Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1887 — Page 7

OUR HOUSE OF LORDS.

Portraits and Sketches of Some of the Newly Elected United* States Senators. Dawes,of Massachusetts; Hale, of Maine; Hearst, of California, and Others. Henry X,. Dawes, of Massachusetts. Hon. Henry L. Dawes, who has been re-elected to the Senate from Massachusetts, was bom at Cummington, Mass., Oct. 30, 1816. He was graduated from Yale College, began life as a schoolteacher, and edited the Greenfield Gazette *nd Adams Transcript. At the same time he fitted himself by his exertions for the legal profession, and was admitted to the bar in 1842. He began his public career in 1848 as a member of the lower branch of the Legislature, and was returned in 1849 And 1852. In 1850 he was a member of the

State Senate. In 1853 he was a delegate to the State Constitutional Convention, and in the same year was aj pointed District Attorney for the Western District of Massachusetts, retaining that office until 1857. He was elected to the Thirty-fifth Congress in 1858, and was re-elected to the Thirty-sixth, Thirty-seventh,Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, Foity-first, Fortysecond, and Forty-third Congress, declining in 1875 to be a candidate for election to the Forty-fourth. He served ten years as Chairman of the Committee •on Elections, commencing with the Thirtysixth Congress—during the most important years in the history of the country—through the war and the reconstruction period. In those years there were more election contests than ever before, arising from the war. He was many years Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, and while in Congress served on every important committee. He was the author of many tariff measures, and assisted in the construction of the wool and woolen tariff of 1868, which was th 3 basis of all duties on wools and wooleus irom that time till 1883. In 1875 Mr. Dawes, was elected to the National Senate to succeed Charles Sumner, whose unexpired term had been filled by William B. Washburn. He took his seat on March 4, 1875, and was re-elected on the expiration of his term in 1881. Eugene Hale, of Maine. Hon. Eugene Hale, who has just been chosen by the Maine Legislature as his own successor in the Senate, is a native of the Pine Tree State. He was born at Turner, Oxford County, June 9, 1835, longer ago than his appearance indicates, for he is a wonderfully well-preserved man. He received an academic education, and then read law. When 21 years of age he was admitted to the bar, and began practice. In a few years’ time he was in the enjoyment of comfortable means and an excellent professional practice. His first official position was as Attorney of Hancock County, which he

held nine consecutive years. In 1867 he was elected to the State Legislature. Hiq first election as a United States Congressman was to the Forty-first Congress. He was also elected to the Forty-second, Fortythird, Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth. In 1874 he declined the position of Postmaster General, to which he was appointed by President Grant. He also declined a place in Hayes’ Cabinet. While a member of the Forty-fifth Congress he was Ohairman of the Republican Congressional Committee. In January, 1881, he was elected Senator f(# the full term ending March 3,1887, succeeding Hannibal Hamlin. His re-election for a second term of six years has ju%t token place. George Hearst or California. Hon. George Hearst first took his feeat in the United Sta'es Senate in March, 1886, by appointment of the Governor of California, as the successor of the late Senator Miller. He has just been elected to serve the full term beginning with next March”. Mr. Hearst has had an eventful history. He went to California across the plains in 1850, and commenced as a common laborer in the mines. Finally he made pome money and formed a partner-

ship with Hoggin <fc Tevis, and the finr has amassed a large fortune in buying mining claims. They now own one of the largest and most profitable mines in Butte

City, Montana, and also mines in Arizona Colorado, Oregon, Mexico, Idaho, and California. Mr. Hearst is considered the most expert prospector on the Pacific coast, and his judgment in regard to a mine has never yet been at fault. He is a tall, well-formed man about fifty-five years old. He was a candidate for Governor of California in 1882, but Gen. Stoneman secured the nomination from the San Jose Convention and was elected. At the time of Senator Stanford’s election in 1885 Mr. Hearst received the complimentary votes of the Democrats. He is a very wealthy man, and among his real estate owns 40,000 acres of the finest lands in the State, situated in San Luis Obispo. He is the sole owner of the San Francisco Examiner. • Joseph R. Hawley, of Connecticut. The Connecticut Legislature has reelected Hon. Joseph It. Hawley to the Senate from that State. Mr. Hawley was born at Stewartsville, N. C., Oct. 31, 1826. His father was a native of Farmington, Conn., and to that State the family returned in 1837, afterward removing to Cazenovia, N. Y. Gen. Hawley received his early education at Farmington and Harford, Conn.,andin 1850 commenced a law practice in Hartford. He very early took a deep interest in the politics of the country and was an active opponent of slavery, especially of its extension to the Territories. In February, 1857, he became editor of the Hartford Evening Press. Upon the outbreak of the war he

enlisted (April 15, 18611, being the first man to enroll his name for volunteer service from Connecticut. He went to the field as Captain of the First Regiment Connecticut Volunteers and fought at Bull Run. After the three months’ campaign he recruited the Seventh Connecticut Volunteers and was commissioned Lieutenant Colonel. He was commissioned Colonel in 1862 and Brigadier General in 1864. He served in the Army of the James before Bichmond and Petersburg. He was appointed Military Governor of Wilmington, N. C., and was brevetted Major General in 1865; was Gen. Terry’s Chief-of-Staff at Bichmond, and was mustered out of the service in January, 1866. He was elected in April, 1866, to the Governorship of Connecticut, holding the office one year. He returned to journalism as editor of the Hartford Courant, and was President of the Chicago National Republican Convention in 1868. He was elected to the Fortysecond Congress Nov. 5, 1872. He was re-elected to the Forty-third Congress in April, 1873. Upon tho organization of the Centennial Commission he was chosen its President. In 1881 he wgs elected to the United States Senate and has just been reelected.

A. S. Paddock, of Nebraska. Hon. Charles H. Van Wyck was beaten for Senator in Nebraska, after a hard fight. His successor is Hon. Algernon S. Paddock, who was beaten by Van Wyck in 1881, after having served one term in the Senate.

Mr. Paddock was born in Glens Falls, N. Y., Nov. 5, 1830. He spent his youth at that place, entering the Glens Falls Academy in his thirteenth year. He pur-; sued his studies there; until he was eighteen years old, when he entered Union Col-

lege, New York, where he remained until his senior year, when he left and went to Detroit, Mich. He began the study of law there. In May, 1857, i e removed to Fort Calhoun, Neb., near where he pre-empted a farm and settled. In 1872 he moved to Beatrice, Gage County, where he now lives. During 1858 and 1859 he was engaged in editorial work for the Omaha Republican. In 1860 he was a delegate to the National Republican Convention at Chicago that nominated Lincoln. He was nominated Secretary of Nebraska Territory, and assumed the position April 1, 1861. In 1864 he was a delegate to the National Convention at Baltimore. In 1857 he was a candidate for the Senate, but was defeated by John M. Thayer. In 18(18 he was nominated Governor of Wyoming by President Johnson, but declined the place. In the winter of 1874-’75 he was elected to the United States Senate for a term of six years. In the winter of 1880-’Bl lie was a candidate for re-election, but after eighteen ballots was defeated by C. H. Van Wyck. He served as a member of the Utah Commission, to whicn place he was appointed by President Arthur.

BASE-BALL REVISED.

The National Game in 1887 Will Be Played Under the New Code. The Hew Field and the New Style of Pitching—Good News for Umpires. Base-ball has come to be a game of all the year round, not only for players, but for the public. No sooner is the season ended in the fall than the interest in the next season begins to be active. The thing about the game tnat is of most interest this winter is the reform of the pitching laws undertaken by the last convention. One of the most widely known base-ball writers and scorers in the country is Henry Chadwick, of Brooklyn, an oldtimer and official scorer for t«te Brooklyn Club. He was evidently built for a player, but has never devoted himself to the game professionally other than as a writer about it. When the new rul s were announced he interviewed several members of the Committee of Conference to obtain trustworthy interpretations of the changes. “The base-ball fraternity,” says Mr. Chadwick, “in 1887 will, for the first time in the history of professional ball, play under one official code of rules, viz., that authorized by the Conference Committee of the National League and the American .Association, at the meeting held in Chicago on Nov, 15 and 16, 1886, which code was afterward indorsed at the annual conventions of both organizations. On this exceptional legislative occasion not only were the members of the joint committee of each organization the ablest men that could have been selected for the purpose, but they were assisted in their important work of revising the playing rules by a special advisory committee of leading club captains of the two associations, who were invited to aid the committee by such practical suggestions as the experience of the past season pointed out as necessary. Prior to the meeting the work of amending the rules each season had been done by the delegates to the annual meetings of each organization, and the result was not only two different

The Limits of a Fair all.

codes of rules, but crude and unsatisfactory amendments, which frequently had to be changed before the close of the ensuing season. Under the new order of things, however, the promise is that the work of the Conference Committee will be found sufficiently practical to render changes unnecessary until the next annual meeting. A primary object the committee had in view in framing a new code of playing rules was to introduce such amendments as would lessen the individual responsibility of the umpire in his rendering of decisions in disputed points and transfer it to the code itself, thereby reducing the chances of disputing decisions. “The first thing the pitcher will have to attend to in studying up the new rules is the method of taking his staDd in the 4 box ’ preparatory to delivering the ball to the bat. Formerly he could hide the ball behind his back, which he is now prohibited from doing, and could stand within the lines of his position in such a way as to admit of his tuking one or two steps in delivery, as his position was then a space seven feet by four in extent, besides which he had the privilege of lifting his feet. All this is now prohibited under the new code. As the rule now is, ho must take his stand, when about to deliver the ball, within the lines of a space of ground only five feet six inches by four feet. It will be Been at a glance that the fiosition is very different from that in vogue ast season. In the first place the pitcher is now required to keep liis right foot—his left, if a left-handed pitcher —standing on the rear line of his posilion, and he is not allowed to lift his feet until the ball leaves his hand. In reality he can not pitch or throw the ball unless this foot is on tho

Position for Throwing Under the New Rules.

ground, as it is from the pressure of this foot on the ground that he derives t e power to give the last impetus to the ball in delivering it. He is also required to hold the ball so that it can be seen in his hand by the umpire.” “In such a narrow box will not the pitcher find it impossible to take the short run that has characterized the work of some qf them in the past?” “Exactly. Besides keeping his right foot—or foot, as the case may be—on the line, he is now prohibited from taking more than one step in the delivery; and when taking this one step his forward foot must touch, the ground to the left of the center line of his portion. ” “Will these rules make any material dis-

ference in the effect of the pitcher's delivery?’’ “Decidedly, yes. The changes are very important, the main effect of them being tc force the pitcher to learn to obtain a better command of the ball in delivery; and they also have the effect of reducing his power to send >n very swift calls. The double code, while it enabled him to attain greater speed in delivery, necessarily obliged him to sacrifice accuracy of aim and injury of catchers, besides placing the batsman ik the position of being obliged to devote nearly all his attention to avoid being severely hurt by being hit by the pitched ball.” “The changes as interpreted by you will not seem to be severe on the pitchers who cling nearly to the old style of pitching

One of the Old Styles.

wherein the arm is swung on a level with or below the hip. How about those who throw the ball?” “The rule must be followed as exactly, whatever the stylo of swinging the arm. The position it forces the thrower to take is not really any worse for him than for the Eitcher. He will stand squarely facing the ataman, take one step forward with the ball in plain sight and let it go as he pleases. It will undoubtedly make his delivery more sure. “The other important changes in the pitching rules introduce more costly penalties for unfair wild pitching. In the first Elace, the pitcher is now allowed to send in ut five unfair balls before bo becoine's liable to the penalty of giving the batsman his base on balls, and this penalty is increased by adding the charge of a base-hit against the pitcher every time a base is given on balls. Then, too, every time the pitcher hits the batsman with a pi ched ball a base is given the batsman for the error. The same penalty, too, is incurred every time the pitcher commits a balk, and the liability to balk in delivery is greatly increased under the new rules. It will be seen, therefore, that the pitcher has now to guard against three costly errors in his method of delivery, viz.: those of sending the batsman to his base on balls, for hitting him with a pitched ball, and for making a balk. This largely increased responsibility attached to the position, however, is offset by an important advantage which the new code grants to the pitcher, and that advantage ließ in the throwing out of the code of the clause in the pitching rules which requires the pitcher to send in balls ‘ high’ or ‘ low,’ as the batsman chooses to call for. A fair ball is designated, under tho new code, as ‘a ball delivered by the pitcher while standing wholly within the lines and facing the batsman, and defined in section 2 of rule 2; the ball, so delivered, to pass over the home

Position for Pitching.

base, and not lower than the knee of the batsman, nor higher than his shoulder.’ The designated class of ‘high’ and ‘low’ balls thrown out under the new code were not only a detriment to the pitcher in his effort to employ strategic skill in his method of delivery, but they were the most difficult class of balls for the umpire to judge correctly. and his errors of judgment in this respect were a fruitful cause of wrangling ana ‘kicking’ by pitchers and batsmen. Under the new code, therefore, a greater latitude is given the pitcher in this respect, as he is now only called upon to send in balls ‘not higher than the batsman’s shoulder, or lower than his knee,’ and every such ball is now a fair ball, provided, of course, thdt it at the same time passes over the home plate. This is one of the most important and radical changes made in the rules for some years past, and though it may bother a few batsmen at first, it will ultimately be of ad vantage to them. One benefit it yields is that of relieving the hmpire of a very difficult part of his duties, while at the same time it affords the pitcher greater facility for strategic skill in his position. “In regard to the new rules of the new code, which refer to committing a ‘balk,’ the pitcher is far more circumscribed in h s movements than he was la«t year. The new code includes the, American Association rules of 188 G, which are as follows: ‘A balk is any motion made by the pitcher to deliver the ball to the bat without delivering it, and shall be held to include any and every accustomed motion with the hands, arms or feet, or position of the bodyassumed by the pitc'er in his delivery of the ball, and any motion calculated to deceive a base runner, except the ball be accidentally dropped; if the ball be held by the pit her so long as to delay the game unnecessarily,or any motion to deliver the ball, or the delivery of the ball to the bat by the pitcher when any part of his person is upon ground out'.ide the lines of his position, including all preliminary motions with the hands, arms, and feet.’ “The only amendment introduced in the American rules by the now code is the clause: * And any motion calculated to deceive a base runner.’ It will be readily seen that stealing bases under this rule w 11 not be as difficult as it was under the absurd ruling in vogne the latter part of las* season.” |

THE NEW SOUTH.

Editor Grady’s Famous Speech at the New England Dinner. “I bespeak the utmost stretch of your courtesy to-night," he said. "I am somewhat indifferent to those from whom I come. You remember the man whose wife sent him to a neigiibor with a pitcher of milk, and who, trippiug on the top step, fell, with such casual interruptions as the landings afforded, into the basement, and while picking himself up had the pleasure of hearing his wife call out: ‘John, did you breah the pitcher?' ‘No, I didn't,’ said Johu, ‘but I be dinged if I don't ’ “The Cavalier as well as the Puritan," said the speaker, “was on this continent in its early day# and he was ‘up and able to be about.' But both Puritan aud Cavalier were lost in the stjrm of their first revolution, and the American citizen, supplanting both and stronger than either, took possession of the republic bought by their common blood and fashioned to wisdom, and charged hinißelf with teaching men government and establishing the voioe o< the people as the voice of God. Great types, like valuable plants, are slow to flower and iruit. Rut from the union of these colonists, from the straightening of their Eurposes And the crossing of their lood, slow perfecting through a century, came he who stands as the first typioal American, the first who comprehended within himself all the strength and gentleness, all the majesty and grace of this repubiio— Abraham Lincoln. He was the sum of the Puritan and Cavalier, for in his ardent nature were fused the virtues of both, and in tho depths of his great soul the faults of both were lost. Ho was greater than Puritan, greater than Cavalier, iu that be was an American, and that In his homely form were first gathered tho vast and thrilling forces of this ideal government- charging it with such tremendous meaning, and so elevating it above human suffering that martyrdom, though infamously aimed, came as a fitting crown to a life consecrated from tho cradle to human liberty. “In speaking t:> the toast with wbluh you have honored me I accept tne term. 'The New South,' as in no soiibo disparaging to the old Dear to me, sir, are the home of my childhood and the traditions of my people. There Is a new Booth, not through protest against the old, but because of new condit ouh, new adjustments, and, if you please, now ideas and aspirations. It is to this that I address myself. 1 ask you, gentlemen, to picture If youoan tho foot-sore soldior who, buttoning up in his faded gray jacket, the parole which was taken as testimony to his children of his fidelity and faith, turns his face southward from Appomattox In April, 186). Think "of him us, ragged, halfstarved, heavy-hearted, enfeebled by want and wounds, having fought to exhaustion, ho surrenders his gun, wrings the ha. ds of his comrades, and lifting his tear-staiued and Sallid face for the last time to the graves that ot old Virgiuia hills, pulls the gray cap over his brow and begins his slow aud painful journey. What does he find—let me ask you, who went to your homes eager to find all tho welcome you had earned, full payment for fou# years’ sacrifice—what does hs find when ho reaches the home he left four years before? He finds his house in ruins, his farm devastated, his slaves freed, his stock killed, his barns empty, his trade destroyed, his monoy worthless ; his social system, loudal in its magnificence, swept away ; his people without law or legal Htatus, his comrades slain, and the burdens of others heavy on his shoulders. Crushed by defeat, his very traditions gone, without money, credit, employment, material or training—and, besides all this, confronted with tho gravest problem that ever mot human Intelligence—the establishing of a status for his vast body of liberated slaves, what does he do, this hero in gray with a heart of gold? Does he sit down in sullhnness, In despair? Not lor a day. Burely God, who had scourgod him in his prosperity, inspired him in his adversity 1 As ruin was never before so overwhelming, never was restoration swifter. Tho soldier stepped from the trenches into tho furrow ; horses that hod charged Federal guns marched before the plow, and fieldß that ran red with human blood iu April, were greon with the harvest in June; women reared in luxury cut up their dresses and made broeobes for their husbands, and with a patience and heroism that fits woman always as a garment, gave their hands to work. There was a litte bitterness to all this. Cheerfulness and frankness prevailed. ‘Bill Arp' struck the keynote when lie said: 'Well, I Killed as many of them as they did of me, and now I am going to work.’ Or the soldier, returning home after defeat and roasting some corn on tne roadside, who made tho remark to his comrales : ‘You may leave the South if you want to, but lam going to Baundersville, kiss my wife, aud raise a crop, and if the Yankees fool with me any more I will whip ’em again.’ I want to say to Gen. Sherman—who is considered an able man in our parts, though some people think he Is a kina of careless man about tire—that from the ashes left us in 1864 we have raised a brave and beautiful city ; that somehow or other we have caught the sunshine in the bricks and mortar of our homes and have builded therein not one single ignoble prejudice or memory “When Lee surrendered—l don’t say when Johnston surrendered, because he still alludes; to the time when he met General Bbonnan last as the time when he ‘dot rminod to abandon any further prosecution of tho strugglo'—when Lee surren< ered, I say, and Johnston fluit, the South became and has oeen since loyal to this Uniop. Wo fonglit hard enough to know that we. were whipped, and in perfeet frankness accepted as final the arbitrament of the sword, to which wo hud appealed. The South found a jewel in a toad’s head The shackles that hud held her in narrow limitations fell forev&r when the shackles of the negro slave were broken. Under the old reglmo the negroes were slaves to the South, the South was a slave to the system. Thus was gathered in the hands of a splendid and chlvalric oligarchy the suostance that should have been diffused among tho poople, as the rich blood is gatherod at the heart, filling that with affluent rupture, but leaving the body chill and colorless The old South rested everything on slavery and agriculture, unconscious that these could neither give nor maintain healthy growth. The new South presents n perfeet democracy, the oligarchy leading into the popular movement—a social system compact and closely kn tt.'d, less splendid on the surface but stronger at the core —a hundred farms for every plantation, fifty homes for every palace, and a diversified industry that meets the complex needs of this complex ago. ” In closing, Mr. Grady said: “This message, Mr. President, comes to you from cons crated ground. Every foot of the soil about the city in which I live is as sacred as a battle-ground of the republic. Every hill that luvests it is hallowed to you by the blood of your brothers who died for victory, and doubly hallowed to us by the blood of those who died hopeless, but undaunted in defeat sacred soil to all of us—rich with memories that make us purer, and stronger, and better—silent b- t stanch witnesses in its rich 4efo ation of tho matchless valor of American arms—speaking an eloquent witness in its white peace and prosperity to the indissoluble union of Afiierican t-tates, and the imperishable brotherhood of the American people. What answer has New England to this message ? Will she permit the p re, ad ice of war to remain in the hearts of the conquerors when it has died in the hearts of the conquered? Will she transmit this prejudice to the next generation, that in hearts w hich never felt the generous ardor of conlliet it may perpetuate itself? Will she withhold, save in strain' d courtesy, the hand which, straight from his soldier’s heart, Grant offered to Lee at Appomattox? W 11 she make tho vision of a restored and happy people which gathered above the couch of y< ur dying captain, f-lling his heart with grace, touching his lips with p>ais \ and gl rifvng his path to the gravo- will she make this vis on, on wh ch the last sigh of his expiring soul breath d a benediction, a cheat ana deiuipon? If she does, tho South, never abject in asking for comradeship, must accept with dignity its refusal. But if she does not refuse to accept in frankness and sincerity this message of good-will and friendship, then will the prophecy of Webster, delivered to this very society forty years ago, amid tremendoiis applause, when .he said: ‘Standing hnfad to hand and clasping hands, wo should remain united, as we have been for sixty years, citizens of the same country, members of tho same government—united, all united, now and forever." There have been difficulties, conten--1 tions, and controversies, but I tell you that in my judgment , “Though opposed foroes, Which, like the meteors of a troubled heaven, All of one nature, of one substance bred, Did lately meet in th’ intestine shock, Shall now in mutual, well-beseeming ranks. Maroh all one way." , i ,