Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-09-25
REBUKING THE MUGwUMPs.
A Woman Excoriates Them.


Mrs. II. M. Tracey Cutler, of Golden,
ILL.,. in a letter to the independents, pub
lished in the WOmen's Journal, thus
covers one weakness of the course being
pursued by the Independents:
The want of moral insight which has
been shown is among the most unac-
cOuntable freaks of this present defec-
ton. Had the Democrats brought for
ward Thurman, whose correct life Gar
field so tOuchingly praised, one might
haye seen some reason for your conduct.
But to follow the lead of such man as
Cleveland, and to gloss over his crimes
as some of you have done, Is among the
mOnstrOsities of sOphistry. You have
not in this instance the excuse of re-
markable administrative ability TO set
of against corrupt private life, ac-
c0rding to the showing OF several of our
leading men. You admit his moral and
social delinqueneies. You show him to
be the boon companion of men who were
the betrayers of their families, and make
his sins, most lOathsOme, almost count
to his hOrOr,
This candidate for the chiefest place
in the Nation is, by your own admission,
man frem whom delicate sensibilities
should shrink. You offer to the ladies
Of the land the indlgnity of filing the
White House with dishOnOred eharac-
ter, whose vileness, or whose weakness,
should set him apart from social emf
nence.
You offer to the nations of the world
the affrOnt of putting disreputable
man in the high position of head of our
| National household, man whom the
wives and daughters of foreign embas-
sailors should shun rather than honor.
You commit to the hands of this man
who, by your showing after his charac-
ter had had time to mature, was either
so weak or so vile as to be overcome by
the seductiOns Of woman said to be
vile already, the great Interests of the
Nation, knowing that half the betrayal
Of the interests of nations has come
through the enticement of women
Could such man withstand the allure
ments OF the fair cOurtesan, employed
by designing men to betray great inter.
ests? He is, according to your own ad
missions, unfit to BIO trusted with Ma
tons welfare.
Great names have been mentioned al
sanctiOning your theory that man may
be bad in his private life and yet serve
the public with fidelity. But in this yOl
have vainly uncovered the naksdHess o
lives that might have been sublime bu
have gone out in diminished splendOr
They never attained to the moral emf
hence they should have done, because o
the faint they took from the grandeur O
clean, noble lives.
How will your chosen candidate
Cleveland, stand up before George @
Cannon, the Mormon delegate in Con
gress, and argue the question Of tn
mOnOgamic family? The advocate o
plurality will say II do not dishonor tn
woman who consents to bear my off
spring. l give her my name. / &C
knowledge my relations with her.
givesmy children loving recognition, ant
they are my acknowledged heirs. Ha
not the Nation sanctioned us by indoors
ing you?"
Of the woman herself have said moth
ing. She Is said by some to have been ,
reputable person working for her chill
dren and conducting herself in credit
able. w0manly way. BY others she il
reported dissOlute and unworthy. IL h
chose such an associate as the latter
what must we say of his social chal &C
ter, and how must we value ourselves a
people to aid in his promotion? If tn
former, what was the crime against tn
family, broken. ruined, the mother de
graded, the children worse than orphan
ed? Dare you give the sanction of you
vote to such crimep
MRS. ii. M. TRACY CUTLER.