St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-11
A SCANDAL WHICH THE GLOBE DE.
CLTNES.


The GLOBE has received by special telegram
full copy of the Blaine-Ken lucky scandal
published in the Chicago Times of Sunday.
The story is told in much detail and accuses
him of gross RIGHTEOUSNESS while teacher
in military academy in Kentucky.
The GLOBE declines to be the medium for
the circulation of the scandal. The indecency
of certain portion of the Republican press
in circulating slanderous scandals relative to
Gov. Cleveland should not provoke Demo-
cratic journals to ''retaliate in kind"
however truthful the accusations
against Mr.. Blaine may be. While
we regret the course of the Times in making
the publication, we are not surprised that
some paper should be unwisely provoked
into ''retaliating in kind" especially when
it is so we'll understood that there is abund-
ant field for such retaliation. The attempt
of the scandal mongers to besmirch Mr..
Cleveland, does not make Mr.. Blaine any
more fit to be president than he was before,
and does not blind the people to the fact that
if they wish to place an honest government
in power in Washington they should elect
the man who has never betrayed public
trust. We commend to Democratic papers
who may be tempted to reproduce this Blaine
scandal as an offset to the baseness of their
Republican cotemporaries. the foil owing
reflections from the Philadelphia Times, a
paper which is doing effective work for the
Democratic ticket:
Fortunately or unfortunately, folly begets
fnllt tba fria nhs nf
especially his newspaper supporters, had the
wisdom and manliness to leave the sluices of
campaign scandal entirely to their opponents
they would largely profit by it in the success of
their cause; but they are as foolish and as I'M
manly as are the Blaine organs. Instead of g-
norng the reckless and sef-refuted scandal
against Cleveland, and allowing it to work out its
logical and inevitable benefit to the assaied can
didate, they begin with the response
''Call off your dogs and follow
with mean inuendoes of an equally
disgusting domestic scandal against Blaine. Did
| this dsreputable imitation of the scandal mon
gers who are assailing Cleveland, confine itself
| to low-grade Democratic organs, it wonld not de-
mand notice, for nothing better would be expec-
| ted of the dependent party newspaper: but when
! leading journals of professed independence and
of national repute, indulge in such cowardly in
nuendoes against Blaine, even by way of answer
to the Cleveland scandal, they strip the sham
|
lures and make the campaign scandal monger
comparatively respectable,
| The assault of the scande-monger against
| Cleveland fell still-born in the campaign. What
ever shade of truth there is about which to
weave the malicious campaign lie the falsity of
the story in every material respect affecting the
character of the man, is admitted by friend and
foe in the community where the facts are known.
| In like manner, the scandal monger's assault
against Blaine will fall still-born in The cam
pagn. The attempt to invade, even by iunuendo,
the domestic circle of Blaine, is simply atrocious,
| and it is more atrocious than the
| Cleveland scandal, because Blaine has
wife and sons and daughters to be
wounded by the poisoned shaft of the campaign
liar, while Cleveland has household gods to
| weep over wanton defamation. Nor is it any eI-
cuse for invading the domestic life of Blaine,
that the social life of Cleveland has been first
atrociously assailed. So far from causing the
! scandal-mongers retaliation, the Cleveland scan
| dial should have taught the Cleveland organs the
necessity of gaining all that could be gained by
| honorable, manly contrast with the Blaine cam
! paign liars. Such is the view of campaign scan
das that will be taken by the intelligent and fair
minded voters of all parties, and the party that
! indulges least in it, will be likely to command
the most votes in November.
! The GLOBE considers it possible to support
one man for president and oppose another
without making a paper unfit to enter a
family, and it declines to 60 into the sewers
either in behalf Of or in opposition to pres
! idential candidate.