Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1892-11-03
The Colleges for Cleveland.

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The Colleges for Cleveland.
The address of the professors of
Amherst College in favor ut Cleye-
land has suggested In The New
York Worlda canvaas OF the fac
ulties of other Eastern Colleges.
The result gives a very Interesting
illustration Of the widespread re-
volt among educated md think
ing men against the recent policy
of the Republican party.
The extent of this revolt at Har-
yard is already familiar. Harvard
was formerly described as a shot.
bed of abolitionism" and it was
the school from which the Repub-
lican party drew many of its earli-
est and ablcst teachers. Even the
reconstruction policy and Grant
ism did not shake the Republican
ism of the great Massachusetts,
university !; but as the party grew
more and more closely identified
with the high tariff policy the Har-
ward professors dropped away from
it. In 1888 ur-f'ths of them
voted for Cleveland and this year
it is said that Harrison men are
hard to find among the faculty.
This is not extraordinary, for
the teaching of Harvard has al
ways been contrary to the princi-
pie of a monopoly tariff. The in-
teresting point just now is the evil
dence that the other colleges in
Massachusetts hold the same polit.
ical attitude. At Williams, which
graduated Garfield. and where
every member of the faculty with
the exception of the professor of
political economy voted for him, it
is now said that all but two will
vote for Cleveland this year. Am
herst is the other important college
in Massachusetts and the declara-
ton of its professors has been al
ready published.
Even more interesting is the
change reported at CCnnecticut's
seat Of learning, Yale, where the
Cleveland men in the faculty are
said now to outnumber the Harri-
son men four to one, nearly all Of
the younger instructors being Dem
ocrats. These are the great cen
tres of instruction in New Eng
land, and their influence is suM
Gent to account for the eviden'
drift OF the younger mel away
from the party of monopoly.
In the minor colleges further
east, like Bowdoin, in Maine, ant
Dartmouth, in New Hampshire
the correspondents found little o
l no change to report, and the sam'
may be said of most of the college
in New York and Pennsylvani
Included in the inqdiry, with tn
exception Of Lehigh University, a
: Bethlehem. in this State, where i
is said that ten of the thirteel
: members of the faculty will vot
for Cleveland, though DR.. Lambel
ton and DR.. Coppee are the onl
!. two who were not Republicans be
fore.
There are some other i~nterestin,
: points in the count OF the colleges
e bat these are sufficient to illus
trate the unquestionable tendenc
7 of educating sentiment. 1t wa
from the colleges of the countr,,
| that the revolt against slavery re
4 ceived it's earliest and stronges
r impulse, and the sentiment the.
, planted spread steadily till
. reached the masses of the peopl
and swept away slavery before il
s In the modern movement agains
the slavery of monopoly the edu
Gated and thinking men are only
little in advance of the crowd. Tn
; : less all signs fail they will hav
!, plenty of company in November
. Phsl0. Times.