The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-11-19
CHICAGO DEMOCRATS.


What They Say About the EIection-The
sentinePs Broadside Ruined the HalpIn
Story and the Libel suit Defeated Blaine
General Gossip.
Special TO the Sentinel.
CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 16-Loug Jones, United
States Marshal OF Illinois and the fidus
schstes Of John a. Logan, thus unbOsOmed
himself day or Two since to asYmpathizing
friend: Just as W. had trained the Maria
Ealpin gun, said Jones, land were begin
ming to pour shot and shell into Cleveland,
up jumped the indianapolis Sentinel and
poured q brosdside into Blsine's private
record. That shot defeated Blaine for the
Presidency. The minute / saw be had sued
the paper l said he had blundered. When
the Sentinel made the fight il spiked the
Maria gun, the only thing We had TO use
against Cleveland. But when Blaine al
lowed the Sentinel to force out that
letter to Phelps, felt that he was defeated"
Mr.. Jones has said the same in substance to
several parties.
Another Republican said to me to-day:
''The indianapolis Sentinel turned the tide
Of battle in the campaign. Had ii surren-
dered to Blaines attack on it he would have
won the election"
A Republican newspaper correspondent
who was at Bar Hsrbor when Blaine ordered
the suit and who followed him for five weeks
thereafter, told me last night that some Of
Blaines friends tried for three days to dis
suade him from risking that action, bat tha
Blaine insisted it would be::a master stroke ct
campaign policy. HE was led to believe
said the correspondent, that the Sentine
would retract, aud was broken up badly
when it showed fight. Threats OF criminal
prosecution were noised simultaneously
with the ordering of the civil suit, for fur
ther intimidating the publisher of the Senti.
mel. He was nervous up to the time the Sem
tiners first set Of interrogations were
filed. But from that date or.
till the publication of his letter
to Phelps, he was positively ratified.
Then sort Of desperation appssred to seize
on him, and he swung into the 6ght with
utter recklessness of truth, principle, or
propriety. ThenceforEard he relied not on
character but on brain, tongue, aud physi-
cal endurance to win the contest for him.
The spacious lobby of the Palmer House
is overhung with enormous pictures OF Gro
yer CleYeland and Thomas A. Hendricks.
The crowds that pour in and Out OF the great
pslace of a hotel look up at the portraits in
half dreamy manner, as if the news sssur-
ing these men to be President and
Vice President elect is too good
to be true. Potter Palmer lsughingly
said to-day that when he awskss these
mornings his first thought is self-inquiry
whether ne has only dreamed that the Dem
ocrats have won. Be the way, Mr.. Palmer,
while returning from New York last week,
called on Governor Cleveland. He expresses
himself as delighted with the Governors
bearing and character, and predicts the Ma
tion will have an administration which in
both purity and ability will compare favor
ably with anv in the memory of the living
In courtesy, Mr.. Palmer says. Mr.. Cleveland
is all that can he desired; while in dignity,
independence and decision OF character he
is an extraordinary man.
The suggestion that Senator Mcdonald
made member of the Cabinet Is hsiled in
Chicago with cordiality. Judge Tree told
me to-day that no appointment would 81
well please Illinois Democrats.
RoB Roy