The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-10-28
Eighteen Professors Of Amherst Issue a
Cleveland Address.

Twenty three of the thirty.three
professors of Amherst college favor
the election of Grover Cleveland to
the Presidency and seven favor the
election of Harrison. Eighteen of the
twenty-three Cleveland supporters in
the faculty have issued this address:
With Mr.. Cleveland's views on public
questions we agree. We admire his courage,
his cons,nncy, his public spirit, his studious
neglect of his merely personal interests
where they conflict with the calls of public
duty.
We remember his tariff message, his pen.
sion vetoes and his letter against free silver
as conspicuous instances Of disregarding per.
sonal considerations for the public good.
We therefore urge all our fellow. citizens
to give Mr.. Cleveland their hearty support
John II. Clark, Anson d. Morse
Edward b. Crowell, III. Humphrey Neill,
Edward Dickinson, George ID. Olds,
Benjamin X. Emerson, Frederick b. Peck,
William c. Esty, J. X. S. Sterrett,
Henry A. Frink, David p. Todd,
Edwin A. Grosvenor, Charles A. Tuttle,
Edward p. Harris, John NJ. Tuttle,
Elijah p. Harris, Ephraim l.. Wood.
Amherst, Oct. rs, 1902.
The sentiments contained in this
address are not a surprise to those
who know the professors, but the un-
usual act of college professors in is
suing a political address and the fact
that a great majority of the Amherst
faculty have united in it is significant
1t speaks loudly Of their convictions of
the importance Of the issues and of
the election at hand.
A correspondent called upon Prof.
Grosvenor to-day and obtained from
him the facts which are given in this
despatch. Twenty five years ago
there was not Democrat in the ia.
Guilty Of Amhers. College. 1t was in
fact the very Gibraltar of Republican
ism. To day over o.thirds of the
faculty are decided Cleveland men.
OF the FIVE who did not sign the ad-
dress is Prof. Burroughs, who has re-
Gently become President of Wabash
College. A few of the professors
voted for Cleveland in 1884, and
larger number voted for him IN 1883,
but by no means so many as will cast
their ballots for him this year.
This does not indicate that the ia
Guilty of Amherst College have be-
come Democrats, although the num-
Der calling themselves Democrats is
probably as great as that Of those who
claim to be Republicans.
This change in the political senti-
ments of the faculty has been very
largely brought about by the indiffer-
ence OF the Republican party to civil
service reform by its change from
standard Of moderate protection to ul-
tra-protection in the interests of mono.
polists by the attempted passage of
the partisan Force bill by the en-
ployment of Government officials of
all grades for the purpose Of accom-
plishing Mr.. Harrison's denomination
at Minneapolis, and the unblushing
employment to-day of Government
officials in the effort to secure his re-
election, and by many minor causes,
some having influence with one pro-
fessor and some with another. While
nearly all advocate a moderate pro-
lection or tariff for revenue so ad-
justed as to foster American interests,
the present Mckinley tariff is be.
lieved to discriminate excessively and
unjustly in favor Of privileged classes.