Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-03
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DISCO r. ID S
SHAKESPEARE VS.. BACON.


Judge Richard Tuthill of the circuit
court in Chicago has ruled from the
bench that the written works cred
tied to William Shakespeare were in
reality created in the brain of Lord
Bacon. We have been able to
obtain views of several of our best
posted citizens. Some OF them agree
with the court that Bill was a faker,
while others stand by the bard Of
Avon Be that as it may, here are the
opinions:
M. c. Rice, clothing merchant-'Its
my honest belief that the Chicago
Judge has been trying to have little
fun at the expense of couple of dead
ones. When | was in Colorado last
summer | met man whose neigh
boris at-great-grandfathe played
marbles with Billy Shakespeare. He
,, said that in that early day Will was
writing pieces in the coal shed. He
said that one windy night he never
went to bed 1t was that night, he
concluded, that Will knocked off
Uncle Toms Cabin"
Dr. J. p. Comegys Bacon
was member of one of the first fam
lilies Of England, and had a happy
death, so the attending physician
, states in his memoirs, and why at this
late date we should be seeking to hang
| HIM Of ,ry,iI trn hi
| ECKER is beyond my comprehension.
| or course Shakespeare wrote his own
stuff. Anybody who knew William
would know that every line of it was
from his PEN
! Jack Tighe, former baseball mana
ger-"I'll not stand for any knocking
/ on Bacon. He cleaned the bases every
| time he came to bat. He also wrote
another sketch that he does not get
credit for in the books. Ham and is
the title. And what would we do with
out our Ham and? We need them
every a. NJ"
DR.. M. ]. O'Hern, former candidate
! for coroner-'Peace to their ashes.
| 1uey "eit DOtu SOOu HILL DdtOH III
reality was one of the Baconnahhy
boys. They were sons of Mr.. and Mrs
Mike Baconnahhy of Kerry. Bill
Shakespeare started early in life to
be surgeon. He was a great cut-up,
but as there was not much doing in
that line he turned to pushing the
quill. | desire to cast my ballot for
Shakespeare, however. All Bacon ever
wrote was popular songs. l think the
first number he turned out was Down
Went McGinty.'''
Richard Pearce, steward at New
Harper-"Whothhell is Judge Tut
hill? l bet he doesn't know the name
of the author of In the Shade of the
Old Apple Tree That is more i'm
portant than identifying the fellow
who penned that speech of the grave
digger in Hamlet. Anybody that
knows the Shakespeare and Bacon
families ought not hesitate over the
authorship of the works that are gen
orally credited to Shakespeare. Bacon
never staid up after 8 at night On
the other hand, Shakespeare was a
night hawk. That's where he got tina,
spooky stuff Bacon could not have
written it on a bet. Judge Tuthill IS
off his trolley. To show you what
know about Shakespeare, l may put
on some of his plays the coming sum-
mer at Campbell's island"
Charles J. Smith, police magistrate
Il have given much study to the
subject, but l regret that it has devel-
oped a public controversy. The last
time l was in England l attended an
old settlers picnic in the neighbor-
hood where the Shakespeare family
lived. One of the speakers, who APP
parently knew whereof he spoke, said
that the immortal playwright was a
union man; that he breathed his 10y
atty to the cause in all his writings
Shakespeare wore a union suit. Bacon
; did not. Plain as the nose on your
face"
Franklin P WEIGH, capitalist-"l
dislike to foist my conclusions upon
the public, but inasmuch as the ques-
ton has been revived I wish to en-
phasize what | have said on numerous
occasions-the honor belongs to Ba-
con. An intimate knowledge of love
and life was demanded Of the writer
of Romeo and Juliet No deckhand
, ever penned that beautiful romance
| If you will take the time to rummage
, through the earlier incidents of the
careers of the two men involved In
. this dispute, you will find that Shakes
: peare was bashful boy. If he met
a girl with sunbonnet on the high
| way he would run faster than man
! with a red shirt in front Of an angr,
, bull. The only time he ever attended
!, a dancing party he slipped and broke
: his clay pipe when he hit the floor
5 He did not understand women. He
was afraid of them, as many Of oui
men are today. On the other hand
Bacon was heller with the chickens
, in his day. He broke more gates than
any boy in his neighborhood I up
hold the Chicago judges decision"
) H. M. Schriver, former mayor-"The
/ simplest way for one to satisfy ones
self in the Shakespeare Bacon case /:
, to burrow back into the lives of the
men. The one who penned the plays
. was poker player We see thi:
! readily when We recall how success
: fully he played his kings and queens
Shakespeare had penny ante gam,
) every Saturday afternoon in his faith
er's havloft, and he usually carried of