Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-08-07
ALEXANDRIA, VA THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 1884

are founded md maintained. There ha
oeen no great beneiactor of the human RAJ
VINO mas not been truthful, faithful TO hi
trusts, dlslntefested, self-denying Their
nave been very few who have been chastp
Bialne's vices are those bywhicll governments
are overthrown, States brought to naugh
and the hauEts of commerce turned into dens
Of thieves. The standard by which some
ministers now propose to exclude Cleveland
from high place would have prevented
Washington, Franklin, Jefferson Hamilton,
not TO 60 any further, from taking any
prominent parl in the foundation of the
American Republic. 1t would have exclud-
ed from office IL: tir:lanA ncarir every great
statesman or ret ''riDrr nf rilr LAST hundred
years, except. p''nans, RumIly, Wilberforce
and Gladstone. 1t wuild have visited near
| ~ every prcW!I: mt politician in the repub-
llcan party siH"r. 1850 with popular odium.
1t would, bad The Gcilocra: chosen to ap-
| ply it, have dotcaicd cnc Republican candi
| date for the Prr:,;r...y by charges worse bv
! far than Cleveu!It's.. in tha! tlcy added the
SIN OF broken VOWS 10 the sin Of inconti-
nence. ...
We are not defending ucontinence.
Chastity is great virtue, but every man
knows IN his heart that it is not the greatest
OF virtues, that offences against it have Of
ten been consistent with tho possession of all
the qualities which enoble human nature
and dignity human life and make human
progress possible. IL ought to he preached
and practiced by every man to he utmost of
his ability, but no one ought to preach it |
With any other motive than the spread of |
virtue, and least o! all for the purpose, as in |
the present case, OF making some the bas-
est OF Vlces-the vices which sap everything
that IS valuable IN society and politics.
seem respectable. Preaching OF this sort,
at this time, is cant, and cant in its most
loathsome form, for it fills every household
in the land with filthy suggestions and insin-
uatlons, turns The press into common sew
CT, and converts scores of editors into hypo-
;rlts, who must blush in secret over their
own ridiculous scrnIons and their simuIat-
,d righteousness. We will not for our own
part, help the republican party ut this cr-
is in IN attempt to capture the Presidency
or Il triclistcr, us Joshua captured Jerico,
y the aid ofa hario. Great as its faults !
re, it deserves II less ignominous end than
his
From the Now York lleradi ... [
We reprint FROM the Erraing Post of Yesterday :
ne essential portion vi the article which gives in
succinct form fair recital of those facts from
'hlch some republican Journalists have manufac-
iiHi HiSh HtNoTcu scandal. iltlIcr-
} we have not printed this story in any form be- u
iusc we know that nagrant faIsehools circulated
ing cnongh before an election 10 give time for
ic sober second thoughts never do harm but b
lc story us told BY the Posi- is true and VIC print
Tor that reason. Al the tine that Mr. Clcvc- =
M was candidate for Governor this scandal
adc It's appearance and We then investigator it
nj discovered the facts 10 he rs the Post now re-
tcs them. 1t will bc we'll for Mr. Blaine if when
S story comes out it shall contain nothing worse.
dam ii'a f;-s' .i :,t., y snrane | s..
ws ready to maintain that wornam Ia''"fcR fes
inc in the world worth getting into scrarc u
ouS They never heard. perhaps. of dear Mr;
shrr's cogcat temptations Governor Cleveland :
.idcntly followed III tho footsteps OF fasher
dam. But the critical point i'll sucn Il case, as IL
rikcs us-thc point ot human and manly lh-
rest. mot whether laan ever got INTO Hlcn !"
rauc. Int how lie behaved himself IN the CIR
instances aui how he came ont OF IT, hoVcrnor
,nvc1,ud h.haycd himself i'll straight tEorNard.
AMY way aud did not hsy. TO be cocrced ny
lk of tar and feathers Or Shotguns