Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-10-23
POLITICAL.
Henry Ward Beecher Pours Forth
His Invective Periods on Gov.
Cleveland's Assailants.
A Frank and Fiial Letter from the Gov
ernor to Mrs, Beecher-rhe Vim
dioation Of Honor.
The Majorities by Congressional Dis
tr.cts in ohio-The Menagerie Of
the Tattooed Man.
moRns oF FIRE.

New YORK, Oct. 22.-Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher, in the course of a po-
litical speech tonight in the rink at
Brooklyn, said:
The air is murky with stories of Mr..
Cleveland's private life. Lies so cruel,
10 base, 80 atrocious, have never
before been set in mo-
ton. AS the cockatrlce's eggs
brooded and Matched by rash and in
credulous clergymen, they couldn't 90
est inquiries but opened
their ears to the harlot and
the drunkard [sensauonl and promul-
gated Islander TO the person and the
faith of holy men and inno-
cent women. Do timid ministers
ever reflect that the guilt
of the vice or the crime,
measures the guilt OF him who charges
it falsely? [Cheers. Mr.. Beecher,
then stepping to the desk, read in a
trembling voice the following:
"My honored and beloved wife,
quite unknown to me, made.cuttings
from newspapers, all of which
were in respect to the life %
GOV. Cleveland in Albany.
she sent them 10 him with letter
that will not be published but which
would he gem in English literature
| IL IL were published. AS quick as the
mail could return she re-
ceived a letter from the governor
which have had between two and
and three weeks, which he
meant TO be and marked
private. But such complexion
| his canvass has taken that / tele-
| graphed him two nights ago TO ask If
| | might use my discretion with regard
TO IT, His reply was:
Certainly If tits your Judgment
"Now / will read Gov. Cleveland's
letter:n
| my dear Mrs Beecher
Your letter as you may well suppose
has affected me deeply, What shall |
say To one who writes so like my
mother? | say 20 like mother, but /
! don't altogether mean that, for
she died in the belief that
her son was true and noble, that she
knew that he was dutiful and kind.
am shocked and dumfounded by the
| clipping that you send me, because it
purports to give what man actually
| knows and not mere report, as the
other four or five lies in
! which / have heard about
nay life in Albany. / have never seen
any living woman whom | have any
reason to suspect was in any way bad.
do not Know where any such woman
lives. In Albany 1 have not
been in any house except
the executive mansion, the executive
chamber, the first Orange clubhouse
twice at receptions given, and, | think,
on two other occasions, and the resi-
dences of perhaps fifteen or twenty OF
the best citizens to dine. or course
I've been to church.
There never was a man who has
worked harder or more hours in the
day. Almost all my time has been
. hardly think that there have been
twenty nights in the twenty.
. one months that have lived
in Albany, unless / was out of town
, that have left my work earlier than
) midnight TO find my bed at the man
sion. am at loss to know how II
Is that such terribly wicked
and utterly baseless liei
can he invented. The contemptibl,
creatures who coin and pass thest
things appear TO think that the allau
which i have not denied makes me
defenseless against any and al
slanderers. AS to my out
+ ward life in Buffalo, tine manifestation
o OF confidence and attachment
which was there rendered me must b'
: proof that have not led disgrace
II full life in that city. And as TO my
G life in Albany, all statements that tenC
i 10 show that IL has been other thar
. laborious and correct are utterly ant
In every shadow untrue
Ia. tn IA 90
g TEEN for Mr.. Beecher's good will au(
e asks that he may see hin
I while in Brooklyn Mt tn
o late demonstration then ii
D prospective. Then MIR. Beecher added
d when in the gloomy night of m,
Q own sutferlngs in years gone by,
l. sounded every depth of sorrow,
i viewed that II God would bring the day
o star of hope to me / woul
: never suffer brother, friend OF
/ neighbor TO 20 unfriended, should
/ like serpent seek TO crush him
n That oath I'll regard noN
Q though know the bitterness
Of venomous lies, / will stand agains
n the infamous lies that seek to sting
l. death man and magistrate worthy {
81 better fate.
y The speaker then said his boil
: speech ON this subject was In spite {
= friends, who advised silence, lest h
Y stir his own sorrow. He conclude
u thus:
y III refuse 10 expose 10 shame III
Ie swarm of liars that mingle in III
II mud or sling arrows
is Mr.. Cleveland from ambusl
As may my tongue sleave to the roof
my mouth and my right hand forgt
I, It's eunningn
AZ
IA THE BLAINE CIRCUS ZEN ROUTE.
or WoRTHIHGToN IND, Oct. IA
- hour before the time Mr.. Blaine wi
n TO leave Indianapolis this morniu
ie there were perhaps two thousand PEI