EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: In your Tuesday's issue appeared two communications objecting to the students taking part in the Cleveland and Hendricks torchlight procession.

The objections as put were two: -

First. That it would be a breach of an old custom not to march with the Republicans.

Second. That a change from this custom of marching with the Republicans would be of political significance.

The answer to the first is that the reason for marching with the Republicans was not custom but that the sentiment of the large majority of the students was in sympathy with the Republicans. The "custom" was nothing more than that. Each year was an open question, though practically decided beforehand by the known majority. This year there is reason to think that there has been a great change in the feeling of many of the students, and that the college is at least closely divided. So far as the students as a body are concerned, the question should be decided by the majority as in former years. When this has been decided, of course each individual will follow his own convictions or inclinations as to joining the procession.

The answer to the second objection is even more simple. It certainly would be of political significance. That is what a torchlight procession is for-to show political feeling and to influence as many as possible in favor of its candidates. That is the object of all public demonstration. That some of the students go for the "frolic" either having no choice between the parties, or subordinating their convictions to their desire for a "spree" does not alter the question. A political demonstration it is intended to be and as such it will be regarded.

This makes it a question of some importance and it should receive attention, and not be shelved in the Republican favor by the plea of "custom," a plea which plays too large a part in the present Republican campaign. The college is made up of students from all parts of the nation, many of them voters, all more or less interested in and acquainted with political questions, and if the students are going to take part in a political demonstration at all, it is fitting it should be done after deliberation and with a purpose, and not in servile acquiescence to a custom.

I trust the students will treat the question as one worthy of serious consideration, and so far as is possible make it of political significance. Certainly the present campaign is one which should interest all young men, whether they are voters or not and it is to be hoped that the students by making a change this year and marching in the Cleveland and Hendricks procession (which is not to be Democratic, but made up of Democrats and independent Republicans alike) will do their best to strike a blow at official corruption and show disapprobation of the present course of the Republican party. It may at least tend to show the party leaders what to expect from this large body of men who will nearly all be voters when the next Presidential nominations are made, and who will extend their influence as educated men throughout our great country.

HENRY E. WARNER, L. S.