Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 30, Number 32, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 September 1884 — Page 3

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1884.

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MAJAJI BLAINE. TVhere lie Burst Early In Blue and Brass lVIth Glossy Hair, Kid Gloves and a Snitch Cane. Ho7 the Good People of the Kentucky Blue Graes Region Tried to Keep th3 Scandal Quiet, But Jim Would Not Have It So. Justice Miller Says "I Can't 1'n.lerstaml What Mr. lllalne Means by so Boldly Declaring That the Published fctory of IIIh Career is Falselie Certainly Does Xut Jlx. pect to Deny it Ilefore a Court." JJUlersburg (Ky.) Letter to Post-D2?pateh. Time baa dealt as kindly with this blue grass Utopia as with that distinguished gentleman who spent here the major part of one of the happiest jear3 of his life, and who thereby gave it a place in political history. Primitive then, it is by comparison more primitive cow. The march of thirty-four years, so fraught with change and innovation for a whole continent, has left this retreat uncorrnpted,and the bobtailed railway train which, with much clatter and spatter, assails the good order of the town each morning and evening, seems like an invasion very much to be deprecated. Its pernicious influence is notable in the fact that young ladies, who grow in greatabundance and luxuriance here, wear white Mother Hobbards and chew Cuia as, accompanied by their swains, they saunter each evensnjj to the only popular resort in the village, namely, the ra'lroad depot. TliF. T0xy in tnilt somewbat in the form of a cross. The white and very dusty turnpike, which connects Maysville, forty miles northwest on tke Ohio Kiver. with Lexington, twentyseven miles southwest, affords the town its chief improved street, and for nearly a mile stores and dwellings lace upon it. Tnirty ytars all the freight from the Eist to thij acd the Lexington region used tocoaievia I'it'iilur- r.nd the Ohio r.iver to Maysville, and thence freighters' wagons carried it down this long pike to iti destination. A stage ran daily each way and did great paisencer tratiic. In tho.e days business at liiliersburg was very brisk, and the town was sometimes quite giddy with excitement. A railroad, however, was made to parallel this pike, end. as one indignant old resident remarked, 'Milriburg got tucked away in the wood shed like, and she ain't done no erf at good ever sence." The turnpike, which belongs to a corporation, and used to be very sleek, has become quite bumpy, ti the eminent dissatisfaction of the town, and tie only parts of it tuat are kept in real gocd repair are the toll-sates. The oth?r street of the town leads from the eastern suburb, where the depot is, across the main street, or pike, to th western suburb, distance of four blocks. Where the streets intersect there is a public square, with an ancient end rusty iron fence around it, with a dense thicket of weeds within. They say there are enakes and rabbits in there, but as nobody ever climbs overdhe fence, no danger is apprehended from that source. A very old citizen dedicated that block to public rises, and prohibited its sale, and as a r9suit the people of iliilersburg have had to do an immense amount of walking all tbeir tbeir lives to get to the postoßice and bask. A public square out near the cemetery would be much more desirable, for there it wjuld not be in the way all the time. The Millersburg cemetery, by the way, is really beautiful, and compares favorably with any Bmall cemetery in the country. It is quite new; the old orn which contains graves nearly a hundred years old, is a mile away, and was located there probably in anticipation that the town would grow out to iL The people got tired goingsuclia Ion? distance to inter their dead, so they established a new cemetery inside the town limits, and about three blocks from the public square. THE OLD HOTEL is just as monarchical among the buildings of the town as it was fifty years ago. Jt was built way back in the forties, with walls of stcne over two feet thick, and partition walls the same. The wood of the door frames and window frames is so hard that nails can not be driven into iL On the top of the building is a little, squatty bellfry, which accommodates a bell about the sizs of an ordinary locomotive bell. The strap by which this is eeitated extends down through the mid lie of the second tloor room into the little olli;e, where it terminates in a loop convenient to the bands of the clerk. This bell goe3 off with great suddenness and frequency, and without any regard whatever for the time of day or nighL You go into a metropolitan hotel and ask for a room, and the clerk rounds an electric gong, which at least keep3 the business inside the hotel. You go into the hotel at Millersburg and ask for a room, and the clerk seizes onto the strap and sets to work like a wood-sawyer, awaking the echoes over the whole town, which, has nothing louder than the bell in its borders. Yoa hope it is only a coincidence, but he tells ycu te sit down and the porter will show yon to the room directly. Y'ou wait a while, and so dees he. "Wonder where that blamed porter is," he finally exclaim?, and forthwith, he lays on to the strap and rips out another bell solo that can be heard for miles. "You don't mean to say you're ringing for the porter?" you ask. feeling a little nervous. "Well that's what I'm ringing for." 'But why don't you ring something inside something that won't be quite as boisterous?" "Because I want to fetch hira. No use ringing anything inside if he can't hear it. The blame nigger here he is. Sam, show the gentleman to his room." SAM is a slonchy, eoodnatured darkey, with the traditional prejudice against work and in favcr of watermelons, and this prejudice keeps him "down street" a large part of his time. It is soon learned that it wouldn't be Eesrly so hard to keep hotel in Millersburg if they could just eel a bell-boy who would f ay on the same block. A very lar?e part t.: t? r rk's time is devoted to locating and la'scir j the darkey, and were it not for the Vellen the roof the hotel couldn't run at all. It e l ell is ruDg twice.for earn meal, once as a warnirg that things are a-cooking. and arnin r.9 an announcement that they are done cooked. Hence a boarder has a good deal to learn before he gets so that he doesn't respond to a false alarm. It takes some time, too, to pet accustomed to the practice of etirring up the whole town every time you want your boots blacked or a fresh p'tcher of water. Notwithstanding these b'.ne grass id iosyncracies, which are accepted by Millersburg as evidence of life and business, the hotel is verv nicelv keDt. An old ladv who was bom there, and whose father kept it be fore her, is in charge, and a pleasant. Lome like place she makes of it for the very few transients mat corae that way. Seven churches. 1.000 inhabitants, a very large proportion of negroes, three or four stores and two educational institutions, and the town is pretty fully characterized. From all these facta it will be seen that what the people of that town do not know about each, other is not liable to be very in te resting. It wan on this community, in the early spring 01 laou, that MAJOR J, G, E1AI3X BURST RESPLEXDZXT in blue and brass, with a wealth of glossy hair and beard, and a tendency to kid gloves and switch canes. lie came down the Mays Tille pike in the old stage, and alighted about two blocks east of the hotel above described, in front of a rather imposing two-story brick CuiitLrg which fronted about mty feet on

the turnpike, and extended by an ell along a aide street or alley for nearly 100 feet. A row of pine trees lined the sidewalk and shaded the rather handsome front door, with its carved frame and "side lights." Major Blaine was there to renew, or rather to continue, an acquaintance which begun three ytars before at Georgetown, where as a youth of eighteen, just graduated with high honors frcm Washington College, l'a., he had been employed as l'rofe3sor of Languages in the Male and Female Academy" ef Professor Thornton F. Johnson. This academy was the offshoot of a Baptist Theological Seminary, which had been established in Georgetown, in and in which Johnson was a professor up to that time, in 1S10, when, as a result of dissension?, he withdrew and tstabliahed his own school. The schcol was one year old when he came to it, oa the recommendation of 'Souire Boulton, of Maysville, who was a relative of his. He found there Miss Caroline Stanwood, a "Yankee schoolmarm," who had aided Johnson in establishing the school, and her two younger sisters, Misses Harriet and Sarah, whom Miss Caroline had imported from her Maine home to act as teachers. A strong friendship developed. The school did not grow as had been hoped, and in IS Johnson determined to move. He was full of the idea that a military feature would make his boys school popular, so he canvassed that region till he found at Blue Lick Springs, then, as now, a quite popular health resort, a large frame hotel, which would in winter season serve well as a barracks for his boys. This he rented from its owner, Colonel Tom Holliday. Looking further he found that the people at Millersburg, thirteen miles from Blue Lick, were so eager to have an educational establishment that they would go on his note for $10.000 if he would just give them his girls' school. He let them go on his note and stay on it. So Major Blaine and the boys went to Blue Lick, and the Misses Stanwood and the girls went to Millersburg, where Johrjson himself took up his family residence. Elaine knew nobody in Blue Lick, so when relieved from schcol cart son Friday afternoon he rode oyer to eee the ladies, v ith. whom he had previously been associated. And he kept riding over every week and staying as long aspcssible, and within a year a scandal grew which, however charitable the world may be to him, will echo in his ears till death stilles it. When a few weeks ago this unpleasant chapter of history was revived, THE ET.VE GKASS PEOPLE d?piecrated it, and it wculJ soon have been asrain conn gutd to the arceives, but for the fact that Mr. Biaine himsell mad the issue by denouncing a n infamous lie that which truse per pie tt ought they knew to be true. While not. justify iug the publication of this old story, they had afhrmed its truth, and fcencs they were put upon the defensive by the cour-e of the man who had thus been attacked. This set the tongues of gossip t" wagging at a great rate, and a great many of the old settlefj who had theretofore held a discreet silence, joined in the declaration that Mr. Blaine had acted yery indiscreetly in precipitating this Issue. 'I can't understand what Mr. Blaine means." said 'Squire Jos. Will Miller, Justice of ti e lace. and Acting Police Magistrate of tre town, who has lived there all his life, "by to boldly declaring that the published story of his career here is falic. He certainly docs not expect to rrakegood his denial before any court, for I don't believe were he himfelf put upon the stand he could escape admitting the truth."

"10 jo include the shotgun feature of the t jry?-' No; I don t know anything about tuat. l ppeak n;erely ot the ..Miiiersourg pars oi it. It a shotgun neureu, it was aner ne leu nilersbarg. I don't tbiDk anybody in this town knows anything about anybody having used a shotgun in that ailuir. There was a vague sort of a rumor that came back here after he had left, and as there was nobody to deny it, became to be generally believed, lhe report was, that the shotgun of a young man named Sranwood was one of the ieatures of the wed ding scene. But it always appeared to me that that was a matter of logic rather than knowledge You see the people reasaned that if a man intends to marry a young lady, he will not defer the marriage until her con dition brings her into disgrace and makes her the' talk of the community, when that condition is as apparent to him as to any body else. If, therefore, he do3 not show enough respect for her to save her from that sort ot disgrace, it is argued that he will not marrv her after fiat, except there be some very powerful inducement." "It is claimed, however, that they were married secretly in Millersburg long before there was any talk, but that they kept that fact from tbe public because he was not making sufficient to support a wife?" Yes, I know. But I don't think there will be any endeavor to substantiate that. In the first place there would be less dis grace, it seems to me, in letting the public know that she was earning her own living an er marriage, than in letting the public un derstand that she was an erring woman. One was a matter of a little false pride, the other wa3 a matter of a life-time reputation. o woman, with her pride and excellent sense, would have ever allowed herself to be put in that false position. In the next place the law then, as now, required that all marriages be under license from the Btate, and be recorded in the records of the State. Y'ou yourself know that no record of Mr. Blaine's wedding exists in Bourbon County." "dii you know him?" "Knew him well, and liked him. I attended his school, and found him a kind teacher, brilliant but painstaking, proud, but always approachable. He was a splendid fellow socially, and always full of wit and fun. Tbe boys liked him well, and so did the people." "Bid you know the lady? ' "By sight and reputation only. She was said ts be a woman of refinement and excellent education and reading. All three of the sisters were of a lively, rollicking disposition, and they med to nave royal times on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights. You see the young ladies used to boftrd with Frofeesor Johnson's family in the seminary, and when Blaise came, he used to have a room there too. Of course that place was not favorable for having very lively times, as the family was somewhat strict, and then soma degree of dignity had to be maintainei in the presence of the pupils. Dr. N. 8. Moore was living at that time in a large house near the seminary, and William M. McKim lived only a few yards farther up the street. McKim had married Moore's sister, but 'bath men were widowers at that time, and very gay. Moore conceived quite a liking for one of lhe Sianwood young ladies, and McKim for another. Trdd Batlerton, a bright young fellow in McKim's store, was at the same tin e courting a Misi Bay, who wai also a teacher in the institution. In the evening these four gentlemen and their ladies would 'eaye the parlors of the institute and proceed t j either Moore's or McKim's house, where, free from all restraint, and without any women folks to criticise, they used to have a jolly time playing cards, dancing and drinking winejand cider. Moore, especially, was a royal entertainer, and whatever might be conducive to comfort he readily provided. The festivities usually lasted till a very late hour, when the girls were escorted to the door of the seminary and tbe company dispersed to meet again probably tbe next night Of course young ladies possessed of their attainments were regarded as quite tony, and of course, too, these merry-makings at the widowers' houses were made to furnish the foundation fox sundry little scandals by jealons or envious young people of the town. The gossip was rot worthy of notice, however, until late, I think, in 1850, when it began to be noticeable that Miss Harriet was in a condition incompatible with virginity. Only exEerienced eyes detected it at first, of course, ut the wonder and Tni 6CA5DAL GKEW STEADILY until inally the fact was patent to the most casual observer. A Mother Hubbard would have been a blessing then, but fashion did not reccenize iL Independence was one of the strongest characteristics ef the lady, and as her secrect became more manifest ahe seemed to grow more defiant ff society,

which by this time was all agog. Johnson was at that time engaged in building a large fiame addition to bis school. And the Christian Church, which still stands yonder, wai used by the pupils for recitation purposes.

The distance from the institution to the church was about three blocks, and day after day did I see the young lady pupils march from the seminary, accompanied by the unfortunate lady. At first the feeling was one of great sympathy for her and indignation towaid the Major, who continued his weekly visits as of old. But finally the sentiment pained ground that it was hardly the right thing for the lady to go tnrougn tue streets with the youns mis'es. under the circum stances, and the pupils began to drop off by ones and twos until the school had been materially reduced. I think somebody mufl have advised the lady as to whit would be a prudent course, for she finally refrained from making those trips, and re mained shut up in her quarters at the seminary. About this time taere was a ereat row at the military school at tue Springs, which resulted in a removal of the school altogether. It was taken to Drennoa Spring, down on the Kentucky Kiver above Frankfort, where there was an old hotel suitable to its purpose, and Blaine went with iL" "Did you know wnat precipitated the trouble?" "Oh yes, in a general way, and I happened to be present when the row occurred. Y'ou see Johnson rented the premises at the Springs from the Holiidays, and he got in arears for renL The Holiidays, after a number of unsuccessful e Hort 3 to collect, began to lose patience, and on the day in question Tora and Lou Holliday, who were brothers, called there to settle the thine. When I first paid any attention to them Tom Holliday was up near the top of a pretty long llight of ßtairs leading to the iront door or the college. Near him stood Lou Holliday. I urtt er down on the night stood Blaine, aud at the bottom of the steps stood old man Johnson and his son Bushrod, who afterward became quite famous. The parties were talking verv angnlv, and both Blame and old man Johnson held pistols in their bands. I saw no pistol in the hand3 of the Holiidays, but I knew they would fight at the drop of a hat, and I was not surprised when Tom Holliday suddenly jerked out a revolver from somewhere, aud with the remark, 'I guess I'll settle it right here,' began to blaze away. SEVERAL PHOTS WEHE FIRED, and old man Johnson sank to the ground with a buliet through his thigh. I think Loa Holliday had his sca'p plowed by a bullet, but if eo, it was lirea by the old man him self, for neither B'aine nor Bushrod usd their pistols. Bush rod, Eoemg his father fall, started to run, and the Holiidays took after him. He made for the creek, dashed in where it was only waist deep and forded it, then disappeared in the woods on tba other side. snd inatle good time to Millersbufg. Mean while Isiaice had gotten the Johnsons biugy, and, getting the old man lato it with some Lelp, he jumped in himself and drove furiouily toward Millersburg. When the Holiidays came back and learned that Johnson was only wounded, they were mad. Tom Holliday and lus sen John got out their horses and started after tbe buggy in a gallop. They overtook it after a chase of five or six miles, and found that both Blaine and old man Johnson had their revolvers in their laps. With pistols presented they made them drop the revolvers to the bottom of the buggy, and then Blame becged them to do no more violence, but to let him get the old man home to his family before he should bleed to death. It was a narrow escape, as the Holiidays were bent on mischief. Still. as Blaine and young John had been boon companions during Blaine's stay at the Springs, the pursuers relented and allowed their vanquished foenien to proceed on their way to Millercburg, where Dr. "William Kf nney extracted the ball and dressed the wound. Johrson was a long time crippled, and meanwhile the engagement had had the effect of demoralizing his school at Blue L'ck. which was virtually broken up. The Holiidays got judgment against him lor $3,C0O, but that's all they go. As soon as the old Professor could get about he move! his military school to Drennon Springs, aud Blaine, bidding farewell to his lalv-love. who was in retirement, went with iL Troubles came in shoals upon Professor Johnson, just as they do on other people. His nnancial embarrassment was at its height when the young lady pupils began to leave because of the scandal which had been kept so peristently before and around them, so that within a couple of months after the removal of the Military Academy the Female Seminary was in a drooping and almost deserted state. One day I was standing at the l'urnell House, which was the stopping place for the stize. when tbe Maysville stage, bound for Lex ington, rolled up to the door. hlle it waj changing horses the unfortunate young lady from the Seminary came along, and without any seeming embarrassment entered it. I ielt pity lor her, because 1 deemed her un able to make a stage trip, and I wondered. too, wny she had not halted the Etage at the seminary instead of coming to where the crowd was, to get in. Dr. Kenner, who was also standing there, expressed his amaze ment at what he saw, and I learned then that up to that time he had not heard of the real state of aüairs. He remarked that she would be very fortunate if she reached her destination in safety. ANOTHER THIXG THAT SEEMED STRANGE WAS the fact that she who was supposably starting for her home in Maine, Bhould take the stage geing toward Lexington, which lay in the direction exactly opposite to the one by which her home was reached. The stage moved out, and we never saw her again, nor did we see Blaine. Soon afterward we heard he had left Drennon Springs. Then came the report that they had met somewhere on the way, which, ii view of the direction they took, was not at all improbable, and that they had been married at Pittsburg." "What time do you think it was that she left?" "It was in the spring or early summer of 1SÖL" "And what of the other members of that little social band?'' "About the time of that departure, probably a little after it, William McKira was mrried to Miss Sarah Stanwood, and they for five or six years occupied the honse which had been tbe scece of their festivities. They then moved to Canton, Mo , and misfortune overtook them in every way. They became very poor, and were for many years dependent oa Mrs. Blame's aid for support. Finally, after much suffering and privation, Mrs. McKim died, leaving her husband in a helpless paralytic He is still at Canton, barely alive, and has control of very few oi his faculties a painful contrast with the bright, gay fellow of thirty-five years ago." "And Dr. Moore?" "He moved down to Taris aud is there now. Blaine has always cultivated his friendship, and if elected will doubtless make him Unit'd States Marshal of this DistricL He had the office almost secure to the Doctor once, but an accident thwarted all his schemer. Whenever the old scandal is mentioned to Moore, he laughs and says there's nothing in iL" "And Eatterton?" "He moved out to what is now Bellaview Station, on the L. and N. Road, and is a man of family and a prosperous farmer, although he did not marry the Mrs. Hay whom he used to court here. I think he still retains a strong regard for Blaine, growing out of those intimate and pleasant associatiODS." "And Miss Caroline?" "Nobody here seems to know what became of her. For a time after the Seminary closed, I think, she kept a private school in the Eatterton house, but after that I don't know." "And the Johnsons?" "Bushrod made a fine reputation in the war, and is now practicing law at Nashville, Tenn. William is at Dallas, and John, when 1 last heard ot him, was living at St. Joe with his widowed mother." "Dr. Kenney r "Dr. Kenney is cow the oldest practicing

physician in this conntv, and is located at Paris?" "The Seminary was destroyed, was it not?" "Yes, and the College at Blue Lick, too. Something of a coincidence, isn't it? Blaine figured conspicuously in the events which wound up both institutions, and both buildings perished by the same agency fire. A hotel stands ia the place of the old College at Bine Lick, and here a very handsome and prosperous 6eminary occupies the premises where the Johnson Academy stood up to 18i0. when it was burned down. A part of the ell is all that is left of iL" The story as above given seems to bs a pretty faithful account of A Gl'. EAT MAX'S T.OMANCF. Daniel Smith, a venerable resident of th9 town, who lived directly opposite the Seminary, and still lives there, corroborates the story in the main, especially as to its most important point, he having seen the heroine as often, probably, as any citizen of Millersburg. Mrs. Sne Sandusky's recollection agrees entirely with the recital in so far as she has any recollection at all. She is very friendly to the McKira family, however, and does not care to indulge in reminiscences. She was present in church one Sunday In 1SÖ0 when the youEg lady in question became suddenly ill, and the efforts to relieve her discovered what had up to that time been her own secreL In Taris, which is a far more busy and modern town, Dr. Kenner was met. He laughed when the shooting affair of Blue Licks was mentioned, and remembered with great distinctness how Blaine drove into Miliereburg with a horse completely blown, and turned the .patient over to him. Tha bullet wound, he said, was a very ugly one, and Johnson was exceedingly fortunate in his recovery. "As to the young lady," said he, ''I have seldom in my lite been more surprised than I was that afternoon when I saw her come along and enter the Lexington stage in front ofthePurnell House, at Millersburg. Of course I had heard the gossip, but you know what village gossip is btarts from nothing and lives on nothing so I had never given a second thought to anything I heard. Yoa can imagine my amazement, then, when I saw her come along with unmistakable evidences that her confinement was close at hand. I did not think it the riht thing for her to start on that journey, and I said so to some oi my friends who were there. I, of course, den't know where she was going, but she came toward Lexington, and at that time Lexington wa3 connected with both Louisville and Cincinnati by turnpikes, and was about equi-distant from them both. So, if she were to be joined by Blaine from Drennoa Spring?, she could have come on to Lexincton or Frankfort, ad then trocteded north to Louisville or Cincinnati by stage." "Did you ever hear that Elaine and the lady were married in Millersburg?" ".Never, till I saw that that brilliant fellow, Ike Purneil, had been interviewe 1 over at Kichmond, Ind., and stated that he saw Blaine married in the parlors of ths seruicary at MilJersburg. Xow, I can't understand what Ike Purnell meant by telling such a stoiy as that. In the first place, if any such wedding had occurred it is not probable that Ike Purnell was one of the guests, as he was not strictly a fashionable society young man while in Millersburg. In the next place, such an event as that would have been talked about all over town in such a place as Millersburg, no matter how secretly it were conducted. In the next place, the law required that all marriages should be under license issued by the State and should be entered in the Stace records. There is no such entry. In the next place, Ike Purnell tays the party, immediately after the wedding, took a carriage and drove to Cyntbiana or Paris, where they took tb.3 train. Now, as a matter of fact, there was no railroad built In this region at all till four years later. In the next place, Ed Betson, who is a neighbor to Ike in Kichmond, Ind., is right here hi Paris to-day, and he says that Ike told him the whole story of the scandal four years ago, and that he remarked in that same connection that if Blaine raa as well for President as he did for Millersburg the time the Holiidays got after him, all couldn't beat him. No, that story won't do. I have no interest in this matter at all, but it does seem to me very short-sighted in Blaine to deny that story when he knows how many ot the old citizens down here would be bound to substantiate it if they were put upon the stand." In Paris was also met Colonel Craddick, editor of the Paris Kentuckian, which in March, 1SG9, published a protest against Blaine's preferment, backing the protest by the story ot the scandal, including the shotgun. A few days after that publication Colone Craddick published a semi-retraction, which fact was heralded abroad as a vindication of Mr. Blaine. The history of these two publications was eiven by Colonel Caddick quite briefly. He published the fi.'ft article because he bad strong evidence that it was true, and to this day has seen no reason to change his mind. Stoddard Johnson, editot cf the Frankfort Y'eoman, h.d made reference to the same story, and as Colonel Johnson was regarded as authority on journalistic ethics, Colonel Craddick had no hesitancy in following suiL A day or two after the publication, however, Colonel D. Howard Smith brought to him from Congressman J. B. Beck an article of retraction, and begged that it be published. He repretented that Beck was engaged in an attempt to remove the disabilities of a number of prominent Kentuckians, among them being a State officer who was a friend of Colonel Craddick's, and whose status had been endangered by recent State legislation. In this work Mr. Beck desired Mr. Blaine's assistance, and believed he could obtain it if a retraction of the unpleasant story of a few days before were published. Colonel Craddick, at first, point blank refused to retract what he believed to be true, but, at the same time, he hated to hazard the political safety of prominent citizens by any act of his, so he consented to leave the matter to Governor Hawes and abide by his decision. Accordingly Governor Hawes was sent for, and be, after hearing the case in fall, gave much deliberation to the work of drafting such an article as would, while offering some little consolation to Blaine, leave it plain to those who were acquainted with the facts, that it was not a denial of the correctness of what had been said about him. THIS WAS miXTED. The original article and the "retraction" are here given: "ALL THE DECEJTCT AND MORALITY. "The Badlcals have elected James G. Blaine, of Maine, Speaker of the United States Honse of Representatives. Some years ago this man Blame was a Px)fe?sor in tbe Military Institute at Blue Lick, and his wife was at the same time a teacher in the Female School at Millersburg, in this connty. At that time they were unmarried, but lived together very much as man and wife, as they

were not formally married till alter tbe birth of their first child. Mr. Blaine was from Pennsylvania, and his wife from Maine. The latter fact caused him to settle in that State, and possibly led to his present high position, as it was doubtless a 'feather in his cap' among the Radicals." The above was printed on March 10, 1S69. On March 24 the retraction appeared, as follows: "fiat justitia. "In a recent issue of this paper we alluded to some rumored indiscretions of Hon. James G. Blaine, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. Our article was aimed at tbe Radical party and not at Mr. Blaine; but facts have since come to our knowledge that convince us that we were under a wrong impression in regard to the circumstances, and not wishing to wantonly inflict pain even upon our bitterest political antagonist (which Mr. Blame is not) we hasten to express regret ot the unintentional injustice, and to make a frank and just amende. We have the authority of those most intimately acqualated with Mr. Blaine during his residence in Kentucky, now more than twenty years since gentlemen of character and influence who remain his personal friends, though decided political opponents,

a fact which should add to tbe force of their testimony, for saying that his associations were those of a gentleman, and that he was even then, at the age of seventeen or twenty, regarded a young man of ability and promise. We understand that he is connected Dy affinity, if not by blood, with some of the leading families of Kentucky, and we know that outside of his connections he left many warm friends in the State, who have since observed his public career and promotion with as much pleasure as is consistent with political differences. We may add that even so far as reports above referred to are concerned, Dame Rumor, with all her ingenious malice, ad?s to hi3 credit a highly honorable and praiseworthy action. That Mr. Blaine in a leading member of the Radical party is evinced by his election to the Speakerihip, but we have not heard that he entertained that bitter feeling of revenge and hatred toward tbe South which seems to prompt the most members of his party, and men who do not are so rare among the Radicals of the North (there are none at all in the South), that they seem to deserve all of the commendation of the Southern Democrats." At Belieview, which is only two miles from Eminence, H. Todd Eatterton, one of the best known and thriftiest farmers of that region, was meL As .had been intimated, Mr. Eatterton was found to have a very warm spot still for the man whom he had known under such pleasant circumstances. "I always found Blaine to be a hearty, whole-souled fellow," said he, "and we have had a great many jolly times together. I think, however, he made a very serious mistake in writing that letter about the WILLIAMSBURG SCANDAL. Or rather in the way he wrote it." "Do you think that he should have remained silent?'' "Yes, I think that would have been his best course. Where a man has a very vulnerable spot, he ought not to court a fight. New, as to that statement that he married at the end of a shotgun. I don't think it can be proved. I am sure I never saw any proof of it or heard any, and I don't believe it. But as to the seduction, why it's very foolish for him to make an issue of it or deny it. because if it came to a matter of proof he'd have nothing to stand on, and he d be overwhelmed. Why I venture to say that a hundred witnesses would have to testify fiatly ecainst him on that if they were put upon the stand, although four-fifths of them would hate to have to testify at all." "Are ycu satUfi ed he was not married in Millersburg?" "Why, of course I am. If he had been mirried don't ycu suppof c I would have been told of it? But that's all nonsense, for you can rest assured he won't claim that he was mirried there. That's where he made ths mistake. He ought never to have let the scandal go so far when h could have prevented iL When I read his letter and saw that he Lad instituted suit, I thought firat I would just sit down and write a letter nrging him not to take any chances on that point, because of the large number of witnesses who are available against it. Butthe'n I rellected that he's a clear-headed man and Lrs fully considered the subject, and like as not he don't intend to try the case, but just let it stand a while and then dismiss iL So I kept my advice to myself." In the Bourbon County region there are many old citzens to be found, who, when asked for reminiscences, grow fidgety and declare that they do not remember anything about the case, but not one was met who would give direct denial to the statement as to the young lady's apparent misfortune. Several Blaine papers have secured very exhaustive vindications by sending correspondents to Georgetown to interview citizens, who almost uniformly declared that they J heard little and knew lesä of any scandal. This is accepted as satisfactory evidence that the story has no foundation. Tbe fact is, that it was not until the principles had left Georgetown for good that any compromising events in connection with the Blaine affair were brought.to the notice of

the public, and the whole affair occurred many miles away from Georgetown. The Talk of "Classes." IBoston Herald. Strictly Bpeaking, there are no "classes" in this country. A social caste or class is something fi.red by distinguishing, well understood and enduring marks or conditions. But in this country, not only is labor respected and honest business respectable, but birth imposes no conditions that may not be overcome. Riches are constantly shifting. In a country where it is "but three generations from shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves," and where, as a rule, the richest men have been the poorest boys, and where the highest education is open to all, it is absurd to talk about "classes" as a fixed institution. Governor Cleveland is blamed by a ''workingmsn" for speaking in his letter of the "laboring classes," as though those who work ere separated in some way from their fellow-citizens, and having distinct and differing interests. But in usine this phrase, Governor Cleveland simply adopted, unconsciously, the common habit of speech. In hi) public and private life be has regarded ana treated all honest workers, whether they labor with their brains or their hands, as entitled to equal consideration. He does noL as Gendral Butler is continually doing, speak to and of the "workingmen" as though they constitute a class by themselves. A man who toils upon a farm, or at a desk, or on board ship, or in the widely ramified business of transportation, or in any honest occupation that he follows for the" support of himself and his family, is just as truly a "workingman" as one who works in a mill, a shop or a mine. The different trades and mechanic arts are more generaally organized than are the other industrial avocations, as they have been forced to be in self-protection, but they have no interests in government that are not shared equally with the great mass of their fellow-citizsns. What tbe Government can do for one It should do for all. What it is not just and proper that the Government should do for all should not be asked or undertaken for any. To ask that the Governmentwhich is simply all the people acting by their agents and representatives for tbe common good should undertake to make fourteen ounces a pound or tnirty Inches a yard, er eight hours a day's work for tbe workers of one kind, while all the rest are subjected to the standard that makes sixteen ounces a pound, thirty-six inches a yard, and a day's work a matter to be regulated by contract, is to expect the impossible and to require the unequal. The bottom thing in a republic is equality. All citizens are equal at the ballot-box. All are equal before the law. All are equal, or should be, in respect to the opportunities, privileges and duties of citizenship. The Constitution was ordained and established "in order to form a more perfect union, to establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure tha blessings of liberty." It wa3 not ordained to promote class welfare, to regulate the rate of wages, to provide occupation for all, to decree a competence to the unthrifty, nor even to render the deserving happy. It Is still true, despite the vagaries of the advocates of a "paternal system," that "that Government is best which governs leasL" In its relations to the taxpayers, the government, whether municipal. State or Federal, is, as Governor Cleveland has said, "simply a business establishment, to be conducted on business principles." It is organized and maintained to do for the citizens public service which they cannot economically or well do for themselves to make and execute laws, decree and dispense justice between citizens, to protect life, health and property, to carry the mails and to raise money for these purposes. It ia readily seen that mechanics, as such, farmers, as such, merchants, clerks,, lawyers, doctors, ministers, as auch, have no special and exclusive interest in the administration of a government that, is of all, by all, for all: And hence the separation of the voters into "classes," in appeals from the press or the stump, is a thoroughly unrepubikran and pernicious habiL which should be stopped by those who do it thoughtlessly, and pointedly rebuked in those who do at purposely for selfish and unworthy ends.

STC3IPAGE. Blaine Defended the Timber Thieves of Montana.

llOTf III Sneering: and Coarse Attack on Ex. Secretary Schnrz, and What the In dianapolls Journal Thought of It. It seems that in 18TS there was an enterprise being carried on in Montana Territory, in which Mr. Elaine did not wish to prove "a dead head," as would appear from the debates ot the Senate in February and March of that year. In 1S77 Secretary Shurz, who was then at the head of the Interior Depattment, detailed a Epecial agent to investigate the depredations alleged to have been committed on the public lands in Montana Territory. That agent reported to the Department that large quantities of lumber were being stolen from the public lands by speculators, and by direction of the Secretary ,"who was seconded in his efforts by the Department of Justice, these thieves wers compelled to pay stumpage for the timber stolen. In response to a resolution of the Senate, the Secretary reported the steps he had taken to suppress the lumber depredations in Montana. That report was made on the 13th of March, 1878. Mr. Blaine and his friends objected to its publication in the Record, and they were only defeated by Senator Matthews reading it as a part of his re marts on the subject. Mr. Blaine severely denounced Secretary Schurz for prosecuting these thieve?, and was most eloquent in his defense of the depredator?, though he fought for them under the guise of wanting to defend the rights of poor settlers to free fuel. But the Interior Department was not making war on these poor settlers. but was lighting the "wood ring," as the special agent called these speculators in government timber. The following paragraph of the report shows who it was that the Department was prosecuting: "An examination of the SPECIAL AGENT'S EEfOr.T will show that the seizures and prosecutions instituted were not directed against settlers and poor men going upon public lands to gather firewood for their stoves, but against speculators the 'wood ring,' as the Government agent calls them who depredate upon the public lands on, a large scale, in the way of an extensively organised enterprise, for their own private profit, and egainst the mill owners, who manufacture large quantities of timber taken from public lauds into lumber for sale, and that the amount charged bv the Government in settling " with the depredators constitutes but a small portion of the profits cf the latter over aud above the cots of cutting and haulin?." Here are some of the "poor settlers" that the report mentions a3 having stolen the Government timber, and who were so eloouently defended ia their right to "free fuel" by the Maine statesman: Leroy M. Beveridge, of Helena, had 2,500 cords cut, wnich he exDected to sell the next wiEter for 3 per cord. F. Le Due delivered every other day twelve cords in Helena, for which he received iO a cord. Holter Brothers, of Helena, cut over 25,000,000 feet of timber. Ibey were millers, and had made over $100, 000 in the timber business. This firm manufactured 10,000 feet of lumber a day, which was worth at the mill $25 to $:J3 a thousand. Phillip Constant, a grocer of Unionville, bad 1.000 cords cf yellow pine which he had held for two years, intending to get a corner on pine wood, thereby forcing the quartz mills at and near Unionville to pay higher prices for the same. Sandford fc Evans, millers, near Beddings, were cutting timber in all directions from the mill. Their mill had a capacity of 10,000 feet a day. Other cases are given, but it is useless to refer to them, as they all tell the same story. The defense of the" timber thieves by Senator Blaine was so persistent that many of his party organs condemned it severely. Among them was the Indianapolis Journal. On March 16, 1878, it used the following language editorially: "Secretary Schurz makes a good defense in regard to the prosecution of the timber thieves, if, indeed, any defense is necessary for the enforcement of the laws. The cry has been raised that he was dogging and prosecuting poor men, the hardy pioneers ot the far WesL tor taking timber from the Government lands which they were obliged to have and could get nowhere else. Even this is a poor excuse for stealing, but Secretary Sch'urz says that under his instructions not a settler or miner has been touched, the only persons prosecuted being speculators who have stolen wood in large quantities and for mere gain." a Referring to Senator Blaine's defenses of these thieves the same article says: "In this connection we can not forbear to say that the whole tone and temper of Senator Blaine's attack on "Secretary Schurz were in extremely bad taste. Nothing could be more contemptible than his allusions to Mr. Schurz's foreign birth or more puerile than his attempt to arraign the Secretary for executing the laws and performing his duty. When he attempted to speak as an 'expert' about the cost of stumpage he showed that he did not understand what he was talking about, and when he said that "it was a thing conceded by the Government that the hardy pioneer who went forward to settle the country ehould have water, air and wood free' be uttered nonsense. There is no principle of government or of political economy that authorizes hardy pioneers or anybody else to steal wood off Government land." " But his advocacy of the cause of these "poor settlers" was only exceeded by the severity of his CKITICISM OF SECRETARY SCHCR's course in protecting the rights of the Government. So indignant was he at the trepidity of a Government officer prosecuting thesa clients of his that he sneeringly referred to tbe nationality of Secretary Schurz, using the following language: "The Secretary of the Interior doe3 not happen to be a native of this country. This is not his fault, and I do not mention it with any spirit of reproach. He is a native of the Kingdom of Prussia. The Kingdom of Prussia is 15,000 square miles less in extent than tbe Territory of Montana, and it has a population of 25,000,000 people, and now the Secretary of the Interior, perhaps with tbe traditions of his young manhood and boyhood, applies to that country the land laws of Prussia, not the land laws of the settled Territories of the United States." For this be was called to account by the Journal on March 2S, 1S7S, that paper referring to it in the following language: "Senator B aine's sneers at Secretary Schurz's nationality met with no response whatever in any respectable quarter. If Mr. Blaine should happen to come before another Republican convention as a candidate, he would not be likely to reject the vote of any delegate because he was born in 'a little German. State.' Possibly, also, he would not be likely to receive such votes;" and again in March 29 it said: "Senator Blaine's criticism on Secretary Schurz, that he was born in Prussia, is not quite conclusive in regard to the batter's alleged narrowmindedness. Bismarck was born there too, and he is a pretty stalwart statesman." Even the distinguished Senator from Massachusetts, Mr. Hoar, who so eloquently defends the author of the "Mulligan letters," could not vindicate Mr. Blaine in his attack: upon Secretary Schurz, but paid of that gentleman's thrusts at the head of the Interior Department for bringing these thieves to justice! "The essence of the complaint is that a high officer ot the Government has enforced the law and protected the property of the United States.'' . ,m , u-i c : 'Tanke Robinson Dead..' Chicago Special. - Vi ? ; . :Ä .. t - : "Yanke? Bobinson. the well-known show man, died at New Jefferson. Iowa, at 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon, He was sixty-

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