St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-09

calls ssthis serious accusations He made
his statement on the Oath of April not sus-
pecting that his letters TO Fisher would ever
be made public. When it became apparent
that Mulligan was going to produce them, he
forced them from Mulligan, ''defed the
power of the house to compel him to produce
them,'' Gas he said) and then read what he
pleased Of them to the country, explaining
what he could and leaving much une1-
planned, especially the contradictions in the
letters of the statements in his first speech
and finally clapped the packet in his pocket.
This whole matter is not, therefore, ''pri-
vate scandal" because it directly involves
the integrity of Mr.. Blaine as a legislator
and speaker, and second, because it has
been spread upon the Congressional Record
| by Mr.. Blaine himself.
| Senator Hoar remarked the other night at
Boston that Casar's suspicion of his wife
was the meanest act of a mean mans life.
But Caesar had very good grounds for suspi-
cion compared with anything yet alleged in
proof OF the charge currently circulated by
Republican newspapers that Gov. Cleveland
is notorious drunkard and profgate. The
answer to the charge of drunkenness is the
same as that completely made in behalf Of
Mr. Edmunds, that the mass of his daily
public work effectually disproves it. In re-
gard to RIGHTEOUSNESS, one instance is al
leged-that of widow who is said to have
had child by Mr.. Cleveland. It is reported
in his behalf that he fully intended to marry
this person and was only dissuaded upon
proof of her previous ill-favored career, and
that he has supplied her necessities. What
ever the story may be, it appears that Grover
Cleveland has spent his whole manhood in
/ Rntfaln tboth no hao ranaofndIv hold m
tant local offices, requiring his neighbors to
hpass upon his character, that he was finally
elected mayor by citizens movement as
the man best fitted to reform the abuses of a
great city, and having well discharged the
! task, from that was nominated and elected
governor by an unparalleled majority, and
was finally nominated for president at Chi
cage in the face of bitter faction fight from
Tammany. After all this record of clean
and vigorous administration comes ''the
woman scrape,n not from the aggrieved
person or persons, if such exist, but raked
up in response to the demand for campaign
material! When he was nominated, the
Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, edited by
the chairman Of the Republican state COM
mittee, said: ''While we earnestly support
the candidate Of our party for president of
the United States, we would not detract one
jot or title from the well-earned fame OF the
distinguished gentleman who honors the OPP
position by bearing its standard" The Buff
falo Express, an Independent Republican
journal supporting Blaine, says: ''The peo-
pie of Buffalo have known Mr.. Cleveland as
one of their worthiest citizens, one of their
manifest men-faithful to his clients, faith
full to his friends, faithful to every public
| trust.''
The Republican subordinates, the virtues
which protect the sancitity and purity of the
home to no other But when the question
arises between candidates for the highest
office in the gift of the nation, as to the re-
lative weight to be given on the one hand to
facts bearing on official integrity, long-con-
fessed and long spread over the pages of the
Congressional Record and never fully recon
ciled with motives above color, on the one
hand to an ex-parte, anonymous: fresh and
uninvestiguted story of a woman scrape,"
we shall not give the preponderance of
weight to the latter, however convincing it
may be to those in the heat of partisan an
tagonism.