Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1884 — Can These Things Be? [ARTICLE]

Can These Things Be?

We have known for many years a story which would prove very harrowing- to the Blaine family, but which would have no proper bearing on Mr. Blaine ; s fitness for the Presidency of the United States, and which has never before been alluded to in these columns. Whether it is true or not we have never sought to discover, and never shall. Gen. Garfield’s opponents in 1880 acted with entire propriety in abstaining from making this side of his character an issue.— Springfield (Mass.) Republican.