The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-12-17
oLEVELANn,s CRADLE.
Col. Lamont Declines to Allow the Presi-
dent to be Rocked.

The CITIZENS article OF two
weeks ago giving the facts concern
ing .the finding of the cradle in
which President Cleveland was
rocked has occasioned serious news
paper comment over the whole
country and denials from various
sources have hardened the dis
patches. The New York Times
published the article and sent a
man to see the president, but he
got no further than Col. Lamont
who denied it for the president.
The New York Sun then accused
the Times of fabricating the warn
for the purpose of scandalizing the
president and demanded that the
Times make apology for it. The
Nashville papers have had various
dispatches and letters.upon the sub.
ject. The reader will bear in mind
that the president himself has not
denied the genuineness of the era
die. The papers that establish the
facts are now scattered, some at
Washington being inspected by the
president and others ats Batavia,
Ohio, TO be substantiated. The
CITIZEN is collecting all the com
ments and proofs to be used in the
fullness of time. What right has
the presidents secretary to deny
1t? The facts challenge contra
diction. Without further produc
ton of proof now we append some
of the dispatches and newspaper
articles
WASHINGTON, DEC. S.-The New
! York Times has an article from a Ten
nessee paper detailing the finding ut
Pulaski OF the cradle said to have been
| used for President Cleveland when a
| baby. The article also contains a pur-
| ported letter of the president to the
holder OF the. cradle, stating that the
cradle was no doubt genuine, asking a
| photograph of it and offering any mon
eyed terms the holder might desire.
Your correspondent called at the white
house to inquire into the facts, where
the letter was denounced as forgery,
! Col. Lamont said, with a smile, tn at
the president had never heard of the
matter until he saw it in print to-day.
| graph floating around through the
press indicating that some Tennessean
had found the cradle in which Cleve-
land was rocked when a baby turns out
to be an invention. Col. Lamont said,
with laugh, when the paragraph was
shown him by your correspondent, that
he was confident that the letter pur-
porting to be from the president was
not a genuine one. The letter. he
said, was dated white House." which
is OF itself an evidence that it was never
written here. 81 have never seen a
letter or dOcume nt of any sort that
emanated from the executive mansion
headed as this is,'White House," Later
in the day Col. Lamont called the pres
ident's attention to this paragraph and
he smilingly said that it was the first
news he had had about the cradle.
1t brings up some almost forgotten
history of this country and a close in
vestigatiOn finds no flaw in the proof,
except the absence of the German who
never returned here after the war. We
have inspected the papers sent here by
Mr.. Richardson tor verificatiOn and the
records in the surrOgate's office in Jere
Cleveland's handwrite show this to be
genuine,-Clermont Sun, Batavia, Ohio.
The Courier says: Messrs. C. N.
Brown, Dale o, COwen and S. G.. Norris
have traced up the historical facts, and
Mr.. Norris being a kinsman OF the
family knows additional matter that
cOrroborate this story. We le arm the
Germans name was Slaegle and he
lived IN the house adjoining the old
Cleveland clock shop. The proof col
lected here VIII be sent to MIR, Richard
son, Pulaski, Tenn, to-day and a pho
tOgraph of the cradle win be oneXhibi-
ton in the Courier office.--CIermont
Courier,
A CURIOUS ATTACK ON THE PRESIDENT.
New York Sun: Our esteemed mug
wump contemporary the New York
Times, published on Tuesday the fol-
lowing remarkable story in the form of
letter from Pulaski, Giles CO., Tenn:
(Here follows a copy OF the CITIZENS
article.)
While this tale ia artfully devised,
and there is much that is interesting
and even affecting in its suggestions,
its romantic features excite suspicion,
and we caused an inquiry to be made
upon the subject at the executive man
sion in Washington. This was the
answer: THE whole story is an in
vention. No sueh letter, or any other
on that subject had ever been written
by Mr.. Cleveland"
While the real purpose of this COLI
coction is evident-and tn purpose is
to throw ridicule upon Mr.. Cleveland
we do not say that the Times was
party TO that intention. We presume
that it received the communication as
a matter of news and published it in
nocently. At least, we hope that such
is the case; although when we consid-
er the tremendous Mugwump pro-
pensities of the Times, its scarcely con-
cealed dissatisfaction with BIr. Cleve-
land because he is not enough of free
trader and does not 90 far enough in
his partisanship tor nOn-par tisan APP
pointments and competitive examina-
items, some doubt as to its innocence !
is natural.
The satirical intimations of the |
Times's story are obvious, Why should |
a bachelor president wish to procure a /
cradle? What would he do with it after |
he got it? After its prolonged eXis-
tence and its twenty years in the mud |
of a Tennessee stream of what use |
could it be except as a relic? Was it
Mr.. Cleveland's intention to place it i'm
the mementoes of Washington, jackson
and Grant that are stored there?
The design OF the genius who in
vented this strange composition was
plainly to excite ideas like these, that
might raise smile at the expense of
President Cleveland, but by inquiring
in the proper quarter we have feiled
his Vaccinations, and have exposed
his ialsehOOds, and We trust that the
Times will at once make a becoming
apology for its part in this discredita-
BILE affair.
THE AMERICAN MANS COMMENTS.
The Pulaski correspondent said
Thursday:
The editorial writer of the Sun who
Denned that half column certainly new
n knew either John Arch Richardson,
he finder of the cradle, or Laps. d. ,
McCord, the editor and proprietor of
he Pulaski CITIZEN, who made the ,
,radle famous by giving the story OF
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