Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-18
Big Convention of College Re-
publican Clubs at Ann
ArbOr Effects
A GRAND NATIONAL UNION,
Gov. Mckinley Throws Hot Shot Into
the Democratic Fort and
ALGER MADE A GOOD ADDRESS.
The Crowd So Large That an Overflow
Meeting Was Necessary.
THIRTY COLLEGES WERE REPRESENTED


ANN ARBoR, MICH, May 1.-THE first
guns of the campaign of 1892 were fired
here to-day by Governor Mckinley, Hon.
John NJ. Thurston, General Alger, Hon. j.
Sloat Fassett and other prominent Repub-
ican leaders. The occasion which brought
all these men together in Ann Arbor was
the organization of the National League of
College Republican Clubs, for which dele
gates were present from 80 colleges from
Maine to California.
Those colleges which were represented in
the convention this afternoon by from two
to five delegates are as follows: Amherst
College, Bates College. Maine; Boston Uni
versity, Bowdoin College, Brown Univer-
sity, Collegiate University, Hamilton, New
York; Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa In
diana State University, Lafayette College,
Leland Stanford University, Oberlin Col
lege, Northwestern University, Ohio State
University, Ohio Wesleyan University,
Pennsylvania State College, Princeton Col
lege, Purdee University, Iowa State Uni
versity, Syracuse, (N. W University,
Trinity College, Conn; University of Ne
braska, University of Vermont, University
of Wisconsin, Harvard College and 10
Michigan colleges.
The Convention Goes to Work.
The convention was called to order about
noon by President Burke, of the University
of Michigan Club. Delegates from 80 dif-
ferent colleges in this country were present,
A E. Ewing, on behalf of the Republicans
of the University of Michigan, welcomed
ha al ~ IL r
welcome, r. P. Draper, of Albion, was
chosen temporary chairman, and j. W.
Noel, Of Purdee University, temporary
secretary. The Chairman appointed the
usual committees and recess till o'clock
was taken The mention of Blaine's name
in the address of welcome was the signal
for an ovation.
At 2 this afternoon the convention met
and perfected an organization by adopting
constitution and electing the following
officers:
President, James F. Burke, of the Uni
versity of Michigan; First Vice President,
j. c. Iregloam, of Leland Stanford; Secre-
tary, James NJ. Perkins, Harvard College;
Treasurer, McAlpin, Princeton.
One of the principal objects of the organ
ization of these college Republican clubs,
as stated in the platform, is to
counteract the general impression that
college men are free traders, and to foster the
development of healthy study of political
economy from a practical rather than a
theoretical standpoint to encourage young
men to take more prominent part in polit-
lcal work by encouraging pure methods,
and place politics on higher plane.
An Overflow Meeting Was Necessary.
An overflow meeting was held at Uni |
versity Hall TO accommodate the immense
crowd of people who could not obtain an
opportunity to hear Governor Mckinley
speak at the banquet. The Governors
speech. which was on the same line as that
made at the banquet later, was frequently
interrupted with hearty applause. The
banquet hall, where the main exercises of
the evening were held, was profssely dec
grated, and presented splendid scene
when the long tables were occupied by the
1000 guests for which plates had been
laid The galleries of the banquet hall were
crowded, and the presence of many ladies
added greatly to the beauty of the scene,
and inspired the speakers to their best
efforts. Il
The first speaker of the evening was Gen.
eral Russell Alger, who responded to the
sentiment, ''The Republican Party on
Guard. General Alger congratulated the
young men on their work. He saids
To Replace the Old Veterans
''You have come to take the place of us, who
are now in the sere and yellow. You may not
realize it, but it is a fearful thing to be
young man. When you take your parch- |
ment and leave college you go forth to enter
llte's battle. Before you are many tempta- |
tlons, which you can never know until you |
meet them. Young men, it will be your |
duty to guard the heritage of your
fathers, and l hope as you go
forth from college it will be with |
strong hearts, ready and willing to fight the |
fight of honesty, in political, as we'll as in |
business methods. The laws which guard |
the interests of this country to-day are the |
work of Republican,, assailed by Democrats |
on every possible occasion. 1t is the duty |
of every Republican to defend these laws:
we are bound to guard this nation against |
all nations in the world. The Republican
party has a mission and it will never be en-
tlrely fulfilled until such laws are enforced |
as Will guarantee to every man, no matter
what is his color or his race, perfect equality
and liberty to make use of the rights given
him by the Constitution.
Cheers for Ohio's Gallant Governor.
When Governor Mckinley rose to speak
he was greeted with applause which lasted
for fully five minutes. The Governor
opened his speech with a recommendation
of the work of the young men who had uu.
dertaken the organization. He then
proceeded to give a history of the
work of the Republican party and
the predecessors who had outlined the pol
icy which it now followed. The Demo-
cratic party, he declared, is mighty force
In negation, but it is weak and trifing in
practical legislation. 1t is brave-no, no
brave; only clustering after victory-bu
loses all of its courage in the presence
OF great national contest 1t
has the craftsmanship of destruc-
tion, but lacks every element
essential to constructive legislation. Its
vast majority in the House, after five
months Of trial, is convicted before the
American people as weak and vaccilating,
as cowardly and cringing as wanting both
the capacity and the courage to carry into
legislation what they have
pro1essed for the people and upon
which they allege they won the
victory in 1890. They are the party of
Yesterday and day before, not of today or
tomorrow. The speaker declared that pro-
tectlon to American industry and American
labor against all the world without is as
essential and fundamental in the code of
republican principles as it ever was in that
ot the old Whig party. Opposition to all
these constitute the armor and arsenal of
'he Democratic party.
Charge to the Young Men.
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