St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-20
THE FACTS.

comes 10 The just conclusion, that tine. VOter
is at liberty to determine his vote wholly by
political considerations" The GLOBE having
Published the results of the several thorough,
candid and impartial investigations, which
have placed every material fact truthfully be-
fore the public, now subjoins, as final ex-
position the following editorial, as proper
conclusion to the whole matter, and here rests,
and submits the case to the jury of the pub
lie, 80 far as its columns are concerned,
RELOCATING its further discussion to the
organs of the slums that delight to
wallow in partisan campaign flth:]
Christian Union, Editorial, Aug AL
On the 18th of July, before. any scandals
had been made public respecting Governor
Cleveland, the Christian Union, in an edi-
torial entitled candidates and Character"
laid down the following principle:
ut would be gala day for this country if
every Christian man in it should register a
vow that he would vote for no candidate,
whatever his ability and however fair his
political record. if he were not man OF
genuine moral principle, of pure personal
character, of transparent truthfulness, per
sonal and recognized foe of all corruption;
in word, such man as he would gladly
make welcome in his home, and fearlessly
intrust with his private concerns"
On the 9TH of August, applying this prin-
ciple to the scandals respecting Governor
Cleveland, which had meantime been made
public, it said:
''If the charges against Governor Cleye-
land are true, his friends should counsel
him to take himself off the ticket; and if
they do not, the lovers of domestic purity
and the respeeters of womanhood should
sweep him off. If they are not true, the ex-
act truth should be told-told with authority,
such as would give the country confidence
that it was the TRUTH
Reaftirming these principles, we are glad,
for the honor Of American politics, to be able
to say that they were recognized by others
before they were stated by US; that the spe
cious arguments employed to induce men to
shut their eyes and vote for party regardless
of character have not accomplished their
purpose; that the scandals have been thor
oughly investigated, and the whole truth has
been or will be told this week, without pre-
JUDGE or partiality, without fear or favor.
These investigations have been conducted
by several parties, acting entirely independ-
emily of each other. Besides some other pri-
vate and personal investigations, there have
been three contemporaneous ones, the re-
suits of which are to be placed at the service
of the puplic. One was conducted by the
New York Eysni,y Post, which published the
facts editorially in its issue of August 5; one
by the New York Independent, which will pub
Itch, hn fapi in hp lar,n of
one of its editors, DR.. Kinsley Twining; and
one by com mittee OF citizens of Buffalo,
who have conducted the examination into
this story at the request of the Independent
Republicans, and for their information and
guidance.
Their report, which we have been permit
ted to see, will probably be published in the
daily papers Of the present week. These in
vestigations have been thorough Every IA
cility has been given by Mr.. Cleveland's po-
litical friends. Telegrsphed to for instruc-
tions, they received from him the laconic
reply, s'Tell the TRUTH Every person
| whose name has been given as any authority
for or as an endorser OF the original story
has been visited. The official records have
been examined. The Buffalo Telegraph has
been asked for the evidence of its story; its
editor has stated that it rested wholly on the
| authority OF a single man, whose name he
has refused to give. The individuals men
toned in that story as cognizant OF the cir
| cumstances-the lawyer, the physician, the
detectives, the officers of the asylum-have
all been interviewed And their testimony
all agrees in giving an absolute lie to the
stories of seduction and abduction; which
constituted the grayamen Of the original
charges. These charges seem to have all
grown out of two facts; first, that Mr.. Cleve-
some years ago accepted the paternity of
child born out of wedlock; there was at no
time promise of marriage ON his part nor
expectation of it on hers, but he has done
what little man can do to atone for such
sin, by providing for the support and educa-
ton and support of the boy; and second that
subsequently the mother being on the verge
of delerium tremens, was arrested by the
police OF the city, without the suggestion or
even the knowledge of Mr. Cleveland, and
considerably placed il an asylum instead of
the lookup till the danger of the delirium
was passed, and then of course discharged.
The woman is now leading reformed life;
the whole offense is thing of the past. We
call this offense not an "error'' nor an cir
regularity but SIM for tive have no word
of excuse or palliation; but as little can we
justify or paliate the spirit which delights to
rake in the ashes of a forgotten past for such
scandal, and use it to fire the passions and
prediudices of political campaign.
There were other stories afoat respecting
Governor Cleveland, repeated, with language
too gross for our columns, In the paper which
originally published this scandal. These also
were investigated with great thoroYghness.
In every instance where dates, places, or
names were given, the story was hunted from
hearsay to hearsay to its cover The result
of these Investigations we will ask Mr. Twin
ing tie tell our readers. We quote, by per-
mission, from bis article in this weeks s'In-
DEPENDENT
"There remain the worse and damning
charges of general lbertinism and drunken
ness. l say distinctly, after abundant in
quiry, that they are false They are, be-
lieve, the product of the imagination Of the
stews. Every attempt to trace them led
| back into the merest gossip of saloons and
brothels. Or the other hand, my inquiry Of
the noblest Christian men in the city, es-
pecially in the legal profession, men above
all reproach, men who will vote for him, and
men who will vote and speak against him for
for political reasons, men who know Cleve-
land most Intimately who have been his
pdI tuClo III OuoiuSSc VI ulo HCoiCSb bC1Euboipt
men who knew him by day and by night,
brings the unanimous reply that it is utterly
impossible that such reports can be true. He
is man OF true and kind heart, frank and
open, so intensely devoted to his business
duties that it is impossible thathe should be
debauchee. He has the heartiest respect
of the best families in the city, who only re-
greet that he keeps himself 80 much out of the
society to which he would be welcome.''
We may add that this testimony is con-
| frined by inquiries which we have made, OF
| men who have known Governor Cleveland
long and intimately, and in whose moral
Judgment we have right and reason to con-
fide. Mr.. Cleveland, by his administration
of the mayoroalty in Buffalo, earned the
hatred of the liquor shops and haunts of vice