Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-12-20
A PARTING SHOT.
The Indianapolis Sentinel" Gives
Blaine BrOadside as He Weighs
"AncbOr."

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The Indianapolis Sentinel of Dec. II. under
the heading of. "Goodbye, Mr.. PlaintifI
Blame" says editorially: 1--WE had no doul,f
but that Mr.. Blaine would sooner or later
make virtue Of necessity by stepping down
and out of court. Mr.. Blaine is no doubt IA
miliar with the wise proverb, The prudent
man forseeth the evil and hideth himself.
and has concluded not to have applied to
himself the converse ending of the same pas
sage, out the wicked pass on and are pun
lsheu.' II we were compelled to criticise
Mr.. Blaine's judgment IN bringing the suit
against US, we at least will compliment il in
deciding to drop it. In the language OF Sam
,eller Weller ana Mr.. Plckwick when, after the
latters adventure with the lady in yellow
curl papers. he resolved never to trust him
self IN the hotel alone again) That's the very
prudenest resolution as you could come to,
when Mr.. Blaine says the great masses of
Democratic speakers repeat ed the libel from
every stump in Indiana with vituperative
rancOr, with gihe aud ribald jest,r he plucks
from the brow of Baron Munchausen every
laurel that liar eyer wore.
III ne had SAID that the great masses of
Democratic speakers had, from every stump
in Indiana, proclaimed James G. Blaine an
honest man, he would have come full AS near
to the truth. Mr.. Blaine claims that the
Democrats of Indiana are against him. The
Sentinel comedies that the Republicans of In
ulana are polltlcally, opposed to it, But the
Sentinel is willing TO submit to the Republi-
cans of the State, jury fashion, this charge of
-his Against Democratic speakers, and If the
verdict does not give the lie to Mr.. Blaine's
charge, the Sentinel will agree to retract
every word 1t has ever published against him
and support him for the Presidency whenever
republican convention nOminates him.
"Mr. Blaine's letter to his ATTORNEYS is a fla-
grant insult to the State of Indiana, not only
to the Democracy, but to the Judiciary of the
state. 1t is an imputatiOn upon the obllga-
ton that honorable men take when they are
called to sit in judgment as jurors.
"Mr. Blaine has the audacity to impugn the
genius OF our courts of Justice, by alleging
that In Indiana One-half the citizens will
subordinate their solemn Oaths to their
partisan feelings. No wonder that His
Honor Judge Woods, ON his own motion,
took under advisement whether the let
ter should not be refused record in his court
It Is believed, had not Mr.. Blaine's ATTORNEYS
promptly amended their motion to dismiss
the suit by asking the withdrawal of the let
ter, that the Judge, Republican though he is.
would nave ordered it taken out of court in
language that would have Indicated his ut
most dlsapprOval of it. The letter was in
tended as an affrOnt to Indiana for the mag
nIhcent manner in which she repudiated the
pretensIons of the plumed knight.
Mr. Blalne's suit would have been a grand
political stroke had the Sentineps publication
been false, but as that publication was not
Blaine has only himself and his friends to
blame for the humiliating position in which
he finds himself. The mistake he made in the
beginning of his tilt with the Sentinel he has
repeated at every step down to his exit from
court. He would not tell the truth