The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1884-08-15


newspapers, unable to find any weak places
in Governor Cleveand's public record, have
assailed his private character. This is
dangerous kind of warfare to inaugurate,
unless those who make the assertions are
themselves pure and blameless in private life.
1t shows the desperation of the Blaine lead.
ers, and will have no effect in weakening the
force of public sentiment which declares that
reform and publication are absolutely neces-
sary in the general government. The scan
dial will recoil upon the heads of those who
gave it currency, and can do no harm to Mr..
Cleveland. 1t appears to have originated in
an obscure paper in Western New York, and
lift were true the Republican journals of
Buffalo would long since have made it known
On the contrary those journals, while sup
porting MIR. Blaine, have declared the charges
against Mr. Cleveland to be false. The
Buffalo Advertiser, whose editor is the chair,
man of the Republican State Committee of
New York, says:
"While we earnestly support the candidate of
our party for President of the United States we
would not detract one jot or little from the
well-earned fame of the distinguished gentle
man who honors the opposition by bearing its
standard"
The Buffalo Erpress, another able Republi
can journal, thus speaks of Mr.. Cleveland:
'The people of Buffalo have known Mr..
Cleveland as one oftheir worthiest citizens, one
of their manifest men-fathfnl to his clients,
faithful to his friends, faithful to every public
trust"
The scandal was not breathed when Mr.,
Cleveland was a candidate for mayor of Buff.
falo, nor was it even mentioned, in the most
distant manner, during his campaign for
Governor of New York. His public and his
private life were known, and it is safe to as
sumo that if either could have been successful
ly assailed there would not have been wanting
journals to undertake the task. In the very
city of Buffalo, where the scandal is located,
he was elected mayor by the largest MAORI
ty ever given to any candidate for the office,
and no candidate for Governor ever received
so large majority as Grover Cleveland in
New York.
1t will not be necessary for the Dem
ocratc press to retaliate by holding up
topublic view the private life of Blaine. At
tacks of this kind fall harmless, and party
that could tolerate the gross and open i'm
morality of some of its trusted leaders, living
and dead, will not be turned aside from vot-
ing for Blaine, on account any charges affect.
ing his private character, even if they were
proven.
Hon. Carl Schurz, in his able speech in
Brooklyn, recently, said:
"The Democratic party has never presented
candidate whom the whole people could see step
into the Presidential chair with greater feeling
of security than Grover Cleveland. And will
say here in reference to the slanderous stories
circulated during the last few weeks that
several gentlemen, among them clergyman
who is the editor of the Independent, went to
Buffalo and inquired into them. Their report,
as it reaches me, is that all of these stories are
monstrous caumnies. The report will be given
to the press shortly, and l speak now with
feeling of conviction in the falsity of the
charges"
The SANDER has been definitely refuted by
a committee of wel-known and respectable
independent Republicans OF Buffalo, who |
lately made a thorough investigation of the
charges of drunkenness and immortality |
which the Republicans have brought against
Governor Cleveland, and in an address ITO |
the Independent Republicans of the Nation"
pronounce them absolutely false. They |
say:
ellis reputation for morality has always been |
good There is no foundation for any state |
ment to the contrary. He was sought out and |
nominated for the mayoralty against his will, |
and was supported for that position by the |
larger portion OF the educated, intelligent and |
moral citizens of Buffalo, without regard to |
politics, and on purely personal grounds
After he had gone through this contest he was |
was again put forward as one of the most dis |
tinguished citizens of Buffalo as candidate for |
the goyernorship, and again received the sup
port OF the same class of his felow-citizens. In
this community, where he had lived for twenty
nine years, and where his life was known and
his character well understood, this support
would not have been given to him had he been
either drunkard or libertine. We are able
to speak from personal knowledge as his &C.
quaintance of long standing, and to say that his
general private life has been that Of a quiet,
spected citizen"