St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-30
EX-SENATOR MCDONALD.
The True Story of His Marriage and
His Wife's Previous Divorce.
Slow. His Political Opponents are Trying to
Injure the Indiana Statesman's
Presidential Chances.
The Divorce Suit of Barnard VS.. Barnard
Mrs, Women's
Spite Work.
Tst. Louis Post-Dispatch, March 90. ]

group of men in the corridor of the new
Denison hotel attracted attention by several
indignant Explanations against something or
somebody. ''Look here,'' said one of the
party, as 1 approached, ''this is dirty work for
Democratic papers TO be engaged in" and
then he read aloud the following from a
Washington letter copied into the Cincinnati
EuQairr:
''It is a question in the minds of some
whether Mcdonald in the end will be can
didate. If he persists in remaining in the
field, he is sure to bring down a great deal of
unhappiness upon the head of his wife and
upon himself Malignant tongued scandal
is even now being used to force him to with
draw It is fact that Mrs. Mcdonald was a
divorced lady, and that Mcdonald was the
attorney who procured the divorce. His mar
rage to divorced lady, it is said, would
drive from him many Catholic votes.
The naked facts of the divorce trial and
the subsequent marriage have been tortured
into various ugly forms, and if the senator
goes to Chicago and insists upon remaining
a candidate, he must go prepared to see pub
lished in the newspapers opposed TO him
great many disagreeable things about his late
marriage His wife is bound to figure in
these stories and the result viii be the great
est amount of discomfort. Mrs. Mcdonald
is too handsome woman to ever be pardon
ed for getting rid of a worthless husband and
for marrying so prominent and influential a
man as she did.
''In so doing she incurred the social enmity
Of Mrs Hendricks, who was the leader of In
dianapolis society at that time, and who has
been the chief director of the war which has
for long time waged against Mcdonald.
Il To b.r orri, rI,ftb
the senator, was an unobtrusiVe member of
indianapolis society," well received by every
one"
Similar innuendoes have recently appeared
In other prints. The public before which
Mr.. Mcdonald is announced as candidate
for the presidency, is entitled to the facts, if
any there be, which compromise him. If
there are none such he deserves to have
sanderous insinuation stamped out by the
press.
Ex-senator Mcdonald and Mrs Mcdonald
are at Old Point Comfort, Va. In their alb
sence l have applied at authentic sources
''for the negro in the wood pile,' which it is
threatened will scare his name from the
Chicago convention. The responses are here
presented.
MAN AND WIFE.
Mr. Mcdonald, now in his sixty fifth year,
is hale and active. Your vigorous lawyer of
forty is no more industrious, aggressive or
less a suffer from fatigue. He is universally
reputed kind heart, fond Of his house and
cheerful in it. His handsome income is lib
orally expended in providing comforts and
pleasures for those of his household
Mrs. Mcdonald is possibly so; though
like her husband, younger than her years in
all save her hair, which is white rather than
gray, and has been for years-her silver
threads coming prematurcly. Two weeks
ago a lady pointed Mrs. Mcdonald out to me
and said: 81 would give something to know
I would look so magnificenty at her age"
She is not only handsome, but brilliant; her
enemies know that of her. The most cen
serious have never pointed out better mod
ell of housewife, one who made more of
home or who busted herself less with the af
fairs of her neighbors. Her maiden name
was Farnsworth, her father having been an
esteemed and at one time wealthy citizen of
Madison, Indiana.
THE DIVORCE.
From the records of the supreme court Of
Marion, Ghis) county I have copied the
following: Josephine f. Barnard VS.. Je-
he'll Barnard-the plaintiff complains that on
the 21st day of November, 1854, she was
Madison, Ind, and lived with him as his
wife from that time forward until on or
about the Both day of December, 1876 That
during said period the plaintiff conducted
herself at all times with propriety and at all
times managed the affairs of her household
with prudence and economy, and at all times
treated the said defendant with kindness and
forebearance, but that the said defendant,
disregarding the solemnitics of his marriage
VOW and his obligation to provide a reasona-
bic support of the plaintiff, has, since ABOUT
the first OF the year 1875, and thenceforward
continuously until the present time, failed
and neglected to provide for and support the
plaintiff or to contribute to her support and
comfort in a reasonable manner, and that by
reason of such failure and refusal of the de-
PENDANT the plaintiff has at all times been
compelled to rely upon the members of her
own family for provision and support and
has, since on or about the time aforesaid,
lived, and been compelled to live, separate
and apart from the defendant and with mem
bers Of her own family, and has not cohab-
tied with the defendant"
''Wherefore the plaintiff demands judg-
ment of divorce from the defendant, and
that the marriage aforesaid may be dissolved,
and the plaintiff prays for all proper relief"
CHAPMAN ~ HAMMOND,
Attorneys for Plaintiff
The foregoing was filed on January II,
1879. On the same date the defendant
waived service of process, and Gin his own
proper person" entered a general denial of
plaintiffs allegations The following day,
January IS, 1879, the case was before the su-
perior court in manner and with result
shown by the following record
Josephine F. Barnard VS.. Jehel Barnard
Come now the parties by agreement this
cause is submitted to the court for trial, find
ing and judgment, and the court having
heard the evidence and being fully advised
in the premises, finds that the allegations
of the plaintiffs complaint are true and that
she is entitled to a divorce as prayed for, and
the court doth thereupon order, adiudge and
decree that the bonds of matrimony and the
marriage contract heretofore entered into
and existing between plaintiff and defend
ant, be, and the same are, hereby set
aside, annulled and held for naught, and
that the said Josephine F. Barnard be, and
she is hereby divorced from said Jehiel Barn
ard,
''lt is further considered and adjudged by
the court that the defendant pay the costs
herein" BYRON X. ELLIOTT, Judge.
The record shows Chapman IL Hammond
to have been Mrs. Barnard's attorneys. Mr..
Chapman is dead. Mr.. Upton j. Hammond,
surviving member of the firm and the one
who managed the case, had just dropped his
valise after a visit to New York as | entered
his office.
M'DONALD NOT IN THE CASE.
seWho was Mrs. Barnards attorney in her
suit for divorce?'' l asked.
81 was," answered Mr.. Hammond, brush
ing dust from his trousers.
''Did Joseph E. Mcdonald have any con-
nection with the case!"
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