The Indianapolis journal., 1884-10-18

date and remain to a late hour of the night. The
woman first mentioned says she knows Cleve
land well and cannot be mistaken In regard to
these visits, and that she has more than once
seen him helped down the stairs and led to his
rooms when he was too drunk to walk without
assistance
Not far from Buffalo, at a railway station, re-
sides German woman with two daughters of
bad repute They keep saloon in the small
house in which they live. Mr.. Cleveland usually
with friend, has been accustomed for several
years 20 visit and lodge in that house. There
are two respectable hotels near, but he never
lodges in either of them The woman freely
boasts of the money her visitors leave with her,
and mentions with apparent delight the interest
Cleveland takes in one of the daughters. Five
years ago that daughter was married to
a foolish fellow, and in ten weeks be
came a mother Common repute charges
Cleveland with being the father of
the child Since this event he has kept up his
former intimacy with this same daughter How
do we know this to be truel Some of us have
visited the place and taken the testimony of men
who personally know of the facts stated; have
often seen Cleveland there, have drunk with
him in the saloon, seen him too drunk to walk
without help, ard seen him give money to his
favorite girl under circumstances clearly lndi-
ting that it was for no legitimate object. These
witnesses include the station agent, well lto-do
enterprising farmer and others.
The cases mentioned in my letter to DR.. Mul-
Ter, found in the Boston Journal of the Sd inst,
right business men stand ready to come into
court and testify to the allegations in those cases
whenever needed, and more than thirty persons
are capable of doing the same from personal
knowledge of the facts. 1t may be that such
facts do not disgrace Cleveland, for he had sunk
so deep in sin before they occurr that we can
hardly imagine him lower, but these crimes, and
several others held in reserve, and several too
awful to bear relating, and several that involve
families it would be cruel to expose, are more
recent than eight ten years ago.
Physicians, lawyers, business men, worthy
women personally cognizant of facts
they relate, and personally known to
us, has brought these terrible crimes to the
had the aid OF an able lawyer in sitting and sum
marizing the evidence and passing upon its
validity / call your attention to its grave sig
nifcance. You have long been bold and able
teacher of righteousness, and it pains me and
pains tens of thousands of the godly of our land
to have you misled into indorsing and exalting a
libertine to public favor. ! speak with all the
more earnestness because the wiles of this man
have brought shame into my own flock of dear
ones The young lawyers" tell you that cler-
gymen cannot possibly have personal knowledge
Of such doings. Have we not tens of thousands
of children and youth under our cares Do not
know how more than one out of the 400 in my
or Sunday school have fallen victims to the
lecheries of professional and public mena 1t
makes my blood boil to think that man who
has thrust : Dart of agony into hearts very near
to me is now heralded to the highest Office on
earth. Disclosures that have recently come to
my knowledge fill me with Indignation and
alarm pray you my brother, to recall your
iudOrsement Of that bad man. Very truly
yours, GEO. H BALL