Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-08-22
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He W ants $50, for His Character |
INDIANAPOLIS, August lion the
Sth inst. the .SPntln'l of this city |
an editorial charging that
Blaine had seduced his present wife |,
in Kentucky and then fled to Maine,
where, the young woman and her
father following, he married her at !
the point of Il shotgun. Mr.. Blaine |
telegraphed Colonel Holloway of the |
Times that the statement was ma
liciously and UNANIMOUSLY false in
every particular. Political ISLANDERS,
he says, lie pays no attention to, but
this attacking the honor of his wife |
and children cannot lie submitted to.
Holloway was askeddto secure the
services of a lawyer a: once and !
bring suit against the responsible
publisher OF the Sentinel. Colonel
Holloway placed the matter in the
hands of Senator Harrison 8 law firm
and plpers are now in the course
of preparation III accordance with
Blalne's instructions.
Harrison, Miller Il Elan, attorneys
in accordance with Blaine's di:ec-
tons, fled this evening, in the
United States Circuit Court, suit
against the Indianapolis Sentinel
Company and John c. Shoemaker,
its president and business manager
who, it charges, controls and directs
the publication of that paper. The
document proceeds as follows:
THAT on the S,h day of August,
1884, said defendants, wickedly in
tending to injure, defame and
scandalize the plaintiff, did mali
ciously print and publish, in the
regular daily issue of said paper for
that day, OF and concerning plaintiff,
certain scandalous false and de-
famatory article, in the words fol-
lowing: "Can Blaine afford it?
The campaign war against Cleveland
is, to say the least, indecent. Fail
ing to find vulnerable points in his
public record, his enemies have
assaulted a supposed irregularity
in his private conduct. They have
dressed and redressed that affair until
the actual facts of it are but O small
part of the furbelowed, friller and
pulled figure walking in the Blaine
Republican prints. This besmirch-
ing of private character is the stock
in trade of the Blaine folks; it is all
they have to offer against the Dem
Ocratic candidate. But can James
G. Blaine afford this plan of battle
If his TANKS are as unprotected as
they are currently understood to be,
is he not provoking scatbinG fire
by permitting these assaults to he
made on Grover Cleveland The
Democracy will hardly remain quite
on Blaine's inner life, when his
supporters are resOrting to scandal
mongering against its candidates.
The charges of seduction made
against MIR. Cleveland, and which
are: false upon their very face, can, it
appears, be turned on Mr.. Blaine
and made to stick. There is hardly
an intelligent man in the country
who has not heard that James G..
Blaine betrayed the Girl whom he
married at the muzzle of a shotgun.
The Democratic press has had the
magnanimity not to put forth these
reports which must cause pain to
the members of Blaine's family.
The Republican papers have long
known of them and have allowed
them to so undenied. If Mr.. Blaine
was scoundrel enough to betray an
Innocent girl, if, after despoiling
her, he was craven enough to refuse
her legal redress, by giving leslti-
macy to her child until a loaded
shotgun stimulated his conscience,
then there is blot on his private
character more foul if possible than
the countless stains on his political
record. His conduct discloses moral
obliquity rendering him undeserv-
ing OF eocial confidence and an unfit
man to be President. A candidate
with such record can not afford to
assail his opponent. Al between
Cleveland and Blaine, what fair
minded man can hesitate to pro.
nounce for the former clearer and
purer man." Plaintiff lays his dam.
age at $50, 600. This evening it is
understood that to morrow proceed
ings will be begun against Shoe.
maker and the author of the article,
under Grubb's libel law, in the State
Courts. This will compel Mrs.
Blaine's attendance as a witness.
Attorneys say the suit and criminal
proceedings will he pushed with all
possible dispatch.
The Seattle Post Inteliiycncpr says
that the train from Tacoma to Ka-
lama consists ordinarily of one first
class, upholstered Pullman coach,
one palmer car, smoking car and
baggage car. The whole train is
for the use of passengers. The
train upon which c. B. Wright and
party not long since left for the East
was Just such q train rs above de-
scribed. On that occasion several
passengers, to whose appearance and
character not the slightest objection
could be made, attempted to enter
the tirst-class car. They were turned
off by the porter with the iuforma.
ton that that car was reserved for