Los Angeles herald., 1892-05-18
A LOVE FEAST.
REPUBLICAN COLLEGE CLUBS EFF
FECT.A ORGANIZATION.
They Meet at Ann Arbor and Round Up
Their Proceedings With
Banquet.

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M. Thurston, General Alger, J. Sloate
Fassett and other prominent Repub.
lican leaders. The occasion was the
organization of the National League oi
College Republican clubs, for which
delegates were present from thirty col
leges, from Maine to California. The
colleges represented are: Amherst col
lege; Bath college, Maine; Boston uni
versity; Bowdoin college; Brown uni
versity; Colgate university, Hamilton,
N. r.; Dickenson college, Carlisle, Pa. ;
Indiana state university, Lafayette
college; Leland Stanford, Jr., university F;
Oberlin college; Northwestern univer-
sity; Pennsylvania State college; Prince
ton college; Purdue university, Indiana /;
Iowa State university; Syracuse, New
York, university; Trinity college, Con-
necticut; University of Nebraska; Uni
versity of Vermont; Harvard college,
and ten Michigan colleges.
The convention was called to order
about noon by President Burke of the
University of Michigan club.
A. E. Ewing welcomed the delegates.
The mention OF Blalne's name in the
address of welcome was the signal for
an ovation.
This afternoon the convention effected
organization by adopting a constitution
and eiecting the following officers Pres.
ident, Jsmes F. Burke of the Univer-
sity of Michigan; fret vice. president,
j. B. Eregloam of Leland Stanford, Jl.,
university; secretary, James M. Per-
kins OF Harvard college; treasurer, M.
G. Alpin OF Princeton.
One of the principal objects of the or
ganization 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 a healthy
study of political economy from prac.
tical rather than q theoretical stand
point; to encourage young men to take
more prominent part in political work,
and by encouraging pure methods place
politics on higher plane.
A grand banquet was held this even
ing, at which there were over 1000
guests.
General Alger responded to the senti-
ment, The Republican Party on Guard.
When Governor Mckinley arose he
was greeted with round of applause
which lasted five minutes. He opened
his speech with a commendation of the
work of the young men who had under
taken this organization, and outlined
the history and policy of the Republican
party. The Democratic party. he de-
clared, Ia mighty force in negation. 1t
is weak and trifling in practical legis-
lation. Its last majority in tine house
after five months is convicted before the
American people az weak and vacillat.
| ing, as cowardly and cringing, want.
ing both capacity and courage to carry
into practical legislation what they have
professed before the people, and upon
which they allsge they won their victory
in 1880. Mckinley declared that pro-
lection to American industries and
American labor, against all the world
is as essential and fundamental in the
core of Republican principles as it ever
was in that old Wing party. Opposi.
! tion to these constitute the armor and
| arsenal of the Democratic party.
| j. Sloat Fassett of New York, who
responded to the toast Duty of Citizen
ship, was the next speaker. Hon. John
| M. Langston, colored orator of Vir-
ginia, followed, responding to Repub
| licanism in the South. Hon. John M
Thurston OF Nebraska spoke on Young
Men in Politics.
Other speakers responded to toasts ae
follows: Hon. Al Sawyer of Michi-
gan, Our Absent Guests Hon. VIM. E.
Mason OF Illinois, Theory and practices
of American Politics; Hon. ,A.P. Hum.
phrey of New York, Value of Organiza
ton; Hon. A. J. Lester of Illinois
American Republican League, and Gen
Cutcheon of Michigan, Why Youth
Should be. Republicans.