Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-09-11
AFFIRMS ITS TRUTH.
The indianapolis Sentinel Makes An
swer to Blaine's Complaint.
1t Declares That the Article Com
planned offs True and Demands
Answers to a Series of
Questions.

INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 4.-Ihe answer
of the Sentinel company in the Blaine Ii
bel suit has been filed in the United
States court. The defense admits print
ing and publishing the article COM
planned of in its issue of Aug. 8, 1854,
and denies that it was false in any par
ticular thereof. 1t sets forth that James
G. Blaine was married to Harriet Stan
wood, at Pittsburg, on or about March
26, 1851; that prior to that time, during
their courtship, blaine seduced Miss
Stanwood; that he at first refused to
make reparatiOn for the wrong done,
but being afterward strongly urged
thereto, and violently threatened with
chastisement and punishment therein
for his said wrong-doing, and perchance
repenting him of the evil, married her
as stated; that in June following a child
was born known as Stanwood Blaine,
which lived two or three years and was
always acknowledged by the plaintiff
and his wife as their son. By reason
whereof the defendants say the matter
and things set forth in the article reci-
ted are true, and, the same being true,
they were published of and concerning
the said plaintiff by the defendants, as
they justly and lawfully might do. The
defendants file with their answers num-
Der of interrogatories, and require that
the same be answered by the plaintiff
under oath positively and without evas-
ion, within such time as may be linn
tied by the court thereby, among which
are the following:
State when you finally left Kentucky;
if you at any time resided there; when
you went there; where you were next
employed, and in what business or cal
ling; if you answer that your wife's
maiden name was Harriet Stanwood,
state when she finally left Kentucky,
ard when and where you next met her.
Give the state and place of your mar
riage, and the names of persons besides
yourself and wife who were present on
the occasion. What acquaintance had
you with Jacob Stanwood? What rela-
ton was he, if any, to the person you
married, and what conversation or in
terview did you have with him before
said marriage concerning the same, and
where did such interview, if any, occur,
and what was said and done therein?
Was not the first child of said marriage
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Where did said child die? Where was
it buried, and if in any cemetery give
give the name of the ceme-
lery? Was any tombstone or monu-
ment erected at the grave of said child
giving the date of its birth, and by
whose direction was said tombstone
erected? Did not said tombstone bear
the following inscription relative to the
child: "StanwoOd Blaine born June
IS, 1852" Has any portion of such in
scription on said tombstone been erased
since erection; ifso, what portion there
of? What acquaintance have you with
a book called "The Life of James G..
Blaine" written by Russell H. Con-
well, with an introduction by Governor
Robie, of Maine, and published by
E. G. Allen & Co., Augusta, Me-, in the
year 1884? Were not the proofs of such
work submitted to you for revision? Is
not the statement made upon the sixty
eighth page Of said book as follows:
"Miss Stanwood, in March, 1851, be-
c. me his wife at Pittsburg, Pa" a cor
re It statement of the time and place of
your MARRIAGE" Did you not commun-
icate to the author of said book, for his
use in such work, the name and place
of your marriage as aforesaid: