The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-21
St. John Ahead.
Communicated


The Republican peculiarly Is manifested
in their love of the past and their revival
of old animosities Just now their leading
journals are kicking one man that is down,
and trying to revive their own dead cock
in the pit" They seem bent on covering
the faults of their own msrcenary sneak by
giving prominence to another, whom they
denOunce as "mercenary liar" But for
the devilish mesnness displayed By the God
and morality party. the whole thing is
laughable to Democrat, and is surely to the
advantage Of the men who form the third
party. Ii can do neither of them any harm.
Those who voted for St. John did not know
of the charges now preferred against him.
To them he has served their purpose. His
tstoOing comes after the election, Mr..
Blaine's came before. There ic DO need
for defense Of either now; they are
not candidates, and possibly never viii be.
If st. John can not furnish better de-
tense than did Mr.. Blaine he deserves the
same well merited execration that is sure to
follow the Plumed knight. That the Rs
publicans sought to buy him is pretty we'll
established by admissions from members o.
their National Committee; that the Democ.
racy did buy him is sought to be established
by vile aed very unreasonable innuendc.
from the g, O. p, helped to shut off the feed
of gang OF public plunderers is possibly
true, and, in the light of coming day, under
an honest administration, the people may
award to him his Just need of praise, as well
as to all of those who with him failed to vote
for the mercenary sneak of Little Rock no.
toriety. The people may yet come TO re-
joice In their escape from so great calamity
as the election Of James G. Blaine to the
Presidency. James G. Blaine, who seemed
not to know it necessary to OBJ.
tain marriage certificate, and so
on in this connection ad nsuseam,
whose complexities in Little Rock Railroads
he denied, and which denial was met and
refuted by the Mullgan and Fisher letters;
who denied the Sentiners charges that stand
to-day undisputed. and when brag and blus-
ter failed him, gave the whole thing away in
letter to my Dear Mr.. Phelps" who when
he withdrew his SANDER suit offered q d.
rect insult TO men Of all parties in the State
by stating that he could have no justice
done him bya jury Of Indiana; who, since
his defeat, in speech at Augusta, abandon
ing the issues of the protection policy would
inRugurste a revolt of the North against the
South, and continue setional hostility for
the next four years; whose ambition to be
great has thus dwindled into spirit OF vim
dictive and sanseless rage. One is forced to
believe that this mRn in his hope for re-
venge would willingly see his countrymen
engage 10 interDecine war, il be could only
furnish q substitute and escape its dangers.
Now, the question comes, how can the
editors OF Republican papers, after having
supported Mr.. Blaine, how can they come
up and asssii the character of any othsr
man, however vile, on the face OF the ear n {?
How, 10 view of these ohsges that have been
as impregnable to refutstion as q wall Of
grsnfte-not one Of them but stands incon-
troYertible ct this hour-how these editors
L. a. I'm IN cnF =
name of Blaine as a possible candidate in
1888 for the suffrages of an honest and civil,
/! ized people,
January Il. 1885.