Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-10-25

against US, it is surely not too much to maintain
that in the fullest stature of human dignity we
can stand up and say to our brethren no longer
our adversaries-''Tim has taught Us you were
| right
a G00DY- GOOD BOY.
One of the most remarkable tontribu-
| tons to campaign literature which has
appeared IN the current campaign was
telcgrapled across the country on Thurs
day morning.
It appears thai Governor Cleveland and
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher have had some
confidential correspondence upon very
delicate subject. Some public charges OF
immoral conduct on the part of Governor
Cleveland have fallen under the eye of Mrs
Beecher She wrote the Governor a kind,
motherly letter, admonishing him how
wicked it was to be naughty, and asking
him whether or not the charges preferred
against him We're true The contents of
Mrs. Beecher's letter can only be inferred
by the reply of the Governor and
there is enough III the reply
to plainly indicate the indeicacy of the
matters subject of correspondence. In a
speech delivered on Wednesday night in
Brooklyn Rev Mr.. Beecher told his au-
dience that his wife, unknown to himself,
had been catechising the Democratic candi-
date for President upon the general subject
of his moral department, and had trans
mitted to him clippings from the public
press wherein certain charges of immoral
conduct We're made. The Governor had
replied to Mrs Beechcr, marking his letters
confidential, but had subsequently re-
moved the injunction of confidence, and
had permitted him Mr. Beecher) to make
public the letter to Mrs. Beecher. Then
follows one of the most remarkable pro-
auctions which has ever emanated from
a man claiming to possess even
ordinary literary attainment. or as
piring to be President of the United
States. 70 say that this production is
whining, sycophantish, and hypocritical,
conveys scarcely an adequate conception
OF its disgusting insipidity. It's tone is I'M
mistakably that of pretender, and reveals
in the strongest light the unwecome truth
that the Democrats have nominated for
President the great North American Uriah
Heep. What shall I say" remarks the
Governor " to one who writes so like my
mother. Isay like my mother, but l do
not altogether mean that, for she died in
the belief that her son was true and noble :"
Happily most mothers die in that belief
Let us rejoice that in the instance noted by
his Excelency, his venerated mother did
not live to read this letter The Governor
proceeds to say that he is d" shocked and
dumbfounded' By the clipping sent by
Mrs Beecher, as he declares g it purports
to give what the man actually knows and
not mere rlport." Following this is the
gem Of the whole production. Governor
Cleveland says - have never seen any
living woman whom ! have reason to sus-
pect was in any way had" The man who.
at the age of 10 who has served one full
term as Sheriff of one of the most populous
counties in the great State OF New York,
who served one full term in the office of
Mayor i'll one among the largest and most
wicked cities in the United States a man
whose biography reveals him as an old
billy-goat bachelor, whose pictures show
him to have neck like a bull a man
whose hlbby lips thick chops and droop-
ing eye procaims a coarse, lascivious ma
ture and acute sexual instincts-for this
man to declare that these erotic instincts
have not enabled him to distinguish be-
tween the painted harlots who flaunt their
shame upon the streets of every city he
has ever visited, from his virtuous country
women, is to proclaim himself either
half-witted miIi-sop or a bald-faced liar
II he objected TO the plainness Of this Ian
guage, that it is possible for one whose
mother died in the belief that he was true
and noble" to have lived forty-tive years
on this earth in state of such childish
innocencv as not to have recognized the
signs of shame which vice hangs out over
all the degraded women, by which nature
answer that if this be true, then the child
ish innocency of the Governor of New
York has never ripened into manly virtue.
Yielding to charitable impulse, we are dis
posed to think that this profession of inno-
cence may have passed current with
Mother Beecher, but we unhesitatingly
say that Henry Ward never in his soul
believed one syllable Of it. Il do not
know where any such woman lives in
Albany continues this paragon of purity.
His Excellency then proceeds to confide in
Mother Beecher full detailed account of
his daily life in Albany 81 have not been
in any house" he says, except the Execu-
tive Mansion, the Executive Chamber, the
Club twice, at receptions, and on one or
two other occasions, the residences Of one
or two other of the best citizens of Albany
to dine"
All his ways are purity
Aud all his paths are peace
Then occurs another gem His Excel
lency assures his correspondent of the
perfect pureness of his life by saying: "Of
course have been to church. We take