Daily Republican., 1884-08-07

w ere nOUnlnR else wanted 10 prove
that Grover Cleveland was totally unfit
morally to be elected President Of the
United States, the apologies made for
him by the New York Evening Post, a
friendly paper to him, and that apology
copied approvingly by the New York
Herald, another friendly paper, should
be sufficient to settle the question
against him in the mind of every con-
scientious man that loves virtue more
than vice, the man of honor more than
the libcrtine. The Post makes no effort
to deny that the scandals are in the
main true.
1t admits that twelve years ago
Cleveland formed AN irregular connec-
ton with widow with two children,
the oldest IA years old, that she was a
person of incorporate habits, and that
the paternity OF child born subse-
queutly, was accepted by Cleveland and
provision made for il; that after suffer
ing much annoyance from heroine OF
the natural anu common penalties OF
such errors-aud after satisfying her
brother in-iaw, who appeared on the
scene az her protector, that he had I've
naveai fairly coward her, he laid the
whole matter before Mr.. Burroughes, a
lawyer oi high sanding inI3uffalo tina,
| Mr. Burroughes dvised hun to4eave il
TO him, and thereafter took charge of IT,
that he Mr. kurroughes), coueeiving
The mother, for the reason given above,
unfit TO have the custody OF the child
placed 1t in an orphan asylum, the
mother Asserting thereto, and making
rs ne understand II, legal surrender
nj the child for that purpose, and occa-
sionaily visiting # at the asylum after.
wards that she subsequently sto.e and
Carried it on rom the asylum tina,
Mr.. BnrrouEh"s was notified OF the facts
by the authorizes Of the asy lum, " here
upon, acllng on his own responsibility
and without Mr.. cleveland . know led ge
he employed detective % discover and
oOk alter he enid; that in one of tn.
detectives vista no found tho mother
suffering tr),u delirium tremens anC
threatening tN XII the chlld, which la,
~ the rilot; tnat ne carried her OIL thel
= tn til inebIiata asylum for treatment
lu-i SHE stayed there until oh was cure.
And NJ ion2"I, and the child was Re
, stored to liz pr-TlouH guardians Til
lawyer who acted for the woman in on
iage Of tn all III has formally and il
writing repud;,i Il any charge of seduc
ton or breach ii promise Of any kind
TIE family acknowledge that Mr. Cleyt
i.": treai"'i her generously"
The Post, being a friendly paper, i
we have already remarked, it may MAJ
ural.y he expected that it would NJ
, turn white black in its defense of Clev,
land, and, therefore, due allowanc,
= mus be made for the tender and ginge
w manner in which ii treats the sui
- jest. The public can Imagine how il
= nOrant Mr.. Cleveland was of what NJ
, Burronghes was doing for him, Will
he (Cleveland) then with nothing i
view out perhaps being Sheriff of Fri
County was hectored by an intempera'
woman with an illegitimate child, III
a paternity Of which he had acknov
= lodged.
v The Post will have to apologize agai
Z aud the Herald take up and endorse ii
u apology when it hears of the charge Tia,
d Grover Cleveland, within eightee
e months, SINCE he was elected TO the hic
o office OF Governor of New York, WEI
II home to Buffalo one Saturday, and wit
: some boon companions sent for 70,
- lewd women with whom they .pe,
|. Saturday night and Sunday in drum
e en debauchery.
I. No wonder Purcell declined being q
Y elector on the Democratic ticket of Ne
II York because, as he said Cleveland wi
e n moral leper." 1t is an interestir
= iquestion to know what chaste, decen
y respectable Democrats are going to ,
/. iabout the head of their ticket.