The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-09-17
FOB PRESS AND PEOPLE.


In both the Chicago Tribune and St. Louis
Globe-Demoorat of the 10th inst appeared
specials from Indianapolis, from which the
following is an extract:
1.-THE Sentinel is daily charging that Mr.
Blaine does not answer the interrogatories
filed with its answer to the complaint in the
| libel suit, seeking to create the impression
| that il wants speedy settlement OF the case.
| Senator Harrison states that when the inter
rogatories were filed he offered to the coun-
sci for the Sentinel to enter into bonds for
| Mr.. Blaine's appearance in court within
| week to answer them in person, If the gen.
tlemen would agree to try the case then. No
| response was made to this proposition, and
the next thing done was the notice filed yes
terday that dispositions would be taken in
| Kentucky next week. Senator Harrison
says ne is satisfied the Sentinel management
does not intend to allow the case to come to
trial if it can be in any way avoided"
Now, the SeEtineps answer to NJ. Blaine's
complaint was fled on the 18th inst. The
interrogatories propounded to Mr. Blaine
were filed simultaneously with the answer.
On the 4th inst. Senator Harrison was not
in indianapolis. He had not returned from
his trip to Maine, and did not retul until the
evening of the 9Th. Mr.. Harrison could not
in the special when the interrogatories were
filed. Not only that, but we have Senator
Harrison's own assurance that he has made
at no time any such statement. To re-
porter of the Sentinel who approached him
last night and handed him for perusal the
special quoted, Senator Harrison said in
these words:
II had no interview with anybody about
the matter. When was approached by re-
porters 1 always said that 1 was not trying
my case in the newspapers. 1 said nothing
| Of the kind"
His last sentence referred to the clipped
| special which he held in his hand.
We have one or two statements to make
here, the first of which is that neither Mr..
| Harrison nor any other attorney of Mr..
Blaine has ever made, directly or indirectly.
| to the Sentinel or any of its attorneys, the
proposition rected, or any other proposition
either offering to give bond, TO have Mr..
Blaine come here to testify, nor to in any
manner accelerate trial OF the suit of Mr..
Blaine against the Sentinel.
Our second statement is that on Saturday,
the 18th inst, the Sentiners answer and the
interrogatories for Mr.. Blaine having been
filed two days, the Sentinel, by its attorneys,
appeared in court and moved for a rule COM
polling Mr.. Blaine to answer its interrogato-
| ries. Immediate notice OF this motion be-
ing served on plaintiffs attorneys, they ap-
peared in court and gave notice of objec.
tons to the rule being granted compelling
| Blaine to answer, but stated they were not
then ready to argue their objections; where
upon the Court adjourned further proceed
ings to a day when he should have
returned from visit to Fort
! Wayne, a city in the northern part
| of Indiana. So it must be admitted that the
present stay of proceedings in the case is
entirely due to the objections of MIR. Blaines
attorneys to the Sentiners motion.
Our third statement is that, instead OF
seeking to delay trial of the case, the SEN
tinel has shown a desire to expedite it.
And while the assertion that a. proposition
for fastening the issue had come from the
other side is false, it is a TACT that a
proposition has been made by the Senti-
mel, which, if accepted by Mr.. Blaine,
land we submit to the public if it was not
generous one) would have brought the suit
to an early determination. We refer to an
editorial in the Sentinel of the 9TH inst, the
day following the filing of the answer and
interrogatories, and which we here repro
duce:
'If plaintiff Blaine will now at once answer
eurinterrogatoriest ruthfully, positively and
without evasion, the Sentinel will agree to
submit the case without other evidence and
4 Wlfhnnt imnartlal
Jury, Just as soon as his Honor Judge Wood
can convene such Jury.
1--WE suggest to Mr.. Blaine the wisdom of
ending his laundering herein right here by
awaiting himself of this merciful proposal, as
it will save to hum the reading of much I'M
pleasant testimony within the next few
weeks"
Our fourth statement is that any assertion
or insinuation that the Sentinel has sought
or is seeking to delay the trial is false that
the special quoted herein, like numerous
other ones sent from here by the same CORE.
spondsnt, was false, and that he knew them
to be false when he wrote them; that, like
the Blaine organs Of Indianapolis, the at
taches of them, who send off specials to
outside Republican and several Democratic
l papers, have been guilty of willful perver-
sions and misrepresentation of the proceed
ings 30 far in the libel suit. their object be-
ing to manufacture sentiment in favor of
the plaintiff and against the defendant.
But we add that this crusade OF lying in
behalf of the plaintiff will in the end fall
Inundated before the evidence which justi-
6es the Sentinels side In the libel suit.
BUSINESS.
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