The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-07-31
1HE oLEHELAND sCANpAL.

THE CLEVELAND SCANDAL.
The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
was urged by . subscriber to publish "a
account OF the Cleveland scandal which
is attracting 30 much comment now. We
have been urged by dozen Republicans
TO do the same thing, and the Com
mercial Gazette's answer IL ours exactly.
It says: 1--WE do not regard 1t as our
duty 70 NIL the columns OF the CONNER
cial Gazette with . filthy story simply
because it il about the Democratic can
didate for president Of the Tinted States
It is not our policy to make this paper
interesting by smeaIing it with dirt.
Others are welcome 10 the distinction
OF doing that sort of thing.
The Commercial Gazette's correspOn-
dent says:
Such stories and scandals can not be
entirely fiction. There must be some
truth In them, and If Grover Cleveland
has been half as bad q man in his phi
Vate life as represented, he Is nOs fit 70
be admitted ipto any good home in the
land, 70 say nothing Of his being made
the president Of the United States and
held up TO the youth OF the present day,
and through history 70 generations yet
10 come, as an example of purity, good
ness, worthy Of beng followed.
The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser
says of the unclean tale that has been
told:
n"RepublIcan editors have resisted,
and they will doubtless continue 10 re-
sist, the temptation to reprint tue stories
started in the Democratic papers prior
| TO the Democratic nomination, and now
detailed in an independent evening
journal in Buffalo. Such journalism is
not clean, such reading Is not welcome
in the family circle. The Commercial
believes that Mr.. Cleveland can be beat
en- without resort to such tactics; that
his unfitness for the presidents Office
can be demonstrated, without going in
to the stories of his private life, and rGk-
ing over the prurient details or a noto-
rious scandal. 1t was upon this convic.
tion that the Republican opponents Of
Mr.. Cleveland acted two years ago
though strongly urged to use the mate
rial which less scrupulOus Democratic
and independently newspapers are ap-
parently anxious TO use now"
The Chicago Tribune says It has re-
ceiyed from Presbyterian minister in
Buffalo. whose name is at anYbOdy'G
service, the following letter:
BUFFALO, N. Y, July 81.
To the Editors OF the Tribune:
ut seem to me that a leading Ques
ton of this campaign ought TO be: Dc
the American people want common
libertine for their PRESIDENT
"If not, 1t is very easy for you TO SHOW
that they ought not 70 choose Mr.. Cleye
land, OF this city. Every word which
you will read concerning his character
in or from the Buffalo Telegraph of thiI
date l have reason to know is true. I'm
| fortunately for many clean men who will
vote the Democratic ticket this year II
the interest of purity and REFORM tn
publication referred TO Is not campaign
) lie, but the saddest and most solemn
truth. The man who prepared 1t for III
press is one OF our best known and mos
widely honored clergymen, and he did
, il after personal Investigation, and in
fluenced by q sense OF the sternest mora
obligation"
The dispatch annexed has been telG
: graphed from Chicago to the San Fran
cisco Chronicle;
"The following letter has bee u receiV
ed by the Rev. G. r. West, editor of tn
Advance, leading Baptist paper Of thi
city:
BUFFALO, N. Y, July 10, 1SS4.-Dea
Advance: II may be too late to do 20
] any good, and may not be needed, but
! feel moved to warn you against saylD
much to the credit of Grover Cleve
land. He is libertine. N
Christian should cOndone his crimes >
: far a. TO commend his candidacy. Abou
r seven years ago he seduced tn
head of the cloak department i
, | Flint & Kent's, leading merchants herr
He kidnapped the woman after the DO
Q was born, sent her to the Catholic In
: sane Asylum and took the child froE
I her. She escaped, got Milo w. Whit
ney to help her, finally settled, and CAV
up the child for $500. This know
be true, for have it confirmed by Fin
: & Kent, by Mr. Whitney, her attorney
q and by Mrs. Williams Baker, where th
. woman boarded.
"Mr. Cleveland has the reputation
: here of the grOssest licentiousnes
t Judge James Sheldon, of the superiC
a court, told me this week that he had d.
rect proof of his recent attempt to sc
duce young lady of excellent chaTacte
: but she becoming aware of his inten
repealed him so spIritedly that he beat
9 hasty retreat. have written to the II
=, dependent and the Christian Union, an
they will play shy of HIM. though the
did speak of him as irreproachabl
: Having seen nothing 10 the Advance
J. alarm me, did not write you, but 1t wi
= do no harm for you to know the fact
Yours. GEORGE FL. BALL
b "The Rev. Mr.. Ball is pastor of I'll
Hudson Street Baptist church Of Blu
N falo"