Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-10-04
MENDACITY RAMPANT.
The stars lnfamnus Islander of MI Elaine Refuted-Ilre Truth of the
 Father Bapbst Affair


 stray copy of the Star of the 2oth, I HotIced therein a slight but evidently .la ieious editorial allusi, B,made to the oli islander, regarding NIT. Blaine hay .ng about 90 years ago in Maine assisted in .tar.ng and feathering and riding en Trail Catholic priest, named Father John Bapbst. Marrow minded aud wanting In principle though know tine Star to be, 1 was not prepared to find 1t willing to descend to the infamy of giy1ng for campaign purposes grGtuitous circulation to a slanGer with which no decent man believes the great sOuled | Blaine had any connection, and winch, in the Irish Wcr'd Uf the 20th. has been l satisfactorily disproyed. But such papers as the Star at this season of Democrstic doubt and uneasiness will circulate anything or any story of how ever virulent and base a nature that would cast a slur upon the Republican
 aLdard bearer. or tend tO hEena'e from him the political friendship and
 voting support of Irish-Americans. Inc latter, as the Star knows and hates
 them for 1t, are generally considered | Catholics, and it Is for this reason that
 1t and sheets of it's vicious political | tcudencies print this baseiess islander,
 hoping thereby to damage Nr. Blaine lu the estimation of his Catholic fellow ! .--H 4N rHa l knowing # to be devoid Of truth, not | because of its love for Catholics, Dut l because of its dislike of Blame and its deslre to arouse religious prejudice 1 against him. BGt as well might the ! S ar and journals like 1t of pro-Angiican ! tendencies attempt Co stay the ebb and | flow of the tides as now attempt tO say | the onward march of tue resolution | cJiGg oR m the ranks of citizens Ot | Irish birth in favor ot the candidacy of l the PluDed Knight. The day, thank l Heaven. has forever passed when | journals of the Stars political 1 reed could influence Irishmen, or 1 get them tO accept ready made | opinions. Too long, alas, for their own 1 political good have the latter been act | ing the part of tall Co the Democratic | kite, and now when they revolt and are | reversing conditions, and claiming IEe | right to do some political thinking and | independent acfing for themselves, they are accused of political disloyelty to a 1 party which never dia anything of great | value for them, and to which they owe | no political alIeg ance that they had not
 the right to sever.
 ] But to return to our purpose. The ! same slanderons charge made by the l q tar was some time IgO voiced in Now | N.rk by oLe ,I Ci,yelaHd's minious. l and promptly mtt and d.>proved by Pat | r-.k J. o Grady, of 2tj East EIghtielh 1 street, New York. Ou inc 2Jth of Angus. 1 last, Tn an interesting coImunicafiu8 t0 | the Irish World, pria.ej iu I;s sue of | t-e 2j.h instant, to which ! refer the | mCnIaciOus Star for the iacis tO conv!ct
 it of malice prepense. The Nex York ! slan6erer located the scene Of the Gas- 1 tarGly outrage committed on the good ! Father Bapbst at Angu. c.. the home of | Ir. Blaine. instead uf at fhe little town | oi l. lsr orib, 6 miles to tue northeast, | si u.ted on the tanks of the UDIon fiyer The population of Ellsworth at early date was such as cou!d be found ! ID Iny backwoods settlement or isolated numbering region, and. as MT. OGrady
 
 ucu and ship carpenters of the Orange | 1ersuasiOn drawn from the EeighboT- ug province ol Canada and New BTuns- wick. O'Grady, at the time above named, lived in Ranger. 26 miles from Ellsworth, and charges the commission ! of the crlIne to the Canadians and the ! New BTGuswiCkeTs, but chiefly tD the | latter, who were mostly made up of raucorops Orangemen. who, ID doubt, were only too glad of availing them selves Of the chance which the isolated location of the place presented for wreaklng c cir lnRenSaie vengeance on 1 an unoffending Catholic missionary then l therein administering to tue spiritual 1 wants Cf his parishoners. That sEch | wss the case the history of that pesiIfer- ! OUs order fully prove, and MT. O'Grady 1 exouorates Americans from the charge 1 cf having had anything to do with 1t. i How do I know this?' he asks. Be l causa I learned 1t from Father Bapbst's | own lips the very next morning at bis | residence on Hammond street. at the | old Catholic Church where, with " | arms around his neck, l wept like a l child, for be was more than friend, ! and he had often taken me as his con- paDioG on many a sick call and other | priestly missions Of charity, and loved l nm aad Le loved me"
 Such IS a portion of the plain, tru b. fal statement of Mir. O'Grady, and not | until the present campaign did even the breath of slender dare to charge Mr. Blaine with participating in or con- uIving at 30 atrociOus a crIme; and no thong ghtful right minded Catholic in the Republic that has any respect for him. self pr belief in the noble, generous in- s.iuc.s uf which mankind is capable hartors even suspicion that he had any connection with 1t or would sane rion lt
 But what could be expected from g party who has not hesitated to defame the good name Of Mr Blaine's wife. and I thereby cust s stigma upon the honor and chastity of the mother of his chil- dreu, and through her by implication upon the maiden honor of her country women?
 Wha., reiterate, could be expected from party base e-oagh to Gssail, after 3i wears of honorable married life, the honor and privacy of his family: Noth- inc that Wuuld win for 1T the respect of ! honorable manhood, or the good opin- Ion of yirtuoss American womanhOod. a all the naughty things charged against Mr. Blaire did occur ip his salad days by a1ticipa ing coDnuoIal privileges, did he nrt afterward, uniike Cleveland, make tEe aIneude honorable like man by bestowing upon hIs partner the right t6 call him husband? Did the salacious Governor of New York bcstow this right upon Maria Halpin when he rob- bsd her cf all that wonld command for her the respect of men2 Instead, when pe,session saiiRted him, he flung the poor victim of bis lust away from him, the snme as would a noy a plRything oi winch he had s,own tired, snd capped inc max Of his infamy by having Le poor wrcnged creature immured in an insane institution. Who but the hang man he afterwards became could Cr won!d have thus acted2 And still this is tEt sort Of moral lrper whom the Democratic party would have Irishmen support for the high office honcred and dirnified by Washington. Shades of the mighty dead, shall the char and po-
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