The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-08-19
THE LIBEL ON MR.. BLAINE.
Further Expressions of Opinion by PrOmi-
nent Newspapers Of the Country.
THE DEPrBs or DnenADATloN.

st. Paul Pioneer-Press.
The Indianapolis Sentinel Democratic organ
of Indiana, has sounded the lowest and most
fetid depths of the campaign SANDER sewer by
making charge against MIR. Blaine too vile and
indecent to refer to in other than an official pub
ication 1t is the sort of charge to which pri-
xate citizen replies with shotgan. 1t IS one OF
the penalties of position like Bialnes that he
is debarred from the use of the revolver even in.
an extreme domestic emergency. The only re-
course left him is the slow and comparatively
Ineffective one of the courtsu He is prompt to
take this. and papers kaves been 6led in suit
against the Sentinel in which damages are laid
st $4,000 The sympathy Of every de
cent man and woman in the coun-
try will follow this prompt resentment
of most shameless attack upon Mr. Blaine
Through his tenderest domestic relations No
legal process compel adequate PREPARATION for
the cowardly insult offered, but the beastly in
ventor Of the SANDER may be made to smart for
his crime. If PREPARATION is impossible, punish
ment is not The Sentinel is a newspaper that
abandoned the pretense of responsibility years
ago, and has habitually wallowed in sensational
sewage as fit and acceptable environments 1t
is owned by hlaekguard and edited by ma
MAC. Nothing but its poverty has saved it from
repeated legal mulcting and nothing but its OBJ
security has protected it from the universal de-
testation it has earned This incident will give
the paper the national reputation for nastiness it
has long enjoyed within a limited circle. The
stencil Of its beastliness only needed an oppor
tunity like this to fill the whole Nation as
grain Of musk impregnates whole house.
"A MIRACLE OF STUPIDITY
K&waukee WISCONSIN.
So far as the malevolent charge relates to Mr.
Blaine and his family its only effect will be to
arouse intense sympathy on the part Of every
Republican and Democrat who is fit to be called
q man. As a Democratic campaign instrument
the libel is miracle of stupidity aud madness
But what of the man who can live in the moral
filth where such q base weapon is forgedi What
e -
inent workers capable of such crirne9 What
of the politics that is degraded to level render
ing the invention and employment of such in
strumentality possiblei What Of the civilization
that even IN its lowest stratum can produce
creatures whose deSpieable work a devil would
blush to owns The state of society and of pub
lie morals which renders it practicable for an
element in party, or even for an individual, to
concoet and publish charge like that made
against Mr. Blaine is dangerous In humiliation
and real concern, American society may with
good reason inquire, "Whther are we dfiftiLgW
There is rottenness in the body or such unspeak
ably repulsive eruptions would not appear even
in individual cases.
TT rs SIMPLY BLACKGUARDIsM.
Houston tTex.) Post (Dem.)
Let the shafts Of malice be ever so much
driven into Mr.. Blaine his wife is not before the
people, She is lady. whose glory has been to
see her husband great and high amongst men.
Were she to feel otherwise she would not be a
true wife. Above all she is the revered mother
of large family. and no man who loves his
mother will countenance the contemplate man
ner in which Mrs. Blaine has been dragged be-
fore the public. As Democratic paper the
Post declares Mr. Blaine fully. justified in seek
ing redress in the courts for this personal insult
and we even go further and sincerely hope that
he may win his suit Such conduct as that of
the Indianapolis paper is not politics; ii is simply
baackguardism, which will be rep1diated by all
true men,
A MALoDoRoUs ORGAN.
Philadelphia Times Ind. Dem.)
The Indianapolis Sentinel, the latest fragrant
offender against decency has long been malodoI-
Gus. An organ of the worst kind, it has repre-
scented everything possible for such journalistic
nlonstrosities II has gluried in the most IN
tense partisanship, joined in all possible move
ments to secure patronage and reyeled in the
yeriest the worst filth it could find. 1t has not
represented the decent element IN the Demo,
cratic party for years and they have utiite uni
formly abandoned it because of its political
abuse and ingrained pruriency. 1t deserves no
pity now and Will have less from the Democrats
of Indiana than from any other section of the
country.
NO OTHER COURSE WAS POSSIBLE.
New York Tribune.
Mr. Blaine will have the sympathy Of all hon
oTable men in defending his home and family
against foul SANDER. No other course was eos
sible for a man thus assaulted, and able to con
front his slanderers without hesitation or fear
Mr.. Blaine does not ask an investigation by in
terested friends, or by agents of Journals al
ready committed to his support; he relies upon
a jury of his countryaen for that Justice which
is due % the greatest as we'll as to the humhlest
citizen.
HELPING BY ATTACK
New York Commercial Advertiser.
A Democratic politician of some note declared
q short time ago, that the acquisition by his
party of such men as Curtis and Beecher was n
direct and serious injury, He thought that such
acquisition presented foreihle instance of
hurting by alliance The acts of the Demo
cratic and independent organs as now initiated
if also exceeded in venomous detraetion, by the
Indianapolis Sentinel, is still more striking
example of helping by attack