St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-16
UHINTNG 4DMISSIOys.

Some republican papers Affect 10 Ign ore
the revelation of "Major'' .BIaines seductive
misdoings at AIilersburg. Kentucky, while
| others, with a brazen audacity worthy of
their chief, stoutly and vigorously deny its
truth; while others admit the facts, with ex
cusatory obiurgations.
| For example, the Chicago Herald, while
not denying, thinks it too bad to arraign Mr.
Blaine on such charges, because he has ii
wife and grown up sons and daughters, who
will be greatly distressed thereby. The Her.
all thus sniveIs over the laches
of the culpable ''major'' assuming that his
sorrowing family ought to shield him from
even from just criticism. The Herald seems
to think it all well enough for Cleveland to be
made the object of venomous and atrocious
misreprepresenting scandals, because he
| has no family to be affected by them; and
| yet, he has sisters and other relatives to
whom his personal reputation is as dear as
| Blainc's can be to his family.
| Personal reputation being dragged into the
canvass by the Republicans, their candidate
cannot escape the just criticism of his pri-
vate vices, no less than his public wrong
doing, however much the sensbilities of his
family may be wounded. 1t is their misfor
tune that the husband and father is tattooed
with loathsome personal vices, and dishonesty
| and corruption in official positions. Seeking
| the highest place in the government it is but
| just that the people should be fully informed
| of his private and public misconduct without
regard to his present personal surroundings.
and it is mere begging of the question to
attempt to shield him from deserved oblo-
guy, because of the feelings OF his family.
If they are disreputably connected in life,
| they must take the consequences and make
| the best of the situation. II the Republicans
assail the moral character of the Democratic
candidate, and claim superior virtue for their
candidate, truthful, unexaggerateG expos
ure of the latter is not only iustifable but a
deserved retribution.
Again the Chicago News, not denying the
| Millersburg, Kentucky, charges against
''Maior'' Blaine admits them by excusing
! him on the ground that his offence was
| committed in his adolescent minority, be-
| fore he had reached the age of moral respOn-
| sibity, being only nineteen years of age!
| This is about as forcible as the excuse of a
| girl who had given birth to a baby, who
| thought it unnecessary to make such Il fuss
about it, as, il c1s only such little tbiagI
| But the Meas goes still further and attempts
to break the force of BIaine's libertinism, on
| the ground that the girl whom he seduced
and ruined has been long since dead.
This exhibits a moral obtuseness on the
part of the indicator truly amazing. What,
excuse the wanton libertine on the ground
! that the victim of his seduction, ruined, dis
eraced. was driven to an early gravel
| It Is but a sorry exhibit of human deprav-
! ity, to witness a partisan press, assail-
ing Governor Cleveland on charges of al
leged gross immortality, and apologizing for
| Mr.. Baine's uudenied Gbertinism, on the
| grounds above stated. 1t is but poor at
| tempt to defend the indefensible and is but
an aggravation of the baseness, that laid that
heart broken victim of outrageous wrong, in
a lonely, Kentucky grave. over which the
night winds breath their solitary requiem,
and the night-dews give forth the SEM
blance of plying tears, while
the proud destroyer with his waving plumes
struts forth 10 grasp the executive power of a
mighty realm. Partisan iniquity cannot
well 70 further, when ribald abuse. and
gross, unscrupuloGs, fabricated scandal is
ueaped upon another, to defend and shield
The despoiler of virgin innocence and the
detected beneficiary of colossal official cor
ruption. A campaign waged in the develop
ment OF such elements BODIES no good to the
moral welfare Of the country, and it is alike
d.saonoring to truth, decency and justice,
and to true manlineSs.
With acandidate of such diversified I'M
worthy characteristics. private, public, per-
sonal and official, it seems natural, If not
appropriate, that the Republican partisans
would inaugurate campaign of hes and
scurrility. This they have done, and it re-,
maiuls for November to disclose the result
! of such an unprecedented contest.