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have evidence to offer in mitigation Il
telegraph will gladly present that.
The next important continuation to the

The next important contribution to the
case was made by the Boston Journal
which we need not say is an old, respect
able and truthful paper, not ut all given
to sensational journalism or personal def
amation. The Journal sent Il correspond
ent to Buffalo to investigate the matter,
and published his report on the case. The
substance of this was that the material
facts stated by the 1etegraph were fully
confirmed by Rev. George IL. Ball, ID. d.,
pastor Of the Hudson street Baptist
church Of Buffalo, u clergyman of twenty
years standing, highly esteemed and
trusted in and out of his denomination,
and by other prominent clergymen of that
city; and that the facts of the Halpin
case in particular we're established by the
testimony of the employers of the woman,
the physician of the lunatic asylum to
which she was taken, the lawyer who
was employed to procure her release, aud
other respectable witnesses. The Journal
vouched for its correspondent, adopted
his view of the matter, as distinctly prov
ed, and in numerous editorials has held
up Mr.. Cleveland as unworthy of the
support of men who consider chastity
virtue.
A large amount of evidence from Buffa-
10 clergymen and other sources might be
given to show the fact that Grover Cleve-
land is morally unfit for the high office of
president, but space forbids.
So much for one side of the case. How
have Mr.. Cleveland's friends met these
charges? At first largely by silence;
then by general assertions that his enc
mics were circulating false and filthy scan
dals about him; then, as proofs thickened,
by admissions that he had had ''a misun-
Outstanding with Il woman like many
other men; but he had dealt honorably by
her, though he had to borrow the money
with which he settled with her. Some
democratic papers have asserted that the
charges of the Buffalo clergymen would
be met by certificate OF Mr.. Cleveland IS
dred of the best citizens of Buffalo. One
democratic paper, the Albany, n. Y,
Times has squarely said that the charges
were most serious, and were doing in,
calculable injury to the democratic ticket,
| and that it was the plain duty of Mr..
| Cleveland to meet them, if they could be
met, by suing the Buffalo Telegram fol
| libel; but no libel suit has been commenc-
| ed. The democratic New York San has
| declared that what it now knows about
Mr.. Cleveland's private character, affords
reason enough why he should never have
been made the democratic nominee. Tht
| Boston Herald, one of Mr.. Cleveland.
strongest New England supporters, ha:
| admitted that Grover Cleveland has no
lived chaste life" but, it still supports
him because sshis connection with impure
women has not been Haunted in the fac,
of the public men are not matters of pub
concern,-as the Springfield Republican
which finds no way to meet the emergen
cy but to declare, boldly and BADLY, 'stha
the chastity or unchastity of public mel
of national repute and nominated for offic
before the people of the whole country il
not a proper subject for discussion
The latest and most elaborate ''vindica
ton" of Mr.. Cleveland has been given b,
the New york EUening Post; and it i
such that Mr.. Cleveland may well pray t.
be delivered from his friends. The Pos
admits an irregular connection" a tern
| implying a continued relation, betwee
Cleveland and a woman, the paternity o
whose child he accepted, and defends hin
by the astonishing assertion that Wash
ington, Franklin, Jefferson and ever
great English statesman and reformer @
the last hundred years, with perhaps
three exceptions, were as bad as he, an
in fact that there have been every few
great benefactors of the human race tina
have been chaste!
Many clergymen and religious papers
who were induced to support him, hay
turned against him since the fact that h
is the father of, at least, one illegitimat
son has been discovered.