Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-05-24
Gail Hamilton After the professional
Slanderers.

Last Summer before the Republt.
can National Convention was held
tho Chicago Tribune filed many coli
umns with defamations of Blaine.
One of it's paragraphs was this:
Mr.. Blaine was born aud raised q Roman
Catholic. His parents were Irish Catholics
and decent people His brothers and sisters
are Catholics now. HIS excellent and amiable
wife is one, and the children are being raised
in that faith. Mr.. J. G.. Blaine alone of the
whole family connection is not an adherent of
the "Mother Church. But he belongs TO no
Christina denomination: and while not Cath~
Ole can hardly be called Protestant. What
faith he may finally die in cannot be predicted,
except by analogy, and consideration of the
depth and strength of mothers religious in
culcation on child's mind and heart.
Gail Hamilton lately exposed the
Springfield Journals (Sam. Bowles)
viliainous ISLANDERS Of Blaine, and she
is now doing the same thing for the
Tribune. Hear her:
speak as fool, but l am COM
PEELED by knave. | mention these
facts, which ought not to be 50 much
as named among US, simply to show
the weapons which the Chicago
Tribune wi9lds in the publication of
the civil service. Without even
paying TO truth the tribute OF proba-
bi!ity, without hinching at the
thought that thousands will instant.
~ dotect its meudacity, it fabrcatos
and launches ts falsehoods with por-
tentous calmness. 1t knows we'll
that the remote community and the
thousands every where who will see
its falseness and discern its motives
are people who would never BIO won
away from MIR. Blaine or won over
to it's own candidate, while those
who do not recognize its fslseboods
might be Influenced by them to mar
shall themselves under its banner.
Moreover, one cannot disclaim Cath
olicism as one disclaims dishonesty.
Any denial of such assertions would
carry somewhat of odium TO a large
number OF interested partisans in a
time of great political excitement.
So that it seemed highly probable
that cool, brave, well-arranged se-
ries of simple, categorical fabrica-
tons might hinder tho advance of
Mr.. Blaine without msrring tho for
times of its own candidate.
The Chicago Tribune came up
handsomely TO the emergency, and
3sued the series The delicate do.
nestle compliment diffuses an air of
andor over the whole paragraph,
While the touch of sentiment where.
With the innuendo CT the closing par
agraph is winged reveals a master
hand. For the Head-Center ram.
paging over the God>for-saken
tastes outside of oil churches, it can
say little but being a magnanimous
foe, it will not thrust his family also
into that outer darkness. Nay, this
eminent Purist, over generous to the
erring, holds out the hopo that the
"amiable and excellent wife" and
the religious mother may between
them, at the last gasp, lug even
the miscreant himself through tho
pearly gates, though, let Professionals
be warned, the gates will most likely
DE opened by Catholic key.
Before this spectacle of falsehood
raised to fine art, how coarse and
clumsy seems ordinary abuse by
men who are not reformers Now,
| MAINTAIN that smuggling silks
across the border, or distillng mid.
light whisky, or even taking part in
convention-in short, any fraud
whatever upon the revenue of the
country-is harmless and honest
compared to the ingenious, elaborate,
and malignant mendacity of the
Chicago Tribune. The silk-and-
whisky thief steals money from a
rich, remote, intangible corporation
called the Government He does
not mean harm to any one else, only
benefit TO himself. And the harm
which be does is harm to property
and of definite valuation. But the
civil service reformer celebrates q
definite aud specific harm, harm TO
reputation, harm TO certain des-
ignated man, harm of vast and i'll
calculable extent; and in carrying
out this design, be filings truth and
honesty TO the winds. The organ
of reform is willing to strengthen its
cause, not by showing the ability
and availability of its candidate, but
by wantonly, willfully, and with NAL
leo aforethought, utteriug slanders
against rival candidate.
A great point will be gained when
revenue theft is prevented /; but a
greater will be gained when the or
gan Of reform shall have risen to the
level of thieves honor, and cease
their busy SANDERS of the party
whose banner they borrow only to
befoul, and of the faith which they
profess only TO profane.