The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-06-07
Cleveland Scandals.

exhibited copies of circular attacking
the private life of Pres ident Cleveland
and urging the delegates TO decline to
renominate him. The circulars pur-
ported to be sent from New York.
They were signed. San Empire State
Democrat" The allegations in the
document were of the coarsest kind.
The document was passed around
with great show of secrecy, but nearly
every prominent man and newspaper
reporter got a look at it. 1t is under
stood that much the same kind of
stuff was circulated at the New York
democratic state convention.
The address opens as follows: Eel
low democrats-An infamous con-
spiracy against the good name of the
Empire state and in the interest of
two thieves is in operation in our
midst. The writer places before
you the following facts for
which he will stand as sponsor on the
a series of astonishing charges of cor
ruption against Secretary Whitney, eX-
Mayor Grace, and other prominent
democrats. These charges go into
business as we'll as political matters.
Every paragraph bristles with such
words as 'scoundrel,n ''perjurer, -
thief LIAR and the like. Mr.
Grace is referred to quite frequently as
1.-The pirate of Peru" Secretary Whit
ney is charged with the responsibility
for the famous cipher dispatches of the
Hayes-Tilden campaign. Then comes
an attack on Cleveland'S private char
acter. The following are the conelud-
ing paragraphs, under the caption,
1.-The Beast of Buffalo:"
THE deep humiliation, as an Amer
lean citizen, the writer is forced to
touch upon the greatest shame which
ever befelI his country. The details are
too revolving even to be thought of. The
talk is told because a blind faulty
seems to be driving the democrats, not
only of this state, but of the United
States, into an act which would make
even the mention of the names of Mr..
Cleveland's predecessors an occasion
for shudders, and which is absolutely
suicidal. Every citizen of Buffalo is
familiar with the beaStly and revolving
bacchanalian orgies to which Grover
Cleveland was wont to deliver up him.
self in that city. His friend Folsom
had his neck in one of these horrid rev
elries, in which the beast swept away
all vestige of manhood. Those Cleve-
land orgies have continued ever since
this master hand in this business left
Buffalo for Albany, and then for Wash
lAISIOus hC w AAOuSOs viz sup
posed center and type of oul
national energies, has been dis
graced by this mans protracted and
customary Nervousness. At the Sara
toga convention a two-dayS' debauch
cry of the most horrible kind kept Gro
yer Cleveland from the face of his fe1
low-men, while he and his chums were
wallowing on the hOor in mad aban
don which would have made Caliguli
enViOus. This same thing has beer
repeated to such an extent in the CAPT
tai of the republic that this mans wife
after q Cleveland orgie which left hin
dead to all decency and restraint, haC
! to betake herself to her mother at no
tel in Washington, who, intercedlng
| was treated in so shameful manne
| by the hog incarnate that she found i
necessary to appeal to cabinet office
| to take up the cause of woman
hood. A trip TO Europe ha
been the result, as the mothe
| would no longer put her foot in tn
| White House, and had Shestaid her
| the fact would have caused comment
| Mother and daughter went to NeI
York city, firmly resolved never to re
turn to Washington. a patched-u
truce was made to last until the beas
at Buffalo should once more be hOiSte
in the presidential chair through tn
manipulations of the pander of self an
the pirates of Peru to run the ''dIvvy
for four years more. He will be socia
" ostracised in his own city when II
makes his presidential exit. he was i
his element in talking to the Presbytt
rians at Philadelphia on the 'Chie
End of Man, although he was doubt
full authority. Since that rolling in tn
sawdust it would be difficult for him
say which was his chief end.