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To the Editors of the Crimson:

In the cause of honesty, and without partisan motives, we wish to protest against the flagrant misrepresentation by the Harvard Democrat in its issue of last Saturday, October 20, of President Eliot's article in the Outlook of the same date. Courtesy requires that we cast no reflections on the literary and journalistic morality of the editors of the Democrat.

The first page purports to be a reprint of the article by President Eliot entitled "Political Principles and Tendencies;" as only one omission is indicated, the reader is obliged to inter that the article, with the exception of that single omission, is printed just as it appeared in the Outlook. But comparison with the original shows in the reprint many other omissions, of matter which is not insignificant, but so essential to the integrity of the presentation of President Eliot's views, that in some cases what is left, because of the omission, becomes hardly intelligible, and in other cases gives an impression which is quite opposite to that produced by the ungarbled essay.

Without further comment we give the principal omissions. In the paragraph upon the civil service reform should stand the following: "The personal and political history of the candidates of the Republican party should cause them to be preferred on this issue to the candidates of the Democratic-Populist party; for of the two candidates nominated by the latter party, the one is a notorious spoilsman, and the other, being a civilian without military experience, accepted a colonelcy in time of war. That act speaks louder than orations."

From the paragraph on the tariff, two passages are omitted. The first, making intelligible the last sentence of the Democrat's reprint, is as follows: "Since the Democratic party has absolutely thrown away the low tariff position which such leaders as Cleveland, Carlisle, Wilson, and Russell won for it, the reciprocity doctrine of the Republican party seems to afford the best immediate opportunity for liberal legislation; although it must be confessed that progress towards world-wide trade is more likely to come through the logic of events than than through legislation--that is, through the increasing superiority of American industries and the manifest insufficiency of the home market." The other passage, concluding the paragraph, modifies the assertion concerning Republican capitalists.

The whole of that part of the article devoted to mob violence is omitted. We quote only the concluding sentences: "In this state of affairs, any attack on the independence of the judiciary is much to be deprecated. Such an attack is made for the second time in the platform of the Democratic-Populist party."

The last omissions concern the foreign policy of the parties: "President McKinley and Mr. Bryan use different phrases in describing their foreign policies; but when it came to action, in all probability their policies would be much alike. Practically they agreed about the treaty of peace with Spain. . . . President McKinley is now surrounded by Cabinet officers of capacity and experience; and he has put good men at the head of affairs in Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Philippines; while in case of a change in the Presidency nobody can tell to what sort of persons the great offices of the government would be entrusted."

It is because this is a matter that might be thought to reflect not only on the honesty of the editors of the paper, but also on the fair name of the University as a champion of the truth, since the editors have christened their sheet the Harvard Democrat; it is for this reason, and not because of the harm done politically by such a distortion of President Eliot's views, we have ventured to call the attention of the readers of the CRIMSON to this subject.  LOVERS OF THE TRUTH.