St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-18
Republican Student Clubs In
:. augurate a National
.,,,o, Association.
Mckinley, Alger, ThurstOn
and Others Enthuse the
Youngsters.
Bayard Heads a Cleveland
Delegation From Demo-
cratic Delaware.
Georgia Men Divided on the
Point of an Instructed
IL Delegation.

ANN ARBoR, Mich. May T.-The
first guns of the campaign of 1892 were
fired here today by Gov. Mckinley,
John M. Thurston, Gen. Alger, j. SlOat
Fassett and other prominent Republi-
can leaders. The occasion which
brought all these men together in Ann
Arbor was the organization of the Ma
tional League of College Republican
clubs, for which delegates were pres
ent from thirty colleges from Maine to
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 university, Bowdoin college.
Brown university, Colgate university,
Hamilton, N. Y; Dickinson college,
Carlisle. Pa; Indiana state university.
Lafayette college, Leland Stanford uni
versity, Oberlin college, Northwestern
university, Ohio state university. Ohio
Wesleyan university, Pennsylvania state
college, Princeton college, Purdee uni
versity, Indiana; Iowa state university,
Syracuse On. " university, Trinity
college, Connecticut; University OF
Nebraska, University of Vermont, Uni
versity of Wisconsin, Harvard college
and Michigan college. Delegates TO the
conven ton have been arriving on every
train. From 10 to II O'Clock the dele
gates gathered i'll Newberry hall, and
for an hour there was a
Busy Scene of Lobbying
+, f0v tho oonJ;Iokoc f0r ,,uo ,i1anf
O'Clock James f. Burke, president of
the University of Michigan club, called
the meeting to order. A. E. Ewing, of
Michigan. delivered the address of well
come, which consisted of glOrification
of the Republican party. The mention
of Blaine'S name elected loud applause.
S. X. Draper, of Albion college. was
elected temporary chairman, and j. w.
Knowles of Purdue university, was
made temporary secretary. Committees
on credentials, rules, constitution, reSO-
lutions, platform and permanent organ
iZatiOn were appointed, and the cOnven-
ton adjourned until 2 p. m.
On reassembling the convention per-
Effected its organization by adopting
a constitution and electing the follow
ing officers: President, James F.Burke,
of the University of Michigan; first vice
pIColuCHI, q. ID. liz iOdui, VI ICloIO
Stanford Jr; secretary, James M. Per
kins, Harvard college; treasurer, Nc
Alpin, Princeton.
One of the principal objects of the Or
ganization Of these college clubs, as
| stated in the platform, is TO counterfeit
sthe general impression that college men
arc free traders, and foster the develop
/ ment of healthy stuiy of political
economy from practi(a rather than
theoretical standpoint: to encourage
Young men to take more prominent
: part in political work and by pure meth
|. DDS place politics on higher plane.
bn Feast and Wing FIapping.
b An overflow meeting was held at UNI
sperSity hall to accommodate the i'm
mense crowds of people who could not
obtain an opportunity to hear Gov. Nc
Kinley speak at the banquet tonight.
The governors speech, which was on
the same line as that made at the ban
quet later, was frequently interrupted
with hearty applause. The banquet
hall, where the main exercises OF the
evening were held, presented splendid
scene when the long tables were Occu-
pied by the 1,020 guests for which plates
had been laid. 1t was 0:30 before the
speakers of the evening arrived from
the overflow meeting, and for one hour
the party gave their attention to the
menu.
|. Gen. Alger responded 70 the senti-
ment, 1.-THE Republican Party OH
Guard" When Gov. Mckinley rose to
speak he was greeted with applause
which lasted fully five minutes. He
proceeded to give history of the work
of the Republican party and the prede
tcessors who had outlined the policy
which II now followed