Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1884-08-27
TAKE NOTICE.
The Cleveland Confessions of Guilt
All In.

We suppose the set apologies for
Cleveland are all in. We have gwen
them more or less notice rs they have
been entered, and shall not analyze
them as a whole at this time. But that
the Ielegraph's position may be under
stood we here enter formal declara-
ton on the whole batch.
The New York Post says the Govern
or maintained irregular connections"
with widow, and that boy was born
whose paternity, it claims, was doubt
full, owing to the promiscuous inter-
course of Grover Cleveland and some
of his boon companions with the boys
| mother.
General King, of the Governors
staff, makes the same statement, gong
into disgusting details somewhat, ana
charging the boy upon a dead TREND OF
that Governor Cleveland says his YER
sion of the story is true.
The Buffalo Courier, the Buffalo or
gan of the Democracy, passes over the
Halpin affair as lightly as possible,
shrinking from it like a boy from
plunge into q cold-water bath, but ad-
mits the irregular connection"
A member of the Governors staff, a
law partner of one of his beneficiaries,
and fourteen other men, personal and
political friends of Cleveland, calling
themselves Independents" bring up
the rear with formal apology for the
Governors misconduct. They tip-toe
over the Halpin case as it they were
treading ON eggs, and raise cloud OF
dust under which they hope their
friends may escape from his troubles.
All these apologists admit the central
| fact in the case, and two OF the apollo.
gies make it quite revolving to men OF
decent habits.
The T9legraph has to say: All the
evidence we have heard or seen goes to
show that Maria Halpin's honor was
unstained when she met Grover Cleve-
| land. A boy was born to her Septem-
Der IA, 1874. Cleveland acknowledged
that he was the father of that boy.
| The boy was placed in an orphan asy-
| lum. The mother stole him from the
asylum, as it's records show. The
mother was taken against her will and
without legal process placed in the
Providence Lunatic Asylum in this
city. The attending physician when
he found her there told her she could
leave at her pleasure, as they had no
right to detain her. She lett. she en-
ployed a lawyer to begin legal proceed
ings for abduction against those who
illegally placed her in the lunatic asy-
lum. A relative, anxious to avoid pub
lie scandal, induced her to compromise.
Grover Cleveland paid $5OOto settle the
case.
! These are the salient points in the
| Halpin case. The Telegraph did not
present these points July q as simple
assertions. It cited authority as it
went along. The defenders present
bare denials and offer no evidence in
| support of them. Indeed, in all the
apologies combined there Is not den!-
al of any one of these points by itself
except there is a declaration in two OF
them that Maria Halpin was a vile Wo-
man when Cleveland became intimate"
with her. These points are not taken
up and treated separately. The fact is
that each of them by itself is acknoWl-
slged But they are Jumped" and it
| is denied that as a whole they reflect
seriously upon Grover Cleveland, or
that they go to show that his moral
character is such as to be any bar to his
elevation to the proudest office on
earth.-B'falo Telegraph.