The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1884-08-30
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Mr.. Nasty and the Democracy of the Cor
ners are All Torn Up Over the Maria Hal

pin Matter.
CONFEDERATE y ROADS
(Which is in the State Kentucky,
August -, 1854. \
The feeders NV the DimOcrisy held a
supplementary meetin last mite to beside
wat ackshen shood be taken in the mat
ter Nv the serious charges make agin our
honored candidate fur the Presidency,
ex-Sherill Cleveland, uksBui1alo, by the
wldder Halpin.
| hedn't any hesitashen eZ to the course
to pursoo. | felt that while the skandle
mite not strike Deekin Pogram, Kernel
M'Peiter. or Issaker Gavtt ez bein any.
thing agin him, OWN to the undispootid
fact that there is any quantity nv mulat-
toes roamin Their heath in this County,
witch resemble the Deekin, Issaker and
the Kernel ez clusly ez two peas. that
suthin wuz doc George Wilyum Curtis,
Henry Ward Beecher, Carl Shurts and
them nice fellers in Boston wich objected
to the condishn NV my shirt, all NV wch
left the republican party and ,jined us be-
coz they wuz i'll the pursoot NV absloot
purity.
| wuZn't so much afradc nv Henry
Ward Becchcr, bccoz in an interview
with him last week, on this very subj;ct,
he sed that he coodent support Cleveland
eff the Maria Halpin matter wuz actilly
proved agin him, becoz he he'd alluz held
that fur man to git ketched at it wuz
lilly immoral Bat eff it wuzn't proved,
OF eff there Good be miGtygatin circum-
stances sot up, or if it wood beat the i'm
pure Blame, whose vices wuz not like
Cleveland's, merely skips ez it wuz, but
were troolY SIGH vices eZ undermined
Republix, he Good lay his hand on his
hart and support him cheerfully.
wuzn't much afrade NV Henry Ward
Henry Ward hez a CRATE deel NV charity
in such cases. 1t wuZ Curtis, Shurts and
the Boston fellers that felt like hum
oring. | felt in my bones that eff they
wuz convinst that the charges wuz troo
that they would spew Cleveland out nv
Their mouths, to-wunst.
Therefore interdoost this resolooshen:
WAREAs, A subsidized Republican
press heZ charged our honored standard
bearer, ex- Sheriff Cleveland, with hevin
sedoost a widder Marian Halpin, be it
Resolced, That Marian Halpin wuz not
4 widder, that Grover Cleveland never
saw her in his life, and ther never wuz
no sich woman.
ReSolCed, That we ashoor our indie
pendent Republican allies, wich are in
pursoot NV purity, that they may bet
Their bottom dollar on Grover Cleveland,
becoz he possesses our unboundcd con-
tidence.
Jest ez wuz about to put the moshun
to adopt these resolooshens, Joe Bigler
riz and craved permishin to okkepy our
time for mint.
Gentlemen, sed he, Sin the interest
NV harmony in the party shood go slow
in passin them resolooshens. 700 are
maxim mistake hev with me copies
Nv the Moo York Ecenin Post, witch is
Carl Shurts' paper, and Harper's Weekly
witch is edited by the eminently pure Mr..
Curtis. | find in them papers articles
witch put Il diflrent face onto this matter
Both theis papers admit that there is
such a woman ez Marian lIalpin, that
your honored standard barer did actilly
sustane Illicit relashuns with her, but ez
all this happened when he WIZ a mere
boy NV A. yeers, they don't consider it ez
anything that shood be held agin him.
Espeshly do they exhonorate him from
land, hisself, SEE that there WIZ three ny
his intimit trends wich wuZ also enjoyin
the lady's favors, and when the baby wuz
born they held a caucus to beside witch
shood father it. With no5lenis witch
can't be too lilly commended, to save the
character Nv his other trends, witch wuz
the baby, wich WIZ named after him. He
also admits that Mrs. Halpin denied the
story NV the three trends, but NV course
i'll sich cases the womau's statement goes
for nothin, we holdin that woman wich
wood be mans mistress is not Il credi-
BILE witnis.''
Their wuz consternashun in the meetin
house to-wunst. Josef he'd the papers,
and he red the articles, SO Their Good be
no doubt about it.
1t wuZ ruther uncomfable, but | wuz
ekal to the emergency. lmmejitly tore
up the fust resOlooshens, and proposed
this:
WAREAs, 1t hez bin charged upon ex-
Sheriff Cleveland, our honored standard
barer, that he sustained illicit relashuns
with widder, Marian Halpin by name,
and
WAREAs, The charges are admitted by
Mr.. Cleveland's trends to be true there
fore, be it
ResOlced, That ez this thing okkurred
sum six, eight or twelve yeers ago, when
Cleveland wuZ a mere yooth NV AZ Sum-
mers, and ez he SEE that there wuz three
others in it, we do not consider that this
trifiin escapade shood initiate agin his
purity NV character, espeshly ez other
distinguished statesmen hev bin sed to
hev bin guilty NV similar skips, and that
our confidence i'll him is unimpaired.
Joe Biber sed that that wuz the proper
ching to do, and he repeated little anec-
dote NV servant gal, which WIZ a
mother aforc she wuz wife. \ lady
sed to her:
GLOW dare you come to me for place
you, not married, and with a baby
To witch the gal replied with great
promptnis: ''Ie m, if you please MN,
l he'd baby, but it wuz a very little
wun ~
Swat you want to do is to adopt the
defense Nv the servant gal. quite agree
with the EccnjA Post and Hdfper's Wcck-
~ that it is crooel to hold matoor states
man NV forty-eight to strikt account
for the little skips made when he wuz a
mere youth nv forty-two.'
Ez the mectin didn't precisely know
how to take Josef, hastily adorned it
and we convened agin at Bascom's wher
he seldom Gums.
Ell the skandal doesn't scare off the
pure independent seeker after purity, in