Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1888 — Page 1

The Democratic Sentinel.

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AsarßEi* BrCoY, T - J > SIcCoT E L. HoLMNflswoivrn. A. M«BM & ® babkshs , (Succcstovsto A. McCoy &T. Thompson,) Eevsset.akr, Ind. DO a fie. v-u! b.mkD'v bttslni es. ....chain;. bought and sold Oortificatoa lntveet it sued Collection- made ■m a point* Office same place ad old firm oi McC >.f A Thompson April 3,1b8b SdORBECAX F. CHXLCOTF Attoraey-at-I*nw itUNBSSLAEE. - - ■ ‘ I^NA Practices* in the Courts of Jasper and nd*S?dnc counties. MutescolUetions a srecliffy. Office on north, side of Washington btreat, opposite Court House- vl)t1 6IMON P. 'THOMPSON. 7. THOM Attorney-at I„ w. Not ary Public. THOMPSON & BROTHER, EEnsskuaer. - - Indiana Praeticein all the Courts. Anion L. SPITUBR. C-nllcotar md AbstractorWoua” articular attention to paying tax- /! '■ "]<•.: ,!. nds. v 2 r7B • v- u 1 . w ’ ATTOiiSSV-AT-LAU, I.EEHTEI-ATi.. IN ‘..ANA. Money to loan on long time m lov interest. bCpl • l'k Co*

JAMES W. DOUTHIT, and notary public, Office up stairs, in Mareever’s new vtuldine. Rensselaer. Ind. Edwin P. Hammond. William B. Austin. HAMMOND & AUSTIN, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Renssklae , Ind Office on second floor of Leopold's Block, co ne r of Was inston and Vanßensselaer streets. William B. Austin purchases, sells and le- ses real estate, pays taxes and deals in negotiable instruments. may2T, 8". W WATSON, ATTOkNBY-AT-LAW pg— Office up Stairs, in Leopold’s Bazay, _SrH RENSSELAER IND. V c . ’yy W. HARTSELL, M D HQJiICEOPATHIC (PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. RENSSELAER, - INDIANA. Diseases a Specialty.,,^ OFFICE, in Makeover’s New Block. Residence at Makeever House. July 11,1884. Jr H. LOUGHRIDGE Physician and Surgeon. Office in the new Leopold Block, second floor, second door right-hand side of hall: v Ten per cent, interest will be added to all accounts running unsettled longer than tore© months. vinl DR. I. B. WASHBURN Physician & Surgeon, Rensselaer , Ind. Sails promptly attended. Will give special attec tion. to the treatment of Chronic Diseases. CmSENS* mW» RENSSELAER, IND., R. Dwiggins, E. J, Sjsabs, Yal. Seib, President. Vic-President. Cashier Does a general banking business: Certificates bearing i-.Urest issued; Exbange boueht and sold; Money loaned on farms Jiewost rales *nd on mas favorable te * April 8 86

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. FRIDAY JANUARY 13, I8f!«

THE O[?]DEST AND [?]EST.

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Shakspeare Study.

Among the many solemn humbugs by which the world is fooled, there is not one more shallow th r oi the pretense of some tragic g&< v. r to be considered what are caliad ‘'students of Sliakspearo.” If thi* o\»im means anything, it presumes that the works oi this poet Ave of such mystic and misty profundity iimt deep reseav.. and. kindred inspiration are reqair.-: to discover Iris hidden meaning, . r*.: i-des** actors are ordained to expfou *i this bible of the stage. Humbug' 1 A tragedy is a great literary effort designed, not to be read or meditated upon, but to be represented before a mixed audience. Its language, therefore, should be clear and unmistakable as it Rows from the mouths of the speakers; its aotion should be clear and perspicuous. If it is not so, then the poet is all at fault. He is not a prophet ; his business is not to tell lies about what is to be; so he has no reason to be obscure. There are no two ways about him; he has no reason for misleading or for mystifying the people. The so-called student ©f Shakspeare is a narrow-minded fellow who s-'eks to torture the palpable meaning of trivial passages into wliat are termed “new readings” for the purpose of rendering himself consp'euous at the oxp.-nse of the poet, to whom he imputes obscurity, the very worst fault a drama ist, ran exhibit. If such fellows could arm so the sleeping spirit of the grand old man, recall him like the ghost in “Hamlet" to revisit the glimpses of the moon, and then submit to him their new readings, I can imagine his reply. “What on earth does it matter? Either interpretation will serve. I cannot remember which I intended. My dramas were written under the spur of necessity to meet the crying needs of the theater of which I was one of tha managers. They will be found to contain errors aud blemishes. Let them be so, and do not encourage infatuated worshipers to turn defects into beauties. Nature is full of imperfections, and if it pleased the great author to leave this work so to eternity, why seek perfection in every miserable little heap of dust? These trivial details you bring to my notic* do not affect the purpose and shape of my play; aud if they concern neither the action nor tha passion nor the characters, why make so much ado about nothing? lam neither honored nor flattered by the blind worship bestowed upon my workp by some writers. If my existence had depended upon these te t grabbers, I should have been shelved two centuries ago between Ben Johnson and Massinger, or b .ried with Beaumont and Fletcher. I owe my existence to the stage, to ih.-.a t r. No dramatic poet h»s any eTriem-ein the closet. Out of mythii ty-s. plays, about a dozed sur- | vive. The rest are ' preserved for the admiration of those who never read them. Each of the dozen will be found to afford a conspicuous and all-absorb« ing character for Khe great actor or aotress. Whenever a well-written play affords suchi an opportunity, it will hold Its life on the stage.

“The ‘Two Gentlemen of Verona’ md ‘ Love’s Labor Lost ’ are read as a matter of duty to the author of ‘ Hamlet’ and ‘ Othello.’ I owe my existence to such actors as Edmund Kean and Garrick, who joined spirits with me, embraced my passion, and embodied my characters. They changed my language and reshaped my work to fit their qualities, and they did it well. This is the way to study Shakspeare.” The actor’s power to represent a passion is a gift, not a deliberate artistio effort obtained by study. It is a faeul* ty, to be developed and improved by practice. The poet only affords the actor an opportunity to display hi* powers; one is the complement of the other in the grand result. The actor who is built on a poet—such is tiu) so called student —is merely a mouthpiece, not an artist, for he should obtain his inspiration as the poet gets his, out of his inner gifts. I, who say this, am both an actor and a poet, and I speak ot what I know. Then—may I be forgiven for saving ae—there are some young women whose eduo&tion has stopped short somewhere between writing and spelling, who are thrust up into conspicuous positions on the stage, and taking refuge behind their good looks, profess to be student* ftf Shakspeare. O, the humbug' of it all! and how the dear world is fooled by it! —Dion Bow OtM/uIU

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THE LAND STEALERS.

The following scathing and crushing expose of the methods of land storing under Republicanism will be read with interest. It is from the pen of Mr. Julian, SurveyorGeneral of New Mexico. Mr. Julian says:

In the October number of the North American Review, Stephen V\ . Dorsey makes what ho calls a “rejoinder” to ay article on “Land Stealing in New Mexico.” I find it a palpable misnomer, for he dees not attempt a reply to the mass of facts which constitute my indictment against the rogues of this Territory. A brief notice of his performance may, however, be deemed proper. In some respects Mr. Dors *y is a formidable antagonist. He once held a seat in the National Senat- from the State of Arkansas, where he will long be remembered as the genius who happily blended in himself the traits both of the carpet-bagger and the scalawag. He has held high places and wielded large powers as a party leader. He has shown uncommon ability in exploiting the mail serviee of the United States and eluding the hand of justice. Probably no man in the Union is so thoronghly acquainted with the whole business of “land stealing.” In this interesting field of activity I believe he has a national reputation as an expert. His selection as the apologist and defender of the tri .e of which he is the acknowledged ehief, is therefore altogether appropriate, and their cause will have to be abandoned as utterly hopeless if he is not able tc defend it. Mr. Dorsey damages his case in the outset by his bad temper It is not a symptom ot innocence. His personal abuse is too fervent and emotional. He should have remembered that the spaniel under the la,sh only yelps when it is touchingly appLed. The article to which he pretends to reply was dispassionately written. I only referred to individuals where my task made it neces ary dealing entirely in facts; and if Mr Dorsey had kept cool, and applied himself honestly to the work of answering them, he might have had the svmpathy, if not the respect of the public.

He also weakens his cause by dragging party politics into the discussion. He has done this without any provocation whatever. H is efforts to show that Democrats, as well as Rspnblicans, are involved in the exposures I have made, is not a response to anything 1 said. I have no dispute with him on that point. My article is thoroughly non partisan. In overhauling the frauds connected with (Spanish and Mexican grants °in New Mexico, I struck right and left, pursuing every ugly feet into its hiding place, without the least concern as to whether it would damage this party or that. I think the purpose of Mr. Dorsey in thus wandering away from the real issue is perfectly transparent. He has become tired of hanging on the ©uterwall of politics, and hopes to regain his lost! place of power in the Republican party. I sympathize with him in his distress, but be will find himself utterly disappointed. The days of his political glory are past, because, as I am oonvinced, the leaders and masses of all parties regard him as hopelessly pilloried before the nation as a Star Route thief. He smells of the penitentiary and no fumigation is possible. To every honest man in the republic the mere mention of his name suggests the striped costume of the crew whose fellowship he escaped through the miscarriage of public justice. Mr. Dorsey damages his cause still more fatally by his absolute recklessness in dealing with matters of fact. In attacking me personally he* succeeds in missing.the truth in every statement he makes. In pretending to give my pedigree, for instance, he says that nearly fif>y years ago I was e’ected to of-

fioe as a pro-slav • I r».. era: and that, defeated for i -i U. l.uu, 1 left my party. He also says that after I had posed as a 1 roe ‘Sober I became a conservative Whig. These ridicu'lou" statements will only provoke the Januhbr of my old friends, lie know. ;hnt after beginnirtr my political measaW big 1 became a na n bemud a leader of the Free Soil party in 1848, and so continued till R \,ns mergev with the Republican party in 185fi;&Ed that i remain d m that party till the Greeley campaign of 1872, when I joined its fathers and founders in walking out of it on account of its shameless misdeeds, in which Mr. Dorse* was disgracefully conspicuous. He says that i my eye “tliore was no public crime of which Ulysses 8. Grant was not guiltv,” and that to his personal knowledge I denounced General Garfield at every cross-road in Indiana as a “thief,” a “bribe-taker,” a “bribegiver” and a “perjurer.” The extravagance of t hese statements destroys them, and Mr. Dorsey knew them to be base tabrications when he penned them. 1 have in past years criticised the administration of General Grant and some of the acts of General Garfield, but in doing so 1 did not app. ar in the role of. a blacv guard, in which Mr. Dorsey is always a very shining figu e. J refer to these and kindred fabrications about myself solely as ill as: rations of th marvelous bent cf his mind towards tiro habit o. lying, and not by any means in sel -defense. Jn iiiis CTse Mr. Dorse is the defendant and culprit, and I frankly confess myself hopelessly lost if I need to defended ag inst any conceivable charges emanating from such a source. They can only tend toonthrone mo in the hearts of all honest men.

m e asserts that mainly through my exertions nearly 400 citizens of New Mexico have been indicted for land frauds, and that every man tried haa been acquitt d. Ho says, “th*re is not grain or shadow oi truth that there have been, or are now, frauds committed to any xtent in New Mexico under the homes* ad •;i • ; mpti< u law;.” Mr. Dorse-' makes Gulliver respectable. to Ids “400 citizens of New Mexico,” (if there were so many ) li knows that I h. d nothing whatever to do with their indictment, and that this was the work of the Grand J uries, aided by the District Attorney and the

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