Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-05-04
DANA AND CLEVELAND.
The Editor of the "Sun" Renews {
Attack on the Ex-Presitieut-

The Editor of the "Sun" Renews the
Attack on the Ex-President.
New York. May 3d-Editor Dana seems
determined TO keep his latest attack on ex-
President Cleveland before the public.
Here is portion of what he says in a two.
and-a. half.column leading editorial this
Saturday morning under the head of "a
Plain Statement"
1--WE return to the subject of the Cleye-
land interview published in the New York
World of Thursday, April 18th, in order to
put the public in possession of certain facts
which will explain why the Sun has not
cared to withdraw its remarks of Friday,
April 18th, concerning that interview.
The story is strange one, and the history
of political journalism in the United States
furnishes no exact parallel to it. Our
present purpose is to make the truth about
the original interview and the truth about
the subsequent conspiracy to extricate Mr..
the comprehension Of everybody.
REAFFIRMING WHAT he PUBLISHED.
In the first place. the report in the Sun
concerning Mr.. Cleveland's physical con.
dition and the apprehensions of his friends
about the sudden and great increase in his
adiposity was strictly and absolutely true.
We affirm the accuracy of those statements
Whether the facts came properly within
the cognizance OF newspaper printing
news is question which every person can
decide himself. How far the publication
of the facts involved disrespect to Mr.,
Cleveland. or was of the nature of an insult
to Mr.. Cleveland, or carried affront to his
personal dignity, either as q candidate or
mere private citizen, must be determined
BY an inspection of the language used by
the Sun in presenting the matter"
CRAFTY MR. DANA.
Then Dana says that the same dispatch
was published in the st. Louis Republic, a
paper friendly to Cleveland, but does not
state that the Republic gets its news from
the Laffan syndicate.
The venerable editor goes on: WAS II
this dispatch about Mr.. Cleveland's phys-
ical condition that excited him to the yio-
lent and insensate language reported in the
New York World the next morning? The
offensive part of that interview, as re-
ported, consists Of two parts: Several cpl.
thets of abuse applied TO the editor of the
Sun are weightless, because meaningless,
and interesting merely rs items in an ex-
hibition Of crazy rage. and the definite and
distinct charge contained in the paragraph
regarding Mrs. Cleveland"
Dana tells how apologies for the express
ident appeared in other papers, and quotes
q telegraphic dispatch to an Atlanta paper,
in which the correspondent said be was
authorized by Cleveland to deny the charges
against Dana which the World published.
DEFENDING THE REPoRrER.
Dana then proceeds: THE Sun satisfied
itself at the start that Fred. Crawford, q
reporter, who received Mr.. Cievelands re-
marks at his Office in William street, and
who wrote the interview as published, was
truthful and responsible man. There
has come to US, unsolicited, disinterested
testimony concerning his self-respect and
his sensitiveness to the requirements of
honor. 1t is proper to add that his behavior
uaGsr the trying circumstances s;Ece the