Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-09
APPEAL 70 COLLEGE mGm
Sent Out BY the American Republican College
League On Forming Leagues.

Williamstown, Mass, Oct. Sired
b. Whitney, Williams 81, sent out, to
day. to the college men OF the United
States letters Of which the following
is a copy, in answer to Chairman
Jones' appeal to college men:
The American Republican College
League, Office Of F. B. Whitney, De-
partment Chairmen for Massachusetts,
Rhode Island and Connecticut.
Williamstown, Mass, Oct. 8, 1895.
To All American College Students:
The national executive committee OF
the American Republican College
League wishes to present the objects
of the league to the intelligence, judy
ment and patriotism of all college stu
dents, and earnestly awaits the ap-
proyal and assistance of the American
student body.
For several years previous to the or
ganization of the league, the oppo-
nents of the Republican party 1reeiy
claimed that they were securing the
greater part of the college men. WINE
this was not admitted by republican
leaders, they did realize that their
party was not getting its fair share OF
the educated and naturally progress
siye young men of the colleges.
The principal reason for this condi-
ton of affairs was that while engaged
in their studies students failed to per-
ceive the actualities of life through
lack of daily contact with the world of
business and reality, and therefore
they were thought to be more willing
to accept as true the free trade sophis-
tries cherished by a few theoretical
and impractical college professors. In
order to give an emphatic denial to the
imputed lack of Republican sentiment
and enter a vigorous protest against
the teaching of doctrines so illogical
and un- American. college men. unso-
licited, formed league. Cruel expe-
rience has sealed the fate of Demo-
cratic free trade in favor of Republic
can protection and reciprocity, and
now new issues are presented to be
combatted by educated, practical men.
In no campaign since the Civil War
has so grave a responsibility rested
upon the Republican party. Under
the banner of the Democratic party.
demagogues are seeking high offices
upon a platform at variance with the
principles of sound, conservative
Americansm chaotic mass of
falsehood, deceit, dishonor, fiatism, re-
pudiation and anarchy is euphemis-
tically called declaration of princi-
pies. Free silver, though an oppres-
sive and repellent idea in it's present
form, might receive attention in the
calm deliberations of the American
people if it were presented in proper
form and by honest and sincere advo-
Gates, but educated Americans must
Internationally oppose it when burr
dened down by the forces of social and
political disintegration in the form of
brutal assault upon the honor and
purity of our courts, the Impeachment
of national honor and the annument
of moral law.
James K. Jones, chairman of the ma
tional Democratic committee has is
sued an open letter to the students of
the United States, appealing to college
men lin the name of education" to
form a National League of College
Bryan Clubs" The American Repub-
1ican College League appeals to all stu
dents who believe that their intelli-
gence has been challenged and their
patriotism insulted by the Jones let
ter, to form active clubs to oppose all
Bryan" clubs Rational grounds may
exist for differences concerning money.
but not morality. The political stu
alton is now one of manhood and not
money. When moral sentiment is the
supreme test of national greatness, all
educated men should take an active
part in the defeat of a party of ma
tional dishonor and social disintegra-
ton. In New England, at least, "Bry-
an clubs must not be formed in the
colleges, so all students are urged to
form Republican clubs at once and
send names of officers and number of
members to the department chairman
A. r. c. League, Williamstown. Mass.
FRED B. WHITNEY,
National Committeeman American
Republican College League