The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-08-02

fOf the past week articles have been APP
pearing in the columns of the press con-
corning a difficulty which occurred be-
tween Prof. Longdon and Mr.. Frank
OHair.
The great majority of the accounts has
come from the professor and his side,
who seem to think that the affair was
one of alarming and serious magnitude.
In their overzeal to cripple O'Hair in
the public estimation they have so far
forgotten themselves as to stoop to petty
and unheard-Of personalities which never
took place and which no person living
has ever been. or is now, manly enough
to back until they have lost their hold
on the substantial element of Green
castle. and the public generally must
certainly condemn such a dark-handed
and criminal method of warfare.
Everything Mr.. O'Hair has done and
everything he has said has been without
reserve. manly and open to the public
while scarcely one open and aboveboard
act has characterized the entire pro-
ceedings of Prof. Longdon and his sup
porters. They have chosen the back
door and sneaking methods Of the
coward. Crouching behind such phrases
as. lit is rumored' or they were sus-
pected," etc., they have endeavOred to
blacken the characters of and do injury
TO two young men who have always
stood so high as none stood higher in
the estimation of the citizens of Green
castle. They are young men of ability
and honor and no man, woman or child
has ever dared to accuse them of being
guilty of any such thing as was coward
ly and villainously intimated in several
contributions to the press
If the faculty of DePauw university
or any one else would have this COM
munity or the public to believe that a
felony has been committed by these
young men and that gold" saved them
from felons fate. let them come right
out and say it, and not sneak down be-
hind a cowardly, 1T was rumored so.'
OF course. it might have been rumored
among a certain class of people, but
does that make it a fact? If Messrs.
OHair and Nelson should care to deal
with rumors those who are now vainly
endeavoring to prosecute them would
! furnish a most excellent and seasonable
opportunity, but these young men heart
ily diSdain to stOop to such low-lived and
dark handed practices even in war If
the faculty would fight them. with any
chance of success, it must climb up a
plain or so higher, at least to where their
accepted foes are, for subterfuge and
stealth and the stab in the back are
neither practiced nor respected in hon
Orable warfare. They become the coward
and the thief. but not a faculty of Chris
| tan pretensiOns.
AS has been said. rumOrs prejudicial
and compromising to the faculty and the
university are abundant about Green
| castle today, but Messrs. O'Hair and
| Nelson have scorneo the suggestion of
| their use. They have chosen rather to
do nothing but what is open and above
| board and 10 announce nothing but
! what is a provable fact. They regard
some of the members of the faculty as
! gentlemen of the very highest possible
| stamp, but for some of them they have
/ no respect whatever, and as for their
reasons. they have not hesitated to open
! ly and frankly say that while they were
! in the institution one of the pedagogues
! and one, by the way, who filed an i'm
| portant chair this last year in the uni
versity, beled his Administrations and
falsely represented himself to a repu-
| table business firm in this country for
| the paltry sum of SIPS.
| They have said that DR.. John, over
| whose name the faculty's statement APP
| peared, and Prof. LOngdon, who assault
| ed O'Hair the other morning with a
/ knlLes are WlllLul lldIS anu give III Sub-
| sanitation of their statement to that
| effect afiidaVits of some of the most
| prominent and highly respected people
! in this part of the country.
| Why are not members Of the faculty
| equally frank and bold? If O'Hair and
| Nelson had anything to do with the
| vandalism at the Paternity hall why
| don't some member of the DePauw fac
! ulty show his colors? If Nelson with his
gold" bought either the injured parties
| or their detective now that he defes
| them why don't they come out and say
| so? If they want to carry anything to
| the public let them unmask it, and get
| under it, and carry IT to the public with
| their personal Endorsement. and not push
| it out from their hiding places under a
| guise as a humbug and fraud. The
| public to whose attention this matter
has been brought, In the interest of JUS
| tice, demand answers to these questions.
Now as to the positions of the students
| who have drawn up resolutions which
| form a part Of most of the newspaper
| accounts Out of 1000 students whom
| the university claims to have when in
| operation and out Of seventy-five OF
| eighty now in attendance on the sum-
| ner school but twenty-eight have signed
| the resolutions. These twenty-eight
| were partly tutors and substitutes and
| the remainder were students in good
| standing and doubtless of good inten-
| lions. but who were evidently misled
| at the time. They signed the resolu-
! tions without knowing the facts in the
| case and evidently without having
| made an endeavor to know the true
! facts, the resolutions having been cir
! culated by a couple of tutors, whose
Jobs depend upon their doing the bidding
| of the faculty and but a short time af-
| ter the occurrence with an apparent eff
fort to stampede the students into q
| rash and condemnable action. The
| friends of the young men are gratifiec
| to know however, that the great ma
iority of the students had stamina suf
ficient to positively refuse to sign it.
AS to the cause of Prof. Longdon's
| unfriendliness to Mr.. O'Hair and Miss
| Nelson Messrs. OHair and Nelson have
| never claimed it was because of the
broken attachment between Mr.. Nelson
and the professors sister-in-law, Miss
Grace Johnson but since the professor
| hackers have thrown down the chal
| lenge on this point and cOmplimenteC
Miss Johnson's good Judgment We fee
free to speak our mind.
OF this matter the citizens OF Green
castle have had an opportunity to judge
and would probably suggest that TIT
young lady might have exercised some
of her good judgment in more delicate
matters. The professor and his fr1endi
are very unwise to venture far on thu
point, for though Mr.. Nelson, through
his respect for Miss Johnson, has re
fused absolutely to say anything IN re
gard to this matter. yet sufficient L
known generally to satisfy the public
| mind. IT is extremely unfortunate TO
| Miss Johnson that Prof Longdol
| and his friends should drag her int
an affair of which she forms no part
but IT is in keeping with their conduc
| IN attaror,tfp1 70 hesrnirch Miss Nelson