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Show WILS! FliOr ! UIEOT OF UI1 ' Foreign Policy of the President Presi-dent Is Upheld by Vote of 235 to 95. Representatives of the Wilfon club and the Hughes alliance at the University Univer-sity of Utah j-esterday debated the merits mer-its of the present administration's foreign for-eign policy toward the warring nations in Europe. No decision was given id the usual sense, there beijig no judges, but the students demonstrated their belief be-lief in the Wilson end of the argument at the close of the debate. There is a custom of the Open Forum club, under whoso auspices the debate was held, that all the members of the club, and any visitors present, shall signify sig-nify their opinion by passing out of particular par-ticular doors. Yesterday there were two doors which tho students could pass through in leaving the assembly. An unofficial count gave -ninety-five votes for Hughes aud 2:15 for Wilson. Clarence Baird, tho representative of the Hushes organization, opposed President Presi-dent Wilson's policy because he had not protested against the violation of the neutrality ot Belgium, arguiug that the United States encouraged the warring war-ring nations to make further violations of international law by overlooking that particular case. Allen Bateman, tho Wilson representative, representa-tive, argued that Wilson had followed the sanest course in carrying on diplomatic dip-lomatic relations, and in this way finally winning his point without war. He argued ar-gued that the president had followed precedents in tho matter and that Wilson Wil-son had settled the submarine question in a short time, compared with '.ho amount of time involved in diplomatic problems which have como before the American state department. He cited cases during the war of 1812, during the Civil war and following the Civil war. Students In the engineering department depart-ment at the university, wishing to nave some fun, arranged a rally of their own. They called it the anarchists' convention. conven-tion. The engineers rolled all the automobiles auto-mobiles they could find on the campus down to a point in front of the physics building and used them for the spectators. specta-tors. A stand was -improvised and a ballot box set up. Then several of the janitors at the institution were rounded up and told to make speeches. All was going well, and the anarchists anarch-ists were confident of carrying the countrv, when t Van Cott, janitor in the administration building, earnestly informed his hearers that he was going go-ing to vote for Hnghes. In view of this split in the party, tho anarchists in despair decided to withdraw from 1he campaigh. Later is was pointed out that "Van," as the students call him, had ample reason rea-son to foar the new party. It seems that Van Cott was a night watchman at the university at ono time and the students made life miserable for him. It became a custom to tie up and gag him on an average of once a month, and "Van" was in constant foar that somebody would steal the institution. That is "the rSason he gave up his job to become a ianitor. |