The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-08-30
ASKING CLEVELAND TO WITHDRAW.
The New York Independent" Bolts
the Democratic Nominee.

When Cleveland was first nominated the New
York Independent, one of the leading religious
papers of the country, aspoused his cause and
vigorously advocated his election, but recent
developments have caused it to change front and
in leading editorial in last weeks ISSUE headed
"The Crisis and our Duty" it says:
awe published last week in our correspondence
columns communication from DR.. Kinsley Twin
ing, one of our editorial staff, giving the re-
suit of his investigation in regard to the Cleve-
land scandal. The grave and serious part of
this scandal, which he declares that he found to
be true, is that which imputes personal impurity
to Mr.. Cleveland in the specific instance that has
come to the knowledge of the public. We cannot
in view of all the facts, resist the conclusion that
this part of the scandal is true and this is quite
enough to determine our course.
"This damaging charge came upon us wholly
unexpected, and with the sudden, stunning force
of a thunderbot out of clear sky. None were
more surprised and overwhelmed by it than the
Governors friends and intimates among the In
dependents of Buffalo, and it was q case that
called for thorough and fearless investigation
"That we felt this in every fiber, and that we
and to 6cid ourselves s absolutely free to act as
circumstances required, is the simple truth: and
that day was intended.
"We utterly refuse to accept two standards of
character. We repudiate with contempt the doc
trine that public mans private life is not to be
inquired into. DIR. Twining's investigation went
on the recognition of this principle.
ION this subject, as it now stands, we will not
be slow to give advice. The conditions have
wholly changed since the Independent Confer
ence. Then we were ready with real enthu-
siasm to support the tried and, as we then be-
heved, honest reformer, Grover Cleveland. Now,
without one word in derogation of his record as
governor of this state our enthusiasm is wiped
out by the discovery of the acknowledged and
awful facts.
ave hence desire to have all our readers
plainly understand, once for all, that whatever
has been said in the editorial columns of the In
dependent favorable to the election of Governor
Cleveland was said prior to the recent sickening
disclosures in regard to his private character,
which have justly shocked the moral sense of ali
pure and right-minded people. The attempt now
to force such candidate upon the people would,
In our opinion, disgrace the party which nomina-
TED him, and the whole nation, if he should be
elected. We will have no hand or voice in help
ing on this matter, let the consequences be what
they may, and we will not advise the readers of
the Independent to smother their conscience and
disgrace themselves by engaging directly or in
directly in any such movement.
VIC are now IN serious dlnlculty as nation
in regard to the unchecked progress of Mormon
ism; and shall We now, in the face of threatening
evils and perls, plunge into deeper gulf by any
seeming indifference as to the private character
of one who has been nominated to fill the highest
office in the gift of the people? We say No!
thousand times No! Governor Cleveland should
positively decline to be a candidate and with
draw Immediately from the canvass, and be COM
PEELED to do SO, fit is necessary. The party
which nominated him through its chosen repre-
sentative should then reconvene and select a new
ticket that will command the hearty support of
the people of all parties. There is time enough
to do this, and there is no hope or safety in any
other course. To stand still now, or attempt to
60 blindly forward with the present ticket would,
in our judgment, be an insult to the Ruler of Ma
tons, sure death to the Democratic party, nclud.
ing also its leaders, and an everlasting disgrace
to the republic"