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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. Little (J race was carrying
around a picture of her papa smiliDg
farewell on the rear of a car to a sta
tion audience. When asked if she
thought it was a good picture of her
papa she said she liked it because Mr.
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