The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-05-18

ASS ARBoR, Micu., May 1.-THE first
guns OF tho campaign OF 1902 were fired
hero to-day by Gov. Mckinley, Hon.
John NJ. Thurston, General Alecr, Hon.
]. Sloat Fassett and other prominent
Republican leaders. Tho occasion which
brought all these men together in Ann
Arbor was tho organization of'the ma
tional league Of college Republican clubs
for which delegates wero present from
thirty colleges from Maine to California.
Those colleges which were represented
in the convention this afternoon by
from twoto five delegates, areas follows:
Amherst College, Datos College,
Maine; Boston University, Bowdcn Col
legc, Brown University, Collegiate Uni
yersity, Hamilton, New York; Dickin-
= son College, Carlisle. Pa; Indiana State
University; Lafayette College; Leland
Stanford University, Oberlin College,
Northwestern University, Ohio State
University, Ohio Wesleyan! University Z;
Pennsylvania State College, Princeton
College, purdec University Iowa State
University, Syracuse IN. Y. Y.)University,
Trinity College, Conn; University Of
Nebraska; University of Vermont;
University OF Wisconsin; Harvard Col.
legc, and ten Michigan Colleges.
At > this afternoon the convention
met and perfected an organization by
adopting constitution and. .clecting the
following officers: t
President-James F. Burke, OF the
University OF Michigan.
First Vice President-J. S. Ircgloam,
Leland Stanford. is 77s
secretary-James NJ. Perkins, liar
ward College. a32
Treasurer-McAlrin, Princeton.
One Of the principal objects OF the
organization oil these college Repub.
lcan Clubs as stated in the platform, is
TO counteract the general impression
that college men are free traders and
foster the development OF n healthy
study Of political economy from prac-
tical, rather than theoretical stand
point; to encourage young men TO take
4 more prominent part in political work,
and by encouraging pure methods to
place politics on q higher plane. This
evening banquet was given in honor
OF invited guests.
M'KINLEY SPEAKS, .,.s.s!
An:ovcrllowins meeting was held at
University Hall to accommodate the
immense crowds OF people. Governor
Mckinley opened his speech with a
recommendation of tho work OF the
Young men who had undertaken the
organization. He Ithen proceeded to
give a history OF the work OF
the Republican party and the
predecessors who had outlined the
policy, which it now followed. The
Democratic party, he declared, is a
mighty force in nesation; it is weak
and tritling in practical legislation. 1t
is brave, no, not brave--only clustering
alter yictory--but loses all Of its
courage in tho presence of4a great
national contest. 1t has the states
manship OF destruction. but lacks even
every element OF essential to construc-
tive legislation. Its vast majority in
t"S .4ouso altcI NV 1tObtNS VI llldL IL
convicted before the American people
as weak and vascillatinS, as cowardly
and cringling, as wanting both the en-
paclty and the courage to carry into
practical legislation what they
have proiesscd for tho people
and Upon which they allegc have won
thovlctory in 1890. They arc the party
ol yesterday and day before, not OF to-
day or tomorrow. The speaker dc.
c;larod that protection to American in
dustry 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 OF the
old Whig party. Opposition to all these
constitute the armor and arsenal OF the
Democratic party. a.