The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-07-05
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
A Few Facts tnat tue Register Will Stand

By.
From the State Register July 3rd.
There were no new developements in
the Hainline Cleaveland case ycsterday,i if
we expect the fact that John II. Gunn
has been secured to assist in the prose
cution of Mr. Cleaveland on the one
hand and in the defense of Mrs, Hainline
on the other. Mr. Gum states that steps
Will be taken at once to settle the still
mooted question as to wcther or no Mrs.
Hainlinc Is married woman, aud if it
proves that she is, the bastardy proceed
ing against Cleaveand will be dismissed
and proceeding for criminal converse
ton instituted against him. Mr. Bowling
has written to Greene county in regard
to the alleged marriage to Sherman, and
claims to have received letter stating
that records Of the county show no such
marriage. Percon,ra, we understand that
MIR. Humphrey cl inns to have indubita-
Die proof Of her marriage with one Hark-
ness.
The Indicate MS are now that the CON
test will be bitter one. One of Mr..
| CIeaveland's state friends asserted yes
| terday that he would never be 'downed
as he had q to much money behind him. ="
| 1t is clear that the woman, penniiess and
well nigh friendless as she is, is fighting
| against heavy odds. No one who reads
the papers can have have failed to notice
the devilish attempts of Cleaveland's
friends to smirch, by innuendo and down
right lying, all who will not join against
the woman in bowling ''blackmail," " and
in covering with the mantle of silence the
''trif1ins indiscretions'' of Mr. Cleaveland
while in Springfield as member of the
legislature. The case, in this respect,
reminds us of the great Beecher trial.
Nobody could be suspected of intertain-
ing suspicion that the Plymouth pas
tor might possibly be guilty as charged
without calling down upon his or her de-
voted head the full power of Plymouth
church. In this case q newspaper sug-
gests that if Mrs Hainline is as bad as
Mr. Cleaveland and his friends havepaint
ed her, he is no better, Tray Blanche
and Swet theart" yelp in chorus black
mail, and knavishly insinuate that the
paper is influenced improperly or cor
ruptly. If these gentlemen-attorneys
detectives, pimps or scribblers, think they
can deter. the Regiiter from presenting
both sides of this case they are woefully
of their base This paper weighs every
word it utters, with a full knowledge that
Mr.. Cleaveland (but no body else)has a
right to call it to account. 1t has indulg,
ed in some harsh structures on that gen
tleman for his conduct with Mrs Hahn
line, and will continue TO report the case
(impartially it hopes in whatever shape
i may assume If he can, upon trial of
the case, show himself wholly guiltless OF
a criminal intimacy with Mrs Hainline,
it will take great pleasure in stating it.
II he src leeds in pulling through on a
mere technically it is not likely that the
opinion this papr Entertained of the case
at the outset will undergo any material
change Itis gratifying to the Registe'
to know that its course in dealing witt
the case thus far has met with recommen
dation at the hands of many first clas:
u We don't believe people care half as
much about reading Anna Hainline';
Hainline's foolish letters, and in
knowing just what her daily life is, as
they do in knowing something of the
character of the men who come TO Spring
field TO make their laws.