Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1884-10-10
A Queer Lot.


The critics who are assailing Blaine
for their text, are u queer lot. For
Blaine as liar because he asserted that
there was one letter missing from the
package obtained by him from Multi
gan. They have charged him with the
suppression of this particular letter,
and have over and over affirmed that it
was put out of the way because it would
criminatc. him. Now we find them,
with rascally efl'rontery, producing the
letter, which was all the time accessi-
BILE 10 them, reposing, rs it did, in the
hands of the disreputable fellow Multi
gan, who with vindictiveness rarely
matched, has been holding it in read
mess to use whenever it would, in his
Judgment, most jure his hated enemy.
And now that it has been made public,
and with il some other letters, any hon
est man will be compelled ~ admit that
there is no foundation for the malicious
charges that have been made on the
strength OF this correspondence. The
letters show clearly that the
transaction which has been so much
condemned was one that any honorable
man might have engaged in, and the
reference made to past accidental
service was perfectly innocent 1t is
manifestly absurd to charge that Blaine
was guilty of y crime in referring to one
of his rulings as Speaker months
after 1t had been made, unless it can
be shown that he made it with guilty
object and that the ruling in itself was
bad one. But his most vicious enemy
does not go so far. 1t is tacitly ad-
mitted that the ruling was in every re-
spect fair and proper and no one
charges that the bill was bad one. On
the contrary, it is one of the few Pa
about which there has been little or no
scandal, except that at the expense of
Blaine, about whom nothing more seri-
GUS has been alleged than that several
months after Congress had anything
further to do with the railroad in ques-
tion he reminded an official of the COM
pany that he had an opportunity to rem
der service in the past which deserved
at least recognition enough to permit
him 10 purchase stock on the same
terms as other favored purchasers.
Ii is very safe to assume that if the
managing editor of the New York
Times were in quest OF position and
should happen to remember that at
some period in his career as journal
ist he had done n service for some
writer who had subsequently became
the owner of newspaper, he would
not hesitate TO remind him of the fact.
If, for instance, he had recognized that
the subsequently successful journalist
had merit, and had encouraged him to
persevere by accepting his articles, al
though in SO doing he was strictly per-
forming his duty, would it have been a
crime for him to allude to the service
he had donep Certainly not. Unless
it could be shown that the articles ac-
cepted were not fit for publication, and
that they were only taken by the editor
with the view of securing the friendship
of the contributor, there could be nc
harm, not even an indelicacy, in allud
ing to the service.
The very best evidence that the charges
brought against Blaine are groundloss
and not honestly believed by any well
informed person is furnished by his
social position. While in Washington
Mr.. Blaine had hosts OF friends. among
them being numbered some OF the mos
| distinguished men in the Democratic
| party. DO those OF that political com
| ,plexion. who are now SO busily engaged
in throwing mud at him, think tina
Bayard, Lamar, Thurman and numer
GUS others who have considered them
selves honored by an intimacy will
Kim. would have met hm on cas-