The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25
The Blaine Scandal.

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lore than one sense. He is recog- /,
lied as a great fraud and as great 9
ublic falsifier, and now he stands
onvicted by his own words of utter ,
ng falsehood in regard to his family
fairs. The Indianapolis Sentinel, 1t
5 remembered, brought out the
Blaine scandal; but it is told that the
he same thing was published twenty
rears ago by the Kennebeck Journal, in
3laine's own state. He then brought
uit against the Journal proprietors
or Islander, and the case stands on
,he record yet untried, because, as 1t
appears, Blaine dared not defend him.
self in court. When the Sentinel
opened its columns in ventilation
Of this matter, this righteous speci-
men of humanity could not wait for
the slow progress of the mails to
have suit for Islander brought |
against its proprietors. He rush
ed to the telegraph Office, and had
message flashed to Indianapolis, In
structing a lawyer to at once file
papers in said suit. They were
filed and served on the day the publ
cation was made, the object being to
arrest the circulation of the report in
other papers; as it appears now, it
was simply in the nature of a bluff.
He denied the truth of the whole
story as then told. The Sentinel said
that Blaine had deceived a Kentucky
girl, that she was approaching the
period when she would soon become a
mother, and that Blaine was sought
by the girls brother and was made
to marry her. The Sentinel did not
hesitate to reiterate its statements,
and in the matter of suit showed
fight. Some time ago it presented to
this knight of the soiled plume IN
terrogatories, evidently prepared by a
very astute lawyer, leading in the
direction of proof of its statements.
they were sent to Blaine, and he
dared not reply, but to save himself
from final exposure in court,
where he would soon have
been dragged, he finds friend through
whom he makes confession, that
was yesterday presented to the pub
lie. His statement proves in the
mind of everybody that everything the
Sentinel stated is true, while. to read
this statement shows depravity in
Blaine that has not heretofore been
equaled. First denying all that was
said, he is next driven to the wall by
the modes of legal defense, and adj
mits the truth of the charges and at
tempts to gloss the facts over witt
disgusting falsehood. He says hi
met the young lady, who finally be
came his wife, in Kentucky, fell il
love with her,and was suddenly called
away to his home in Pennsylvania il
consequence of the death of his father
but to secure to himself the CIR
he and she m3de a VOW that the,
would be man and wife, that sht
might be his by an indissoluble tie
Piteously, he says, that he, an educated
man, a resident of two years in Ken
lucky, did not know such a mar
riage was not legal il
that state; that he wen
back to that state, and hung aroun'
there until March 1851, when he tool
the girl over to Pennsylvania and wa
legally married to her. 1t was at thi
time. presumably, that the big brothe
of the girl came along and stirred u
young Blaine's intent, for by his owl
admission in the following June
: child was born, three months afte
marriage. The manner in whic
Blaine makes these admissions, afte
first denying them, and then trying t
play bluff, is pitiable in the extreme
He knew that the process of the cour
would soon be used by the arouse
defendants, in the suit instituted b
himself, to force him to reply to tn
telling heterogeneous; and he at
tempts to avoid such exposures a
they would lead to, by detailing a 10
of stuff in which he speaks of 9Th
sight of God," and the "wick
ed devices of men, an
similar cant, to prove he was pure an
noble, a devotee to sancity and moral
ity. Blaine's marriage by vows ma
satisfy some people. but to us it look
like one OF these marriages of con
venience," which have none of tn
essence of true marriage in them
Evidently the big brother performe
the noblest passage in all that affair
and caused their first child to be borl
if not conceived, in wedlock. TIL
STATESMAN had hoped never again te
see this matter in the public prints; i
has frequently condemned the attacks
upon Blaine's private character in thi
respect, but now, when he Il
driven to make this cowardly
whining, canting admission, W,
lose all respect for the maj
and feel he is too contemplate to re
ceive the support of any man for an.
place. Avoidance of truth appears in
every line of what he states. 1t bearl
out the character of the man in pub
lie life. He has lied in this case, ant
after assuming the role of bully h,
becomes the sneaking coward, driver
to the wall by the very agency he at
tempted to use in bullying. Lee
us consign the poor creature to re
tirement where he belongs. To have
such canting hypocrite in the place tt
which he aspires would be disgrace
to the American people. He is 6
moral coward, who would debase the
presidency.
The Federal Treasury.