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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 8, 1896)
IT THE COUKIKK. XOVIR OUDfcVlGWTOP lacie Xewr WE AND OUR NEIGHBORS Buggy top trimmings, cushions and dashes always on band and made to order. If your buggy top needs fix ing bring it around. Will guarantee you perfect satis faction, bith in work and price. Mj atrhcc&99Q fH uvot& m& The statue of Lincoln contemplated and finished, as far as plaster can finish it, by John Currie, has fallen into dis favor with the art critics of the city and may not be elected on postoffice square. It has been decided, however, to carve something out of the marble sent by the people of Tennessee to John Currie. A committee has been appointed to select a sculptor who can model a statue of Lincoln worthy to be carved from the marble and set up in the most promi nent place in the city. The names of the committee are unknown to me, bat it should be composed of individuals who, if not practical artists.have studied and seen the best work of the best art ists enough to distinguish good work from bad. In the instructions to the committee the clause, "Other things being equal, select a Nebraska man to model the etatue" is unfortunate, if not fatal to a happy choice. No good sculp tor lives in Nebraska, if he did he would be dead from starvation. The leisure das6 support artists and there is no leis ure class here. Such a statement can only be resented by those who deny the tact that Nebraska is a new state and is situated 1,500 miles from the Atlartic coast and hereditary wealth. Some of the recent monthly maga zines have Bhown illustrations of Btatues made by a joung sculptor who lives m New York city. His name is Rhind. and his latest work is a statue cf John C Calhoun. It shows the combative energy of the believer in state rights, his rugged strength and dauntleep spirit. No one could stand in front of the statue without admitting that here was a tighter. To acquire that expres sion took years of combat. No bucolic experience cut. those eye sockets so deep, no mercantile traffic liftei that noble head in challenge. A foreigner ignorant of American history in looking at the statue modeled by Rhind would know that the man he was looking at had had something to do with events in the United States. Such a sculptor should model a statue of the greatest American for the city of Lincoln. The influence of such a work upon the jouth of the 6tate can not be reckoned. Mr. Rhind's price would be much larger than a native Nebraskans would be, but considering the indestructibility of the material, and the expanding knowl edge of the people, any price the com mittee might pay a native sculptor would be an extravagance. Not that Nebraska cannot produce sculptors, when she is old enough, but statesmen come first. Moses had to lead the people out of bondage before they were able to build ornamental temples. Since Mr. Bryan's nomination eastern people have looked up Nebraska on the map. They have quit asking the west ern man how many miles his state is from Chicago and whether he takes a gun with him when he goes to church. If J. Sterling Morton is selected by the bolting democrats the state will get a reputation for timber that may cause saw mills to locate here. Mr. Thurston has been selected by the republican campaign committee to answer Mr. Bryan. Word has come back to Ne braska that he is considered the only man who ever equaled Mr. Bryan in de bate. The former accomplishes his ef fects by pointing a trembling but im p is stoned finger at the American tine and assuring his hearers that it shall wave forever if it takes all of his ances- tors and descendants to keep it moving, and once he even offered a few oratori cal drops of his own blood for its de fense. No one in Nebraska, or out of it, can play upon the feeling Americans have for the red, white and blue like Mr. Thurston, and so long as oratory is not argument nor a statement of facts, but repartee, appeal, defiance and inuendo, Mr. Thurston can answer Mr. Bryan as well as anyone else. Up to the present time Charlie Dawes has posed as the friend of great men. His clever conduct of the Illinois cam paign has made hiiu great himself. He is besieged by reporters all the time and Mr. Dawes' opinions appear on the first page of the Chicago papers. To be sure such attention is a fleeting, fame which he will have to resign to the next murd erer with originality enough to mutilate his victim in a new way, but Mr. Mc Kinley has stamped Mr. Dawes' man euvers with his approval and when be is president it will be: "Mr. Dawes, what'llouhave?" Ir a review of Nebraska's well known men, Mr. Estabrook should have a place of honor in oratory. He is as magnetic as "the boy orator," he stimulates and thrills and elates as the great orators of all ages have done. He can not speak extempore and it is a question if any one can. Mr. Bryan's quick replies to ques tions from the audience show an alert ness, and a facility that nobody has yet been able to parry, but the questions are those which a speaker with any imagi nation might have foreseen. Mr. Esta brook's orations have been placed in text books on Rhetoric among examples of the bent orators. He was born in the east when his mother was visiting there. Yet he was brought up in Nebraska and considers himself a Xebraskan. The committee of the Lincoln club which was appointed to see that Ne braska and Lincoln are advertised can put the money into base ball or a Lin coln statue, William Jennings Bryan, J. Sterling Morton, John M. Thurston, Charles Dawes, Estabrook and Bentloy will advertize Nebraska and especially Lincoln for the year 18JG. If the names of the aforementioned distinguished politicians can be matched by the name of one Xebraskan as emi nent in art, the Lincoln people will give up their desire to have a man who knows his business model the statue of Lincoln. Mrs. McKinley objects to the gra6sin her douryard being trampled dowu by the crowds who come to Jook at the house McKinley lives in, she objects to the noiBe they make and she is very much annoyed when the incidents of her daily life are put in the papers by the reporters who shadow hex and her mother in-law. Mrs. Bran is a younger woman with three children who have never given the gracs in the dooryard much of a chance,tn grow anyway. An invalid mother has trained her to self repression and patience. She is gracious .o the reporters and though the major ity of them are working for republican newspapers they iiav-3 become tno friends of the fa niiy. Mr. Oulahan of the United Press is )ime favori'e with the children. 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