The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-08-12
IN DEFENSE OF CLEVELAND.
A Sample Of the Remarkable Ethics by.
Which It Is Hoped to Save Him,
Which is Supplemented by Still More En-
tertaining and Interesting Statement
from Democratic Newspaper.
MIR. cLEyELAND's DEFENSE.
The Rare and Remarkable Ethics Appealed
TO to save Grover Cleveland.

MIR. GIEVELAND'S OlSFENoGs
The rare and Remarkable Ethics Appealed
TO to save Grover Cleveland.
Boston journal.
In response to our request that the New York
Evening Post would investigate for itself the
charges against Governor Cleveland, that jour
nal publishes an editorial article of more than a
column in length, affirming that it has investi-
gated them to It's own satisfaction" and pro-
ceeding to show how it can still continue to advo
ehis election. The Post admits that Governor
Cleveland formed an irregular connection" with
Mrs Halpin, and that he accepted the paternity
Of the child. The Post adopts what is perhaps
the basest line of defense advanced by Cleve-
lands apologists- that of blackening the charac-
ter of the woman-alleging, by inference, that
she was intimate with others than Cleveland,
and also that she was Incorporate For neither
of those insinuations is there scintilla OF evl-
dence. BY the testimony Of her employers, and
Of others who knew her WE'LL the woman was q
pure woman until she met the Democratic can
didate for the presidency; and she did not
become incorporate until the wrongs which
she suffered at his hands drove her to drink
The Post charges upon the woman the heinous
orphan asylum, and passes lightly over her kid
naping saying that she was taken by a detect
i've to the 'inebriate asylum" If the Post had
actually made the investigation which it claims
to,it would know that there no 'inebriate asy-
lumr in the case. but that Mrs Halpin was taken
by force and without color Of the law to the
Providence lunatic asylum-an institution which
had no authority to receive inebriates, but in
sane persons only. The Post also misleads its
readers by saying that the charges against Mr..
Cleveland originated with "a cheap and nasty
journal in Buffalo" and have little other evil
dence to rest on except the bare assertion Of the
Rev. Mr.. Ball. The Buffalo Telegraph, although
. one-cent paper, is clean, and told this story in
clean way; and Mr.. Balls statements are cor
roborated by Milo A Whitney, reputable
lawyer. Flint & Kent, the womans employers.
Mrs. Baker, with whom the woman boarded Dr.
Ring thevisiting physician at the lunatic hos
pital. the Rev. Messrs. Mitchell, Gordon, Greene,
Chivers, lord and Hubbel and other witnesses
Of whom the Post either is ignorant or prefers
that its readers should be.
SO much for the errors Of fact in the New York
Posts alleged. investigation Now, as to its
errors Of reasoning and doctrine. Calmly waIv
Ing aside the statments of clergymen. as beng
the poorest possible authority in such matters,
the Post falls back upon what in its previous
article it called the 'presumptiye evidence in
favor of Mr.. Cleveland. He was elected mayor
Of Buffalo, he was elected Goyernorof New York:
therefore, he cannot have been libertine and
profigate at alLp The Post is oblivious to the
Fact that its first argument proves too much. II
Mrs. Halpin was drunken, immoral woman, as
DAT ,Il~ ~ H. sr.k.
minded man as it seems to believe Mr.. Cleve-
land to be formed an irregular connection with
her2n The Posts own assertions and reasoning
30 to confirm the general report about Cleve-
land in Buffalo, that his associations have always
been low and that his only social opportunities
have been such as might naturally be found in
She fishing club of which he was a member.
But this is not all. nor the worst. In order
10 relieve Mr.. Cleveland of odium the Post does
not hesitate to asperse the noblest men of the
race. 1t says;
ssThere has been no great benefaetor Of the
human race who has not been truthful, faith
full to his trusts, disinterested, selfdenying.
There have been very few who have been
ehaste.
And again it says:
ssThe standard by which some ministers now
propose to exclude Cleveland from high place
would have prevented Washington Franklin,
Jefferson, Hamilton, not to go any further, from
taking any prominent part in the foundation Of
The American Republic It would have excluded
from Office in England nearly every great states
man and reformer of the last hundred years,
except, perhaps. Romilly, Wherefore, and
Gladstone"
Such wanton and cynical aspersions of the
great and good men of the race do not call for
comment or contradiction. 1t is enough to
quote them, to illustrate the desperate straits
to which the independent apoogists of Cover
nor Cleveland are reduced To look leniently
upon Mr. Cleveland's offenses, as the Post does,
it is necessary to believe that very few Of the
great benefactors of the race have been chaste;
that Washington as bad as Cleveland and
that barely three statesmen and reformers in
England for hundred years have been men of
pure lives One more quotation and we are
done with this expounder Of independent ethics.
The Post says:
s'Chastity is a great virtue, but every man
knows in his heart that it not the greatest of
virtues; that offenses against it have often been
lies which enn0ble human nature and dignity
human life and make human progress possible
By this sentence, chastity is ruled out from
ssthe qualities which ennoble human nature and
dignity human life,o because its absence the
Post assures u.s. is entirely consistent with the
possession Of 'alln those qualities. With the
men and women of America who believe in the
purity Of womanhood, and the sacredness Of
motherhood, we are quite content to leave the
Posts apologies for Governor Cleveland, which,
while they do not at all relieve his guilt show
what a shocking social philosophy must be ap-
pealed TO by those who would seek to defend
him.
What Mr.. Ball Has to Say.
Boston Journal
The attempt to impeach the character Of Rev.
Mr.. Bail will only result in the total discontinue
4 his assailants We took ample precautions