The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-09-24
TERMS PER YEAR.
BLAINE'S ANSWERS.


woman whom he afterward married, and
that he only married her when compelled
thereto. On the 18th of August James G..
Blaine teegraphed an order for libel suit
against the Sentinel. in which referring to
the publication just cited he said: "THE
STORY Is UTTERLY AND AB0NfINABLY FALSE IN
EVERY STATEMENT AND IN EVERY IMPLICATION"
There was but one construction to be
placed upon that statement; it was intended
to be understood as a denial OF any and
every part of the reports against him. 1t
was intended to make the public believe
that there was not a shadow either upon
his ante-nuptisl relations with the
woman or upon his nuptials 1t was, by
plainest implication, an assertion that his
marriage had been unclouded, legal, in adj
vance of any cohabitation and free from the
slightest irregularity. Both in essence and
in form his marriage was thus declared to
have been the straightforward, open and
aboYe-board, honorable and Immaculate rite
which society, the laws and the church pre-
scribe and sanction-that was the declara-
ton, between the lines, OF Mr.. Blaines tele-
gram. For the reports against him to be
utterly and abominably false in every
statement and in every implication" Mr.
BIaine's marriage must have been free from
irregularity, and any irregularity in it con-
victs Mr.. Blaine of falseh ood.
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The secret marriage in Pittsburg on the
29th of March. 1851. and the birth of a child
in less than three months there
after, were facts which Mr.. Blaine
did not expect would confront him
when he ordered the libel suit. His sweep
ing assertion OF false in every statement
and in every implication" was made under
a mistaken belief that the reports he so
branded could not be proven true. He had
been mo deadhead" in the enterprise for
freeing himself from entangling evidence.
He had enjoined secrecy upon the two wit
nesses to his marriage at Pittsburg; the pages
recording marriages for 1851 have been torn
from the record. book left by the minister,
now deceased, who performed the ceremony;
the court records of his libel suit against the
Portland Argus in 1857 have recently disap-
peared, and the year date on the tombstone
of the child, born within three months after
the marriage, was effaced shortly after Mr.
BIaines nomination at Chicago. So, there
being apparently no record obtainable of the
date of his marriage or the birth of
his first child, James G. Blaine fattered
himself as being beyond the reach of
exposure of lying. 1t was under the lead of
this impression that he telegraphed himself
into court to gull the voters of the country
and frighten the press frem further discuss
inc the rapOrts concerninp him
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But, anon, Mr.. Blaine discovered that he
had reckoned without his hosts in bringing
the libel suit. Contrary to the assurances of
his Indianapolis advisers the Sentinel did
not fall before his plumed assault He fur
ther discovered that, despite his efforts to 81
1ence and destroy evidence, the Sentinel had
volumes of it and of the most damaging
character; evidence that when adduced
would show him to be an atrocious liar and
despicable villain. 1t was only when Mr..
Blaine discovered this that he de-
cided to make the confession he
has made-a confession which, view
it in whatever light one may, proves him to
hsve lied like a Hessian when he said the
story is utterly and abominably false in its
every statement and in its every implica-
ton"
Mr. Blaine has confessed truthfully to the
dates OF his Pittsburg marriage and the birth
of the child Stanwood, but he has done so
only because he knew the Sentinel has evil
dence of both. 1t is not the voluntary state
ment of courageous man, but the forced
confession of coward when driven to the
wall. He has not, however, confessed to
the falsehood with which he attempted
to deceive the witnesses to his
skulking marriage, nor to his statement to
Others that he was not willingly party to
it. He has not confessed to the scandal
which he permitted to run rife and unmet
by him in Kentucky against the honor of
the woman whom he now tells Us he so
much loved even then. He has not con-
fessed to having returned alone to Kentucky
after his marriage and passing himself OH
there as single man, despite the unfortu-
nate condition in which the woman he tells
Us he loved so well was publicly known to
have lett the State. He has not confessed
that ne did her the despicable wrong of al
lowing that public to believe that the child
to which she was to give birth was an ille-
Ultimate child. He has not confessed to
having refused to accompany her to her
home after the Pittsburg marriage, leav-
ing her to go alone and without any
evidence of marriage that might vindicate
her honor, to confront the scandal which
rose up against her and bowed her down at
her very home. These and some other
facts Mr.. Blaine omitted from his confes-
sions.
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Being forced by a knowledge OF the senti.
nePs evidence TO admit marriage less than
three months before the birth of the child, ii
was necessary for Mr.. Blaine to invent some
story upon which he might hope to float out
of the gulf his libel suit had plunged him
into. Without some craft of new design to
catch on to, it was all apparent that he must
go under. Proven marriage in March and
q baby born In June of the same year, and
the sail he had hoisted, painted, ''The story
is utterly and abominably false in