The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-01-01
The SentIuei's Farewell 20 blaine.
The indianapolis Sentinel thus com
ments on Rlains's letter withdrawing

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The indianapolis Sentinel thus com
ments gu Rlaius's letter withdrawing
his libel suit against that paper:
1--WE had no doubt but that Mr..
Blaine would sooner or later make q
virtue Of necessity ne es by stepping down
doubt familiar with the wise proverb.
The prudent man fOreseeth the evil
and hideth himself and has cOnclu
ded not to have applied to himself the
converse ending of the same passage :
But the wicked pass on and are pun
ished.' We are compelled to criticise
Mr.. Rlaine's Judgment in bringing the
suit against us. We at least will com
pliment him in deciding to drop it. In
the language of Mr.. Sam. Weller to
Mr.. Pickwick when, after the lxtter's
adventure with the lady in yellow curl
papers he resolved never to trust him.
self in the hotel again), that's the
very prudentest resolution "a you
could come to, SIR When Mr.. Blaine
says: The great masses Of Democrat
ic speakers repeated the libel from ev
cry stump in Indiana with vitupera-
tive raDcOr, with jibe and ribald jest
he plucks from the brow OF BarOu
Munchausen every laurel that liar ev
er wore. II he had said that the great
mass 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 Re-
publicahs of Indiana are, politically.
opposed to it. But the Sentinel is
willing to submit to the Republicans
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 it has
ever published against him, and SUP.
port him for the Presidency whenever
Republican convention nominates
him. Mr. Blaine's letter to his attor-
neys is 1isgrant insult to the State OF
Indiana, not only to the Democracy,
but to the Judiciary OF the State. II
is an imputatiOn upon the obligations
that honorable men take when called
to sit in judgment as jurors. Mr..
Blaine has the audacity to impugn the
genius of our courts of Justice, by al
leging that in Indiana one half the
citizens will subordinate their solemn
| OaIu 10 lueiT pAfLlSau feelings NO
wonder that his honor, Judge Woods,
on his own motion, took under advise.
ment whether the letter should not be
refused record in his court. It is be-
lieved had not Blaine's ATTORNEYS
promptly amended their motion to
dismiss the suit by asking the with
drawal of the letter, that the Judge,
Republican though he ir, would have
ordered it taken out of the court In
language that would have indicated
his utmost disapproval of it. The let
ter was intended as an affront to Ipdi-
ana for the magnificent manner In
which she repudiated the pretensions
of the plumed knight. Mr.. Rlaine's
suit would have been a grand political
stroke had the Sentinel publication
been false, but as that publication was
not false, the suit was wretched blum
der. Mr.. Blaine has only himself or
his friends to blame for the humiIia-
thug position in which he finds him
self. The mistake he made in the be-
ginning of his tilt with the Sentinel
he has repeated at every step down to
his exit from court. He would not tell
the truth"