The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-05-17
THE SUNS CHARGES
Against Cleveland and Dana's
Last Dictun.
SOME STATISTICS ON THE CASE.
Mrs. Cleveland Received Five Hundred and
Sixty-Two. Notices in One Year From
Mr.. Dana's Journal

Especial to THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Dispatch
NEW YORK, May 16.-Dana comes again
to the front. This is his leader in this
mornings (Friday's) Sun: One month ago
to-day, in an interview with reporter Of
the New York World, Mr.. Grover Cleve-
land charged the Sun with az offense which,
II the charge was true, ought to have rem
dered this paper forever odious to every
gentleman, whether on Manhattan island
or anyweere else and to every honorable
man who respected womanbood. These
were his words as reported: "There is
only one thing,n Mr.. Cleveland resumed,
and tender expression lit up his face,
that care anything about in these at
lacks. They are not confined to myself.
1t seems that senile old Dana does not
contine his nwarfare to men; women are
not free from his dastardly assaults. Mrs
Cleveland has not escaped. 1t is bad
enough for Dana to print his lying state
ments about myself, but it is infinitely
more cowardly and dastardly for him to
include, as he has done, my wife in his at
tacks. Nothing can be more contemplate
or so far removed from all instincts of man
hood.''
| On the day after the publication of this
serious accusation the Sun invited Mr.
Cleveland to point to a single line or a
single word that had ever appeared in the
Sun concerning Mrs. Cleveland which dir
ectly or Indirectly justified the statement
Ill the paragraph printed above. We have
waited month for an attempt on Mr.
Cleveland's part to justify his accusation
During that time, as the country well
Knows, subServlent and INSCRIPTIONS
journalist in the service of the New York
! World, an effort to discredit the interview
| and to rescue Mr.. Cleveland from the con-
sequences of his senseless rage, without
committing him personally to a distinct
and authoritative denial. The conspiracy 10
relieve Mr.. Clevelaod at the sacrifice of
the reputation of an honorable man who
had told the truth in his report of the in
| terview, has failed to accomplish its pur-
pose and Mr.. Cleveland still is silent
| There have also been attempts as the coun-
try probably does not know, to secure from
the files of the Sun evidence which would
support or give semblance of support to
the original charge that this newspaper
| had in some way, direct or indirect, at
tackled Mrs. Cleveland. Mr.. Romeike. who
| conducts what is known at the Bureau of
Press Clippings, and whose busineae : is to
search newspapers thoroughly 70, al mat
4 OOl bSdi Ing Ou Oily S5lNOA SuUI6CU, " COIL
misaioned to hunt through the back num-
bers of the sun from the date when Mrs
Cleveland's name first appeared in our
columns and to cut out anything he could
find concerning that lady that was injuri-
Gus, disrespectful, dlsagrecable, or even
not complimentary. For this search he
| was to receive $3.50, and he was to get $500
in cash in case the search should be success
full. Mr.. Romeike was obliged to disappoint
his searchers. He found in the Sun files for
one year alone not less than 562 references
| to Mrs. Cleveland, but neither in that year
nor in any other year was there single
word answering the purpose for which the
quest was made. He received his $3.50 but
not $500. We have waited just one month
for Mr.. Cleveland to justify his charge that
the Sun has attacked the admirable woman
who bears his name. He has failed to
offer any evideuce in support of that grave
accusation. We try again to invite the
attention of the community to the spectacle
presented by a husband who has seen fit TO
cheaper the name of his wife in order to
provoke political sympathy for himself
who mas sought by miserable trick to
evade the responsibility that is incurred
whenever such charge is brought against
self-respecting individual or newspaper.
and who now, as it appears, prefers to face
from behind the womanly garments that
that make for him chosen place of shelter
the deep and growing contempt of honor
able men.