Morris tribune., 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 as they nave
been entered, and shall not analyze
them as a whole at this time. But that
the Ttlegrdph'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 a 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, and
! charging the boy upon dead FRIEND or
| the Presidential candidate. He adds
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 a
plunge into a coldwater bath, but adj
mits the irregular connection"
A member of the Governors staff, a
| law partner of one of his beneticiarles,
and fourteen other men, personal ana
! political friends of Cleveland, calling
! themselves independents" bring up
! the rear with a formal apology for the
| Governors misconduct. They tlp-toe
over the Halpin case as it they were
treading on eggs, and raise cloud OF
| dust under which they hope their
| NOV FROM, bic trOnh1pS
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 Telegraph 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 its 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
TlSIll 10 uGldlu uSl. CllC lC1e. hCliO SAt
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 S5OOto settle the
case.
These are the salient points in the
Halpin case The Telegraph did not
present these points July q as simple
assertions. 1t 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 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 acknoW!l-
| aged. 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.-Butulo Telegraph.