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As will be seen in another column, the Cleveland and Hendricks Club of the Law School, not content with refusing to join the Republican procession, intend to issue an invitation to all undergraduates who hold the same political opinions with them to join the club and march in the Democratic ranks. We hope, however, that the club will not carry out their action; but if they do we hope the invitation will meet with the refusal of the undergraduates. Most of the Law students are voter and attach more political significance to their action than do the undergraduates. A club which is formed for express purpose of electing a Democratic president cannot reasonably be expected to do anything which would tend to defeat their purpose. It is but natural that they should refuse to join a Blaine and Logan procession, they could do nothing else under the circumstances. But it does not seem fair for them to try to swell their numbers from the undergraduates and thus prevent the college from going in a body in one procession or the other. The Union canvass has decided the question and the college is going in the Republican procession. Those who go, and we see no reason why it should not be every man, go for the enjoyment of the thing and not because they are aiding or defeating anybody's election.

They go to uphold a good old college custom, they attach no political significance to their action, they go because they want the demonstration made by Harvard to be a good one, one in which all may take part. For these various reasons we regret the action of the C. and H. Club and call upon the students to have pride enough in the procession of Harvard College to refuse the invitation, swallow their disappointment and go with the majority in the Republican ranks, in accordance with the good old custom.

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