Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1884 — Mr Blaine's Marriage. [ARTICLE]

Mr Blaine's Marriage.

The letter of Mr. Blaine in reply to the infamous assault of the Sentinel upon the good name of his wife and children, will touch ar responsive chord in the hearts of all honorable .men, whatever be their partisan bias. Manly, sincere ,deeply regretting the necessity of such a duty, Mr. Blaine has effectually disposed of the ignominious . assailants of his home, and has vindicated himself in such manner as must briug the blush of shame to the cheek of decent Democrats, who have nosympathy with the dastardly methods pursued against the Republican candidate, but who Lave not been men enough to openly denounce them. Mr. Blaine makes no defense of his secret marriage, long known to his friends, and, like “the honorable man that he has ever proved himself as husband and father, takes upon himself all the blame that may attach to such action. That the Kentucky ceremony was regarded by each as binding and sacred has been proved m every subsequent act; in the second ceremouy at Pittsburg, performed to remove any doubt that may have attached to the hist on account of technical informality; in „a life-long devotion, one to the other, and in a manied life extending over more than a third of a century, and remarkable for its purity and congeniality. Husbands and fathers have cause for congratulation. The typical American home has been fortified anew by this signal triumph over the most malignant attack ever made upon its sanctity. Millions of honored wives and mothers will rejoice in heartfelt thankfulness to-day for this victory over the fiends who have not hesitated to ravish and despoil the home of those who presumed to stand between them and the objective spoils of office, as though these mean things could be placed in the balauce over against the good name of woman and the love and sacredness of our firesides.

The democratic party has a fearful responsibility to answer for in this; for, while a few Bemocfatic papers have at intervals denounced or discountenanced the infamy of the war against virtue and against home, it has been done in a perfunctory and half hearted manner, and the Bemocratic committees, State and National, have done nothing to stop it and drag off wretches so lost to shame as to attempt to murder the virtue of women to get at the plunder of a political victory. The Rev. Ball lias declared that this campaign is a struggle between the brothel and the home. If that must be the issue, that the latter will triumph, is beyond question. But the light will have to be kept Up to the end. The conscienceless slanderers who have so maliciously sought to traduce one of the noblest wiyeg and mothers in this Christian land, frill.not willingly give up, but will continue to snarl and snap. The great shame of compelling such a thing at the hands of any man as thut wrung from Mr. Blaine, in the defense of his wife and children, is upon all the Nation. The people will see that the fullest possible reparation is made.—[lndianapolis Journal.