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THE PLATFORM.

The Republicans of Wisconsin
stand npon firm platform. II reads
as follows:
"The Republicans of Wisconsin, by
their representatives in this conven-
ton, reatfirm their adherence to the
principles set forth in the platforms
adopted by the national conventions
of the Republican party.
On the subject of protection to
American industry, their views are
expressed in the platform which Alb
raham Lincoln approved and on
which he was elected, viz: That
while providing revenue for the sup
port of the general government by
duties on imports, sound policy re-
quires such an al Justment of these
imports rs to encourage the industrial
interests o.. the whole country; and
we commend the policy Of national
exchanges which secure to the work
ingmen liberal wages, to agriculture
remunerative prices, mechanics and
manufacturers an adequate reward
for their skill, labor and enterprise.
and to the nation commercial prosper
ity and independence"
While in favor of such a revision of
the tariff and reduction of the revenue
as will avoid accommodating surplus
III the treasury after meeting the cur
rent expenses of the government and
paying the national debt as rapidly as
IT natures, they demand that the re-
vision shall be made by those friendly
TO the principle of protection, and not
by It's enemies
They denounce the last annual
message of President Cleveland as an
attack upon American Industries in
the interests of free trade. They op-
pese the tariff bill now pending in
Congress, reported by majority of
the committee on ways and means,
as an unjust, dishonest and sectional
measure, shaped to meet the exigenc-
les of a party. instead of being design
ed to promote the general interests,
and utairly aiming blow at the in
dustries of one section of the country.
while shielding those of another
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into the very texture of his mind. Even tho
30 called mistakes OF Shakespeare" often
prove to be classical Thus, in 'Antonv and
Cleopatra" CHAIRMAN proposes a game OF
billiards In the ordinary reader this az
cites emile. But the encyclopedia brain
that produced shakespeare" knew tho
curious fact-aot une man in a million knows
it now-that the game Of billiards antedates
Cleopatra In another place is a reference
to "Adonis' Gardens" of which the learned
Richard Grant White says: mo mention of
any such gardens in the classic writings is
known to scholars" But James d. Butler
has found the passage In the "Pha.drus of
Plato, used exactly as I'm Shakespeare.
g. The author makes a word wherever he
needs it, makes it generally from a Latin
root and invariably follows the best rules of
derivation, and gives the word it's radical
meaning OF many hundred such words the
reader familiar with "Shakespearen will
readily recall these: Deracinats, rubrous
cautelous, armipotent, evitate, oppugnancy,
legerity and propinquity. These words are
not the coinage of a man who knew the
Latin authors only in TRANSACTIONS.
3. The author of shakespeare" was pro-
found lawyer. And his law was not like that
of Charles Reade or Wilkie Collins
"crammed" for the particular case, nor even
like that of Samuel Warren, whose "Ten
Thousand Year" is evidently written by n
lawyer and yet contains some very bad law:
on the contrary, 1t Is the condensed excel
lency of the common law of England as IL
stood at the accession of James |. and so
thoroughly absorbed into the writer's mind
that even In sportive love scenes or keen
he makes no mistake. This point
was lately submitted to n few able lawyers in
England, and their decision was that in all
the court scenes and law phrases Of "Shake-
speare" there was but one departure from the
actual law, that in the "Merchaut of Venicen
We can readily see how the necessities of the
dramatic situation compelled the author to
depart from the correct rule in that case, for
1t would have been very fat contradiction il
Antony had asked relief in equity from bis
bond Authors who dip into law run into
danger; unless well read in the science they
are certain to blunder. But even In the most
careless illusions, or love scenes, the great
al aInaJlsJ employs the technical TERMS OF
law in their strict meaning and preserves
tho delicate distinctions between purchase
and descent, heirs of the blood and collater.
ais, indictment and presentation, burgagc
tenure. fees and gavelEind, reversion erd
recovery. Observe the legal terms. as ..s
have capitalized them, III this love scene:
A Contract of Esernal Bond of love,
Confirmed by Mutual Joiuder OF your hands
Attested by the holy close of lips
Strengthened by Interchangement of your rings
And ell the ceremony of this Compact
Scaled in my function by MY Testimony
Twelfth Night. vi
How many students of Blackstone, Coke
or Mansfield, ct the end Of a two years
course could state the law Of constructive
treason as clearly Gs Suffolk Din Henry
WIFI states it il this passage:
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the Fourth-it was dedicated to my lord of
Essex-said she had q good opinion there
was treason in it, and asked me if could not
find plans in it that could be drawn within
case of treason, whereto | answered.: For
treason surely | found none. but for felony
very many. And when her ma jesty hastily
asked me wherein, | told her the author had
committed very apparent theft, for he had
taken most Of the sentences of Cornelius
Tacitus and translated them into English and
put them into his text Another time. when
the queen would not be persuaded that it was
his writing whose name was to it, but that it
had some more mischievous author, and said
with great indignation that she would have
him racked to produce his author, replied:
Nay, madame, never rack his person bot
rack his stile; let him have pens, ink and
paper, and help of books, and TO enjoined to
continue the story where it leaves off, and
will undertake by collecting the stiles to
Judge whether be was the author or no."
Observe the sly humor with which Bacon
attempts to divert the queen by speaking of
plagiarism as felony. But Mr.. Donueiiy
finds confirmation of the foregoing account
in the cipher story, one paragraph of which
reads:
His men turn their backs, and my crafty
first appearance of danger, stumbling under
the heavy weight"
The first to question William Shaksperes
authorship was his rival and enemy, one
Greene; but this attributed to envy.
Alexander Smith, the essayist, made the OBJ
servation that Bacon seems to have written
his essays with Shakespeare's PEN" Horace
Walpole classed the authorship Of the plays
among his Historic Doubts" In 1852 Mr.
Speeding printed paper, "Who Wrote
Shakespeares Henry WIZ Soon after
Chambers Edinburgh Journal published an
anonymous paper entitled, Who wrote
Shakespeare" and the author arrived at the
conclusion that Shakspere kept poet" In
1856 Miss Della Bacon tthe identity Of name
with the Lord keepers is only coincidence an
American lady, sister Of Rev. Leonard Bacon,
first propounded the theory that Lord Bacon
was the Shakespeare wanted; and from that
date 1t began TO assume the dignity OF
theory. and what was down TO that time
only an Insignificant literary heresy, It's adj
herents having no rallying point, has since
grown to be the faith of united and az
gressive party, numbering tens OF thousands,
among them many OF the ablest critics and
scholars of the time. During the last thirty
years some $50 books and pamphlets have
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-05-19

Nicholas Anthony and Francis Bacon,
Sir Robert Cecil, Sir Henry Wotton and
Sir Philip Sidney, with Walsingham,
Coke, Camden, Hooker, Drake, lingo
Jones and all that brilliant galaxy OF
warriors scholars and navigators, who only
began their career in the reign of Elizabeth
and became noted in that OF James, and
therefore must have been for a short time
contemporary with William Shakspere
The literature still extant as made by these
men is volumnous; yet in all of it there Is
no reference to the man, and very little In
deed to the plays. Let us pass this omission
as due to their preoccupation in other ftfairs
and turn to the poets and other writers OF
the time Here we find few, very few,
references to William Shakspere as genial
fellow, boon companion at supper and
Astounding in wit and humor But one OF
all those, however, the noted Ben Jonson,
left any testimony implying that William
Shakspere was a man of great talents. To
sum up: All we really know of tie man was
gathered after his death by visitors to STRAIT
ford on-Av on Seven years after the death
of Shakspere appeared the first complete
edition Of 'Shakesi 'eare," called the edition
of 1928; then the reporters of the day went to
Stratford and hunted up che particulars,
have discovered, sums up substantially as
follows:
THE sH-K-sP-R-s OF sTRATFoRD-o N-AvoS.
Standardization was one of the dirticst
towns in England at period when the filth
ness of common life indescribable.
Night travel in the streets was made danger
Gus by deep and muddy puddles, and the peo-
pie utilized them for manure bins. When
the reform movement" set in an alderman
and several prominent citizens including
one of the Shaxpeers, were prosecuted for
making manure heaps in front of their doors
The dwellings generally were dark and moi
some In one of the best of those William
Shakspere was born, i'll April, 1864: and in
a much more elegant one, called New Place,
he died, April %, 1915. His father, John
Shagspur, or Sharper, SHAKESPEARE, could
not write, but was fairly we'll to do citi-
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-05-19

pectus the poet used and OF ore of the blank
leaves are the skeleton lines of the celebrated
poem Excelsior which he was then EVIL
IDENTIFY incubating. Daniel Webster paid his
second terms tuition at Dartmouth by Sell
ing books. Gen Grant at one tire took an
agency for Irviags Columbus Bret fiarte
was a book agent in California In lSi9 and
so. Ex-Presidept Hayes footed 1t all
over southern Ohio selling Bakers
Lives of the Saints After the siege OF
Toulon, Bonaparte, then young lieutenant
employed at the capital. and too honorable
to duplicate his pay account, took the agency
for the History of the Revolution. Bis
marck, Cardinal Mezzofanti, Count Meter
mich, Canning, Lore Denhan, and Colerldge,
the poet, were all, at some period OF sheir
lives, book agents. So also were aiIne- de
Stael and Mrs. Jameson, and Columbus can
yassed for work ON Marine Explorations
James G. Blaine began his business career as
a canvasser in Washington county, Pa
where he sold a life of Henry Clay. Many
others whose names emblazon the pages OF
history largely owe their success in life to the
experience obtained while engaged in the
iaudable and honorable calling of book
agent" ). L. EEADLA
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-05-19

even one paragraph or the concealed story
But when evolved, they insist, it gives the
inside history Of Queen Elizabeth's reign and
shows why the authorship had to be con-
eealed
With this caution to the reader We present
few OF the paragraphs formed by the words
thus numerically selected from "Henrv Tvn
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-05-19

The play In which
Mr.. Donnelly dis
covered the cipher.
We give the names
as formed by the
cipher Of common
words and the real
names In paren-
theses The Mar
TO w Q mentioned
IVES a contempt
rary and rival of
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-05-19
"TaE GREAT CRYPTocRA,t =

The full title Of Mr. Donnelly's book IS:
"Ibe Great CryptogrGn: Francis Bacons
Cipher in the so Called Shakespeare PLAYS"
1t is magnificent imperial octave volume
OF l.0j0 pages, ard is divided into three parts
or books: Book 1.-The Argument Book Il
the Demonstration. Book IIl-Conclusions
Throughout it is written ii an easy. enter
tanning style, such as viii hold the attention
of the reader. From typographical stand
point the volume is credit to the art pre-
servative, being beautifully printed, with
engraved titles and numerous Illustrations,
all Of 9 very high order. The frontisDece is
L portrait on steel Of Lord Bacon, from the
celebrated painting Of V2n Somer. The
work is published by P S. PeaIe 6 Co.,
whose principal Office is as 491-;-15 Dearborn
street, Chicago TIE publishers announce
that the second edition will probably lie
issue! III tTvo volumes, as tie original price
of the work was based on the SuppoS.:inn
that it would contain only go pages Tie
Great CrJp1o5rani" is sod = subscription
only, aad an army os agents will soon b. n
the f III. 1t will Hot he sold in the book
stores, Gut orders may I've srnc ircc: TO he
publishers by those who have cot had an ~
pCrtuniry t. subscribe
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-05-19


the haste was at least adj nAah
visable. A little later the doctor sued
two neighbors for libel, in that they had re-
ported tad conduct in his wife; and as
there is no record of verdict, lawyers have
thought that the case was compromised
Dr. Hall was a busy and careful man. He
kept voluminous diary of his patients, his
life and his many interests, which is still ex-
tant, and has been grecdily searched by
scholars; but it contains nothing to prove
claims to any rights in shakespeare" In
the next generation the family became ex-
tinct, the grandchildren dying chidless; the
property, the little that was left, went to
collateral heirs, and the family dropped into
its original obscurity. That out Of such a
family should suddenly have risen the great
est genius of earth, descended from a long
line of peasants and Doors: that he should
have lived such life, died such death, left
daughters uneducated and taken no thought
for his fame, is of course possible; but it Is
against ali experience.
INTERNAL EVIDENCES
L The plots of many of the plays are
from Latin, Greek and Italian authors, and
whole lines and paragraphs are almost lit
eral translations from the obscure classics
The ready explanation was that the unlearned
Shakspere obtained his knowledge from
TRANSACTIONS, but recent research has q con-
elusive negative in this; many of these
works had not then been translated into
English, and at least one of them is not
translated yet More convincing still, in
those cases where an English translation was
then extant the author of Shakespeare" has
rejected the style and words of the transla-
ton, and reproduced in his drama a literal
rendering of the original, thus proving that
he had not only read il. but had il inwro,loht
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-05-19
ATTACK ON TIE SUBSCRIPTION BOOK.

TIE Intense feeling against 3;r Donn,iiy
snd lis book has manifested !tS,.if IL ai2.o- :
every form IF opposition imaginable f~ou
the cjpiaut charge of Authorization 4nt!
cT2ntllneSS 70 tie sober inlpatatiou of Til.iHl
and deliberate fraud. NCI content with cCH-
de.rning tie Loo!: in advance, some cave
l,one SO far as to find matter OF criticism IN
the method by which the book is puotisnta
and SOld-that is, the subscription method,
rs ii tnat could affect thc merit OF the ncrE
Grants, Blaine's ard Logau's books xere all
sold IL this way, and the more important If
Mark Twain's. By this method publishers
are warranted III undertaking what you'd
otherwise lie too hazardous. s.s1,i many books
are TINS Issued a" hiCl could lot otherwise sc
the light. Some of the best editions OF tie
Shakespeare plays have been published IN
this way, and never could have been tub
lished in any other way. Not )niy .E.S. 5,:s
thousands of people are thus induced 20 regd
who rarely see the inside of library N b,,oi.
store, a.lt the cottage without small ,oiiec
ton OF choice books is now the exception.
Besides this IN army If snterprtsing men
aud women tBd profitable employment. and
this book should certainly otier them field
for rich haryestS, for 10 such literary sensa-
ton has ever occurred.
\ list of eminent lien who have been book
AGENTS comprises many authors aud states
men. The following is from The Phlladel-
phia Times:
George Washington was a book agent,
and good one. Prior to the fateful Brad
dock expedition tie sold over 200 copies IN
Fairfax and Gjoining counties i'll Virginia
of a work on The American Savage. Jay
Gould, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Mark
Twain were in early life book canvasSers. So
also was LonCfeliow, and his success was re-
mcrkablc There is now il the possession IF
the Massachusetts Historical society pros
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-05-19
The CRYPTOGRAM.
Ignatius DOnnelly's Book Issued
at Last.
A WORK OF GREAT INTEREST
DID Shaxpur or Francis Bacon Write
Shakespeare

Sketches - The Wonderful
Scholar Bacon-The I,literate Stratforti
Tamily-How Did Sh-sp-r- Spell Bis
Name fits Daughters-Learnin of the
Plays-Law of tbs Plays-Course OF the
Discussion-HotT tgpatius Donnelly TX
hausts the Subject.
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Susanna married DR..
Hall in haste, and with
ont publication of banns,
for which they were cited
to appear before the &C.
clesiastical court, and
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-05-19
EACov's sINGULAR RESTROOM.

EhCONS SINGULAR TEST IlfO,;Y.
In Lord Bacon's admitted woifss is this
curious passage:
'lu matter which had some affinity with
Elv lord OF Essex's course, which, though it
grew from me- went about i'll Other mems
names, her ma jes.y was highly incenscd with
that book of the First Year Of Eng Henry
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-06-04
MAINE DISPATCHES.
STEAMER NAHANADA
Launched from the New England Yard,

BATH, June 2.
Saturday morning at 7.3O the New Eng
land Ship Building Company launched the
passenger steamer Nahanada, owned by the
Eastern Steamboat Company and designed to
run on the Bath and Boothbay Harbor route.
The steamer is very strongly built in every
particular, and is 81 feet over all, 23.6 feet
in breadth and rs inches in depth On be-
ing launched the steamer was taken to the
New England Iron Works, where she will
receive her engine and boiler. The engine
will be surface condenser triple expansion,
the three cylinders measuring ten, fifteen
and half and twenty-five inches and hav-
ing seventeen inch stroke. The indicated
horse power Of the engine is 1870. The
boiler is of the locomotive type, nineteen
feet III length and five feet and four inches
in diameter The she'll is of steel nine-six
teenths of an inch in thickness, and the
boiler contains 1872 two-inch tubes and
stands steam pressure of l65 pounds. The
Nahanada was designed by Mr.. William
Pattee, who designed the Sappho, and he has
made her hull very similar to that of the
speedy Bar Harbor steamer. The engine is
considered a very fine one and it is thought
that the new steamer will be able to log six
teen knots per hour easily. She will be
ready for duty in about month. The New
England yard now contains but one vessel, a
three masted j00-ton schooner, to be owned
by parties in Dover, n. II. This vessel is
all ceiled and about half panked, and will
weeks.
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SATURDAY EVENINGS NEWS.

Lausdowne arrived at London Friday.
A dissolution of the French government is
inevitable.
1t is asserted that Gould is not i'll az re-
ported Friday.
Exeter academy students tied calf to the
chapel altar Saturday.
man in New Haven, Saturday had his
head cut off by an elevator.
young woman in Syracuse, N, Y, threw
vtrol into a policeman's face, Saturday.
The Kerr jury, Saturday, disagreed and
the New York boodler is out on $50, 900 bail.
Chairman Barnum of the Democratic Nat
ional committee went to st. Louis, Saturday.
The steamship Etrura has made the pas
sage from Queenstown to New York in 8
days and % bonrs.
Henry Smith of Skowhcgan died Saturday
morning of dropsy having been confined to
the house but one week.
Thurmans name was practically decided
upon for Vice President by the democratic
counsels at st. Louis, Saturday.
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LAWYERS SAY
Stain and Cromwell are Not Entitled to
New Trial

BANGOR, June 3.
Some of the lawyers who have been look
ing up the law say that it leaves no opening
for new trial in the Stain and Cromwell
case, and it is their opinion that the men will
be sentenced in August. The lawyers find
that the statutes provide that in capital cases
convicted man may file motion, and three
of the eight judges may grant a new trial.
But there are no capital cases in Maine, cap
ital punishment having been abolished nearly
two years ago. There now is 10 chance for
the men, who were convicted of murder in
the second degree only. 1t is understood
that Mr.. Gillen, counsel for Cromwell, has
been looking the matter up, and has discuss
ed it with other lawyers, all of whom agree
that the case will never go beyond Judge
Peters, and some say he cannot find "A law
which authorizes putting the county to the
expense of another trial.
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DEATH OF HON. A. PGoULD.
Brief Sketchof the Noted Lawyers
Lite.

THoMAsToS, June 3.
Hon. A. p. Gould died this evening at 10
O'Clock after a long illness from chronic
nephritis. He was born in New Hampshire
In 1921 and studied law in the Office of Dan
iel Webster, Sidney Bartlett and the Harvard
law school coming to Thomaston in 1913,
and has ever since been the leading lawer in
Maine. In politics Mr.. Gould was formerly
a whig, but voted for Mr.. Buchanan in 1856
and has ever since been democrat. He
represented Thomaston in the legislature in
1861 and 1862
He has been a candidate of the democracy
for Congress and United States senator. Mr..
Gould has been thrice married and leaves
widow and one son three years old, and two
daughters by former marriage, Mrs. o. w.
Davis, Jr., of Bangor and Mrs. Walker,
widow of the late DR.. Walker of this town.
Notwithstanding his severe illness he con-
tinued to appear in the courts, and in Feb
rnarp last argned an important case before
the United States Court at Washington.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-06-04

Stephen Salisbury of Worcester, Mass,
has presented the Polytechnic Institute with
100000 for school building.
Boston's city council passed Saturday the
appropriation bill for S45O,000 for the cur
rent expenses of the city government.
r. b. Pllsbury, the cashier at the freight
Office of the Pittsburg, Cincinnati & st. Lonis
railway has disappeared with about 5000
of the company's funds
?. T. Barnum presented a S250,000 gift,
Saturday to the Fairfield Historical Society
and also to the Bridgewater
Scientific Society jointly, in commemoration
of his seventy eighth birthday.
The coroner's jury summoned to investi-
gate the cause Of the death of Henry T.
Whitehouse, of Portsmouth, which has been
been in session for the past five days, rem
dered verdict that Henry T. Whitehouse
came to his death from the effects of cut
across the throat, assisted by a heavy blow
on the head made by some blunt instrument
such as hammer or hatchet, and that the
blows and cuts were given by James Palmer
with intent to kill.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-06-04
SPORTING NEWS.
Bostons, Deloits, New Yofks and Phila-
delphiaS Win Saturday.
Bates Given a Severe Pu nishment at
Orono.
Maine State College vs. Bates

Special to the kenne bee Journal.
ORoNo, June 2.
The day was not quite the loveliest that
there could have been for base ball but it
was pretty near it, though the sun shone
very hot. Game was called at 2,45 Bates
at the bat. Daggett and Call were the Bates
battery, and Small aud Rogers the NJ. S. c.
The features of the game were the fielding
and batting of the home team, and the fair
pitching of Daggett, including his phenome-
nal rise of about feet above the batter's
head. Quite crowd witnessed the game.
Scoro hv ;pp,DU..