Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-09-08
Boston Journal.
An Unmitigated FalsehOOd.

The following appears in the Boston Post,
and purports to be a special dispatch from
Portland;
'Ex-Gov Plaisted will say tomorrow in
his paper, the New Age; That Mr.. Blaine
is directly and solely responsible for the scam
dalous publications against MIR. Cleveland in
both the Boston. Journal and the Buffalo
| Telegraph. no Intelligent person can have
reasonable doubt. What could be more in
| credible than that such an attack should be
made upon Presidential candidate without
consultation with and consent of the oppos-
ing candidate or his responsible managers:
The Boston journal is Mr.. Blaine's New
England organ, edited by Mr.. Blaine's init
mate personal and political friend, Col. z. A.
Smith. and it goes WITHOUT saying that the
stories were published by the Journal with
Mr.. Blaine's consent; yes, by his positive
direction. But we have the evidence. The
story was published by the Buffalo Telegraph
on Saturday, July 90. A short time prior TO
that date Col. Z A. Smith of the Boston
Journal was summoned to Augusta He
came and had a consultation with Mr.. Blaine
on July l2. Forthwith the Journal repre-
sentative turned up in Buffalo. where he
worked up the case with all the elaboration.
distortion, misrepresentation, falsehood and
malignant perversions of which he is capa-
BILE. and saw it launched in that scurrilous,
irresponsible Buffalo sheet before he left that
city. Then, after providing for the printing
and circulation of 100, 900 copies of it, con-
tanning the vile SANDER. he returned to Bos-
ton. The publication in the Telegraph fell
stillbOrn, and did not produce the effect desir
ed or contemplated No respectable republi
can paper in the United States would touch
it, or did touch it for ten days, and then the
Boston Journal, Mr.. Blaine's New England
organ, was requested to open its columns
and father the production, Mr.. Blaine's own
bantling, which the Journal proceeded to do
in it's issue of July 80"
Such a statement as the foregoing would
not call for reply were it not that silence
admission that some part of it was true.
whereas it is wholly false. 1t is not true that
the Journal or any of Its representatives had
anything whatever to do with the publication
of that Buffalo Telegraph's Terrible Tale"
That article was written by the editor of the
Telegraph, Mr.. Cresswell, as he has stated
over his own signature. 1t is not true that
Col Smith had anything to do with the Jour-
alities. nor with the publication which the
Journal made of the facts in the case. Col.
Smith is one of the efficient members of the
editorial staff of the Boston Journal, but he
had no knowledge of this matter and has never
written a line in the Journal with reference
to it. Finally, it is not true that the Journals
article was published with Mr.. Blaine's "con-
sent" or by his direction" he had no more
knowledge about our purposes than Mr..
Plaisted or the editor of the Boston Post.
We are not surprised that Mr.. Plaisted should
coin this sort of story, because, having his
hand well in in the Madigan letter business,
he could not be expected to tell thetruth. But
the Post ought to understand that the journal
is edited in the Journal office, and not in
Maine or elsewhere. The Post owes it to its
readers and to its own sense of fairness to re-
trac, the wholly false statements contained in
the dispach quoted above.