| Show SILE silence IS this thib it is a time of extraordinary events james jarnes G blaine the republican candidate i for the presidency of the united unit e states comes out at this late lato date an explanation tended intended Iti to obliterate the fhe scandal candal which has been retailed to tc the country in reference to his domestic concerns concerns surely the astute statesman has lost his hi cunning for at we regret that the dead embers of his conjugal ugal relations were ever raked up for lor the unsavory item in reference to mr hr and mrs blaine and the plumed kni eni knight hall would have been much wiser to arave have let it go without his ills explanation unless he was prepared to pt the ottle tai lai who performed tile the secret dere ceremony and uhe tue trusted friend who witnessed its performance and ind it would be bei an inexcusable piece 0 J in inda i and want of foresight ev even oven e i la j 9 people to neglect to retain documentary r e tero lero of SQ an ap event as marriage marria c that lf if need be its consequences light bo be justified by proper proof we to do not say my that mr blaine makes any incorrect statement regarding the matter but taking ills his explanation as correct unless imless 1 lie has ilas in reserve sufficient evidence I 1 to nil fill lna ina in i few feny apparent discrepancies it would atwould have been better to let it remain unsaid and rest the matter I 1 with tile the knowledge of the innocence of the principals in ill their own bosoms the most extraordinary claim made in lii the explanation is the reassertion assertion re of the tel tei defacement dela deia lei a c cement el i tent of the tombstone of mr blaines cald by bowe persons to injure him tills vandalism has been attributed to the democrats it will bo be seen heen a at once that it was to the iiii interest tl rest of his political enemies if they desired to make capital out of tile the noh nol noisome oine orne to preserve the dates of ortho the tho marr marriage iaze laze ceremony of which proof exists the one which mr nir blaine calls the second arriage marriage in and that of the birth of llis his son that the record might show the close proximity of the two incidents the marriage and the death mr blaino has by his explanation given oren the thu scandal mongers bongers an opportunity to i liddle iddle him that they would not have possessed had he wisely refrained brained from offering it |
