The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-09
'WHISPERS" ABOUT CLEVELAND.
Where the Stories First Came From of His
Gross ImmOralities.

Where the Stories First Came From of His
Gross Immoralities.
Bost on Journal.
The Boston Herald, speaking of Governor
Cleveland, takes comfort in the reflection that
there was not even a Republican whisper
against his character or his administration until
he was nominated for President" But there
was at least, a very loud and emphatic Demo
cratic whisper, as the Herald very well knows.
For example, tho Rochester Union, u stanch
Democratic journal, edited at that time by the
Hon. William Purcell, who has been nominated
as Democratic elector at7large for New York, in
its issue of June 90, limited thus broadly at
the pecnliarities of CleveJanl is personal record:
1--WE do not know, and have not heard, that
either of them (rilden or Butler) ever had a ICON
cubine to put away, or illegitimate progeny to
hide, in order to be able to masquerade before a
deceived public in the role of reformer."
The same paper, in its issue of June q, recur-
ring to the subject, said of Cleveland:
1.-THE man who fills the chair of President of
the United States should, in both private and
public character, be as pure as it is possible to
be. The highest elect of the people should be in
truth, as well as in name, the first citizen of tho
land-should be i'll all things an exemplar for old
and youn g alike. What lesson of destruction
would be taught the youth of the country if the
AntCA I OAlANl " lIN w nav odtAbG hbVh IAI
manhood of the country would be the seating of
one of its groveling types in the presidential
chair2 What insult to the womanhood of the
country would be the forcing of a polluted pres
ence upon American wives and daughters, whose
province and privilege it is, and whose necessity
it may be, to visit the White House and call upon
and confer with the chief executive of the gov
ernmentl'
While the Democratic convention at Chicago
was in progress, the eminent exponent of De-
mocracy and reform, the Boston Globe, pub
lished the following conspieuOusly in its special
dispatches:
"Unless there is prodieious lying going on. the
moral character of Cleveland is assailahle. An
Albany correspondent says that Cleveland
brought a woman from Buffalo and rented a
house for hor in Albany last winter; that the
neighbors, who didnot know the woman, saw the
Governor going there so frequently that their
curiosity was aroused and she was speedily iden-
tilted. This, he says, was n very foolish thing
to do, and is the matter which Purcells and
other papers have been limiting at. Mr.. Wash
ington. of Virginia says, that any immortality of
that kind will be resented more in the Southern
States than in the North: that no man in Vir-
ginia of standing would dare to have a mistress;
that the Southern people are straight-laeed, and
that Cleveland hardly required this story to
break him up"
The Herald will, perhaps, say that these were
not Republican Whispers which is very true.
They were Democratic. Or the Herald may say
that they were not whispers at all, but talk out
~lond"-which is also true. But if the Herald de-
sired, as we suppose, to convey the impression
that nothing had been openly alleged against
Cleveland's moral character prior TO his nomina-
ton, the impression is obviously false.