Daily Republican., 1884-09-05
Massey.
CONFEDERArE!X ROADS,
Which is In the State Nv Kentucky,

AukubtmSos 1cofs
The feeders NV the Dimocrisy held a
supplementary meetin last mite to de-
side wat ackshen shood be taken in the
matter NV the serious charges made
agin our honored candidate fur the
Presidency, ex-Sheriff Cleveland, NV
Buffalo, by the wilder Halpin.
I hedn't any hesitashen ez to the
oourse 70 pursoo. felt that while the
standie mite not strike Deekin Pogram,
Kernel M'Pelter, or Issaker Gavitt ez
bein anything agin him, OWN to the
undispootid fact that there isany guam
tity NV mulattOes roamin Their heath In
this County, witch resemble the Deekin,
Issaker and the Kernel ez cluely en- two
peas, that suthin wuz doc George
Wilyum Curtis, Henry Ward Beecher.
Carl Shurts and them nice fellers in
Boston wich objected to the condishen
nv my shirt, all nv witch left the re.
publikin party and jined Us becox they
wuz In the pursoot nv absloot purity.
I wuzn't 90 much afrade nv Henry
Ward Beecher, beooz In an interview
with him last week, on this very sub
jict, be sed that he cooden: support
Cleveland ct the Maria Halpin matter
wuz actilly proved agin him, becoz he
had alluz held that fur q man to git
ketched at 1t wuz hily immoral. But
ef 1t wuzn't proved, or ef there Good be
mittygatin circumstances aot up, or eff
1t wood beat the impure Blaine, whose
vices wuz not like Cleveland's, merely
skips, ez 1t wuz, but were trooly SIGH
vices ez undermined Republix, he Good
lay his hand on his hart and support
him cheerfully.
l wuzn't much afrade NV Henry
Ward. Henry Ward hez CRATE deel
nv charity In such cases. 1t wuz Cur.
tbs, Shurts and the Boston fellers felt
like humoring. l felt in my bones that
eff they wuZ csnvinst that the
charges wuz troo that they would
to. wunst.
Therefore interdoost this resoloo-
shen
WAREAs, A subsidized Republican
press hez charged our honored stand
ard. bearer, ex.Sherif Cleveland, with
hevin sedoost awidder, Marian Halpin,
be 1t
Resolved, That Marian Halpin wuz
not wilder, that Grover Cleveland
never saw her in his life, and Their
never wuZ no SIGH a woman.
Resolved, That we ashoor our Indepen.
dent Republican allies, which are in
pursoot Nv putty, that they may bet
Their bottom dollar on Grover Cleveland,
becoz he possesses our unbounded con.
fidence.
Jest ez I wus about to put the moshun
to adopt these resolooshens, Joe Bigler
riz and craved permishin to okkepy
our time for mint
Gentlemen" sed he, Sin the int =
rest NV harmony in the party should
go slow in passin them resolooshens.
700 are maxim mistake. hev with
| me copies NV the Moo York Evenin
| Post, witch is Carl Shurts' paper and
Harpers Weekly, wich Is edited by the
emiuently pure Mr.. Curtis. l find in
them papers articles wich put diffrent
face onto this matter. Both these
papers admit that there is such wo-
man ez Marian Halpin, that your honor
ei standard barer did actilly sustane IL
| lict relashuns with her, but ez all this
| happened when he wuz mere boy NV
! AZ yeers, they don t consider it ez any
| thing that shood be held again him.
| Espeshly do they exhonorate him
| from III guilt in the matter becoZ Mr..
Cleveland, hisself. SEE that there wu2
three NV h is intinit trends which wu2
also enjoyin' the lady's favors, and
when the baby wuz born they held a
caucus to beside which shood father It,
With noblenis witch can't be too high
| ~ com mendid, to save the character uy
his other trends, witch wuz married, Mr.
Cleveland acknowledged the baby, wici
wuz named after him. He also admits
that Mrs Ha lpin denied the story Il,
the three trends, but NV course in sict
cases the woman's statement goes fol
nothiu, we boldin that woman wict
wood be n man y mistress is, not credi
| Bile witnis.
| Their wuZ consteruashun in the meetiI
| house to wunst. Josef had the papers,
and he red the articles, 30 ther Good bt
no doubt about 1t.
| 1t was ruth"r umcomfable, but 1 wu2
ekil to the emergency. Immejitly
tore up tn fust resolooshens and pro
posed this
| WAREAs, 1t hez bin charged upon
ex. Sheriff Cleveland, our honored stan
dard barer, that he sustained illicit
relashups with widder, Marian Hal.
pin by name. and
| WAREAs, The charges are admitted
+, by Mr. Cleveland's friends to be true
therefore be it
Resolved, That 81 this thing okkur,
red sum Six, eight or welve yters age
when Cleveland WIZ mere yooth NV
AZ summers, and ez he SEE there wu2
three Others in it, we do not consider
that this trihin escapade shood initiate
agin his purity Nv character, espeshl 3
ez other distinguished statesmen hev
bin ed to hev bin guilty Nv similar
skips, and that our confidence in him Il
uninpai.ed.
Joe Bigler sed that that wuz The pro.
per thing to do, and he repeated a little
dne, dole NV a servant gal, which wuz d
mother aiore she WIZ a wife. A lady
sed tn her:
How dare you come to me for a
baby!'
To witch the gal replied with great
promptnis Yes'm, If you please,
MN, he'd baby, but it wuz a very
llitt 10 wunp'
"What you want to do ia to adopt
the defense Nv the servan. gal. quite
|agree with the Evenin Post and Har-
lper's Weekly that 1t is crooel to hold
la matoor statesman Nv forty.
leigbt to strikt account for the little
lskips made when he wuz mere youth
INV forty.two."
Ez the meetin didn't precisely know
how TO take Josef, hastily adorned il
and we convened agin at Bascom's
wher he seldom Gums.
Eff the skandal doesn't scare OFF the
pure independent seeker after purity
in the East 1t won't do us no harm.
Our people pay no attenshun to 1t.
PETROLEUM v. Nasty
(Forgivin)
II MR.. Nasty HAS A VISION.
/ he'd another dreem last mite witch
left indelible impreshn on my memry
/ don't understand why should con
L fiIx rallu hut .ria iar