The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-08-08
FEATURES OF THE CANVASS.
A Statement To Be Accepted As a De-
NAL Of the Buffalo Scandal.
The Head of the Harper Firm Attempts to
Explain His Hypocrisy Toward Mr..
Blaine Oglesby on the Tariff
THE CLEVELAND SCANDAL.
what May Be Accepted as the Official Denial
of the Terrible Tale.

What May Be Accepted as the Official Denial
of the Terrible Tale.
New York Evening POST Cleveland Orean).
The Boston Journal which has had a great
deal to say about what is called the Cleveland
scandal asks us to investigate the matter for
ourselves, and says it knows it can lead only to
one result relying on our promise not to sup
port notorious hbertine and prohigatep as
candidate for the presidency of the United
States, There has been from the beginning but
little to investigate, and that little we have in
vestigated to our own satisfaction. 1t IS adj
mitted by Governor Clevelands friends that
twelve years ago he formed an irregular connec-
tion with a widow, with two children, the eldest
temperate habits, and that the paternity OF
child BON subsequently was doubtful, but he ac-
copied it, and made provision for the child that
after suffering much annoyance from her-one
of the natural and common penalties of such
errors-and after satisfying her brother-in-law,
who appeared on the scene as her protector. that
he had behaved fairly toward her he laid the
whole matter before Mr. BURROUGHS, lawyer
of high standing in Buffalo; that Mr
BURROUGHS advised him to leave it
to him, and thereafter took charge of it; that he
(Mr Burroughes), conceiving the mother, for
the reason given above, unfit to have the custody
of the child, placed it in an orphan asylum, the
mother consenting thereto, and making, as we
understand it, a legal surrender of the child for
that purpose, and occasionally visiting it at the
asylum afterward; that she subsequently, stole
and carried it of from the asylum; that Mr..
Burroughes was notified of the facts by the
authorities Of the asylum, whereupon, acting
upon his own responsibility, and without Mr.
Cleveland's knowledge he employed a detective
to discover and look after the child; that in one
of the detectives visits he found the mother suf
fering from delirium tremens and threatening to
kill the child, which lay on the floor; that he
carried her off then to the inebriate asylum for
treatment and she stayed there until she was
cured, and no longer and that the child WAS re
stored to its previous guardians The lawyer,
who acted for the woman in one stage of the af-
fair, has formally and in writing repudlated any
charge of seduction, or breach of promise of any
kind The family acknowledge that Mr.. Cleve-
land treated her generously.
So much for the charge Of seduction and kid
mapping which many newspapers have been
spreading. 1t was produced originally by
cheap and nasty paper in Buffalo, as
salvation from impending DEATH and has
little other evidence to rest on ex
cept the bare assertion of the Rev. Mr. Ball,
Baptist minister in Buffalo, who appears to
dabble a good deal in politics. Mr.. Ball has re-
peated his story several times, but he does not
supply fresh reasons for believing it.
He also is the chief if not the only authority
for the story that Mr.. Cleveland is "a notorious
libertine and profigate' Well, we NAV as well
say frankly that we think there could hardly be
a poorer authority. Wemean no disrespect to
the profession when we affirm that accusations
of this sort brought by ministers are to be re-
ceived with exceeding caution. They can know
nothing personally of the immoralities of men
who are not members of their congregation.
What they learn about them is sure to be hear
say the tattle of busybodies who are delighted
to be able to tell the pastor of the wickedness
which is going on among people who make no
pretense of being religions, and they are apt to
receive it with credulity which is sometimes
very unfortunate. Then there are. as we all
know, ministers and ministers; some who are
large minded, cautious and charitable men of
the world in the best sense of the term, and
others whose denunciations pass us by as the
idle wind. So that while we do not mean to &C.