Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-08-22
Blaine Gets Mad and Sues the indianapolis
Sentinel for &5(l ono


indianapolis, Ind, Aug. 14.-On the
9TH, inst, the Sentinel, OF this city, con-
tanned an editorial, charging that
Blaine had sediced his present wife i'm
Kentucky and then fled TO Maine, where
the young woman and her fathet fol-
lowed him, and he married her at the
point of shotgun. This having reach
ed Mr.. Blaine, he telegraphed Colonel
Holloway, of the Times, that the state
ment was maliciously and UNANIMOUSLY
false in every particular. Political
ISLANDERS, he says, he pays no attention
to, bit this attacking the honor Of his
wife cannot be submitted to. HOLLOWAY
was asked to bring suit against the re- re-:
sponsihle editor of the Sentinel in the
United States court. Colonel Holloway
placed the matter in the hands of Sena-
tor HarrisOn's law firm, and papers are
now in course of preparation in ac-
cOrdance with Blaine's direction.
The article published by the Sentinel
Is as follows:
Can Blaine afford it? The cam
paign war against Cleveland is, to say
the least, an independent one. Finding
no vulnerable point in his public record
his enemies haye assailed supposed ir-
regularities in hts private conduct.
They have dressed and redressed the
affair until the naked facts are but a
small part of the furbelow, frilled and
ruffied figure waltzing in the Blaine re-
publican print. This besmirching pri-
vate character is the stock in trade of
the Blaine folks. 1t is all they have to
offer against the democratic candidate.
But can James &. Blaine afford this
plan of baute, if his own TANKS are un-
protected as they are currently under
stood to be? Is he not provoking
scathing fire by permitting these as
saults on Governor Cleveland. The
democrats will hardly remain quiet ON
Blaine's inner-life when his supporters
are resorting to scandalmOngernia
against IFS candidate. The charges of
seduction made upon Mr.. Cleveland,
and which are false Upon theit, very
face. Can, it appear to be turned upon
Blaine and made to stick. There is
hardly an intelligent man in the coun-
try who has nor heard that James G.
Blaine betrayed the girl whom he mar
ried, and then only married her at the
muzzle of shot gun. The democratic
press has had the magnanimity not TO
put forth these reports which must
cause pain to the members of Blaine's
family. The republican papers have
long known of them, and have allowed
them to go undenied. If Mr.. Blaine
was scoundrel enough to betray an in
nOcent girl, if after despoiling her he
was craven to refuse her legal redress
giving legitimacy to her child until
loaded shot gin stimulated his con-
science, then there is blot on his pri-
vate character more foul, if possible,
than any of the countless stains on his
political record. His conduct diSclOses
moral Obliguity, rendering him unde-
serving of social confidence and an un-
fit man to be president, and candidate
with such record cannot afford to as
sail his opponents. Between Cleveland
and Blaine, what fair minded voter can
hesitate to pronounce the former as
better and purer MANI"
Proceedings will be begun at once
against Shoemaker, the author of the
article under Grubb's libel law, in the
state courts. This will compel Mr..
Blaine's presence as witness. Attor-
neys say the suit and criminal proceed
ings will be pushed with all possible
slpenatpb