Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-06-08
A Base Attack,

Rev. G. ii. Pendleton, a Worcester,
Mass, Clergyman, has started the slander
mill In operation against President Gle O.
land by declaring that the presidents
life in the White House has been FIRE.
quently marked by debauchery, and that
his fair young wife has been compelled to
escape from her husbands brutality by
fleeing to New York, and that 1t was for
this reason that Mrs. Folsom went to
Europe in post haste.
1t is difficult to understand the depths
of depravity that would inspire such a
malicious and base attack upon the
domestic life of the foremost husband
and wife in the country. If the tongue
OF slander should ever hold its peace,
surely it is fitting that it be silent when
the evil mind suggests such base and
baseless utterances. We published the
womanly and indignant reply OF Mrs.
Cleveland to these charges on Thursday.
1t burned with virtuous Indignation and
should make the guilty author of them
squirm like the vile worm that he doubt.
less is. Mrs. Cleveland writes: " / pity
the man of his calling who has been made
the tool to give circulation to such
wicked and heartless lies. can wish
the women Of our country no greater
blessing than that their homes and lives
may be as happy and their husbands may
be as kind, attentive, considerate and
affectionate as mine."
If, instead of pity, this clerical scamp
was imprisoned, it would be more to the
purpose. There is pathos in President
Cleveland's allusion to the vile attack
that must go straight to the hearts of all
who read it:
don't believe II is worth that notice. OF
course these stories have come to US here,
and they have been the subject of constant
joking In the house between Mis- Cleve-
land and myself and with our friends,
They are too abeurdly false for notice, i
think, and do hate to have nay wife's
name brought into any discussion. Her
eyes fash once In while when these tales
are brought to us, and she has several
times been on the point OF saying something z
indignant to the public, but 1 don't believe
II II matter which she or i or our friends
ought TO notice. i don't believe any one
win credit these stories who does not want
TO do 10. Our house Las been filled with
visitors many OF Mrs Cleveland's friends
have been In 1t for days and some for weeks
at time she herself Is constnstly seeu by
the public. The little woman does not look
like an abused wife, and her young friends
know very we'll that she is happy wife, for
abe often wishes tbemss happy Q married life
- We have together. No, I will not consent
20 your writing anything on the matter.
Ny wife and i can, belieye, trust to the
manly and Christian spirit OF our country
men and women, 70 whom this malignant
persecution and secret poisoning OF reputs
lions must surely be odious. Some things
We may hold TO be too contemplate ior
notice.
The clergyman who thus wounded
bitterly the president and his wife is now
most abjectly apologizing, but no amends
can take from the poignancy of the stab
that was inflicted. lie should be despised
among men, and among his brethren he
should be made to feel the force of the
Scriptural injunction "Woe to him by
whom scandal cometh."