The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-08-14
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The Cleveland Scandal,

can political life As soon as man
reaches any position OF prominence he
becomes at once target for the thousand
arrows of calumny, and he is happy, in.
deed, if the flying darts do not inflict
wounds that will forever after rankle and
that will poison the springs OF happiness
during the whole period of natural life.
Grover Cleveland the Democratic can
didate for the exalt d Office OF President
of the United States, has not escaped the
common lot of public men, and to day
there is going the rounds OF the lower
class Of Republican journals shameful
story in regard to his private life and
moral character. The story is that he
seduced, under promise of marriage, one
Maria Halpin, saleswoman in Buffalo
dry goods house that be deserted this
woman and her offspring, and that
finally, wearied with her opportunities,
he had her seized under circumstances Of
great brutality and conveyed to private
asylum, and that after her release from
confinement he compromised with her
family by the payment Of $500, and thus
the matter was dropped.
AS if the Halpin story, with all the
deyilish Ingenuity Of its concoctiOn, with
80 many apparently corr0burating cir.
cumstances, was not bSd enough, the
authors of this vile story add to it the
assertion that Cleveland had been often
found by the police of Buffalo In beast.
ly drunken condition; that he was guilty
of habitual immoralities with women,
and that he consorted with blackguards
and loose women, drinking and Sighting
in their company.
If it could be believed for one moment
that these charges were founded upon the
truth, then it would be felt that Grover
Cleveland was indeed moral leper,
totally unworthy of the support Of
Christians, or Of any people with any
pretensons to decency, and the demand
for his retirement from the ticket would
come in thunder tones from the Demo.
cracy Of the land. We could not afford
To jeopardize the just and righteous cause
of the people by countenancing the can.
didature of any such man.
But the charge is lie on lis face. Is
it conceivable that these things could
have happened in the city Of Buffalo.
and have been matters of common report,
and that then the citizeus of that place.
without distinction of party--Democrats
Republicans and independents, church.
going. and non church. going people
should have united together as one man
and bestowed tho Mayoralty of tho city
upon the low blackguard that the actor
i'll such scenes as Cleveland ia described
as figuring in must have necessarily
been? The supposition Ia q monstrous
absurdity and an insul. to the intelligence
of the American people. If these accu.
satiOns are true, then the morality of
RnfIaio must indeed have been at a low
ebb, and the citizens Of that place, tax
ing them collectively, worse even than
the man on whom their highest civic
honor was bestowed.
Just about the time that Grover Cleve.
land, according to this dirty campaign
lie, was wallowing in filth and iniquity,
we find him submitting to the City Coun.
Gil of Buffalo the following letter in re.
gard to The perils of children and espe.
cially of young girls on the streets at
late hour of tho night:
- E4n BUFFALO, June 8, 1882.
My attention has been called, by a
committee from the Society for the Pro.
yenti0n of Cruelty to Children, TO the
number of small boys and girls found
upon the streets in the night.
have reEon to believe that many of
these children are allowed, and some arc
obliged, by their parents to thus remain
In the streets for the ostensible purpose
of earning money by selling newspapers
or blackipg boots. In truth, however,
after certain hour In the evening, the
most, II not all the money they receive,
they obtain by begging or by false pre-.
lenses. In the meantime they are subject.
ed TO the worst influences, leading direct.
ly to prohgscy, vagrancy and crime.
The Importance OF caring for children
who are uncared for by their natural
guardians, or who are nnminaGs! Of .s.
rental restraint, must be apparent to all.
In the future, for good or evil, their in.
fluence will be felt in the community:
and certainly the attempt to prevent their
swelling the criminal class is worth an
effort.
1t seems TO me that no pretext should
be permitted 10 excuse allowing young
girls to be on the etreets at Improper
hours, since the result muat necessarily
be their destruction.
The disposition of the boy (child
though he be) to aid in his own support
or that of Others in an honest, decent way,
ought not to be discouraged. But this
docs not call for his being in the street
at late bours, to his infinite damage
morally. mentally and physically, and TO
the danger of society.
I respectfully uuggest that this subject
ba referred to the Committe ON Ordinan.
ces aud the attorney, and that commit.
tee from the Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Children be invited to CO.
operate with, them in an effort to frame
an ordinonce which will remedy the evil
herein considered.
GROVER CLEVELAND, Mayor.
Thisletter indicates solicitude in re-.
gard to female virtue not at all in keep.
ing with the vicious character that has
been given to Grover Cleveland BY the
Republican. Journals that repeat the alan
ders against his good name, and this,
taken into connection with thousands OF
incidents In tho career of the man. give
the lie to the damaging reports against
him. @5Ese
Considering the phenomenal populari.
ty of Cleveland and the handsome sun.
port that his Own people have given him,
1T might hardly seem necessary for any
Democratic journal to take the trouble
of defending him; no defense would seem
necessary but lest 1t should be aaid that
the story is being covered up and that
Democratic papers are afraid to publish
it, we have given our readers the sub.
stance OF IL. ,Itis.a pihful matter, and
one that shoEs how much of depfayitv
goes in with politics and how unscrupu.
lous are thoae who will 90 any lengths
for party purposes. Columbia Register.
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