The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-08-05

White House make great matter in small
homes, as can be seen from the references in the
late temperance convention to Lucy HAYES who
kept liquor off the table If the women Of the
country had her portrait painted for merely
keeping drink off the table, there will be 4
good deal of noise about President with mis-
tress under the same roof.
met friend of Hayes at the Democratic
convention, who said MRS. Hayes was entirely
right about keeping liquor off the table She
had discovered decided passion in Rutherford
to drink more than one bottle of Rhine wine of
an evening. Some of the boys too sinelt of
beer. AS good woman, to protect those inno-
cent persons, she had wine taken off her table
not with reference to the public taste, but to
keeping her family correct If this story is to
be believed it will put Hayes's old enemies to
their trumps, because they have described him
as man not up to the level of single dram
The opening of the question of woman morals
in our higher politics is going to take the cam
palgn, perceive, this summer into great
range OF Washington scandals. There are
women in or of Washington society who
possess an enormous number of secrets
about men never suspected of family aberra-
tlon One of these women heard discussed not
long ago who was of remarkable beauty and ac-
complishment, and she knew the cabinet minis
ters in general, and was sort of Ninon
PEnclos. An aged business man. who was
widower, took fancy to her, and spent his
earnings with her. and took charge of her busi
ness affairs for she had some property When
he died, however, it was found that the rascal
had taken out of her personal effects all the
moneys he had advanced to her as her paramount.
She called on some lawyers to take up her case,
but the only one who would do so and make the
estate settle was whom it would be al
most amusing to consider the hero of an intrigue.
he, it is said, rescued some portion of her
property and she made a fortunate marriage
afterward.
What would Mr.. Blaine steal in the White
House If he got therel His presidency would
hn 0nTVn nf06N
istration. Mr.. Cleveland has an entire right to
his private time, but it is unfortunate that he
was put forward as the especial champion of
purity: The best protection of a mans purity is
an early marriage. If Cleveland is discovered
to have been Indifferent to chastity / know
some Republican boilers whose hearts will be
broken, because they relied on beating Blaine
by calling him thief. The word thief is very
old In our politics, but some other words now
coming up new enough to start wholly
different set of revelations. This probing into a
mans mistakes, of whatever nature they may be-
Is relic of that old Puritan spirit in Massachu-
setts Bay which committed the greatest out
RACES on human nature and society. 1t began
by accusing Anne Hutchinson, woman of tai
ent who ventured to criticise the sermons Of
men like EphraiIn Clark at her private house in
little sociable She was heartily sick of the
system of sanctifcation by works which she
saw there. where the man who turned up his
eyes the highest and groaned the deepest and
scowled at his neighbors the most, was consid-
cred to be the best Christian. She raised up
the idea that there was purity in the heart
better than the purity OF deeds; that the love Of
Christ shining in the soul was the only test of a
Christian. Thereupon they accused her of
wanting to encourage vice, because the only
kind of virtue they knew of was lip service and
spite and inquisition.
Views of Prominent Religious Paper.
The TELESCOPE (0rgan of the U. b. Church.)
Not single leading journal of the country
has denied the charges. Many of them have
asserted that private character should not be
considered in the fitness of a man for public
position. This is shameful fallaey, and none
more dangerous could be advocated. 1t is a
noble private character in our officials
that gives them strength, and in our Republic
makes them models in Office, and worthy to
bear the honors of the Nation If is fhe pure,
beautiful home-l life of Queen Victoria that gives
her the hold she has on the English government
and on the world The life of President and
Mrs Hayes in the White House will go down to
history as one of the proudest factors in the
history of the Republic in the nineteenth
century In every home in America
that life breathes an inspiration to holier living.
The bare thought that the American people will
in any large measure vote for a man to be our
President who has been a libertine, is revolving
beyond expression. And now, for once and in
earnest, in the name Of purity in social life and
honor in the American home, and the safety Of
its youth, the Telescope lifts up its warning
voice Leaders of the canvass on the one side NAV
ignore these things on the base grounds alluded
to above but we for other than party reasons,
plead for political canvass with men at the head
whose character is above such scandal How
the New York Independent and Harpers Week
ly can support such foulness is beyond our COM
prehension.
We write this forced to believe that these
scandals f1'11a mt So 1otf