The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-04-19
THE sun GETS HOT.
AND GIVES MIR. CLEVELAND THE
"COWARDLY LIE"
\ Hot, Singing EditOrial.--In Which
The Sun Calls all Sorts of Names--.
And Accuses Cleveland Of DastardIy
Conduct.
(By nited Press.)

(By United Press.)
New YORK, April 1S.-lhe sun edi.
lorially say this morning in reply to Mr..
Cleveland's attack on its editor:
The stuffed prophet Of William
street, in a rage of wounded vanity, is
thus reported:
"There is cnly only one thing" Mr..
Cleveland resumed, and teuder ex
preston lit UP his face, that care any
thing about in these attacks; they are
not yndned to myself. 1t seems that
the senile Dana does not confiue his
warfare tn men. Women are not free
from his dasta,d dly assaults. Mrs. Cleve-
land has not escaped 1t is bad enough
for Dana to print his lying statements
regarding myself, but it is infinitely
mote cowardly and dastardly for him TO
include, rs he has done, my wife in his
attacks Nothing could be more contemp-
tible or so far removed from all instincts
of manhood.
"To no hab;tual reader Of the Sun is
il necessary to say this IL a cowardly lie
IL il not less q lie because 1t Is uttered
by a man who has been president OF the
United States. Ii is no less cOwardy
because it proceeds from husband
whose inferority in social, moral and in
tejlectual qualities is recognized by all
Sho know the admirable woman linked
TO him by the name they bear in com
mon.
Passing over the blackguard epithets
in which the half drunken deputy sher-
IL reappears, and huds his only retort,
we come to this more serious matter;
10 provoke sympathy for himself
SIR. Cleveland deliberately drags the
name Of his wife into an interview in
tended for publication, charging the
Sun with an offense which, if the charge
is true, ought TO render the newspaper
odious TO every gentlemen on Manhat-
tan Island, to every honorable man who
respects womanho0d. The charge is
false. and Mr.. Cleveland knows it was
jalSe when he uttered it. There is
bat one answer that We care
70 make. We invite Mr. Cleveland
10 point 10 line or q word that ever ap-
peared in the sun, concerning the good
woman whose name no thus degrades,
which justities, directly or indirectly the
statement contained in the paragraph
quoted above. If he cannot do that
and he Cannot, We invite the attention OF
the community 70 the portrayal of sci
ish potroon, an unworthy husband,
a5,,ut whose conduct in this affair moth
ny eau be said by any person Of sensi-
i've perceptions, that will not leave on
4eeoarse and swollen face, peeping from
- hiud the edge of his wife's garments,
A red mark like the sting OF whip lash.
IL is unfortunate that ME. CLEvELANI
80 far departed from his long established
custom OF allowing slander to pass un
noticed as to reply to any attacks of tht
sun. But he is a man. with all mans
resentment; and it is surprising that h
has not sooner given vent to his sense o
contempt for the contemplate course o
the Sun. Pretending to be Democratic
paper il has always sought to injure tn
party IN the disguise of advocacy of it
principles. Mr.. DANA, since he sol'
himself to BLAINE in 1884, has been tn
most violent slanderer Of Mr.. CLEyE
LAND Of all the great army of lewd fel
lows of the baser sort" who have dc
lighted in mud singing and abuse.
The suu is bright paper, but it
brightness has degenerated into tn
coarse jests of the slums, and his crit
cisma are couched in language which
wont to be heard from profane isl
women. He is hater whose yenol
knows no limits. Mr. CLEVELAND hs
dignihed his abuse and his slander
calling them by the proper names, an
given the Suns utterances an important
which such billingsate does not deserV
We shall never forget the dirty, 10
and sacriligious epithets which Dan
used when he had controversy son
years ago with PULITZER. Both g
down in the gutter and slung mud, b
DASA's proficiency in its use, could n
be surpassed by the most profane swea
er in America. We never felt disgust
with metropolitan journalism until the
Sipce that time we have not cared
read the Shiny utterances Of paper
lost Ia all sense of decency.