The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1884-09-03
CLEVELAND REPUDIATED
by the New York Independent.

by the New York independent.
The New York Iadependeat, one of the
ablest and most influential Independent
Republican organs, which has been sup
porting Cleveland has at last become salts
fed that he is unfit for the Presidency. and
in its issue of August 81 declares that it
can no longer support him. We copy the
article below:
The Crisis and Our Duty.
We published last week, in our cores
pondence columns, q communication from
DR.. kinsley Twiniug, one of our editorial
staff, giving the result of his investigation
in regard to the Cleveland 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 deter
mine our course.
This damaging charge came upon us
wholly unexpected, and with the sudden,
stunning force of a thunderbolt out of a
| clear sky. None were more surprised and
overwhelmed by it than the Governors
friends and intimates among the Independ-
ents of Buffalo, and it was a case that called
for thorough and fearless investigation.
That we felt this in every fiber and that
we intended to impress this feeling on our
readers, and to hold ourselves absolutely
free to act as circumstances required, is the
simple truth and our silence as to the
] { InFnI Rir1D
intended.
We utterly refuse to accept two stand
ards of character. We repudiate with con-
tempt the doctrine that public mans pri-
vate life is not to be inquired into. DR..
Twinings investigation went on the recog-
milton of this principle.
On this subject, as it now stands, we will
not be slow to give advice. The conditions
I have wholly changed since the Independ
ent Conference. Then we were ready with
a real enthusiasm to support the tried and
as we then believed, honest reformer,
| Grover Cleveland. Now, without one word
| in deuOgatiOn Of his record as Governor of
/ this State, our enthusiasm is wiped out by
| the discovery of the acknowledged and
awful facts.
We hence desire to have all our readers
| plainly understand, once for ALL that what
ever has been said in the editorial columns
of the IRdepsRaeHt 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 all pure and
right-minded people. The attempt now to
| force such a candidate upon the people
| would, in our opinion, disgrace the party
| which nominated him, and the whole ma
| tiOn, if he should be elected. We will have
no hand or voice i'm helping on this matter,
| let the consequences be what they may,
and we viii not advise the readers Of the
/ IpdepeHdeHt to smother their conscience
and disgrace themselves 10y engaging di-
rectly or indirectly in any such movement.
We are now in q serious difficulty as a
nation, in regard to the unchecked progress
| of MormOnismi and shall we now. in the
| face of threatening evils and perils, plunge
/ into a deeper gulf by any seeming iudiHer-
/ euca as TO the priUHts character of one who
| has Leen nominated to fill the highest office
In the gift of the people? We say No q
| thousand times No! Governor Cleveland
should positively decline to be % candidate,
and withdraw Immediately from the can.
vass, and be compelled to do so if neces,
sary, The party which nominated him
| through its chosen representatives. should
then re-couyene and select a new ticket that
will command the hearty support of the
people Of all parties. There is time enough
10 do this, and there is no hope or safety in
any other course. To stand still now. ol
attempt to 60 hlindly forward with the
|pesant ticket, would, in our judgment, be
an insult to the Ruler Of Nations, sure deatl
to the Democratic party, including also it
leaders. and everlasting digur0pa TO fine Re
public,