Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1884 — William Purcell Retracts. [ARTICLE]

William Purcell Retracts.

William Purcell, wuo has withdrawn from the editorship of The Union and Advertiser, published this afternoon in that paper the following letter, under the head of “A Ghanged State of Facts;” ‘ Two days after the appearance in the Buffalo Evening Telegraph of the article headed 4 A Terrible Tale, M in conversation with a representative of the Kew York Sun I remarked that, upon the the* exisiting state of facts, Gov- Cleveland must be considered a “moral leper.” The conclusion without the premises was prin ed, and has since been extensively copied. I desire to say that information has come to me from a source in which I place explicit confidence materally changing the state of facts upon which the remark was made. Hence, in justice to Oov Cleveland, myselt, and to all ethers whom it may eoncern, I withdraw the characterization,, ami request that hereafter it be not attributed to me.”—Chicago Times. An editor is a man who is liable to grammatical blunders; toothache, typographical errors and lapses of memory; ana usually he has ninety-seven thorn* and people watching to catch him trip* ping. Be is a mail of sorrow acquainted with grief and poverty, and frequent* ly liable to go ragged, hungry and dry for a very long period. And yet the woods are full of people who want to be editors—Chicago 3un- * <»> ■ 1.."—. Terre Haute Gazette: ft is c fear that Blaine’s libel suit is a delusion and a pretense, desi&ovd to cheat and mis*

lead the publi . Were i‘ a good faith suit why institute in the United States Court? Why not bring in the State coart? It can not be that he is afraid of the judges, for they are mai -lv Republican. The secret of the matter lies in the fact, aa every lawyer knows.|that the cause cannot be trb d in the Federal Court until after the election. The Indianapolis Journal of yesterday admi's this much and gives the whole thing away. No jury will be com eaed in the United States Circuit Court unt 1 N | ▼ember. This suit, like some others o< ita kind. Is not brought to be tried. It Is brought for effect, and it will cause aa elf ct, bat no such one as its authors hope for. If Mr. Blaine meant to iry this cause he could have it done in a Republican court, in a Republican county and surrounded by Republican sympathisers by simply instituting it in any of the courts of Marion county. Blaine’s conduct in this matter has all the ear-marks of a “Mulligan bluff.”