The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1884-08-20
4 scandal which the s.. Paul Globe
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The following from the St. Paul Globe
itself to every right-thinking
,erson. It IS q sound maxim Of law that
,ou cannot recover on the weakness Of
FOUR opponents title, but must rely upon
The strength of your own. 30 also, is it
true in a moral sense, that you cannot
make your own character any brighter
by besmirching your neighbors:
The Globe has received by special
telegram full copy Of the Blaine Ken
lucky scandal published in the Chicago
Times of Sunday. The story is told in
much detail and accuses him of gross
while teacher in a mill
tary academy in Kentucky.
The Globe declines to be the medium
for the circulation of the scandal. The
indecency of a certain portion OF the
republican press in circulating SANDER
GUS scandals relative to Gov. Cleveland,
should not provoke Democratic journals
to "retaliate in kind" however truthful
the accusations against Mr.. Blame may
be.
While we regret the course OF the
Times in making the publication, we are
not surprised that some paper should be
unwisely provoked into "retaliating in
kind" especially when it is SO well I'm
derstood that there is abundant field for
such retaliation. The attempt Of the
scandal mongers to besmirch Mr.. Cleye-
land, does not make Mr.. Blaine any
more fit to be president than he was be-
fore, and does not blind the people to the
fact that if they wish to place an honest
government in power in Washington
they should elect the man who has never
betrayed public trust. We commend
to Democratic papers who may be temp
ted to reproduce this Blaine scandal as
an offset to the baseness of their republi-
c. n contemporaries.
The following reflections from the
Philadelphia Times, a paper which is do
ing effective work for the democratic
ticket:
Fortunately or unfortunately, folly be-
gets folly. 1.-THE friends Of Grover Gle
veland and especially his newspaper sup
porters, had the wisdom and manliness
to leave the sluices of campaign scandal
entirely to their opponents, they would
largely profit by it in the success of their
cause; but they are as foolish and as UNI
manly as are the Blaine organs. Instead
Of ignoring the reckless and self-refuted
scandal against Cleveland, and allowing
it to work out it's logical and inevitable
benefit to the assailed candidate, they
begin with the response-"Call off your
dogs p and follow with mean inuendoes
of an equally disgusting domestic scandal
against Blaine. Did this disreputable
imitation of the scandal mongers who
are assailing Cleveland, confine itself to
low-grade democratic organs, it would
not demand notice, for nothing better
would be expected of the dependant
party newspaper; but when leading jour.
nails of professed independence and OF
national repute, indulge in such coward
ly innuendoes against Blaine, even by
way of answer to the Cleveland scandal,
they strip the shameless Cleveland scan
dial of half its revolting features and
make the campaign scandal monger COM
paratively respectable.
The assault of the scandal-monger
against Cleveland fell stubborn in the
campaign. Whatever shade of truth
there is about which to weave the mali
cious campaign lie, the falsity of the
story in every material respect affecting
the character of the man, is admitted by
friend and foe in the com munity where
the facts are known.
In ike manner, Uirc scandal .r5,.. =
assault against Blaine will fall still-born
in the campaign. The attempt to in
wade, even by innuendo, the domestic
circle of Blaine, is simply atrocious, and
it is more atrocious than the Cleveland
scandal, because Blaine has wife an
sons and daughters to be wounded by
the poisoned shaft of the campaign liar,
while Cleveland has no household gods
to weep over wanton defamation. Nor
is it any excuse for invading the domes-
tic life of Blaine, that the social life OF
Cleveland has been first atrociously as
sailed. So far from causing the scandal
mongers retaliation, the Cleveland scan-
dial should have taught the Cleveland
organs the necessity of gaining all that
could be gained by honorable, manly
contrast with the Blaine campaign liars.
Such is the view of campaign scandals
that will be taken by the intelligent and
fair-minded voters of all parties, and the
party that INDUCES least in it, will be
likely to comm and the most votes in
November.
The Globe considers it possible to sup
port one man for president and oppose
another without making paper unfit to
enter family, and it declines to go into
the sewers either in behalfof or in oppo-