Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-11-29
A SECRET CAMPAIGN OF LYING
SCANDAL.

Du'iug the late campaign we quite fire.
queutly came in contact with q quiet local
CAMPAIGN of scandal, consisting of vile
personal attacks on Mr.. CLEVELAND, &C
cusiDg him of gross licsntiousuess, brutal
ity, wifs-bestiug, drunkenness, orgies at
OAkview, exc. The persons, says the Pitts
burg Post, who retailsd these cruel and
wicked inventions claimed to have private
information from friends at Washington.
and the statement generally accompanied
them there would soon be public expo.
sure that would over Shelm the President
with the righteous indignation and con-
tunely OF the men and women OF America
Ga one occasion we traced these ISLANDERS
to the Pittsburg Office Of one Who has been,
and is to-day, high in the confidence Of thu
Republican purity, but never dreamed
they were part Of general system
operated in every community in the
northern States, as it appears they
were. They nsvec got into print,
save in one instance, but there Wss q won
derlul exhibition OF skill in pIopagatiDg
them from house to house. The exception
was due to tbs indisccetion Of clergyman
in Worcester, Mass and he was 80 prompt
Iy knocked seu3eless BY letter from Mrs.
CLEVELAND that it put all his scandal
mO1geripg brethren on their guard, 50 that
no hint Of it ever sft,rwlrdJgDt into print.
1t is a burning shame that our politics
should become 50 de6ssed, and influential
Republicans such despicable villains IS to
lend themselves to the monstIous crime
against the President and his wife, iu-
yIlvsd in the systematic retailing of what
must have been known to them as de.
liberats, cruel and wicked lice. Ths New
York EreRiRg Post, of Monday, referring to
this matter, says:
We think the way inwhieh this scandal mong-
eviug was originated aud carried out was a won.
dsrful exhibition Of elecioneeTiug skill, though,
OF course, there is no solf.respecting American
who must no. blush oTeriL As the scandal was
composed OF simple, unauthorized lies. and was
intended to eountersct the effect on the popular
imagination Of his marriage with q charming
woman, and Of his happy family life in the
White House, it was clearly perceived that 1t
would not do 10 let It get into the newspapers.
where il would be pOlneed on, exposed, and its
authors punished. Ac oordiugly It was kept out
of print with really wonderful care, considering
how iRdiScreeE newspapers are.
But the psopagsudism was kept up with won
de-ful vigor. The Baptist ministers, at = confer
enee in Washington were charged with IL before
they left for their homes and spread it in their
congregations and through letters TO their pro.
fessional brethren. Children were told Of il at
Sunday school We have heard Oione case where
it was actually carried round from house 10
house by q female eolporteur, who used to weep
In telling 1t. At dinner tables in the cities 1t
was freely repeated, and always on the authority
Of somebody who was present st some horrid
scene. Il reached this once frequently during
the summer, but never In q shape to be taken
hold or There was slWas something dim and
shadowy about the name and res dsnce Of the
witness.
Ths lancaster Pa IateEigeaeer explains
how it was in that locality, and makes
public the name of one Of the selected In