The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-28

center of the university life, in town of which the university is the great and distinguishing feature. The stu dents gathered in strong force, as was natural. Practically they were on their own ground, They expressed their feelings against repudiation with the vigor and voeiferousness of youth; and they had a right to do It. They ought to have done 1t; and the senti- ment to which they gave utterance was honorable to them. The boys made a great noise, cheering for Mckinley and yelling and jeering at repudiation, so that MT. Bryan could not be heard for several minutes If they had applaud ed him necessarily for even full half hour, would there have been any com plaint of their preventing him from starting out in his speech? Has not a crowd in the open air as much right to hiss as to cheer? At what period in our history was that privilege taken from Americans?
 l These dissenting students, the reports agree, did not offer any personal vio- lence to MT Bryan or anybody else. They did not throw rotten egG.s ut him or otherwise assaii his dignity but | merely shouted their college cry and yelled derisively. They did not like the cause the speaker represented They detested and despised both it and him; and they made known their feeling l noisily, General Webb says that "the positionof a nominated candidate for the presidency of this great republic car ries with it the right to respect from l all citizens, no matter to what party the candidate may belong, or what may | be his political creed" But it carries with it no such right No one, candi- date for president or anybody else, is | entitled to respect unless he deserves | it. and the same is true of a political creed Would a free-love or an out and-out anarchist candidate deserve respect? Should candidate on plat | form of rank and frank treason to l American freedom be received with honor simply because he is candi- date? General Webb talks arrant non- sense; yet he is the president of an American college and an instructor of American youth!
 When MT. Bryan began his speech he proc aeded to insult the students by in sulting their fathers. Would they not have been contemptible fellows if they had not resented his words with all l the force of expression in language of which they were capable? Treat such a man with respect! It would have been disgraceful to them if they had kept silence. If he had a right to talk had they not an equal right to respond? 1 There was no obligation of courtesy preventing them from uttering their l indignant and derisive dissent. He | offered himself for criticism and he has no reason to complain because he I got it.
 The Yale students did right. They may have been boisterous beyond the
 measure of necessity after the fashion of college boys; but the spirit anirnat- ing them was wholly honorable, wholly commendable. Their fathers have good reason to be proud of such sons When General Webb calls their conduct "das- tardly and outrageous" he proves him self to be man disqualified to be col ' lege president and au exemplar for youth. He and not they deserve the reproach of his unjustifiable letter.
 The Yale students detest repudiation, and all honor to them for the feeling! When they come forth from their little l college world into the broad world of society they will make good citizens ! They will fitly sustain the burden of 1 duty to the republic when, in the cruel and relentless order of nature it must