The Butler weekly times., 1890-04-23
EDITOR DANA MALICIOUS.
Mr.. Cleveland DenOunees the SUNS
Head fer His Tnwarranted
Attacks.

New Yorl;. April lin view of
the issues underlying the presiden-
tial nomination of 1892, the question
as to whether ex-president Cleveland
is undergoing special medical treat
ment for alarming increase of obesi
ty, as alleged in the Sun of yester-
day, has assumed national proper
tions.
An interview On this subject with
Mr.. Cleveland, published in the
World OF to-day, pointedly denies
the statement contained in the New
York Sun. From this interview the
following is taken:
II have not" said Mr.. Cleveland,
''seen the article you refer to, and
if it appears nowhere else but in the
Sun there is not the least chance of
my seeing it. OF course the entire
thing is a lie without the least pre-.
text to excuse it. I judge from what
you say that the venerable editor of
the Sun supposes that he has at last
hit upon subject that can be used
to annoy me. In this he is mistaken.
He must be his own Judge of social
decencies and proprieties. lam not
sure that he should at his time of
life, and in his apparently peculiar
mental condition, be molested in his
amusement"
81 do not care," Mr.. Cleveland
added, ''How much 1 am criticised
for my public acts. That is perfect
ly legitimate and I recognize the
right of every man to differ on pub
lie questions. There is line, how
ever, it seems to me, where criticism
and abuse should stop. The man
who invades the privacy of family
and indulges IN coarse and wanton
attacks on private citizens is no bet.
ter than a highwayman. He places
himself on a level with the black
guard, and his vulgarities can have
no weight with decent people"
Regarding the frequent personal
attacks upon himself in the columns
OF the Sun, Mr.. Cleveland said that
while he never saw them, every time
one appeared dozen cranks, more
or less, would write him about it.
"Whenever I receive these cranks'
letters - said Mr.. Cleveland, u
know that the seline old liar and
thief Dana has been at work again.
That is the only way I keep track
OF his mental rawlings. The object
I suppose is to annoy me and my
friends"
There is only one thing" lIr.
Cleveland went on, and tender ex-
preston Lit up his face, ''that I care
anything about in these attacks
they are not confined to myself. It
seems that the seline Dana does not
contine his warfare to men. Wo-
men are not free from his dastardly
assaults. Mrs. Cleveland has not
escaped It is bad enough for Dana
to print his lying statements regard.
ing myself, but it is infinitely more
cowardly and dastardly for him to
include, as he has done, my wife in
his attacks. Nothing could be more
contemplate or so far removed from
all instincts of manhood.
Mr.. Cleveland spoke with consid-
cradle feeling in referring to the un-
warranted use that had been made of
Mrs. Cleveland's name by the malig-
nant editor. ''There is no language,
he said, strong enough to charac-
te1ize the conduct of such a man
Il Dana was not in his dotage, with
one foot in the grave, his seine
rawlings would attract more attention.
The public is supposed to look with
some leniency upon man who has
paresis. That is all that saves Dana
from being held to a strict account
for his atrocious conduct"
The World states that the ex-
presidents appearance did not bear
out the statement that he was in
creasing in flesh; that if anything he
weighed less than when he left the
White house and his face has a very
healthy appearance.
As was known beforehand it
w0uld 3o {ho IT g o,,Dror,o ,o,l