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The Campaign At Harvard

Bob Lampoon Resents Liberty H.U.N.S. Took With His Name

The solution of the Nihilist Society riddle will be offered to the University this evening in the grand election eve parade which the society is planning to stage.

The leaders of the society, still identified only by numbers in convict fashion, have assured the CRIMSON that the affair is not a hoax, that there really will be a parade with band, torches, and all the conventional trappings of a political procession.

They promise that their candidate will be revealed and, furthermore, that the revelation will be the most startling development of the campaign. The revised line of march goes from the Freshman Athletic Building, where the parade forms, up Holyoke Street to Mount Auburn, along Mount Auburn to Plympton, thence to Gore Hall, Standish Hall, and the Smith Halls quadrangle. Then the procession will come back up Dunster street to Mount Auburn, along Mount Auburn to Bow, and then to the H. A. A. Here a monster rally will close the parade and, as far as the Nihilists are concerned, the campaign, as they are all pledged not to vote tomorrow.

Bob Lampoon took exceptions to the claims of the Nihilist leaders, as announced in Saturday's CRIMSON, that he had several all connection with the Republican Club and would march tonight under the Nihilist standard. He appeared at the CRIMSON office Saturday and entered a protest.

"I have worked at the Lampoon long enough to know what a joke is," he declared. "But I think this is carrying a joke too far. I don't want people to think I am the sort of fellow to vote one way one day and another the next. I have voted the Republican ticket for 40 years."

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He then explained that the Nihilist leaders had hired him to play his piccolo in their parade. Four dollars, he said, would buy his musical services but not his political principles, and he wanted the public to understand his feeling on the matter.

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