Adams, Jr., Leverett Salton-
stall, and c. r. Goldman are Democrats,
and Moor6eld Storey and c. NJ Torrey are
mugwumps, as are also James Freeman
Clarke and Samuel Hoar, son IF Senator
j. F. Hoar. Among the Cleveland men
in the faculty are Professor N s. Shaler,
Mr. James Russell Lowell, Charles Eliot
Norton and Professor J. NJ Peirce Mr..
James Russell Lowell is reported as hav
ing said in a recent speech that Mr.. Cleve-
land is the greatest President We have had
since Lincoln, if not the greatest since
Washington, and there are no truer Dem
ocrats, even in North Carolina, than Pro
fessors Shaler and Peirce. OF course there
are a great many more, but | mention
these because they are men of world wide
reputation and are a fair sample of the
Boston and Cambridge men who support
the administration, and the large majority
of such men mere are Cleveland men.
The great secret of perpetual youth that
these people have discovered is the secret
of perpetual work. 1t impressed me at
first as it has impressed Mr.. Dixon No
man is old until he feels so, and no man
here ever has time to feel old. Women
of fifty do not mind walk of several
miles, and men who with us would be old
can stand tramp of twenty or thirty
miles as we'll as many men of twenty five.
Two young lady friends of mine are read
ing geology and they have asked me to
take them on a tramp of several miles to
visit some outcrops and quarries around
Boston. AS soon as the sunny days come
we are going, and l have no fears about
their being worn out with the trip.
The Boston girl is a creature that i'm
proves upon acquaintance. l do not mean
the strong minded, wirey, withered, he
looking woman of the green cotton um
brella, divided skirts, corkscrew curls anC
common sense boots," for though she
does exist here and is the natural produc,
of an intellectual atmosphere too invigor
ating for her, it is not my misfortune t
have her acquaintance. But l do NEAR
that charming creature whom a recen
English traveller has described as "a yer,
humming bird in beauty, a dove in gentle
ness, an owl in wisdom, and a swallow il
physical motion" She can make bonne
or bake a cake. She studies biology an(
botany, and can discuss the beauties o.
Ruskin, the philosophy of Schopenhaner
or the lat. st tomfoolery of Tolstoi. She il
equally interested in the Aristotelian phi
losophy and APRIL HOPES. She really en-
| joys a French play or German opera
and makes her pin-money by translatinl
German novels or painting Easter cards
She can make dress and chat with yo1
about the evidences of evolution or th
nebular hypothesis. She can come in from
raking up leaves in the yard to talk Ital
| ian to the distinguished foreigner in tn
parlor. Withal she is very attractiv
| Uirl and far sunerOr To her brother Will