The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-09-03

Kennebec Journal for 1855. containing Mr.
Blaines Know-nothing record? The Press
replies in thunder tones, that omission Of
date was its own blunder-that it should
have been September "a. The omission was
not our fault, nor anything for the Press to
be in rage about. Ii could have politely
confessed its own omission, and we would
have pardoned it.
But there was something deeper that &C
counts fer its belligerent gyrating We
asked what became Of that volume OF the
missing kennebec Journal to which our cor
pose anybody is so dull as not to perceive
what all this affected angry buster is for? 1t
is merely to divert attention from the ques.
tions it can not or dare not answer.
A word more with you, Mr.. Spitfire Press.
You say that letter was dated September 24.
How do you reconcile that with the record
which states, and which we COPY that the
mol. pros. was entered the 10th. If the
record is correct, il would seem still to indi-
cate that those reasons for dropping the
prosecution were given fourteen days after
it was droppedl
And now if you would know what the real
reasons we've for backing out of that prosecu-
ton, ask some member of Cumberland bar in
practice at that time. He will tell you, if he
recalls the matter at all, that neither Mr..
Blaine nor his wife being party of record
to the proceeding, they could both be put
upon the stand and compelled to state the
facts under oath. And, further most anna
bic neighbor, If you would learn the we'll
understood in Augusta, and for thirty odd
years undisputed facts of the case, send a
representative to Augusta and ask some of
the old residents. If you satisfy us
that you really desire to learn and
to state the truth we can give you
names of such citizens, one of whom has
within a week stated in the presence
of more than one person, that Mr.. Blaine's
friends make no question in regard to the
facts of the marriage in March and the birth
of a son in the following June-that the only
point contested is in regard to compulsion,
and this idea seems to be confirmed by the
fact that Mrs. Blaine is not Joined with Mr..
Blaine in the Indianapolis suit. The suit
treats the alleged libel, not as an assault
upon his family, as Mr.. Blaine claimed in
his published dispatch, but only as an assault
upon and damage to himself. This being
the case, Mr.. Blaine's deposition could now
be taken in the pending suit but for a most
remarkable change in the law recently
made. As it stands now. however, Mrs.
Blaine's testimony can be taken and that of
other members of the family.
Mr.. Blaines friends commenced the most
slanderOus and wicked assaults upon Gov
ernor Cleveland. These libellers nave pur-
sued their vile work without a word of re-
monstrance from Mr.. Blaine. Even at
Maranocook, where many Republicans ex.
pected he would publicly deprecate aud
condemn il, be uttered not word Of dissp-
proval, though one OF the speakers near
him detailed as truths the falsehoods that
have bren disproved by the committee of
independent Republicans, and of citizens
and neighbors who support Mr.. Blaine's
candidacy. And are the supporters of Gov
ernOr Cleveland now to be deferred from tell
ing the truth about Mr.. Blaine? Not much.