The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-05-04
NOT apIRrY pEMooRATs."

The New York Times is certainly not
one of the dirty Democratic papers"
referred to by Mr.. Blaine when Mr..
BelmOnt's questions made him uncOm-
Portable. Referring to the scenes of
Wednesday in the committee room, the
Times says:
Behind his grOtesque rhetorical ex-
travagances, his sarcastic repartees,
and his ridiculous assumptions of in
suited virtue, Mr.. Blaine fancies that he
is in secure hiding from the penetrat-
ing gaze which the American people
have of late bent upon him and his cen
surable acts. But though he should
bare his whole soul in the MONDAY he
could not make it any palmer than 1t
now is the essential truth that while he
was Secretary of State he wilfully and
dangerously perverted the traditions
and policy of this Government to serve
private ends. 1t is not material that
we should know all the successive steps
he took in seeking these ends through
the misadministTatiOn OF public trust,
nor that we should force from his or
anybOdy's lips a full avOwal of the hid
den and questionable means made use
of by him or his instruments. The CEN
tral damaging fact is already sufficient
ly established, and upon that is based
the arraignment of Mr.. Blaine, an ar
raignment he cannot escape quite 30
easily as he has escaped the point of the
questions prOpOunded by the House
committee.
And as to Mr.. Blaine's methods, dur
ing the examination, the Times quaint
ly observes:
Begging the committee to leave no
,NVnW ,nI hn in a nm f1xy nv
claims, "HOw dare you" when they ap-
prOach the particular stone under
which they aud the public have excel
lent reasons for suppOsing that some in
teresting things are hidden. 81 hope,
sir, that you will not forget that you
are questioning lady," says witness
Just in time to staYe off a question
which would have proved that she was
not one. 81 hope, Mr.. Belmont, you
will be gentleman" cries Mr.. Blaine;
81 am not in Police Court to be badg-
ered;" and again, 81 must confess that
this seems an extraordinary eXamina-
tiOn." In Mr.. Blaine's position these
tactics were the most effective he could
have chosen. But why should Mr..
Blaine need any tactics? After insist
ing upon the most searching eXamina-
tiOn, why should he resent as an i'm
pertinence questions framed only to
elicit the truth.
Certainly, why did he? And the Phila-
delphia telegraph, another Republican
journal, holds this view:
Despite the bullyings, blusterings
and gross impertinences of the eX-Sec-
retary of State, Mr.. Belmont did man
age to entrap him into some admissions
which Mr.. Blaine will find to be very
damaging. One thing which the Con-
gresham succeeded in demonstrating
was that, whatever may have been the
relations between Messrs. Blaine and
Shipherd, the State Department, when
Mr.. Blaine was at the head of it, did
take very lively interest in the Ian
dreau claim, and that this claim was
used for the purpose of cOercing Chilli
to submit to an interference between
her and Peru by the Washington Gov
ernment for which there was no proper
warrant-an interference, by the way,
which the American public has since
condemned with considerable emphasis,
and the Washington Government dis
continued as improper in itself and as
being opposed to intelligent public
opinion.
These are not dirty Democratic pa
pers," but of Mr.. Blaine's own party and
of his own anti-Stalwart faction of that
party. We might continue but what
we have given will do for the present.