The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-11-09

Legislative and Gem
eral Topics from
the Capital.
Noven- her s. 1919.

aud writer az tUSllSh SDd
whatever also NAV be thought Of
Mr.. hesr>t's sincerity in the re
mark & bic campaign tat he IS
now making for Governor OF New
York. there Is very little question
smoug Democrats generally that
the Secretary Of State made e
tremendous mistake lu his speech
al Utica. New YORK when We di-
recIly charged Mr. Hearst with
the responsibility for Is death OF
the late Pre>ideui Mckinley.
The speech bad been looked J0r
ward 10 all ov r the corurrr hs
cause il had been announced that
it would be a direct expression
of the Presidents ogialoa. ana
as such il was o; interest. uoj
only in the New Yotk "a .gaa1gl.
but throughout the CuIteu -sre>
generally. The speech ot IL
Secretary of the State Vx> r
mastery effort Ia vli8's-tAilcu
but then it is hardly L. he be
lieved that the President va
Responsible for the violent DE-
nuucistIou Of Mr.. HeaI>i AID foI
the direct charge tia, lie -, hr
murderer Of Mr.. Ruo,eNrli'> pied
eces>or IN office.
Secretary Roots Utlcs address
charged MIR. Hearst directly with
having been responsible for the
death of President Mckinley and
it is generally thought tia. lis
/ utteranceS, clasSica. aud we'll
chosen IS they may have been.
decidedly exceeded the limits Of
deceHcy accorded 10 even al ad
dress directed against a political
opponent. What the effect OF the
speech will be in the New York
campaign is question. 1t doubt
less would have had more effect
had it come FROM one who was
not known as Que of the most
astute corporation lawyers in the
country. But it is believed that
its very violence will defeat its
own purpose.
One of the most remarkable
stories that has been told for =
long time comes out in conuec-
ton with some fresco work that
is TO be done within the next few
weeks i'll the capital. 1t is norh.
ing less than a claim that the
art of ancient frescolug, as prac.
ticed by Raphael, Michael An.
gelo aud Leonardo de Vince, has
been redlscovered aud will be
used in the decorations of the
capitol building. Tue artist III
question is Max FIiederaug, of
New York, who was employed
during the life of Leo Kill, in
, retouching many of the frescoe's
in the Vatican, including those
of the famous SlstIue Chapel,
where the work had been parti
ally destroyed By cannon shots
during the Napol> onic invasion.
The story is as Interesting as "a
romance. and to the effect that
the artists employed Oh the work
were unable to match either the
cOlOrs or the treatment III the
original pictures. Pope l. q
finally decided that the work
should be given up. but Fried
erang begged him 10 allow ali III
vestigation of the Vatican Lii
brary in the hope that among the
old manuscripts of Raphael aud
of Machael Angelo there might
be some clue to the secret OF their
work The search was accord
ingly made, aud ultimately re
sllted in the finding of an old
diary of Michael Angelo, which
showed that over four hundred
years ago he and the other art.
lists engaged on the Vatican fres.
Goes were in precisely the same
quandary as the modern painters.
Michael Angelo told in this rec
ord how in digging into the col
iseum for material, the workmen
had broken into a crypt which
had been the studio OF some for
gotten artist. lu this studio they
found among other things mum
Der OF ancient amphor8 filled
with clear, jelly-like substance,
which all OF the artists present
declared was simply the medium
used in mixing / he frescOe cOlors.
They said that it was like the
media they used made from
lime, but that it had been sea
soned through age. Some of il
was tried ON the Vatican frescOes
and worked perfectly. Blu
Michael Angelo did not believe
that it was the same stuff that
they had been using, and after
Analysing the material, discov
cred that it was a sillicate paiUt
and gave the recipe by which il
could be made. This recipe Fri
derang recovered, and with it he
has Deen able to produce frescOe:
not only of unusual cOlOring but