The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-09-10
WILL Mr.. BLAINE ExPLA1NEq


Colonel w. R. Holloway:
have this moment received the atrocious
libel of the indianapolis Sentinel. 10 as IT.
teriy and dJOmiRGJly false az ereTy statement
and erery implication. Political ISLANDERS do
not stop to notice, but this editor assails the
honor of my wife and my children. l desire
you without an hours delay, to employ
proper attorney and have the responsible
publisher of the Sentinel sued for libel in
the United States District Court of Indiana.
1t is my only remedy. / am sure that hon
orable Democrats, alike with honorable Re-
publicans will justify me "a defending the
honor Of my family y need be arlth nag tte.
(Signed) JAMES G. BLAINE.
at was not supposed that Mr.. Blaine
would leave Maine during the canvass, but
journey through the country in defense of
my wife and children will not be trip for
which Mr.. Blaine need ask the permission
either of propriety or custom. The sympa-
thy of the country will 60 with him.
Lewiston Journal.
ut was while Blaine was a professor at
Blue Lick Springs that he met Miss Harriet
Stsnwood, of Augusta, Me. She was living
with her sister, and was teacher at Miss
Thornton's Female Seminary. Miss STAN
wood was a descendant from the old Puri-
tan stock in a direct line from the Stanwood
family of Ipswich, Mass and IL March, 1851,
became his rife at PHtSburg Pa" Life and
Services of James G. Blaine, by Russell H.
Conwell; With an Introduction by His Elk.
cellency Frederick Robbie, Governor of
Maine. Published by f. C. Allen & Co.,
Augusta, Me. Page sixty-eight.
The publishers of the work in sending it
forth to the public say of it, that it has the
impress of the broadcast information and the
most careful attention on every page. That
it is the biography that secured the inesti-
mable benefit of the advice, CO operation
and assistance of Mr. Blaine, his relatives
and friends. This is the volume that is
recommended by the family and private
secretary of the distinguished candidate.
The New York Tribune of Saturday, Au-
gust %, 1884, says:
"In the cemetery at Augusta has stood for
nearly. thirty years little white stone
erected to the memory of Mr.. Blaine's son,
StanwOOd Blaine. That
grave has been secretly visited, the last fig
ure in the record of the child's birth has
been chiselled away and defaced aud the
date June Is, 1851, has been made to read
June 1S 1S5-."
Here is a record of facts from the highest
Republican authority, for stating which the
Sentinel has been sued, and $4,000 de-
manded.
The exhibit has been denounced by Mr..
Olalue as utterly ana aDOm1naDlY IalSe IN
every statement and in every implication,
and here now we have the statement OF the
same facts in Conwelrs Campaign Life of
Mr.. Blaine" published Uader his ve,y eye at
his home iH augusta, and, as the publisher
states, 1ras Supervised By Dr.. Blaine him
self, and in leading editorial of the New
York Tribune, Mr.. Blaine's metropolitan
campaign organ.
Put the statements OF these two prominent
near friends of Mr.. Blaine together and the
truthfulness OF the Sentinel is completely
misunderstanding in March, 1851, and
birth Of son June is, 1851.
What will be the outcome of the Ken
lucky part of the affair can readily be an
ticipated after reading a letter from thatend
of the line in another column.
We respectfully commend this record to
the prayerful attention of the few reverends
and all others who have commended Mr..
Blaine to the public as a pure man, the
champion of chastity, the defender of the
virtue OF homes.