National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-08-13
BALL AND CLEVELAND.
The Reverend Gentleman Reiterntes
His Charges Against the Governor OF
New York


The Reverend Gentleman Reiterntes
His Charges Against tho Governor OF
New York.
Rov. George II. Ball. of Buffalo, who is
now spending his vacation at Orchard
Park, Me-. has written letter to tho
editor Of tho Buffalo Commercial in roply
to tho attacks made upon his personal
character by tho Cleveland papers. He
has this to say:
A friend sends me your issue of the 4th,
in which you criticiso tho attempts to
divert attention from Mr.. Cleveland and
direct hre upon mo. You hit the point,
exactly; Tho strategy will neither 6.''
coivo tho public nor frighten me, Jtt-le-
only intention ut first was TO yanr My
inform Christian journals of ~ prtpdtety
lands unworthiness, that tn" "hr. Clevo.
be misled, and, as Il conseaSiey might not
others. L did not veuyut luonce' mlslead
l had personally and furo to do that till
gated the natter. sc saS carefully investi-
connected with ,Sseshd learned from parties
allegationstosc sSen the Halpin affair that the
to beliesi'T were true. 1t was not my wish
ThaE~ 20 thom, but IL was unavoidable.
Nh be-5 wero the facts, and the friends of
nr. Cleveland recognized them as such.
What else could | do as an honest man
and Christian but warn my editorial
brethren not to be misled felt that tho
ministers Of Buffalo were, in degree,
responsible for tho misapprehonsion that
prevailed as to Mr.. Cleveland's morals,
and that we ought in justice to the
| editorial brethren, to protect them from
doing In ignorance what they could not
be hired to do If they were informed Of
the simple facts.
7 Now, as TO tho attack Of Mr.. Cune upon
me- in tho roundabout way of writing to
parties east and west that he knows will
publish his letters. His statements arc
false in tho beginning, middle, and end,
wholly false. am ashamed of my con-
nection with Mr.. Cleveland's election to
the mayoralty of Buffalo and have grieved
over it for moro than two years, and
earnestly prayed for pardon at the throne
of grace. But In that mistaken service
nothing occurred like what Mr. McCune
relates. Tho facts are as follows: Mr.
Clovoland's friends assured the association
of which was chairman that if we should
put him on our ticket he would enforce
the excise laws and other laws against
public vices. We placed him ut the head
of our ticket, suppOsing him to be pure
and honorable man. Mr.. Titus and Mr..
Mr.. Jones were also put on our ticket.
After the ticket was made up We found
it necessary to have money to print 1t,
and to pay rent. carriage hire, and men
to pcddle il at the polls. Mr.. Titus was
consulted and promptly promised to sup
ply the needed funds, which was esti-
mated to be at least $500. Mr.. John Lythe
was our treasurer. The money was re-
coived and paid out by him.
II Vha ~, xni tinEata hath
republicans and democrats, think, were
elected The canvass over, our commit.
tee found they were short something
over $50 in addition to 800 they had
received from republican friends. hr.
Titus gave me an order on Mr.. Goodyear
for $50; he paid It.; the bills were paid aad
that closed the case.
AS for my asking Mr.. scoville for money
for political services there is not o shadow
of truth in it. l never spoke to Mr.
Scoville but once in my life. Months
after the election was over, was making
an effort to build our church on Hudson
street, and asked my friend, ]. p. Dudley,
esq, to assist me. He responded gcner.
ously and added, "Go to Mr.. Scoville
and he will help you" / went, and Mr.
Scoville said he would do the same Mr.
Dudley did. told him how much that
was, and he replied that might call in 6
day or two, and he would SEQ about it.
in day or two 1 received u note from
him declining TO give anything. That
of course, endod my financial relations
with Mr.. Scoville.
never supposed Mr. McCune would
invent and state such falsehoods as thes,
about any man, and it will greatly re
lievo my fears that he IL n little of IL h,
shall honorably correct his misstatement
and hereafter carefully avoid groundles
assaults on his neighbors.