Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-12-12
EULOGY AND PHILOSOPHY
MT. Ingalls,. Characteristic De-
 nial of an Accusation.
HE NEVER RETA1LED SCANDAL.

A Magnificent Compliment to Mrs. Cleve-
 land-His Hostility to the President Is
 Political and Not PersonaI--He Loves Him
 as He Loves the Fever and the Blizzard.
 WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.-During the cam paign some ugly stories were widely circu- lated concerning the home life of MT. and Mrs. Cleveland. Last week an interview was published in The Chicago Tribune with the wife of Secretary Whitney, in which she charged the circulation of the stories to Chauncey M. Depew, of New York, and Senator Ingalls. MT. Depew has emphatic ally denied responsibility for the stories and says that he merely commented upon them in common with everybody else. Now Sena- tor Ingalls makes the following statement for publications
 "The social leader of the administration, the wife of a cabinet minister, would hardly consent to formal interview upon subject so delicate and personal as the domestic rela- tions of the president without his authority. l assume, therefore, that the publication in The Chicago Tribune was made with his knowledge and sanction.
 "In falsely attributing to me the invention and dissemination of slanders even in the guarded and cautious phrase which is em- ployed, Mrs. Whitney transcends propriety, and evidently relies upon the prerogatives of her sex for immunity. The man who made such a statement, directly or by inference, would be required to prove it or to retract it. I have never been either bitter or vindictive against the president Politically I have been opposed to him, and my opinions have not been furtive or stealthy. In The North American Review, in The Sun, in various speeches in the senate and on the stump, I hnv dno1G GrcG tIa nIu aQr hpc%i which need not be rehearsed now. I have no more i'll will against him than have against the yellow fever or the great March blizzard. My weapons have been those of the gladiator, not of the assassin.
 "Those who remember the criticisms on Lincoln, Grant, Garfield and Arthur will not differ with me when affirm that Mr. Cleve- land owes more to the considerat tion of his political adversaries than any other public man i'll our history. It would be idle to deny that have heard the stories to which Mrs. Whitney alludes and others much worse, which time and events alone can verify or disprove
 ssThey have been the common gossip and rumor, the open secrets of the promenade, the hotel and the club for many months, but they are of Democratic origin, like the scandals of 1884. Republicans are not re- sponsible for them. They have been circu- lated and repeated by the highest Democratic authority, masculine and feminine. If the partisans of the executive are wise, they will be silent.
 ''The presidents marriage was the most popular act of his administration. The mis- tress of the White House has no enemy and no rival in the atfectionate admiration of the American people. Amid many temptations to levity and many opportunities for frivol- l 1ty, she has borne herself with unexampled grace, dignity and composure Adulation has not disturbed the charming and un- affected simplicity of her character She Twill carry with her into retirement the una bated honor and regard of all who have been so fortunate as to know her. She will re- Anain among the noblest illustrations of American womanhood so long as virtue has l 8 votary or beauty a champion.
 | "Some things are self evident in morals and history, as we'll as in logic. They prove themselves and are disproved by evidence. To deny some accusations is to plead guilty to them. When you have to offer evidence that an egg is good that egg is doubtful and a doubtful egg is always bad The merchant who is compelled to produce affidayits to estab ish his honesty is probably thief The citizen who is now obliged to prove that he was loyal and patriotic during the war was either rebel or a copperhead.
 koHdhSSpSttS CttSb Ou luue1lDIS SEdlQ upon the lady who protests too much, and no body cares to marry the woman whose chas- tity is open to discussion and debate. So when it becomes necessary for a husband to obtain a certificate of good moral character and to prove by the testimony of experts that he is faithful, considerate and tender toward young, lovely, and affectionate wife, he may be innocent, but he certainly is unfortunate"
 Since Thursday last, when she was inter- viewed concerning the islanders on the presi- dent, Mrs. Whitney has declined to see re- porters, but when called on by Mr. Walter Wellman, the special correspondent of The Chicago Tribune. who had the original in. terview with her, and asked what she had tc say in reply to MT. Depew, she made this reply:
 '1 dislike to say anything more for the press on this subject, but it distresses me yer3 much that MT. Depew should have become so much involved in it. Still, it is the very fact that MT. Depew had told these storie. that stung me into my indignant outburst for if he would believe them-and he would not repeat them unless he did what man ol woman in the whole land would not hay, the right to believe them, tool Fol Mir. Depew is eminent beyond all fol fairness and courtesy to friend and foe, ant is beyond my criticism or praise in hi friendiness and indisposition to harm others and yet he of all men was given as tn, authority for these stories-not by on, but by several persons-for he forget in tn, excitement of telling them that his vivid de scriptive powers sent them flying again, ant in passing from one to another his qualified tions of them were forgotten. But his denia of belief in them now will go for more thai anything have said to crush..them forever back into the dirt whence they came .'Please say also that what said was with , out communication with and without tn knowledge of any one took the responsi
 bility alone, and I am glad I did, for tn
 letters receive show that it was high tim some one spoke"