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New Haven, Conn., April 3,--Three hundred enthusiastic undergraduates assembled at Yale on Wednesday night, for the first rally of the political campaign. The question of parties was formally opened, clubs were formed, and preparations, made for the next rally which is to meet soon.
F. D. Ashburn, chairman of the 1925 Daily News board, president at the meeting. He explained the plans under consideration for the nominating convention to be held n May and expressed the hope that Farmer-Labor, Socialist and other parties would organize before them. Every man in the University will be a delegate at this convention whether of voting age or not. The voting will be done by dormitories in the college and in the Sheffield Scientific School.
Proffessor R. H. Gabriel of the Yale History Department followed Ashburn on the platform and explained at length the procedure of a National Convention and the organization of clubs. The student parties will follow closely the principles that Professor Gabriel outlined.
Political Parties Organize
The Democrats and Republicans adjourned immediately after this gathering to separate rooms where they took the first steps toward organization. B. E. Lippincott, F. W. Whitney, S. H. Blackmer and D. L. Hellfrich were chosen as a temporary Republican committee while F. D. Ashburn, T. C. Hume, J. S. Platt, and A. A. Ryan were picked to organize the Democratic party. Coolidge, La Follettee, Hoover, Borah and Johnson clubs were formed within the Republican party and the Democrats split into groups who advocated Underwood, Roosevelt, McAdoo or Davis for the nomination.
These clubs will hold meetings next week to continue the work in detail of making preparations for a concentrated drive for members. The committees will be at the head of this work and until May will be bush securing converts to their presidential choice.
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